A volumetric paper star is an excellent decoration for a Christmas tree. You can make a large star and decorate the top with it. Small fishnet stars will look great on the branches. Paper stars are also suitable for decorating a kindergarten group for May 9 or Cosmonautics Day. You can make them just like that for your own pleasure or for children's games. Any thick paper will do for stars. You should not use foil, because it does not hold its shape well, and openwork foil stars are very difficult to straighten without tearing.
It is necessary
- -colored paper;
- -scissors:
- -PVA glue;
- -compass;
- -protractor;
- - a sheet of paper for patterns;
- - a cardboard case from a thermometer or any other cardboard tube;
- -Scotch
Instructions
Step 1
Start making an asterisk by building a flat pattern. Draw a circle on any piece of paper and find its center. Draw a radius. Divide the center angle by 5 and use a protractor to set as many degrees as needed from the radius. Draw another radius through the resulting point. Set aside all other corners in the same way. Connect the ends of the radii with each other with chords.
Step 2
Using a protractor, divide all the corners of the resulting sectors by 2 and draw straight lines from the center to the intersection with the chords through the resulting points. Divide each of these lines into 3 sections. Connect the points closest to the chords with the intersection points of the radii and the circle. You have a five-pointed star. Cut out the flat pattern and circle it again, making glue allowances on the second pattern. It is most convenient to do on each better 2 allowances, cutting out from the corner.
Step 3
Transfer both patterns to colored paper. Mark on the blanks all the internal lines along which you built the flat pattern. The lines should go from the center to the ends of the rays and from the center to the most concave parts of the star.
Step 4
Bend the blanks along all the marked lines. Fold one of the beams in half along the center line, face up. Bend all the rays in the same way, aligning their ends and center lines with each other. Squeeze the workpiece. Lines from the center to the ends of the notches will bend in the desired direction by themselves. You should get something like an "accordion".
Step 5
If the asterisk is small and will just hang on a branch or on a panel, all that remains is to glue it together. Spread out both accordions, but do not smooth them. You should have 2 convex blanks. Apply glue to the allowances and align them with the corresponding parts of the second workpiece. You can glue a loop of thick thread or braid to one of the rays, placing it between the allowance and the side of the second workpiece.
Step 6
Small stars can be made openwork. They will look very nice if the blanks are made of paper of different colors. Leave one workpiece (with allowances) as it is. On the other, cut out different patterns. This must be done while the workpiece is folded "accordion". Do not touch the edges of the workpiece, but cut holes of different shapes on the sides in the same way as cutting snowflakes. Then straighten the sprocket and glue it to the second blank.
