Friday 10 July 2015

Making the 5 Pointed Origami Star

Making the 5 Pointed Origami Star

5 pointed origami star front view

These 5 pointed origami stars are easy to fold and make beautiful Christmas decorations. You can make them from magazines, scrapbook papers or sheet music, whatever you happen to have lying around.

5 pointed origami star angle view

      Got your square of paper? Great! Now we need to cut it into a pentagon shape.

Origami Trick to Make Pentagon

Fold the square in half:
origami pentagon step 1

Fold up the bottom left corner to the top, then unfold again.
origami pentagon step 2

Fold the top left corner to the bottom, then unfold again.
origami pentagon step 3

Fold the bottom right corner to the center of the X-shaped crease.
origami pentagon step 4

Fold the top layer in half.
origami pentagon step 5

Fold up the bottom edge to meet the edge of the top layer.
origami pentagon step 6

Turn over the paper. Then fold in half along this line.
origami pentagon step 7

Cut along the edge of the top layer
origami pentagon step 8a
origami pentagon step 8b

Unfold, and you have a perfect pentagon :-)
origami pentagon finished

Folding the 5 Pointed Origami Star

Step 1

Start with your paper nice-side-down. Fold the pentagon in half through each of its points and unfold again, so that you have a set of creases like this:
5 pointed origami star preliminary creases

Fold up the bottom edge so that the corners meet the creases you just made:
5 pointed origami star step 1
5 pointed origami star step 1b

Unfold again, then make the same fold for all the other sides of the pentagon, so that you have a set of creases like this:
5 pointed origami star step 1d

Step 2

Fold in the left edge along one of the creases you just made. Then fold up the bottom edge, at the same time pulling the corner of the pentagon out to the left like this. Squash the fold flat.
5 pointed origami star step 2

Unfold completely. Rotate the pentagon 1/5th of a rotation so that the next side is at the bottom, then repeat the folds as in the image above. Do the same thing for all the rest of the sides of the pentagon. When you've finished you will have a new set of creases that look something like this:
5 pointed origami star step 2b

Step 3

Starting with the pentagon completely unfolded, pinch all the corners together and squash them toward the center. With a bit of "massaging" the paper will collapse into a star shape.
5 pointed origami star step 3b
5 pointed origami star step 3c
5 pointed origami star step 3d

Step 4

Turn over the star. Fold in the right edge to the center line, like this:
5 pointed origami star step 4a

Working clockwise around the star, do the same thing for all the other arms:
5 pointed origami star step 4a

Finished!

Tada! Here's the finished star:
5 pointed origami star finished front
5 pointed origami star finished back

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