Get crafty with these paper records!

Are you into arts and crafts? ✂️

Origami is the Japanese art of folding paper to make shapes, animals, and other cool things without using glue or scissors…

In other words, it is like magic with paper!

You start with a simple square of paper, and with a few clever folds, you can turn it into all kinds of fun shapes – and even break world records with it. 😎

Check out some of the world’s coolest crafting records and find out how YOU can break one. 👇

Largest display of origami hearts

In Cambodia, a huge team of 10,000 volunteers from the Union of Youth Federations made an amazing display of colourful paper hearts!

They folded 3,917,805 paper hearts🤯 and placed them at Angkor Wat, the world’s largest religious building.

What a beautiful sea of hearts. ❤️

Fastest time to make 1,000 origami cranes

To help raise money for health workers in the UK, Evelyne Chia from Colchester folded 1,000 paper cranes in just 9 hours, 31 minutes, and 13 seconds!

Can you imagine crafting non-stop for this many hours? 😦

These paper cranes are special because they stand for peace, loyalty, and good luck.

In Japanese stories, cranes are said to live for 1,000 years, which is why she folded exactly 1,000 of them!

Largest origami snail

Have you ever seen a snail this big? 👀

The largest origami snail ever was made in China by Pei Haozheng and his team, measuring 4.10 metres long, 1.47 metres wide, and 1.30 metres tall.

It was folded from a single giant paper square!

It took a team of 8 people working for 3 full days to complete this amazing origami snail!

Largest origami swan

Two origami artists have broken a record that’s… swan of a kind (get it?). 🤪

Paul Frasco and Ryan Dong of New York, USA, created the largest origami swan.

This giant paper creation measures 4.69 metres long, 2.92 metres wide, and 1.09 metres tall – about the size of a car! 🚗