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1,000 Hearts for Healing

 
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Show your support & love for the AAPI community

We hope everyone will be able to make a heart for our display on Clarendon’s front windows!

Background

This school-wide collaborative art project is part of Hearts for Love, a creative show of support for the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, especially those who have been victims of AAPI hate crimes. 

Linda Mihara, the owner of Japantown’s family owned & operated Paper Tree, began the project in March 2021. She requested 1,000 origami hearts for her window to show support for victims of AAPI hate crimes and their families. Her goal is to counter discrimination & hate with love & healing. 

Linda has received more than 6,900 origami hearts! She hopes the project will expand worldwide, and is excited that Clarendon’s front window will share healing hearts. Our origami paper is from the Paper Tree. 

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Materials

  • Origami paper 

  • Marker

For in-person students, your teacher will give you an envelope with origami paper. 
For distance learners, you may pick up an envelope -- and return your completed hearts -- at the table in front of the school office during CASD week. Or feel free to use construction or copy paper! 

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Instructions

Red is an important color for many in the AAPI community. It symbolizes strength, joy, power, luck or happiness.

Scroll down to watch Linda’s video for folding origami hearts here (time: 3:04).

Red hearts:

  1. Use a red piece of 6”x 6” origami paper or cut out a 6”x 6” square from a piece of red paper that you have at home.

  2. Fold a red heart using the DIY template or Linda’s video.  

  3. Write “AAPI” on your red heart to show your support for the Asian American Pacific Islander Community.

All other colors of hearts:

  1. Fold additional hearts out of any color (except solid red) of paper. Watch the video for folding origami hearts here.

  2. Write your wishes of hope, healing and positivity on the front of these hearts. The more hearts, the better!

  3. Bring your completed heart/s back to school to your classroom teacher (distance-learners can drop them off at the table outside the front office) by Thursday, May 20 to be part of the magnificent healing heart display on our front windows - OR - hang the heart up in your window at home and share the love & healing with your neighborhood.

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cool fact

1,000 Hearts comes from a Japanese folklore tradition of folding 1,000 origami cranes in order to make a healing wish. 

The meaning of 千羽鶴, senbazuru; literally “1,000 cranes,” continues to evolve. Today, senbazuru are often created to increase awareness & show support for social justice issues such as world peace, abolishing nuclear weapons, or helping tsunami victims. Learn how senbazuru became a global symbol of peace: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. 

Senbazuru may also be created for more personal reasons, such as to show support for a loved one suffering from a serious illness. What would inspire you fold 1,000 cranes?

Bonus cool fact: This project is a schoolwide example of Compassion In Action (our year-end SEL theme!)

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