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How to make a Christmas star with your own hands from paper. What could be easier than making original new Year decoration from paper. You can make them yourself by changing the styles of each New Year's holiday and this, firstly, will not take much time, and secondly, you do not need to spend extra money. So, let's begin…

This is a 3D paper decoration using the origami technique. It's very easy and quick to do.

Materials and tools that we will need:

Paper square shape- 2 sheets. You can take paper of any size, since the size of the star will depend on the size of the paper.
Scissors.
Paper glue.

Master class on how to make a Christmas star with your own hands from paper:

Fold a square sheet of paper in half, first horizontally, then vertically. Then we connect the corners diagonally - the lower left with the upper right corner and the lower right with the upper left corner, smoothing out the folds. You should end up with four fold lines intersecting in the center, as shown in the photo.

Cut horizontal and vertical lines to the middle of the length (the length of the line is from the edge to the center of the intersection). Fold the cut corner to the center of the diagonal fold on one side and the other, as shown in the photo, to create a ray.

We add the remaining three rays in the same way.

We take paper glue and coat one folded side of the ray, put the second side on top and press them together. Glue the remaining three rays together in the same way. After gluing, we get a three-dimensional half of a star.

From the second piece of paper we make the second half of the star. We glue them together. If you glue a loop of ribbon or sandpaper between them, then such a star can be hung.

These large, voluminous, star-shaped ones made of paper came to us from Sweden and Scandinavian traditions. Today, for several years now, these stars have been one of the Christmas and New Year trends throughout Europe and even in the USA. Which is not surprising: their charm, both when lit and when extinguished, evokes the most festive mood. They are hung in the house and on the street, in clubs and cafes, placed on shelves, placed on festive table on special thin high holders and are even attached to the tops of decorated Christmas trees, like the classic symbolic Star of Bethlehem.

These stars are glued together from music paper, from filigree-cut (like) modules, from colored, waxed and tissue paper. They are made plain and colored, simple and decorated. You can glue a huge and small star, with long or short tops, a classic five-pointed, 18-pointed or even a ball in this style - the choice is yours. First, let's look at the basics of creating such a star, then discuss design options and how to implement them.

To you will be required:
— Thick paper (the thickest for a printer) or very thin cardboard (or thin sheets of easy-to-cut plastic), as well as, if desired, colored paper or scrapbooking paper with prints;
— Access to the printer;
— Scissors of different sizes - from long to manicure;
— Stationery knife (optional);
— Glue or good double-sided adhesive tape;
- Needle and thread;
- Unnecessary newspapers.

Collecting a star:

1. Print out the template of one vertex for the star from here. In the pdf file you will find templates for stars in three different sizes - choose according to your taste. Later, starting from them, you will be able to model stars of individual shape and size.

For a small star, all 5 vertices fit on one page; for large ones, you will have to print several pages if you make a star from plain white paper. If your printer is capable of printing on thin colored paper, make sure you print on the back - white - side of it.

If you just need a template for colored paper - which you will then trace with a pencil on the back of the colored sheets - print only 1 template from all presented in the file. If the colored paper is too thin to create the star, simply glue it onto thin sheets of white printer paper first and let the glue dry.

2. Cut out the parts from the template along solid lines (dotted lines are fold lines). Bend the parts along the dotted lines.

For now, for the first craft, you need 5 of these pieces. Then you will calculate and set the quantity yourself.

3. We glue each module on the side using a tongue specially provided in the template. We make sure that each time we glue the tongue inside the modules, and not outside. We add a little bit of glue so that it does not protrude beyond the edges and leave marks on the paper.

You can always use high-quality double-sided paper for these purposes. sticky tape- it will hold no worse, and many will find it easier (and faster) to work with it. But really hot bulbs can melt the tape, so choose your material wisely and be careful!

4. Take 2 modules and glue them in pairs using the 2 lower tabs of the first module like this - see the picture below. The tongues go inside the second module.

5. We glue two paired modules and the remaining one in the same way into a star. At the same time, we do not glue the first and last modules together (if you want to place a light source inside the star; if your star is a simple decoration without lighting, feel free to glue these modules with their edges). Instead, we cut two identical long ropes from yarn of medium thickness (or take two thin ribbons), glue the tip of the first one (at least 5 cm) or pull it into the hole from the inside to the outside of the first module from below (if you decide to “sew in”, do it at the tip of the rope/ribbon a larger knot, you can also string a small circle of cardboard onto the top of the knot to seal it; finally, sew the ropes/ribbons no more than 2-3 cm from the bottom edges of the modules), the tip of the second is inside the second module. Wait for the glue to dry if you used it. Using these strings you can tie the cones so that the star retains its shape.

Or you can take one long rope and thread it through the holes of both modules - also from the inside out. This method is not suitable if you will be placing a Christmas tree garland inside the star.

Here the ropes are sewn in the middle of both modules, but this is not aesthetically pleasing, and most people don’t do this. By the way, tying the ropes will be quite difficult, so be patient and/or ask someone with longer and thinner fingers to do it (or just help you - hold the first knot).

6. We completely insert a short Christmas tree garland with a battery-powered control unit inside the star (we place the unit right next to the hole in the star) and then tie the strings onto a bow - so that later you can easily untie them and turn the garland on/off or change the battery in the garland as needed. See below for lighting source options.

7. What’s remarkable is that when you untie the strings and take out the light source, your star folds perfectly into this multi-layered flat shape for absolutely safe storage - and takes up almost no space!

IMPORTANT : Although your stars are not connected to the network, for safety reasons do not leave them on without supervision, as sometimes the bulbs get quite hot, which can cause a fire. The optimal type of light bulbs for these luminaires is compact fluorescent light bulbs and, of course, light-emitting diode (LED) light bulbs, which are usually - usually! - remain relatively cold.

Alternative source light for the Swedish star lamp - also switchable:

1. Buy separate small LED bulbs (1 bulb per star, the optimal length of the bulb is about 10 mm; available for free sale both on the RuNet and in real construction supermarkets), a set of large flat round batteries (CR2032; 1 battery - 1 light bulb) and the same number of small flat neodymium magnets (available for sale). Also prepare transparent or matte regular tape - you can use separate rolls of tape 1.9 and 1.2 cm wide - and any double-sided tape. The coin in the picture below is just for clarity of size.

2. From cardboard we cut rectangles 4.5 cm long and the same number of rectangles 1.9 cm long. Their width should be slightly larger than the width of a large flat battery. The number of such paired parts is equal to the number of stars you want to illuminate. We buy a set of seals for the holes (if you find them on sale) or cut rings from the same cardboard (the diameter of the ring is equal to the width of the strip).

3. Glue the ring onto the tip of a longer cardboard rectangle. The glue has dried - cut out a hook like this on this tip. For convenience, a hole in the center can be made with a hole punch.

5. We shorten the antenna wires of the LED light bulb with wire cutters by about 0.6 cm. This can be done or not - depending on the size of your star - so that the light bulb then hangs strictly in the center of the star. Moreover, if you do cut, do it at the same angle at which the tendrils were cut initially, so that one tendril remains shorter than the second.

7. Now we squeeze the battery with tape - completely sealed edge first - between the antennae of the LED light bulb, with the longer antennae going to the positive side of the battery, and the shorter one on the back side of the battery. And we stop the longer tendril at the edge of the tape so that the wire does not touch the battery. If you are not sure which antenna is supposed to be attached to which side of the battery, push the battery deeper so that both antennas touch their sides of the battery: if they are placed correctly, the light will light up - and then pull the battery back to the desired level; If it does not light up, swap the antennae on the battery.

8. Glue the battery with the light bulb, back side down, to the bottom of the cardboard label - to double-sided tape - and securely fix it in place and underneath with the tape that was originally glued to the battery. Be careful not to move the top antenna of the light bulb beyond the border of the adhesive tape.

And here's how it works: we apply a magnet simultaneously to the free tip of the antennae from the light bulb and to a large battery - and the light bulb turns on. The magnet will attract the battery and it will “sit” in place quite firmly. We turn the cardboard with the magnet over to the other side (magnet up) - and again apply it to the large battery - and the light turns off, but the cardboard with the magnet still stays in place. That's the whole secret!

For such a label with a light bulb, the connecting rope on the star on top must be made solid so that the label can be hung on it by a hook.

Design options for classic Swedish star-shaped lamps:

1. Buy shaped hole punchers and make shaped holes in the bent but not yet glued star modules (after step 2) - as symmetrically as possible or simply in a random order. These can be completely different figures from stars and months to hearts and flowers, or you can use only 1 type of figures (and also of the same or different sizes). Classic voluminous Swedish stars usually come with shaped holes, and not made of solid paper.

2. Having outlined with a pencil the same design of large slots on each module that has not yet been glued together (it is optimal to do this using a single cardboard template - for complete symmetry of the pattern on the finished star), place each module on a stack of newspapers or a special mat for cutting and cut out with a stationery or craft knife this design.

4. The top of the stars can be decorated with a pencil or rhinestones, sparkles or additional details from colored paper, but, as a rule, the patterns in these cases are made very simple and as discreet as possible, so as not to distract from the simple graceful beauty of the star herself. It’s just the way it’s done according to the classics, the rest is up to your discretion!

5. Stick thin colored paper onto a thin white one (so that the light can pass through better) before cutting out the modules - and you will get not a white, but a colored star.

6. If you have 5 sheets of paper with the same large pattern, you can, by overlaying and tracing the pattern in a strictly defined place on the patterns, cut modules with the pattern in the center, and then, as described in paragraph 2, cut out individual specific parts of this pattern on all modules. You can again stick colored tissue paper under the cut out areas, or you can just leave the holes as they are.

Add to everything bottom edges additional ears - and you can glue a pointed “ball” instead of a star.

And it doesn’t matter whether you made a complex pattern on the star or a simple one - in any case it will look amazing!

Happy New Year!

Sources:
www.homemade-gifts-made-easy.com/paper-star-lantern.html
www.meandmydiy.com

It is customary to prepare for the New Year paper snowflakes, and for Christmas - elegant stars. Colored paper or cardboard is ideal for such crafts. To create your own version, you need to choose the color of the material at your discretion and use bright decor in the form of pebbles and rhinestones.

This master class shows how to make an elegant Christmas star. The basis of the craft is made up of individual paper blanks glued together. The more layers you decide to use to create a star, the more magnificent and elegant it will turn out.

To create the Christmas star shown in the final photo, the following were used:

a sheet of yellow double-sided colored paper;
scissors;
glue;
measuring device(ruler) with pencil;
kits for children's creativity in the form of rhinestones on an adhesive base.

How to make a Christmas star step by step:

Take for work very bright colored paper, quite thick. Regular sheets can also be replaced with cardboard or paper with a golden texture.

Cut out squares from a sheet of paper. You can use absolutely any number of blanks. The more squares there are, the more elegant the star will be. In the above case, 8 squares were used. The sides of the parts need to be gradually reduced by some fixed amount, for example, by 1 cm.
Fold all prepared squares in the same way, highlighting both diagonals. After folding, you should get triangles that make up a quarter of the desired geometric shapes.
Draw the cutting lines with a pencil. The upper part can be cut with a bird, and on the sides mark semicircular lines for cuts.
Cut the workpiece along the lines.
In the smallest parts, it is better to simply cut the side parts in a semicircle, without highlighting the cuts.
Unfold the first (largest) piece. It should look like a four-pointed star.
Attach the second largest star to the first layer, placing the rays in the voids between the rays of the first layer.
Start wrapping the cuts formed on the rays onto the inside of the star, gluing the tabs to the top paper layer.
Fold all 4 tabs and glue to the center.
Add a third star and glue the tabs from the second layer on top.
Next, continue the same procedure with the fourth largest star.
Add a fifth tier. The paper should be folded in order to obtain a three-dimensional 3D effect.
Continue forming the star until you have used up all the prepared parts.
Glue the last 2 stars in the center, but you won’t have to bend the tabs in them, since we didn’t make them.
Bend the rays upward to fluff the craft.
Decorate the resulting star with rhinestones.
The paper Christmas star is ready. The craft is made from very simple paper blanks, and therefore even colored cardboard is suitable for its production.

On Christmas Eve I remembered the attributes of this family holiday. The little master is going caroling and he needs a Christmas star. And since there is very little time to make, I decided to make the Christmas star as simple as possible. And this is what I needed:

Materials. Fiberboard 3 mm, 40x40 cm, round strip with a diameter of 15 mm, length 1.5 m (bought on the construction market for 4 UAH), three screws 3x12 mm, rain, a can of gold or yellow paint.

Tools. Ruler, pencil, electric jigsaw, sandpaper, screwdriver with Phillips bit pz1, glue gun, scissors.

Process.

Step 1 Marking the star. On a piece of fiberboard measuring 40x40 cm, you need to mark our eight-pointed star. This is very simple to do, the procedure is shown in the figure below.

Step 2 Cut out the star

According to the piecework markings in step 1, we cut out the blank of our Christmas star with an electric jigsaw. After the workpiece is cut, its edges need to be sanded with sandpaper.

The procedure is simple and requires a little precision.

Step 3 Paint the workpiece

It should be said that you need to spray paint either outside or in a well-ventilated area. The paint should be applied following the manufacturer's instructions. After painting, the workpiece will look like this.

Step 4 Glue the New Year's rain

Before pasting the rain, it needs to be cut into small pieces 3-4 cm. Then, using glue gun glue rain onto the tops of the star.

As a result, we get a star like this.

Step 5 Attach the star to the bar

Using three screws, screw the star to the bar and get a Christmas star. If you have the desire and paints, you can additionally paint it.

Christmas star POINSETTIA made of paper. Templates and master class

Poinsettia, beautiful euphorbia, Christmas star, New Year's flower... whatever they call this amazing, brightest and most beautiful plant, which has the rare feature of delighting us with its scarlet blooms in the cold winter months of the year. Not everyone has the opportunity to purchase and care for this flower (I am no exception), which is very capricious and requires thorough regular care. But I won’t get distracted by plant growing, because I want to invite you to create poinsettia flowers from paper; by the way, you won’t need stamps for the work. Poinsettia petals can be printed on a printer and cut out with nail scissors

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For work we will need:

scrapbooking paper, green and red

rubber mat, scrapbooking stack, spoon, nail scissors, glue, glitter, gold beads and good mood in anticipation of the upcoming holiday)