Fourth-graders at McKay Elementary School spent a week folding 1,200 paper cranes for a Japan tsunami relief campaign.
In April, students who were inspired by Eleanor Coerr's book, "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes," decided to send letters of encouragement and paper cranes to Japan.
The nonfiction book is about a Japanese girl who lived in Hiroshima during the atomic bombing and is later diagnosed with leukemia from the radiation poisoning. A Japanese saying states that making 1,000 paper cranes will make a wish come true, and the girl spends her time trying to fulfill that goal.
The students made 1,204 origami birds for the OshKosh B'gosh Cranes for Kids campaign, which pledges to donate one piece of clothing for every crane they receive through April 25, with a limit of 50,000 pieces.