Can you imagine that you can make a three-dimensional star from a thin strip of paper?
I, like many users, answered this question in the negative, but that was only until I tried to make an original origami star myself. I would like to immediately say that the process of making this craft is so fascinating that it can make you forget about everything in the world. It’s good that there is still time before the New Year and everyone who is interested in this master class can show their abilities in creating a three-dimensional origami star.
So, let's start our master class.
Before proceeding directly to the process, it is necessary to prepare the crafting material - paper strips. For my stars, I tried several different strips and as a result I was able to choose the optimal width - 1cm. If it is thinner, the work becomes more complicated, although the stars turn out to be very elegant, but wide stripes make the star too clumsy.
Any paper can be suitable for making strips, of course, with the exception of cardboard, since it is difficult to bend. But the satin wrapping paper makes truly festive stars. If you don’t have such paper at hand, you can take sheets from magazines and even newspaper pages.
An important point: single-sided paper can be used, so the inside will be hidden from view.
Let's start making strips. After cutting a sheet 26 cm long into centimeter strips, we will make our work easier by gluing all the strips together, getting a kind of serpentine. I would like to note that I had an idea to use real paper serpentine to make stars, but I had to postpone it, since finding this material turned out to be problematic for me.
We make the base of our craft
It always seemed to me that the pattern of folding a paper pentagon is quite complicated. However, as soon as I tried to fold an origami star once, the truth was revealed: folding the base of a future three-dimensional star is quite simple and it looks exactly like a regular pentagon.
To begin with, you need to form a small loop from the workpiece, then, passing the end of the paper tape through it, tighten it to form a knot.
Important: the strips must be adjacent to each other without gaps; neither excessive looseness of the knot nor excessive tightening should be allowed.
Now we hide the tail of the ribbon, to do this we bend it back.
Now it’s time to wind the taphole.
Important: The tape needs to be wound tightly.
We have just hidden the tail of our loop. Now we bend the working part of the tape there too. The base of our pentagonal star has already taken its shape.
Winding an origami star
You need to try to tightly wrap the sides of the pentagon, but so as not to crumple its edges.
Having turned the tape inside out, we change its direction (up to the right) and now go around the other side of the pentagon. If geometric figure folded correctly, in the future the tape itself will lie in the direction it needs to be. We direct the tape to the right.
It is advisable that all sides of the sprocket be circled multiple times. For example, each star can go up to 30 cm. So the wraps should be done until the tape runs out.
We are working on volume
When a piece of tape 1.5 cm long remains, stop winding.
To hide the remaining end of the tape, you need to push it under the last turn.
At this point, the preparation of the base of our star is completed; now all that remains is the process of transforming an ordinary regular pentagon into a three-dimensional star. Carefully picking up the craft, use your finger to stroke the sides of the star, from the edges to the middle. It is important to do this carefully without squeezing the middle. IN otherwise volume will be impossible to achieve.
To make the star beautiful, you need to make all sides identical. You can see what the finished star should look like in the photo. There is also a side view. The diameter of the craft is 1.5 cm.
How can you use the craft we made?
You can just scatter them on festive table; can be pasted on Greeting Cards and decorate gifts with them; you can also decorate the Christmas tree; you can string them on a thread using a relatively long needle and make a garland.
Having tried to do this myself beautiful star, you will surprise yourself. So great will be the desire not to stop and prepare them for future use. For what? A question that makes you smile. The fact is that you can find a use for these original stars anywhere, you just need to use your imagination. I made them with my children New Year's garland. True, I had to try a little to thread each star with a needle. Some people use these beautiful figures for room decoration: a lot of these stars are poured into a glass vase or bottle and with such a bright design touch they add a touch of cheerful mood to the atmosphere. Another idea is to use stars to decorate a gift.
You can come up with endless ideas!
Treat yourself to a starburst for the New Year!
Recently, the origami technique has gained a huge number of fans.
Meanwhile, origami- This ancient art folding various paper figures without the help of glue and scissors, which has its roots in Ancient China.
Today we will try this technique with an easy master class, folding strips of paper into a charming star, also called an asterisk of happiness. Probably because these stars are very cute, when you look at a whole scattering of these pot-bellied babies, only positive emotions arise. They can decorate the interior, decorate a gift, even make curtains from stars.
Making such beauty is not at all difficult. Be sure to involve the kids in this fun activity. They will really like it, and it will also develop fine motor skills hands
So, first you need to prepare paper, scissors (a paper cutter), a ruler, a couple of minutes of free time and a good mood).
Different types of paper are used: regular colored, office, silk, scrapbooking paper, wrapping paper, you can even cut up the colored pages of an old magazine, they will also make original stars. There are also special sets on sale with ready-made beautiful stripes for stars.
We cut the paper into strips 29 cm long and 1.1 cm wide. Although other sizes can be used. The width of the stripe determines
the size of our star, and the length should be sufficient to wrap each edge at least 2 times.
Let's start the process:
Making a loop;
- holding the short end, very carefully make a knot;
- tie a knot so that the result is an equilateral pentagon;
- wrap the short ponytail reverse side and turn the workpiece over;
- if the tip is too long and looks beyond the star, then bend it or trim it;
- Now long end We begin to wrap the pentagon until the paper runs out;
- we hide the remaining tail in a striped pocket;
Our blank is ready, all that remains is to make it voluminous. To do this, take the pentagon with your left hand, and with two fingers of your right hand we grasp each corner of the star and press down the edge, thereby pressing the side of the pentagon in the middle.
That's all, the star of happiness is ready! Have a good mood everyone!
You can see the process of folding a happy star more clearly in the video.
Useful tips
If you want to decorate your home for a holiday or just like that, and you want to do it yourself, then a star is one of the elements that will always look beautiful in a room, on a stele, on a chandelier or Christmas tree.
In this master class you will learn how to make stars with your own hands using a huge number of different methods.
All the methods are quite simple, so everyone can choose what they like best.
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What can you make a star from?
The main material from which you can make a star with your own hands is paper. You can use cardboard, plain paper, thick paper, magazines, old books, newspapers.
How to make a 3D star out of paper. Five-pointed star.
You will need:
Printer
Dense colored paper
Scissors
1. First you need to print the blank. To do this, download the templates from this link. The template has two sizes of stars - you can make one star by printing the first page, and a larger star by printing the 2nd (twice) and 3rd pages.
2. Cut out the templates and bend them in the places indicated by the dotted line.
3. Glue all the parts together and you will have a three-dimensional five-pointed star!
Scheme on how to make a star
How to make a voluminous star with your own hands
Such a star can be hung in a room (on a wall, window, chandelier) as an interior attribute or used to decorate a gift.
You will need:
Thick colored paper (colored cardboard)
Simple pencil
Scissors
Thread (ribbon)
1. You need to start with two sheets of paper, each of which should have a square shape.
Each sheet of paper needs to be folded in half horizontally and vertically. Next you need to bend it in half diagonally twice (see picture).
2. Using scissors, make cuts along the perpendicular fold line. The cut should be approximately half a line or slightly less. A total of four such cuts need to be made.
3. Fold the edges as shown in the image.
4. Now prepare the glue and lubricate one of the sides of each ray of the future volumetric star and glue it together (see picture).
5. Make the other half, following the same instructions.
6. Finally, glue the two halves together and decorate to taste.
How to make a star out of paper
Making such a star is very simple. It is made of just two stars cut out of cardboard or thick paper.
You will need:
Pencil
Ruler
Thick colored paper or cardboard
Scissors
1. Draw a star on thick paper or cardboard. You can do this by eye or use a video tutorial.
How to draw a five-pointed star
2. You can decorate the stars as you like and cut them out.
3. Now you need to make a cut on each star - on one it should go from top to bottom (from the outer corner to the center of the star), and on the other, vice versa, i.e. from bottom to top (from the inner corner to the middle of the star).
4. Using the cuts, connect the two stars by inserting one into the other.
How to make a paper star. Convex star.
These beautiful little paper stars will be an excellent decoration for your interior, postcard or gift.
You will need:
Colored paper (you can use pages from an old magazine)
Scissors (stationery knife)
* The key point in this master class is the correct cutting of paper strips.
* Stripes must be even. In this example, their width is 9mm and length 221mm.
Scheme:
1. Cut paper strips.
2. Take one strip and make a loop out of it (see picture).
3. Next is a short ponytail paper strip you need to wrap it and tie a knot. Do everything carefully so as not to tear the paper. Slowly tighten the knot, press it and hide the remaining tail by tucking it into the middle.
You should end up with an even pentagon.
4. Let's move on to the most interesting and at the same time simple process - making an asterisk.
Wrap a long strip around each side of the pentagon. You need to do 12 to 15 wraps. This means that each edge needs to be wrapped at least twice.
5. Tuck the remaining tip of the paper inside your star.
6. Now be very careful and careful.
Hold your pentagon with two fingers of one hand. At this time, use the fingertip of your other hand to lightly press on one edge. You need to get to the middle of the edge.
This process needs to be done with all the edges and you will get a beautiful star.
How to make an origami star
How to make a big star. Book pages.
Despite the fact that this star looks very beautiful, many may be unhappy with the damage to books. IN in this case old, unnecessary, technical books are used.
You'll need:
Paper or plastic three-dimensional star
* You can make a three-dimensional star out of paper yourself (see or) and proceed further according to the instructions.
Old book
Scissors
1. Cut off one-fourth of the book's pages and roll them up.
2. Glue the bags to your star as shown in the picture.
3. Apply a little glue to the edges of the bags and sprinkle them with glitter.
Scheme:
How to make a New Year's star
You will need:
Double-sided thick colored paper
Scissors
1. First you need to prepare 4 sizes of squares. You should have 8 squares of each size. In this example we used following sizes: 18cm, 13cm, 10cm, 7cm.
2. Fold each square as shown in the picture
3. Start gluing squares according to size. The first one is large and then descending.
You should get a star like this.
How to make a star for a Christmas tree. Decorative star.
You will need:
Star pattern
White cardboard
Green and red felt
Ruler
Simple pencil
Glue gun
Brown thread
1. Prepare white cardboard and trace a template star on it. Next, cut out the star.
2. Now, slowly, you need to draw another star inside. It should turn out as shown in the picture.
3. Cut out the star inside the blank.
4. Using a glue gun, attach brown string to the star and cover the star with it.
5. The star is almost ready, you just need to decorate it a little. To do this, prepare felt in red and green colors. Cut out two circles from red. And from green leaves. Glue the cutouts to the star.
How to make a Christmas star
DIY paper star. Rainbow star.
How to make the Star of Bethlehem with your own hands
This beautiful decoration ideal for any room.
