Irina Komarova
I offer you the easiest way dIY Christmas(Bethlehem) paper stars with older children
At the beginning of the lesson, the children were shown a presentation « Star of bethlehem» ... I invited them to make their own a star.
Several pictures were reviewed with the image Christmas star... We put a little imagination and this is what we got.
Phased making
You do not need to draw anything with a compass, build complex calculations. All you need is 1 square sheet paper(Colour paper of your choice) .
Square sheet paper fold in half and get a rectangle
Fold the rectangle in half and get a square
And we add it again, and we get a triangle
Draw sharp ends as shown in the photo
Cut and unfold
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According to the biblical legend, the Star of Bethlehem announced to the whole world about the birth of Christ. On Christmas Eve, stars are used to decorate church premises and Sunday schools. The craft of the star of Bethlehem is simple. You need to decorate it so that it resembles a celestial star in the night sky. She brought the good news of the birth of the baby Jesus, so she should be light, bright, shiny. How to make a paper Christmas star in a simple way?
For crafts, the star of Bethlehem will be required:
- Sheets of colored cardboard or paper. You can make a craft out of white sheets, and then paint or decorate with sequins, beads.
- Pencil and scissors.
- Glue.
First option
From colored paper cut out two identical squares:
If it is made of beautiful shiny paper, we glue a thread or ribbon and can hang it on the wall, to the ceiling, on the door. If a appearance I didn't like it, we decorate it to our liking. Craft The Star of Bethlehem can be done in a variety of ways.
Gallery: do-it-yourself star of bethlehem (25 photos)
Second option. How to make a Christmas star
To craft the star of Bethlehem, you need to do:
- Cut out two five-pointed stars from cardboard.
- On one workpiece, we make an incision in a straight line from the top of the upper corner to the center.
- The second is cut from the bottom between the two lower rays to the center.
- We connect the blanks along the cuts made. For beauty, you can make them in different colors.
The third option: a bulky bag
To make it you will need: a volumetric base, it must be done, first of all, or take a ready-made one; sheets from an old unnecessary book with yellowed pages; glue and glitter for finishing the edges of the beams and for attaching the beads to the base.
We start by making bags from book pages, more than 30 of them are needed. When the bags are ready carefully, methodically, in a certain order glue the bags with a sharp tip to the base. When all the bags are glued, we spread glue on their edges with a brush and sprinkle with glitter.
The fourth option: a bright Christmas paper star
Required materials and tools:
- Bright wrapping paper, silver or gold.
- Scissors.
- Glue gun.
- Threads.
- Newspaper or paper.
Crumple a dense ball out of newsprint with our hands. We wrap it with threads. We glue it with bright wrapping paper.
For rays, you need to cut 10-15 blanks in the form of a half circle. We smear the edge of the workpiece and fold it into a cone. We glue the cones on the ball close to each other. The resulting craft looks like a bright ball.
The star of Bethlehem in the form of a ball made of thin and long paper bags can be made of A4 paper. The sheet is cut in half, each half is rolled into an elegant bag. It turns out 100 rays. 3 beams connected with a staplerto make a fan. Such fans are made from all the remaining rays. Then they are strung on a thread, pulled together and tied. This craft looks beautiful from shiny paper.
A similar craft is made of paper folded in a fan, but in a different way. We mark a square sheet of paper into 6 identical parts and fold the three-sided fan. We fold it into a rectangle and cut off the ends of it obliquely, we get an isosceles trapezoid. Fold it in half, sew it with a stapler at the fold.
We open the fan and glue the meeting edges at the top and bottom. So that the gluing points do not disperse, we fasten it with a clothespin until it is completely dry. From another, thinner paper, for example, newsprint, according to this description we make a craft of a smaller size and stick it on a larger one. The star of Bethlehem is ready.
Christmas stars from newspaper tubes... Draw a five-pointed or any other star on a piece of cardboard or thick paper. From newspapers or pages of glossy magazines make tubules. By inserting the tubes one into one, we form the outline of the craft. We decorate as you wish: paint, wrap, sprinkle with sparkles.
How to make a paper star of Bethlehem? The easiest way is to cut it out of paper or cardboard using a stencil, decorate with sequins, glue around the edges with sparkling tinsel. You can weave it from paper strips, you can make beautiful craft quilling method, origami. The star of Bethlehem is ready.
Styrofoam star
You need to prepare:
Step-by-step instruction.
The first and difficult stage is cutting out the star from the foam. You can do this using a stencil or template, or you can draw a do-it-yourself contour of the craft on the plane of the foam.
Draw two concentric circles of 20 and 40 cm on a sheet of foam. Equal Distance seven lines are drawn from the center according to the number of rays. Divide the segments between the lines in half. This is the base of the rays.
We connect the ends of the rays and the base with straight lines. Cut out the workpiece. We decorate to our liking, attach bells to the ends of the rays. We attach a bunch of colored ribbons to the center. With such Christmas attributes, in the old days, people used to go caroling, attaching it to a long and strong pole.
The star of Bethlehem is a symbol of Byzantium, which is more than two thousand years old. The mysterious heavenly body is so beautiful that poets tirelessly describe it, artists draw, paint icons. The eight-pointed star, a symbol of the Birth of Christ, was given to children for the Christmas holidays, they decorated the top of the New Year tree, hung on the front door, which symbolized peace, kindness and hospitality. The star is also used as an element in decorating and creating iconostases. Despite the fact that today there is no shortage in stores christmas tree decorations and various crafts, we will try to tell you how and from what you can independently make a symbol of Christmas, because everyone knows that what we have done with our own hands is much more valuable, since we put our soul into it. So, consider making the star of Bethlehem crafts.
Paper star
One of the simplest and most affordable craft materials is paper.
You can use any: colored, corrugated, thick, newspaper and even from under the boxes. Manufacturing does not require any special skills and devices. Everything is very simple. We arm ourselves with pencils, scissors and glue.
Moving on to the master class:
- For one star made of paper, you need two square blanks of equal dimensions. Fold the paper as shown in the figure;
- Next, measure a distance equal to half the length of the line from the very center, make cuts on the folds;
- Form cones in the form of a triangle from the notched edges, having previously coated the sides with glue, and fasten the parts of the square to each other;
- One of the components of the star is ready. Do the same with the other and glue the blanks together.
New year symbol
At the beginning of the article, we mentioned that you can decorate with a star not only a Christmas tree, but also the front door. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to make a Styrofoam star.
For this we need:
- a piece of polystyrene (the size is arbitrary, depending on how much you want to get a star at the end of the master class);
- compass;
- pencil;
- stationery knife and scissors;
- thick paper;
- glue;
- wrapping paper or foil (all the wealth that is in stock from the past holidays).
So let's get started.
The most important thing is to cut out the base for the star from the foam. At this stage, you can use the template, but do not be upset if you do not have one, in this master class we will tell you how to make a blank yourself. Take a compass and draw two circles. Their diameters are 20 and 40 cm. Next, measure seven equal parts in circles and draw rays from the center to them.
Then, draw lines that connect the base to the ends of the corners, and cut the workpiece strictly along the contour.
Prepare the decorated paper and cut out the details to fit the center and rays. Stick on the rays and then the missing parts. To prevent the wrapping paper from fraying, go along the contour with a beautiful lace, cloth or thicker paper, cut to size and glue. Decorate the tops of our beautiful star with bells.
You can finish the work when you decide for yourself that your work is decorated enough. Apply all your flight of imagination in this master class, you can glue beads, wrap the beams with tinsel and even decorate with a neon ribbon.
Bethlehem miracle
Another original way to create a star is a straw.
This time the process will be somewhat laborious, but it will not lose its fascination at all, it is more convenient to create if you repeat everything in four hands.
What is required? We stock up on straws, a hammer, a plank, carnations, a thick thread, a pencil, a ruler.
Place the board as shown in the picture. Count 50 straws and place them next to each other on tight thread. Tie them in the middle, forming a bow-shaped blank. While one of you is tying in the middle with thread, the other straightens the ends in opposite directions. Now, without letting go of the middle of the part, try to make a circle out of the "bow". Then, fasten all the straws with a thread, as tightly as possible in relation to each other. To make it easier, drive in a carnation in the very center, which will secure the craft in place.
Now tie the remaining straws in the center. The sticks are tied together, forming them in several pieces. Well, our symbol is ready, it remains to form the long rays of the star, for which it is necessary to break it in half and along the edges of the straw, forming corners. These rays are inserted into the spaces between the ends of the straws. The corners are also knitted with a thread.
Pointed rays can be decorated with small Christmas balls, painted in any color or decorate the core of the star. Such crafts will not only complement the pastime of adults, but will also give children genuine joy and involvement in an interesting process.
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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 new year craftsaccessible 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's 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.
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 rejoice at how quickly your homemade Christmas paper star 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. We 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 do-it-yourself star idea 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 cut.
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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 or decoration stores.
Option 5 - clear film from a hardware store. It is sold in rolls as large as wallpaper - but they can be bought 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 will be the same length as 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 beams 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 in a pressed form - 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 paper star. Even a child in a children's creativity club 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).
AND 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 immediately 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 (as 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
from 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 star 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 thread the thread into the sewing machine, 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 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 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, with a sharp stick under the ruler, we iron the arrows of the star. And then the ironed lines will be easily bent into the convex folds we need. And we will get a star with faceted rays.
Bend the lines that lead from the center to the tip of the beam outward. And the lines that lead from the center to the interbeam point, we bend inward.
Craft idea number 6
Christmas star
with smoothed edges.
And below is another easy way to make a paper star. 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 the sequence we bend one face outward, and the next face bend inward.
To draw a six-pointed star on paper yourself, you can use 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 using 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 with your right hand spin the mouse wheel - forward to increase, back 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 simple craft volumetric christmas starmade 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 lineleading 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 strips (perpendicular to each other). The result is 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 star will look more elegant. And the golden 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 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 to meet the other. Only here the module is not from four beams, but from three.
In flat form, this module has this 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 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 turning 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, how do 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 can 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 twist - this will give the bent frame of the star additional rigidity.
After that, the blank star from the newspaper can be decorated. Paint with paint, wrap with threads, coat with glue and cover with sparkles. Or something 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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The star of Bethlehem is a symbol of Byzantium, which is more than two thousand years old. The mysterious heavenly body is so beautiful that poets tirelessly describe it, artists draw, paint icons. The eight-pointed star, a symbol of the Birth of Christ, was given to children for the Christmas holidays, it was used to decorate the top of the New Year tree, and hung on the front door, which symbolized peace, kindness and hospitality. The star is also used as an element in decorating and creating iconostases. Despite the fact that today there is no shortage of Christmas tree decorations and various crafts in stores, we will try to tell you how and from what you can make a Christmas symbol on your own, because everyone knows that what we have done with our own hands is much more valuable, since we invest in it soul. So, consider making the star of Bethlehem crafts.
Paper star
One of the simplest and most affordable craft materials is paper.
You can use any: colored, corrugated, thick, newspaper and even from under the boxes. Manufacturing does not require any special skills and devices. Everything is very simple. We arm ourselves with pencils, scissors and glue.
Moving on to the master class:
- For one star made of paper, you need two square blanks of equal dimensions. Fold the paper as shown in the figure;
- Next, measure a distance equal to half the length of the line from the very center, make cuts on the folds;
- Form cones in the form of a triangle from the notched edges, having previously coated the sides with glue, and fasten the parts of the square to each other;
- One of the components of the star is ready. Do the same with the other and glue the blanks together.
New year symbol
At the beginning of the article, we mentioned that you can decorate with a star not only a Christmas tree, but also the front door. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to make a Styrofoam star.
For this we need:
- a piece of polystyrene (the size is arbitrary, depending on how much you want to get a star at the end of the master class);
- compass;
- pencil;
- stationery knife and scissors;
- thick paper;
- glue;
- wrapping paper or foil (all the wealth that is in stock from the past holidays).
So let's get started.
The most important thing is to cut out the base for the star from the foam. At this stage, you can use the template, but do not be upset if you do not have one, in this master class we will tell you how to make a blank yourself. Take a compass and draw two circles. Their diameters are 20 and 40 cm. Next, measure seven equal parts in circles and draw rays from the center to them.
Then, draw lines that connect the base to the ends of the corners, and cut the workpiece strictly along the contour.
Prepare the decorated paper and cut out the details to fit the center and rays. Stick on the rays and then the missing parts. To prevent the wrapping paper from fraying, go along the contour with a beautiful lace, cloth or thicker paper, cut to size and glue. Decorate the tops of our beautiful star with bells.
You can finish the work when you decide for yourself that your work is decorated enough. Apply all your flight of imagination in this master class, you can glue beads, wrap the beams with tinsel and even decorate with a neon ribbon.
Bethlehem miracle
Another original way to create a star is a straw.
This time the process will be somewhat laborious, but it will not lose its fascination at all, it is more convenient to create if you repeat everything in four hands.
What is required? We stock up on straws, a hammer, a plank, carnations, a thick thread, a pencil, a ruler.
Place the board as shown in the picture. Count 50 straws and place them next to each other on tight thread. Tie them in the middle, forming a bow-shaped blank. While one of you is tying in the middle with thread, the other straightens the ends in opposite directions. Now, without letting go of the middle of the part, try to make a circle out of the "bow". Then, fasten all the straws with a thread, as tightly as possible in relation to each other. To make it easier, drive in a carnation in the very center, which will secure the craft in place.
Now tie the remaining straws in the center. The sticks are tied together, forming them in several pieces. Well, our symbol is ready, it remains to form the long rays of the star, for which it is necessary to break it in half and along the edges of the straw, forming corners. These rays are inserted into the spaces between the ends of the straws. The corners are also knitted with a thread.
