How to make a paper star for home decoration?

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

Family celebrations are associated with chores for everyone: buying gifts, preparing a feast, a script and, of course, decorating an apartment to create a festive atmosphere. For the New Year, the decoration of the apartment is greatly simplified, because you can hang garlands and "rain". But for other events, you need to make a lot of effort, especially for children's birthdays. You can, of course, buy ready-made jewelry in the store, but you need to be prepared that their cost will take up a significant part of the celebration budget. Therefore, you should not spend a lot of money, but make a festive entourage yourself: confetti, colored paper garlands and voluminous stars. To do this, it is enough to stock up on colored paper, glue, fishing line and a stapler and use your own imagination. And if even children can handle confetti and garlands, then you can learn how to make a star out of paper from this article.

The preparatory stage will not take much time, it is enough to prepare 5 sheets of A4 paper, scissors and glue. For those who make jewelry for the first time, plain white paper is also suitable, andwhen the technique is worked out, you can also use color double-sided. When the necessary materials are prepared, you can get to work.

Before you make a star out of paper, you need to make a square out of each sheet. In this situation, you do not need a ruler, it is enough to bend the sheet diagonally so that the top and side sides are connected. The remaining lower part is carefully cut with scissors and we get a square folded diagonally. This will be the blank for our first star angle.

Further, in order to understand the entire manufacturing technique, you need to remember the lessons of geometry. We got an isosceles triangle, which must be folded again to get the same isosceles triangle, but smaller. But, before we manage to make a three-dimensional paper star, the above steps must be repeated with four more sheets.

At the next stage of our work, you will need scissors and glue (you can use a stapler). So, we take our triangle and carefully make cuts from any of the equal sides, which do not reach the opposite side by about 1.5-2 cm. The distance between the slots can be different, but should not be less than 10 mm. It all depends on the desire of the master, but the more slots, the more interesting the three-dimensional paper star will look.

When all the constituent parts of our creation are prepared, we proceed to the formation of each "petal". We unfold the leaf, take it so that the slots are on the sides, andan uncut fold ran vertically in the center. We take glue and begin to glue our strips one by one. First you need to connect the smallest corners, just take them and glue them with an overlap. Next, turn the leaf over with the back side so that our first glued corners are on the table. From this side we take the following strips and also fasten them with glue or a stapler. Again, turn the leaf over and repeat the steps with the following corners. So we continue until we connect the largest corners. Before you make a star out of paper, you will need to work so hard on the rest of the details.

The last stage of work will be the connection of our star. To do this, all the “petals” must be connected with a stapler at the top, and the last connected side corners of each part must be connected to each other in turn. Decoration is ready!

When the technique is mastered, you can use a smaller paper size, and before making a star out of paper, think about the possibilities of decorating it. On New Year's holidays, it can be decorated with "rain", and on other significant dates - with ribbons, butterflies and various other decorative elements.