Stars have always been considered something magical, mysterious and beautiful. They light the way and point the direction. Someone is lucky to be born under a lucky star. Some people rush to make a wish when they see a shooting star, others like to just look at them at night in clear weather. All people on Earth are familiar with this symbol. Maybe that’s why many people want to make their own little star of happiness, because it’s so beautiful. Now we will try to make a happy star from plain paper.
To work, we need a strip of paper and a little time. In our case, the size will be 1x23 cm. Of course, you can take a strip of any size, but the ratio of length to width should remain the same 1:23 each time. To find out what size star you can get from any strip of paper, you need to multiply its width by 1.67. For example, from a sheet of A4 paper, taking into account the ratio 1x23, it is convenient to cut strips measuring 1.2x27.6 cm. From such strips you can make a star measuring 2 cm.
And so, we begin to fold the star. Wrap the end of the paper strip around your index finger and tie a knot. You need to tighten it and press it so that you get a small figure of an equilateral pentagon.
You need to try to ensure that after tying the knot there is a very small end of the strip left. If this cannot be done, it is better to cut it off or bend it back.
Next, we begin to wrap our pentagonal star in a circle with the long end of the strip, bending it each time along the line of the edge of the figure. With each fold, the strip itself will lie on the next edge on which it needs to be folded.
After 10 similar folds, a short piece of strip should remain. It can be hidden in a nearby “pocket”. The result should be a pentagonal flat figure.
Now you need to try to make the figure three-dimensional. To do this, each edge needs to be slightly pressed inward with your fingers, while simultaneously pulling out the corners. Since the star is very small, you need to be especially careful so as not to accidentally damage it.
If you did everything correctly, then your lucky star should look like this.
Don't be upset if something went wrong and the star didn't work out the first time. Try to start again and for sure this time you will succeed! And when you learn how to do them, it will seem to you that nothing could be simpler.
From this article you will learn how to make a beautiful and volumetric star from paper with your own hands. The star can not only be an ideal decoration for your home on New Year's Eve, but is also perfect for activities with children. In this way, you will give your child the opportunity to understand what spatial thinking is in a clear example, and besides, it will be useful for you to see how creatively developed your child is. A white sheet of paper is an ideal place for creativity, and if it also has some kind of thematic shape, then it can be given an impressive look with the help of paints, pencils or felt-tip pens. Sleight of hand and a little imagination will help you and your baby create a real masterpiece that will delight the eyes of guests at your home.
Everything you need to make a three-dimensional star with your own hands can easily be found in every home, which means absolutely everyone can do it, so, everything you need:
1. A sheet of paper (you can take a regular white sheet or use colored paper).
2. Compass.
3. Protractor ruler.
4. Stationery scissors.
5. Simple pencil
6. Paints, markers, colored pencils (if you decide to color your masterpiece).
You need to start making a three-dimensional star by determining the base material, or rather the paper from which it will be made. There are now a lot of paper options, so you can take either the simplest landscape-sized sheet or beautiful paper designed for gift wrapping. Paper that is used for scrapbooking is also suitable for this purpose. If you use high-density paper, then this craft can be used to decorate a New Year's tree or placed on a shelf in the room as a room decoration.
Step one: on the back of the paper (if you are using packaging paper) you need to draw a circle - this will be the diameter of the future star. The easiest way to do this is with a compass, but if you don’t have one at home, you can take a saucer or plate of the desired size and circle it. Then you need to draw a straight line from the edge to the center of the circle.
Step two: at the next stage you will need a transport ruler, with its help you need to mark an angle of 72 degrees and draw another straight line. This must be done across the entire diameter of your circle. As a result, you should have five lines.
Step three: at this stage you need to connect all the resulting lines into a star shape. Then, in the very center of the star you need to draw additional lines; they can be made dotted.
Step four: Now you need to cut out the resulting star and fold it along the guide lines (the fold must be done towards you, so your drawing will look inward). To give the fold lines maximum expression, you need to work them with a blunt object (scissors, ruler, back of a knife), this should only be done if you used very thick paper.
Step five: Bend the workpiece that you have made into a star.
Do-it-yourself voluminous star ready, all you have to do is make a loop and you can place it on the Christmas tree. If you make several stars of different colors in this way and connect them together, you will get a wonderful decoration in the form of a rainbow garland.
If you experiment with the sizes and colors of the stars, you can use them as decorations for New Year's, instead of the usual and boring bows for everyone. Such elements can be secured to each other using thread, glue or double-sided tape and attached to different surfaces at the desired angle.
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.
Read also:How to make a beautiful SNOWFLAKE
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
Thick 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 lines. The cut should be approximately half a line or slightly less. You need to make four such cuts in total.
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, you need to wrap the short tail of the paper strip 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 this case, old, unnecessary, technical books are used.
You will 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, the following sizes were used: 18cm, 13cm, 10cm, 7cm.
2. Fold each square as shown in the picture
3. Start gluing the 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 is perfect for any room.
On May 9th, people usually make some original crafts that can be used to decorate this great holiday. Now I will show you how to make a three-dimensional star out of paper with your own hands, you will be presented with step-by-step instructions with detailed photos. The creation is very easy, taking about ten to twenty minutes. For originality, use colored paper and your homemade product will look more beautiful as a decoration.
How to make a voluminous five-pointed star
In this master class we will need an A4 sheet of paper and scissors, which we use very rarely, but here we can’t do without them.
Let's make a square from the rectangle. To do this, we bend one corner so that the two edges are connected to each other and lie parallel.
We tear off the excess part.
It turns out to be a square.
We make a rectangle from a square. Press down on the curved side.
Unfold the folded one and fold it into a square in the middle. It turns out like this rectangle.
Fold in the middle.
It turns out to be a small square.
Let's go back a step. Unscrew the fold. Now we have a vertical line down the center.
On the left half we bend the upper corner towards the center. And we immediately turn back.
We bend the bottom part and bend it back.
This is what happened. Two lines crossed.
Now a very important step, we bend the upper right corner to the center of the cross which is on the left side of the workpiece.
We are working with the gateway. We turn the corner to the right so that the lines touch exactly.
The entire left side must be folded to the right. Upper left corner to center.
The lines must touch.
We turn this piece inside out. We bend it in the opposite direction in the center.
This is what happened. Turn the part over to one side, as shown in the photo.
We turn the top corner up.
Let's go back a step. What is important is the trace of the bend, or rather this line itself.
It is along this line that we will cut the made figure in half.
We take scissors. The diagonal is clearly visible along which we make the cut.
Like this. We will need the top part.
From such a small triangle you will get a five-pointed one made of paper.
We begin to unfold gradually.
When we unfold it, we get a figure similar to . Some rays need to be adjusted and the correct creases made. It's not difficult.
This is how you get a DIY paper star for May 9th. Beautiful, original and unusual. Let's decorate the holidays with voluminous crafts.
An excellent New Year's decoration for a Christmas tree or room - a three-dimensional star made of paper. The star looks gorgeous, and it’s not at all difficult to make.
What will you need for work?
- Colored cardboard or white, depending on what color the star is needed;
- Scissors, glue. Any stationery material, such as PVA or glue stick, adheres well. But when connecting two ready-made parts of a star, for reliability, you can use Moment glue or a glue gun.
How to make a three-dimensional star out of paper?
Cut two identical squares from cardboard. When determining the size, you need to be guided by the square itself; what its size is, so will the star, since the corners of the square correspond to its rays.
Fold one square in half, corner to corner. Straighten and fold in half again, but this time the second corner to the opposite corner.
You should end up with two cross folds on the square.
You will get 4 cross folds in the shape of a snowflake.
Now you need to make the rays of the star. To do this, you need to bend one edge of the corner, aligning it along the fold.
Then another.
Repeat the action with all corners.
The rays need to be glued together; a cross shows which side is best to apply glue on. Spread it well on all triangular sides, from the corner to the straight bottom. You can not do everything at once, but take one beam at a time.
Glue was applied, and then the side without glue was glued on top.
Glue all the rays together.
You will get this one part of a volumetric star. By the way, it can be used for applications.
Make a second piece from the second square.
And then simply glue them together, middle to middle. Try to ensure that each ray of one part is at the maximum in the center of two rays of the second. Sometimes the contact point between them is very small, check it first, connect without glue, determine the joints, and apply glue there. You may need Moment glue or a glue gun.
This is how the voluminous paper star turned out. It was intended for, but it turned out to be a little too big, so I had to make it smaller. But I glued all the rays of the small star with Moment glue, since it is difficult to glue small parts with ordinary glue; there is no way to press the sides.
