Folding paper stars with a 3D look

Instructions No. 3170

Instructions No. 3170

Difficulty: Beginner

Working time: 1 hour

Christmas time means craft time! What could be better than creating sparkling stars from Paper and decorating your home with them? In this tutorial, I'll show you how you can easily make beautiful paper stars. These DIY- christmas stars are not only only a real eye-catcher, but also a great project for the whole family. So let's waste no time and get started right away!

Step 1: Prepare folding paper

folding paper cut into quarters

First, you need to cut the folding paper into four equal parts. You will need a total of 16 paper strips. per star. This means that you will need four folded sheets per star.

Cut off the ends of the strips

Cut off the ends of the paper strips at a 45-degree angle so that the strip looks like a trapezoid.

Step 2: Prepare paper strips

paper strips lay across

Lay a paper strips across in front of you. The short sides of the strip face to the side, the longest side faces towards you.

Mark the adhesive edge

Draw an adhesive edge of approx. 1.5 cm at the right end of the strip and fold it inwards. Cut off the protruding corner of the paper.

Step 3: Folding and gluing

Folding and gluing

Fold the bottom long side of the strip to the top right to the adhesive edge and glue it down, either with handicraft glue or with double-sided adhesive tape. This creates a small "bag".

Shaping the bag

Give the bag a pointed shape by carefully pressing it together.

Step 4: Assemble the star

Glue the sachets together to form a star

You will need eight of these bags to make a paper star. Glue them together at the bottom so that they form a star.

Join the two halves together

Repeat the process a second time so that you have another star. Then glue them together in staggered order to create a complete paper star.

Step 5: Hanging up

Punch a hole and hang up

Punch a small hole in one of the lace of the star and tie a piece of pearl yarn to it. Now you can hang your DIY-Hang up your poinsettia and enjoy your work of art!

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