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You Will Need

- Paper
- Scissors
- PROJECT BUDGET
- Free

Lucky Stars

Cute, Cuter, Cutest :)

You can fill a bowl with these cute stars, swap them with your friends, glue them onto giftwrappings, make earrings out of them... etc.

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Cut a strip of paper from a magazine, wrapping paper, or anything else. Measurements depend on how big you want your stars to be... I used the height of a magazine and about 1,5 cm wide...
Put the long end of the strip through the loop...
Pull the paper gently as tight as possible, so it will automaticly form a pentagon.

Fold the short end to the middle of the pentagon.
Wrap the long end of the paper strip round and round the pentagon. It almost automaticly turns to the right angle.
Put the end of the paper under the previous 'loops'.
Start pinching gently on the edges of the form.
Your star will puff up on both sides.

This requires some practice and may go wrong a few times!

Also depends on the strengh and thickness of the paper...
Done!

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ʎǝɔɐɹƃ

Feb 17, 2008 4:56pm

ahh this is so simple but really cutee

Alessandra S.

Feb 17, 2008 5:16pm

love it! i made earrings with them; but i used light pastel transulcent papers.

Candace H.

Feb 17, 2008 6:32pm

Thank you so much for sharing! I can't wait to make a whole bunch!

Hank

Feb 17, 2008 6:43pm

This was in the Comic with the guardian this week, wasn't it?

Awesome :D

Cat Morley

Feb 17, 2008 7:47pm

These look so awesome but I always mess up at the step where you push them up and make them puffy. :(

Tami

Feb 17, 2008 8:01pm

I've got some beads made with paper stars :b

Erika A.

Feb 18, 2008 12:11am

I love these, but no matter how hard I try I can't get them to puff up right. ><;

How bizarre! I was helping out at a Chinese Lion Dance event today and a very nice Chinese girl showed me how to make these during a lull, and now I come on COAK and find them again! Deja vu! She said she'd learnt how to make them in pre-school which is pretty amazing

KaRa!

Feb 20, 2008 6:41am

oh love making these!! i started years ago and you can get special pre-cut hello kitty etc. papers to use :D good how-to as well :)

Emma Rose

Feb 20, 2008 1:21pm

I made a christmas garland out of these a couple years ago.They have lots of uses.

Amanda W.

Feb 20, 2008 7:07pm

This was really easy and I loved doing it!

Geneva I.

Feb 21, 2008 6:52am

what is the best paper (or kind of paper) to use for this?

K@ti

Feb 21, 2008 10:21am

ergh I can never make these :(

Kameeri

Feb 21, 2008 11:32am

You can get special pre-cut papers, but haven't found them yet where I live. (haven't searched hard). I used magazine paper and that worked pretty well, as long as I make them not too big... or else they will get floppy.
I made some with common printing paper which I marbeled, and that's perfect thickness I think. Bit more firm, so the stars are quite solid...