Origami can be a mindful activity and the art of making paper cranes is a Japanese tradition symbolising hope, peace and healing.

Help your construction-loving child create his own homemade crane. Cut a circle in the top of the cardboard box so that with a bit of pushing and squeezing, the paper towel rolls fits tightly into ...

Fourth-graders hold up the origami paper cranes they made at Public School 122 in Astoria. The school is working in tandem with others to make 1,000 cranes, thought to bring good luck in Japan.

Each pupil brought a senior an origami paper crane as a gift, and then demonstrated how to make the cranes for their new friends.