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Origami is simply ideal for all ages. While many may think it is just for kids, not! Here are eight fun facts about the folding paper that may not know … yet!

  1. For there dozens of tickets for the origami in the Guinness Book of Records the world's most of the folds, most smaller, faster time to fold 100 cranes, and more.
  2. If you think origami is only for children, think again. There is an origami aircraft championship is held every two years in Japan. According to an article in the Bangkok Post, the record for longest flight within an origami plane is 22.48 seconds – held by Takuo Toda, who is credited with the invention of paper airplane.
  3. The smaller crane origami in the world was created by Akira Naito collapsible plastic film of 0.1 by 0.1 mm. The 82-year use special tools and a microscope.
  4. The largest three cranes origami to include a record with a wingspan of 206.7 feet by the residents of Akita, Japan in August 1998. It took about 200 people, 7.5 hours to fold the paper square, which measured 212 feet on each side. Wings for Peace a folded Origami Crane Seattle in November 1999 with a resulting wing length of 215 feet. The latter would have weighed 1750 pounds. In January 2001, an origami crane with a wingspan of 256 feet 6 inches has doubled in Odate Japan.
  5. A charitable organization in Mexico (Grupedsac) supports small farmers and indigenous peoples to make and sell handbags, wallets, handbags and belts folded wrappers candy and other waste. Sweetiepurse.com Visit for more information.
  6. Origami is the subject of a play in New York, entitled "Animals do not have paper "on the three main characters are all involved in the art of paper folding.
  7. There are at least a dozen national associations of origami worldwide including: USA, Japan, France, Netherlands, UK, Spain, Germany, Australia, Italy, Poland, Russia and China. Origami Society was the first British Association was founded in London in 1967.
  8. Origami USA organizes an annual convention in New York, which is said to be the largest the world.

It's easy and affordable to start with simple origami. Only need paper and folding instructions.

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