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Window Star Tutorial


Let’s make a window star! These are so fun to make and they add a bit of playfulness and whimsy to any room!

I know they look complicated but they’re not! You’ll be coming thru this craft once you learn the folds!

You’ll need tissue paper or kite paper which is more expensive, but I believe a little easier to work with. 

Scissors, if your paper isn’t a square. 

And stick glue. 

If your paper isn’t a square you’ll first need to cut it into a square. I used a paper cutter to cut them all at once. They still weren’t perfect but that’s okay!

For the colours I choose red, orange, yellow, light green, dark green, blue, purple, and pink. 

After they’re all a square, you’ll begin your folds. 

First fold: fold it long ways, or if you went to an American public school, hotdog style. 

Second fold: fold the hot dog in half, aka hamburger style. 

Unfold your paper. 

You should have in front of you a square piece of paper with fold lines that make four quarters.

Next folds: take the corner of each quarter and fold it into the center.

These fold will turn your square into a smaller diamond.

Finally, and this is possibly the trickiest part…

You’re going to fold in two of the diamonds corners and its corresponding side to meet the center of the diamond. This makes a kite shape. 

Your folding is done, but you’ll need to glue those final sides down and assemble!

For some reason I completely forgot to take pictures, but assembly is easy enough. Check my Insta or YouTube for a video!

All you do is add glue to half of the bottom of the kite shape (in this case it’s the thicker part not the long skinny point) then place your next kite colour on top.

Continue with all of the colours, but when you get to pink you’ll need to pull the red kite in front of pink and glue the red to the pink!

And you’re done!!

These are often used in Waldorf classrooms and homeschool rooms, at least that’s where I’ve seen them. I think they’re beautiful and fun so I had to make one and share it!

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