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The stars are so lightweight that they can easily be hung with thread. Alternately, you can use a needle and thread to make a loop without leaving a visible hole at all. A small hole made with a small hole punch ( like this one from Amazon) looks better on the stars than a standard size hole punch, but either would work. If you’d like to turn your folded stars into ornaments, you will also need a hole punch and twine.

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How to Make a Pentagon from a Square additional Supplies to Turn Stars into Ornaments If you prefer not to use my templates, you can find tutorials online that teach you how to cut a pentagon from any square sheet of paper, like this one:

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Click below to download the templates, and print them at 100% or full size. Printing the templates onto cardstock is a good idea so your tempates will be sturdy and reusable. You can print the templates, cut them out, and trace them on the back of the paper you’ll fold into a star. To make it easy to get a pentagon shape, I’ve created two printable templates for you.

Origami paper would also be an option.īefore you can begin folding your star, you need to cut your paper into a perfect pentagon. I tried making stars out of lots of different patterned papers and I found that I preferred the ones that have a fairly uniform background (like the sheet music paper in the first photo of the post). Cardstock will not work because it’s just too heavy and stiff to perform well with all the folding. Normal copy weight paper–or just slightly heavier printed scrapbook paper–works very well. You really only need two supplies to make an origami star: a piece of paper and a pair of scissors (or paper trimmer). Your first star might take you about 15 minutes to make, but once you get the folding process down you can easily complete one in five minutes. I have a instructional video for you today that walks you through each of the five steps to folding a paper star. Depending on the paper you make them out of, these would be pretty cool for the Fourth of July as well! The little paper stars look great on your Christmas tree, and are also really nice strung up as a garland.

They only take 5 steps to make and the finished stars make great DIY Christmas decorations!įor more easy origami tutorials, click here. That’s why I like simple origami projects that I can master quickly, like these origami stars.

Origami is basically magic, right? Taking a flat piece of paper and turning it into something else entirely is pretty cool! But it can also be intimidating, and I rarely have the patience to work through long instructions. Small beads can be placed or hung from the branches as ornaments.In today’s post: Learn how to fold a pointed origami star – it only takes five simple steps.The star can be made with a strip measuring 11 x 0.5 inches.The finished trunk shows one side of the paper.The trunk is made with a square as large as the biggest square used to make the tree.Each subsequent square should be 1/8 smaller than the previous square. A good size to make the biggest square for the lowest branch would be 8.5 x 8.5 inches (20 x 20 cm).The origami tree is made with seven squares of paper and with each a different size.I suggest using paper colored similarly on each side. The finished unit for the tree shows both sides of the paper.Paper such as “Tant” or regular office paper are good choices to make the tree.Tips and suggestions for making the origami Christmas tree Thank you, Vicente, for giving permission to present your origami tree here. I’m always excited to feature simple and elegant origami models here at Origami Spirit and this model is definitely one of those. You will also learn how to make the trunk and decorate the tree. The following step-by-step video will show you how to make Vicente’s origami tree including an ingenious way to prepare and cut progressively smaller squares from a letter size piece of paper. To make this tree we need seven flower units for the branches, one piece for the trunk, and a star. This Christmas tree is a clever adaptation of an origami flower, previously presented at Origami Spirit, and a creation of Vicente Dolz (Spain).

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