DIY Fun Folded Origami Lucky Paper Stars
Learn how to make Folded Origami Lucky Paper Stars using this step-by-step craft tutorial for kids! All you need is a piece of paper and some simple folds to create small or large paper stars from any kind of paper.
Servings: 1 Paper Star
Cost: .05
Equipment
- Pen for writing messages (optional)
- Jar (optional)
- Tag for jar (optional)
- String (optional)
- Scotch tape (optional)
Ingredients
- Thin Paper Cut into strips (½ inch or 2 inch)
Instructions
- Tie a single knot in one end of the paper strip so that the print is showing on the knot. Gently pull the paper until you end up with a pentagon, five sided knot shape.
- A little end will be showing. Tuck this end behind the knot.
- Wrap the long strip of paper around the pentagon knot. Continue wrapping around and around so that the print side of the paper is to the outside and showing. Pull the strip firmly but do not hard fold.
- If the pentagon sides were numbered from 1 to 5 from the front, the paper would wind like this: side 1 and 4, 2 and 5, 3 and 1, 4 and 2, then 5 and 3.
- Tuck the end of the strip inside the last loop of paper when it is too short to make another loop around the star.
- Firmly hold the pentagon shape with four finger tips on four sides of the shape. Press gently with your thumb and forefinger to "pinch" one point of the star. Gently crease with the thumbnail as the star sides gently cave inwards and "puff up" the paper star.
- Repeat this motion on each of the other 4 sides of the pentagon to create each point of the star. Go back around the star and gently press and shape the star as needed to be in a symmetric shape.
- Optional: Add 100 stars to a jar to give to a friend for good luck!
- Optional: Tape large origami lucky stars onto a string in an evenly spaced pattern. Hang the string as a decorative garland by tying the edges of the string, or securing with tape.