Folded Paper Stars

Taking pages from an older, tarnished book – you can make simple and cute stars. Folding the paper, like origami, you are able to make as many folded paper stars as you’d like.

Materials Needed:

book that you are ok with pulling pages out of

glue stick

hole punch

Folded Paper Star Video:

Instructions:

1- tear our 5 pages from your book

2- Fold one corner over to line up the other other edge, this will give you a square

3- Cut the extra edge off to make a square piece of paper

4- Fold in half diagonally once, crease

5- Rotate and fold in half diagonally again, crease

6- Turn the paper over so the folds are on the bottom now

7- Fold in half to make a rectangle, crease

8- Rotate and fold in half diagonally again, crease

9- Pinch the edges and bring to the center, making a square

10- With the open paper at the top, fold one corner in and line up in the center, crease

11- Repeat with other side, crease

12- Turn over and repeat steps 10 and 11 so both sides are the same

13- Open up just a little bit and push the point to the inside so the edges are inside the star

14- Repeat with all 4 folds on the star

– Repeat for a total of 4 or 5 star pieces

15- Glue one side on the edges and down the center

16- Lay the next piece on top, lining up the edges

17- Repeat until they are all glued together

18- Glue the last piece and line up the first making a star, pressing well so the glue holds

19- Use a hole punch and make a hole at the top of one of the inner points

20- Add a string, paper clip, Christmas hanger, ribbon

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