Note: It is easier to make cool designs on dragons folded with foil, especially if you are rolling the paper rather than folding it. I wanted this blue dragon to look like an ice dragon. The wings are folded to make it look like icicles or glacier effect. The blue dragon has a more swirly effect on its tail, as well as two extra folds added to the horn.
The neck is slim enough for me to put a pen's spring around it for decoration. Like the silver dragon, it's neck and tail are folded inwards again. The red dragon also has it's tail edited slightly, and it's wings are folded inwards and flattened. I named it the "mantis dragon" because of it's similarities to a praying mantis. The silver dragon has its horn rolled downwards, tail edited slightly, and wings folded into more of a claw look. These images are simply ideas of what can be done when playing around with the dragon. Just be aware that battery operated fairy lights usually only last 3-4 days if the lights are left on all the time, so you could also consider this longer strand that plugs in.The dragon is finished. Or you could punch small holes and string the stars along a strand of fairy lights, like these battery operated lights from Amazon. If you’d like to turn your stars into a garland, I’d recommend using a needle and thread to string them together. The stars are so lightweight that they can easily be hung with thread. Alternately, you can use a needle and thread to make a loop without leaving a visible hole at all. A small hole made with a small hole punch ( like this one from Amazon) looks better on the stars than a standard size hole punch, but either would work. If you’d like to turn your folded stars into ornaments, you will also need a hole punch and twine.
#Step by step origami how to
How to Make a Pentagon from a Square additional Supplies to Turn Stars into Ornaments If you prefer not to use my templates, you can find tutorials online that teach you how to cut a pentagon from any square sheet of paper, like this one:
#Step by step origami full
Click below to download the templates, and print them at 100% or full size. Printing the templates onto cardstock is a good idea so your tempates will be sturdy and reusable. You can print the templates, cut them out, and trace them on the back of the paper you’ll fold into a star. To make it easy to get a pentagon shape, I’ve created two printable templates for you. Origami paper would also be an option.īefore you can begin folding your star, you need to cut your paper into a perfect pentagon. I tried making stars out of lots of different patterned papers and I found that I preferred the ones that have a fairly uniform background (like the sheet music paper in the first photo of the post). Cardstock will not work because it’s just too heavy and stiff to perform well with all the folding. Normal copy weight paper–or just slightly heavier printed scrapbook paper–works very well. You really only need two supplies to make an origami star: a piece of paper and a pair of scissors (or paper trimmer). Your first star might take you about 15 minutes to make, but once you get the folding process down you can easily complete one in five minutes. I have a instructional video for you today that walks you through each of the five steps to folding a paper star. Depending on the paper you make them out of, these would be pretty cool for the Fourth of July as well! The little paper stars look great on your Christmas tree, and are also really nice strung up as a garland. They only take 5 steps to make and the finished stars make great DIY Christmas decorations!įor more easy origami tutorials, click here. That’s why I like simple origami projects that I can master quickly, like these origami stars. Origami is basically magic, right? Taking a flat piece of paper and turning it into something else entirely is pretty cool! But it can also be intimidating, and I rarely have the patience to work through long instructions.
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