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Do-it-yourself volumetric paper star: a step-by-step master class. How to cut a star out of paper. Video: star made of yellow beads

When the time of New Year's holidays is approaching, we start decorating our houses. Someone carefully stores old toys of grandparents on the mezzanine, someone frantically runs around the shops, buying jewelry pleasing to the eye.

Unfortunately, the tradition of decorating Christmas trees with handmade toys is almost completely forgotten. But in the old days it was one of the most important family traditions!

Christmas tree toys were made ahead of time, the whole family, which got together and everyone, young and old, made toys out of paper and papier-mâché to decorate their green beauty, make her elegant and unlike any other. Making toys is a great excuse for everyone to get together and have fun and usefully!

In order to make a three-dimensional star out of paper, you do not need to be a designer or fashion designer. Quite a little time and assiduity, as well as a small amount of fairly inexpensive and affordable tools and materials. This can be done by both adults and very young members of your family. You will need:

origami paper, or any other square paper (about 15x15 cm);
pencil;
scissors;
glue (it is best to use regular stationery);
a lace or thread on which the finished star is suspended.

DIY paper star: diagram and step-by-step instructions

Flip the paper over and fold it as shown in the photos below.

Place marks on the fold lines with a pencil. They should be located almost in the middle, a little closer to the edge. Labels are placed on all four sides.


Use scissors to cut from the edge of the folds to the pencil marks.


Apply glue to the resulting triangles - after one.


Glue them together as shown in the photo.


Half of the star is ready. Now you need to make a second one of the same to complete the product.


Repeat all the previous procedures to make a soul mate.


Apply glue as shown in the photo.


In this photo, the glue is not visible, but it is well shown how exactly you need to glue the two halves of your star.


And this is how the star looks when it is completely ready. Simple enough, isn't it?

Useful Tips
Make several stars in different colors and sizes. To make two small stars, simply cut the original piece of paper into four pieces. Using a large sheet of white paper, make a huge star out of it, which will become the center of your composition.

To make more original stars, use newspaper sheets or magazine pages when making them. Use twigs, twigs and threads to make different shapes and compositions out of stars of different sizes.

The star that you made yourself will delight you not only in the New Year. These paper crafts can be used to decorate your home and other holidays. And the independent production of such ornaments contributes to the development of creative abilities in children.

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On May 9, usually some kind of original crafts are made that can be used to decorate this great holiday. Now I will show you how to make a volumetric star out of paper with your own hands, you will be presented with step-by-step instructions with detailed photos. Creation is very easy, taking about ten to twenty minutes. For originality, use colored paper and homemade products will look more beautiful as a decoration.

How to make a voluminous five-pointed star

In this master class, we need an A4 sheet and scissors, which we use very rarely, but here we cannot do without them.

Let's make a square out of a rectangle. To do this, we bend one corner so that the two edges are connected to each other and lie in parallel.

We tear off the excess part.

It turns out a square.

We make a rectangle from the square. Press down on the bent side.

We unfold the bent and fold the square in the middle. It turns out this rectangle.

We fold in the middle.

It turns out a small square.

We go back one step. We turn away the bend. We now have a vertical line centered.

Bend the upper corner to the center on the left half. And immediately we turn back.

Bend the lower part and bend it back.

Here's what happened. Two lines cross.

Now a very important step, we bend the upper right corner to the center of the cross, which is on the left side of the workpiece.

We work with a fold. Turn the corner to the right so that the lines touch exactly.

The entire left side must be bent to the right. Top left corner to center.

The lines must touch.

We turn this blank inside out. Bend in the opposite direction in the center.

Here's what happened. Turn the part over to one side, as shown in the photo.

Turn the upper corner up.

Back we go back one step. The trace from the bend is important, or rather the line itself.

It is along this line that we will cut the made figure in half.

We take scissors. The diagonal is clearly visible along which we make a cut.

Like this. We need the top part.

From such a small triangle, you get a five-pointed paper.

We begin to unfold gradually.

When we unfold, we get such a figure that looks like a. It is necessary to correct some rays and make the correct creases. This is not difficult.

It turns out here such a star made of paper for May 9 with your own hands. Beautiful, original and unusual. We will decorate the holidays with a voluminous craft.

Good afternoon, today I am publishing an article in which I have collected a variety of ways to make New Year's stars with my 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 the Christmas tree as a 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 cut from a roll of toilet paper- and a transparent colored film (cling film, or colored tape) is stretched over each section.

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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 the light and looks like a New Year's glass craft.

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 children's creativity circle can do it. 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 also a 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), 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 of a New Year's garland. Here I propose to consider three ways to make such a starry garland for the New Year.

Option number 1. Here's the easiest and fastest way to string stars. Need a sewing machine and star silhouettes cut out of cardboard.

We put the thread into the sewing machine, put a star under the machine's foot and sew 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 according to the same principle. 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 first use these multi-layer stars with a paper clip.

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 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 the bottom row on the left) - and while the button is pressed, you are right-handed 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 the decoration of the New Year's 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 is a simple hack 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, also cut from thick cardboard, do not sit on top of each other - they just 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 gold sprinkling will make such a New Year's 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 is a detailed master class describing 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.

In a flat form, 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 origami technique - 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 a paper module is obtained from a square sheet. 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 that 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 will end up with different star ray shapes. 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. You can put a copper wire inside the newspaper strand - this will give the bent frame of the star 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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An excellent Christmas tree decoration, premises - a volumetric paper star. The asterisk looks gorgeous, and making it is not at all difficult.

What do you need to work?

  • Colored cardboard or white, depending on what color you need the star;
  • Scissors, glue. Any stationery, for example, PVA or glue stick, glues well. But when connecting two finished parts of a star, for reliability, you can use Moment glue, a glue gun.

How to make a 3D paper star?

Cut two identical squares from cardboard. When determining the size, you need to be guided by the square itself, what is its magnitude, so will the star, since the corners of the square correspond to its rays.

Fold one square in half, corner to corner. Straighten and fold in half again, but this time the second corner to the opposite corner.

There should be two cross folds on the square.

This will create 4 snowflake criss-cross folds.

Now you need to make the rays of the star. To do this, bend one edge of the corner, aligning it with the fold.

Then another.

Repeat the action with all angles.

The beams need to be glued, the cross shows on which side it is better to apply the glue. Spread it well on all the triangular sides, from the corner to the straight bottom. It is possible not all at once, but to take into work one beam at a time.

Glue was applied, and then glue the side that is without glue on top.

Glue all the rays.

You will get this one part of a volumetric star. By the way, it can be used for appliqués.

Make a second piece out of the second square.

And then simply glue them together, middle to middle. Try to keep each ray of one part as much as possible in the center of two rays of the second. Sometimes the point of contact between them is very small, check it first, connect without glue, identify the joints, and apply glue there. You may need Moment glue or a glue gun.

As a rule, the older a person becomes, the more nostalgia he begins to remember his childhood years. For many adults today, this time is permeated with Soviet symbols, among which red stars can be noted.

In this master class, I will show several options for how to make a paper star with your own hands with step by step photos. Such a five-pointed symbol may still be relevant now. For example, a red star is perfect as or for decorating a New Year's interior. It is not difficult to make it out of paper, focusing on the proposed master classes.

How to make a paper star with step by step photos

01. DIY paper star

To create a volumetric star, we need to prepare:

  • red paper;
  • scissors;
  • pencil;
  • ruler;
  • PVA glue.

First, cut out 5 squares of the same size from red paper.

Our blanks have a side of 9 cm.

After that, you can start adding each square. First, make a diagonal fold.

Then we unfold the square blank. Bend the right side to the middle.

A similar fold should be made on the left side.

Now we need to make folds at the top of our workpiece. First, fold over the right side.

After that, we make a fold on the left side. Our blank has taken on the shape of a rhombus.

Fold it in half.

The top layer needs to be bent to the side.

In this case, it is worth paying attention to the fact that on the back side the apex of the triangle coincides with the fold line.

Expand the workpiece slightly.

Smooth the fold lines.

Now we begin to spread one of the rays of the future star.

We carefully straighten its inner layer.

Now we give the blank the following look. We have got an element consisting of one whole ray and a half.

We need to make 4 more such blanks.

You can start assembling the star, and this will require glue. We put it on one half of the beam.

After that, we insert one element into another.

This is how we connected 2 modules.

We glue the rest of the elements in a similar way. Our volumetric paper star is ready.

02. How to make a star using modular origami technique

The modular origami technique allows you to create three-dimensional figures using the same elements. In our master class, the phased production of a star from several modules is presented.

To work, you need 10 square sheets of paper. We took the red notes.

We start by making one module. For him we need two sheets. First, we bend them along two diagonals. Now the same sheets of paper should be bent in the transverse directions, but in the other direction.

From one we fold the blank in the form of a double square.

From another sheet of paper with pre-marked folds, fold the blank in the form of a double triangle.

Now insert the triangle inside the square.

Bend the protruding ends from the square inward. First, we do it from two opposite sides.

Then we unfold the module blank and bend the protruding corners again. So we got one of the modules.

We need to make 4 more such modules for the future star. Let's start connecting the modules. They will be attached to each other due to the corners protruding on the sides.

Two corners of one workpiece should be inserted under the folds of the other from the inside.

The corners of another module are inserted from the outside under the folds of the adjacent one.

So we continue to connect the individual modules.

We close all 5 elements in a ring.