An asterisk on a Christmas tree made of colored paper. How to make a 3D paper star with your own hands

Good afternoon, today I am publishing an article in which I have collected the most different ways make Christmas stars with your own hands. We'll make stars paper, cardboard, sew stars from felt, knit them crochet. You will see simple christmas crafts accessible to children, and complex structures in the shape of a star.

Here are some ideas I have collected today in one general pile:

Stars from strips of paper using the quilling technique.
Transparent stars with stained glass film.
Volumetric stars in 3d technique.
Christmas stars stickers on the window.
Christmas garlands with stars.
Six-pointed stars with convex edges.
Stars from cardboard modules.
New Year's stars from the newspaper.

So let's get started with our Christmas star crafts.

Craft idea number 1

Paper star

in the QUILLING technique.

Here is the first idea - a Christmas star made of strips of paper, twisted and glued in the quilling technique.

Even if you are not yet familiar with the paper strip twisting technique, then you just need to take a close look See the photo below to understand how this paper star is made.

First, we collect from paper strips separately five rays- and then glue them together.

Here in the photo below, I even highlighted each detail of the paper strips separately - in different colors.

Each ray of the star consists of three short oval twists from paper strips - light green lines. One twist is longer - orange line. AND one paper roll that wraps all these twists together - in the form of a single frame - the pink line in the photo below.

You yourself will be delighted at how quickly your homemade Christmas star from paper turned out. You can make several of these and hang them on christmas tree as decoration.

And according to a very similar principle, we can create such stars.... This is also essentially QUILLING. But here the forms are no longer so smooth and rounded, but clearer and more faceted. But the principle is the same.

If you look closely at the photo below, you will see that each of the rays of the star is 2 triangles glued together its longest of the three sides.

That is, we cut 10 identical strips of paper. From each we make a paper triangle. Divide all ten triangles into pairs. And we glue each pair with each other with the long side. We get five rays future star made of paper. We glue the rays together. Close the center of the gluing with an asterisk. With a hole punch we make a hole in the upper beam so that we can hang it on the Christmas tree by a string.

Craft idea number 2

Christmas star

From toilet paper rolls

And here is the next star idea do it yourself similar to the previous technique the fact that here, too, the round paper loops are glued together. Only the loops here are not glued from paper strips, but are roll slices from toilet paper - and a transparent colored film (cling film, or colored tape) is stretched over each section.

We'll need a roll of paper towels or toilet paper. And we will also need multi-colored transparent pieces of film to cover our paper blanks for the star.

Where to get clear color film for this Christmas star craft.

Option 1 - food grade colored polyethylene.

Option 2 - colored transparent candy wrappers.

Option 3 - colored transparent packaging for bouquets, or gift wrapping in stores with a gift design department.

Option 4 - colored wide scotch tape - sold in hardware stores or finishing stores.

Option 5 - clear film from a hardware store. It is sold in rolls as large as wallpaper - but you can buy them in any piece - at least 1 meter, at least 10 cm - cut from the roll and sold. But first you need to make sure that this film, detached from the paper base, gives a transparent color - that is, it transmits light. Check it right in the store - peel off the corner of the film from the paper base right on the roll and check it for transparency.

How we will make New Year's transparent stars.

We cut the paper roll into equal ring parts - and bend from these parts ray shapes and middle pentagon for our future star.

To fold the pentagonal center, you need measure the circumference of the roll and divide it into 5 equal parts... And bend in the places marked with a pencil.

And now for every ray of our star we must bend BASE, which in length will coincide with the length of the side of the pentagonal center. To do this, bend the roll along the edge and measure it with a ruler half the length of the side of the pentagonal center stars.

By the same principle, we wrap the rest of the rays of the cardboard star in film (or colored tape).

And now our task is to glue all the parts of the asterisk into one - connect the rays with the middle.

The easiest way is to use a piece of double-sided tape. Scotch tape with sticky edges on both sides.

Or you can spread it with PVA glue and dry it pressed down - squeeze with clothespins

And when assembled, such an asterisk is suspended by the window - so that it lets in light and looks like christmas craft from glass.

By the way.

If you have a glass cutter and colored pieces of glass left over from old interior doors, then you can do real glass christmas stars.

Craft idea number 3

Christmas star

in the FAN technique.

Here in the photo below we see a six-pointed star made of paper. Even a child in a circle can do it. children's creativity... You do not need to draw anything with a compass, build complex calculations. All you need is 1 square sheet of paper, folded in a fan. And another square of newsprint (smaller).

A Master Class for making such a New Year's star with your own hands looks like this. Fold a square sheet like this, to get six faces- that is, three folds of the fan only (as in the photo below).

You can leaf right away measure in width and divide this figure into 6 equal parts... And mark these parts with a pencil and make folds-folds according to these marks - then we get a fan of six identical accordion blades.

And if you make patterned cuts in such a star (like in a snowflake), then you get a patterned New Year's star made of paper - with a beautiful openwork pattern on its rays.

That is, the fan itself (still folded) is supplemented with slots. And then we stitch the middle of the fan with a bracket, fold it in half, unfold it in a circle and glue the blades of the halves that meet.

Craft idea number 4

Christmas star

made of swirling triangles.

Here we see a seven-pointed paper star. Due to the abundance of rays, it looks more like a snowflake. But if you change the shape of the triangle to a more elongated one, you can get a structure with five rays. We put each such tube on a round paper base, smeared with glue.

Craft idea number 5

Paper stars

In the form of a garland.

A paper star is often used as an element christmas garland... Here I propose to consider three ways to make such a starry garland for the New Year.

Option number 1. Here is the simplest and quick way to plant the stars on a string. Need a sewing machine and star silhouettes cut out of cardboard.

We fill in sewing machine thread, put a star under the machine's foot and lead the machine line through the star. Moreover, when the line reaches the edge of the star, we do not stop the machine, but we sew on to get a long thread twisted into a line. After a few centimeters of such an empty string-chain, we again put a star made of cardboard.

Option number 2. You can make a garland of volumetric stars... They are made according to the screaming principle - several silhouettes of a paper star are superimposed on each other and fastened with a common machine seam. Or you can use these multi-layer stars with a paper clip first.

For a garland of paper stars it is not at all necessary to buy colored paper. You can use the pages of old books or the staff.

Option number 3.

Or you can make a garland of volumetric stars with smoothed edges. If you punch holes in such paper stars with a hole punch, you can pull the thread through them and we will get a starry New Year's garland.

Here is an understandable master class that clearly shows how to make such a volumetric 3D star out of cardboard with your own hands. As we can see, we iron the arrows of the star with a sharp stick under the ruler. And then the ironed lines will be easily bent into the convex folds we need. And we get a star with faceted rays.

Bend the lines that lead from the center to the tip of the beam outward. And we bend the lines that lead from the center to the interbeam point inward.

Craft idea number 6

Christmas star

with smoothed edges.

And below is another easy way to make a star out of paper. Here you need a template (the star drawing itself) and a ruler, with which we will smooth out equal folds of each face of such a star.

Look at the picture and you will see that it is a simple flat six-pointed star. It was cut from a flat sheet of paper. And then each face was bent - in sequence we bend one face outward, and bend the next face inward.

To draw a six-pointed star on paper yourself, you can use a ruler or compass. First, we measure the distance from the middle of the circle to its edge (that is, we find out the radius of the circle). And then we measure this radius around the entire circumference with a ruler or compasses. There are only six such radii. along the whole circle. These marks will be the points of the rays of our star with six rays.

Or you can use the ready-made stencil in the picture below. You can trace it directly from your computer screen, just put a sheet of paper on the glowing screen - the star will shine through the paper - and trace the contours (or just the points of the corners) with light pencil lines. And then remove the sheet from the screen and outline everything with a bold line.

If you want to increase or decrease the size pictures on the screen, this can be done with the buttons of your computer.

Left hand press the button Ctrl on your keyboard (it's on bottom row left) - and while the button is pressed, you right hand spin the mouse wheel- forward to increase, backward to decrease. And the size of all the pictures on the screen changes by increasing or decreasing.

Craft idea number 7

Christmas star

From paper modules.

And here is a star made of paper, which is folded by connecting individual paper modules together. How exactly to fold such a star out of paper is shown in detail in the diagram below.

Such paper Christmas stars can be made as an independent Christmas tree decoration. As a decorative star for decoration new year holiday... Or, you can dot the Christmas wreath ring with paper stars like this.

Craft idea number 8

Christmas star

Made of cardboard.

And here simple craft volumetric christmas star made of cardboard. Here (as you can see in the photo), you need to cut out two identical silhouettes of a five-pointed star from cardboard.

Later in each make a cardboard star scissor cut - in a straight line leading from the lower interbeam to the upper apex of the beam - but don't cut it to the end, but stop at the center point of the star.

When we we put one slot on the slot of the second star made of cardboard- we get a cruciform connection of two stripes (perpendicular to each other). As a result, it turns out 3D star.

And here is the option when 2 stars are cut out too thick cardboard do not sit on each other - but simply lie on top of each other so that the rays of the upper star are located between the rays of the lower star. If you make openwork holes-slots in such a cardboard star with a blade, then the asterisk will look more elegant. And the sprinkling of gold will make this new year star quite festive.

Craft idea number 9

Cardboard stars

BILATERAL.

Method 1 - four-beam blank

You can make a star with four rays out of paper - then make the same second one, and connect them together.

Here detailed master class with a description of how to make 2 blanks with your own hands and connect them together into one star.

Method 1 - three-beam blank.

And these volumetric paper stars are also made from two modules, glued together one to meet the other. Only here the module is not from four beams, but from three.

V flat view this module has such a triangular shape with serifs-fasteners on all three sides.

We bend the module along the longitudinal line of each of the three corners of the triangle. Cutted modules are put on each other with serif notches. And you get a volumetric star with six rays.

Craft idea number 10

Paper stars

In ORIGAMI technique

You can make a star using the origami technique. That is, from a regular square sheet of paper WITHOUT USING SCISSORS. This is what distinguishes the fashionable Japanese technique origami is the art of transforming a square plane into a figure of any complexity.

Such a star is also obtained from one square sheet of paper. But the process looks pretty complicated. But one has only to figure it out, as you understand the speed and ease with which these stars appear. And having made 4 such stars, you acquire high-speed automatism and you can add stars almost blindly.

And here is another star in the origami technique. Where from a square sheet it turns out paper module... And from such modules-rays we add a solid star made of paper.

Craft idea number 11

Christmas stars

Transparent for windows.

You can make a star out of paper to stick it on the window. Such stars look very elegant. And this is an alternative to the classic paper snowflakes, which we are all used to gluing on windows during the Christmas holidays.

Making such a New Year's star out of paper is quite simple. The strip of paper folds in half. Its tips are curved to give a pointed shape. We attach the resulting module to a round base sheet. Or we immediately attach it to the window - to an imaginary circle.

Depending on the shape of the folds we made to sharpen our rectangle, we get different shapes rays of the star. Thus, having shown an EXPERIMENTAL hitch, we will be able to create new and new copyright New Year's stars on the window.

Craft idea number 12

Christmas stars

from a rolled newspaper.

And here is another star made of paper - or rather, from a sheet of newspaper. Here, a thin twist is made from the spread of the newspaper. Can be placed inside the newspaper roll copper wire- in this way, the bent star frame will be given additional rigidity.

After that, the blank of the star from the newspaper can be decorated. Paint with paint, wrap with threads, coat with glue and cover with sparkles. Or somehow else according to your imagination.

These are the ideas I have collected for you in this article. Now you know quite a few ways how to make a star out of paper with your mind and your own hands.

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Useful Tips

If you want to decorate your home for a holiday or just like that, and want to do it yourself, then the star is one of the elements that will always look beautiful in the room, on a stele, on a chandelier or Christmas tree.

In this workshop, you will learn how to make stars with your own hands using a huge number of different ways.

All methods are quite simple, so that everyone can choose what he likes best.

Read also:How to make a beautiful SNOWFLAKE

What can you make a star out of?

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 paper star. Five-pointed star.

You will need:

a printer

Dense colored paper

Scissors

1. First you need to print the blank. To do this, download the templates by this link... There are two sizes of stars in the template - you can make one star by printing the first page, and a larger star by printing the 2nd (two times) and 3rd pages.

2. Cut out the templates, fold them at the dotted lines.

3. Glue all the pieces together and you have a three-dimensional five-pointed star!

Diagram of how to make a star

How to make a 3D star with your own hands

Such a star can be hung in a room (on a wall, window, chandelier) as an attribute of the interior 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 be square.

Each sheet of paper must be folded in half horizontally and vertically. Next, you need to bend it twice in half diagonally (see the picture).

2. Using scissors, cut along the perpendicular fold line. The incision should be about half the line or slightly less. In total, four such incisions need to be made.

3. Bend the edges as shown in the image.

4. Now prepare glue and grease one of the sides of each ray of the future volumetric star and glue it (see picture).

5. Make a soul mate following the same instructions.

6. Finally, glue the two halves together and decorate to taste.

How to make a star out of paper

It is very easy to make such a star. 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 it 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 an incision must be made 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 notches, 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 a great decoration, both for the interior and for a postcard or a gift.

You will need:

Colored paper (you can use pages from an old magazine)

Scissors ( stationery knife)

* Key moment in this master class is the correct cutting of paper strips.

* The stripes must be straight. In this example, they are 9mm wide and 221mm long.

Scheme:

1. Cut the paper strips.

2. Take one strip and make a loop out of it (see picture).

3. Further short ponytail paper strip you need to wrap and tie a knot. Be careful not to tear the paper. Tighten the knot slowly, press it in and hide the remaining ponytail by tucking it in the middle.

You should now have 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 face must be wrapped at least two times.

5. Hide 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 tip of the finger of your other hand to lightly press on one edge. You need to hit 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 the books. In this case, old, unnecessary, technical books are used.

You'll need:

Paper or plastic volumetric star

* You can make a volumetric star out of paper yourself (see or) and proceed further according to the instructions.

Old book

Scissors

1. Cut off one-fourth of the pages of the book and roll up the bags.

2. Glue the pouches to your star as shown in the picture.

3. Apply some glue to the edges of the pouches and sprinkle glitter over them.

Scheme:

How to make a Christmas 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 glueing the squares by size. The first one is large and further downward.

You should have a star like this.

How to make a star on 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 a white cardboard box and circle a template star on it. Next, cut out the star.

2. Now, without rushing, you need to draw another star inside. You should get as shown in the picture.

3. Cut a star inside the blank.

4. Using a glue gun, attach a 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 a felt of red and green colors. Cut two circles out of red. And from the green leaves. Glue the clippings 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 piece of jewelry is perfect for any space.

Stars at all times were considered something magical, mysterious and beautiful. They light the way and show 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 star of happiness, because she is so beautiful. Now we will try to make a star of happiness out of plain paper.

For 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 every time 1:23. To find out what size an asterisk will turn out 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 1x23 ratio, it is convenient to cut strips 1.2x27.6 cm in size.Of such strips, you can make an asterisk 2 cm in size.

And so, we begin to add the asterisk. Turning the end of the paper strip around the index finger, tie a knot. You need to tighten it and press in such a way that you get a small figure of an equilateral pentagon.

You need to try so that after tying the knot, a very small end of the strip remains. 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 will itself fall on the next edge on which it needs to be bent.

After 10 such bends, a short piece of the strip should remain. It can be hidden in a nearby "pocket". The result should be a pentagonal flat shape.

Now you need to try to make the figure three-dimensional. To do this, each edge needs to be lightly pressed inward with your fingers, while pulling the corners at the same time. Since the asterisk is very small, you need to be very careful so as not to accidentally spoil it.

If you did everything right, then your star of happiness should be like this.

Do not be discouraged if something went wrong with you and the asterisk did not work the first time. Try to start over and for sure, this time you will succeed! And when you learn how to do them, it will seem to you that nothing is easier.

In this workshop, you will learn how to make stars with your own hands using a huge number of different ways.

All methods are quite simple, so that everyone can choose what he likes best.

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 paper star?

Five-pointed star.

You will need:

- a printer

- thick colored paper

- scissors

1. First you need to print the blank.

2. Cut out the templates, fold them at the dotted lines.

3. Glue all the pieces together and you have a three-dimensional five-pointed star!

Diagram of how to make a star

2. Using scissors, cut along the perpendicular fold line. The incision should be about half the line or slightly less. In total, four such incisions need to be made.

3. Bend the edges as shown in the image.

4. Now prepare glue and grease one of the sides of each ray of the future volumetric star and glue it (see picture).

5. Make a soul mate following the same instructions.

6. Finally, glue the two halves together and decorate to taste.

How to make a star out of paper?

It is very easy to make such a star. 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.

2. You can decorate the stars as you like and cut them out.

4. Using notches, 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 a great decoration, both for the interior and for a postcard or a gift.

You will need:

- colored paper (you can use pages from an old magazine)

- scissors (clerical knife)

* The key point in this master class is the correct cutting of paper strips.

* The stripes must be straight. In this example, they are 9mm wide and 221mm long.

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 face must be wrapped at least two times.

5. Hide the remaining tip of the paper inside your star.

Hold your pentagon with two fingers of one hand. At this time, use the tip of the finger of your other hand to lightly press on one edge. You need to hit 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?

You will need: paper, scissors. Cut the paper into squares and fold according to the scheme.

Have plenty of white paper ready. Today we will try to make a 3D star.

Let's get started

We will need:

scissors
several sheets of white paper
stapler
ruler
pencil

Manufacturing steps

Divide the white sheet of paper in half.
We connect the corner of the rectangle with the opposite side so that by cutting off the lower part of the rectangle, we end up with a square bent diagonally.
Using a ruler and a pencil, we will mark the triangle, which we will then go through with scissors. Let's retreat half a centimeter from the edge and draw a triangle inside the figure. Then we retreat the same amount from the line and draw a triangle again. Let's continue drawing the shapes, moving towards the center of the triangle. Use scissors to make cuts along the lines, starting from the center and not cutting through the paper to the end.
Expand the triangle, expanding it in the shape of a square. There is a small square in the center of the figure. We take one strip on both sides of the square, wrap it inward, overlap it and fasten it with a stapler.
We fasten the next two strips by folding them away from ourselves. We fasten the strips in this way, alternating the direction of their folding towards ourselves and away from ourselves. You should get the following detail.
Let's make 5 of these petals.
Now let's connect them. Take 2 petals by the sharp ends and fasten them with a stapler.
Attach the rest of the petals in the same way.