How to Make an Origami Crane

Hello this is my firsrt instructable so go easy and please leave tips to help me improve my other instructables that i will most definitly make now on with the crane this is a simple but pleasing bit of origami.

start out with a square peice of paper or make one by folding a regular peice of paper to size like i did

fold the piece of paper in half diagonally, unfold

now fold it in half diagonally the opposite direction unfold

now fold it in half horizontally and unfold

now fold it in half horizontally in the opposite direction

now take one point of the square and fold it to another point it should fold nicely

now fold the opposite corner to the same bottom corner it should as well fold nicely

now fold both of the sides in, to form almost a kite shape

now filp it over and do the same as you did in step 8

now unfold the last 2 steps you did

now fold the top part down as shown in the picture

now lift the bottom corner upwards and fold along the crease lines and flatten to form a triangle do the same on the other side

now you should have on side with 2 loose pieces and on the top a solid piece fold the 2 loose pieces in towards the middle repeat on the other side

now fold it in half to look like the picture

now fold the bottem parts up to look like the picture

now unfold what you did in step 14

now fold the flat parts down on both sides

now fold the tip of one of the long skinny pieces down

congratulations you have now hopefully made yourself a origami crane adjust the tail and head as you like

The reason im adding this step is thanks to a comment i got which i belived improved the look of this project. now insted of folding the wings down in step 17 leave them up for a more original and authentic look thanks  irlolcopter but remember you can still fold down the wings if you like that.