How to make a Star of David from a banknote?

This 6 pointed origami star, also known as the star of david or hexagram, has a very clever design because it is not made from a square but a rectangular sheet of paper or, in our case, from a banknote, but it is not quite new craft origami. People who love math know their stuff, how to get an equilateral triangle from a rectangle or square. You can get four versions of the Star of David, it all depends on which side of the banknote the assembly starts from and which side the fold will be made in step 2 of assembling this model. Also, one of the advantages of this craft is that it is made from just one banknote.

1. Let's start from the front side of the bill, fold it in half and unfold it.

2. Fold the lower left corner so that the indicated green dots come together. Make sure the crease also divides the top left corner.

3. Fold the top left corner to make an equilateral triangle.

4. Now you need to fold this triangle again to the upper right corner.

5. Fold the rest under the layers of the triangle

Rotate the rectangle to the right

6. Fold in the middle

7. Fold along the specified median

8. Now fold in the other direction

If you look closely at the model, you will see the place where all 3 folds intersect (red dot). This is the center of the triangle.

9. Make a crease by bringing the blue dots together

Reveal

10. Repeat step now for this side

And for this

flip the model

11. Fold the blue dot to red

12. Repeat step 11 for the other 2 remaining corners

flip the model

13. Using the fold made in step 9, fold upper part

Repeat for the right side

And for the left

14. Fix the layers together by tucking in the scraps of paper

Flip the model again

And the money star of David is ready!

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The step-by-step instruction “How to make a three-dimensional paper star” will help you create lovely New Year crafts with your own hands and you can decorate whatever you want for the holiday.

Photos and diagrams "" will make the creative process unpretentious, exciting and fast. We offer 3 options for volumetric stars.

For a volumetric star you will need:

1. Sheets of colored paper. For the third version of the star - colored cardboard. And you can make white stars and paint with paints, felt-tip pens ...
2. Pencil and scissors
3. Glue for connecting figures and their parts.

The first option is how to make a three-dimensional paper star

From sheets of colored paper, cut out two squares of the same size.
We fold one of the squares in half on one side, then on the other:

Then fold the square in half diagonally twice, as in the picture:

We make 4 cuts from the edge to the middle of the folds, which we mark in advance with a pencil:

We bend the edges of the future volumetric star. We carefully look at the photo and repeat:

Glue the edges of the rays under the fold and glue:

One half of the volumetric star is ready:

Step 6
In steps 1-5, we make the second half of the star:

Step 7
We smear with glue the rays of one of the halves from the inside:

Connect the shapes carefully. An amazing voluminous star made of paper is ready:

The second option is how to make a three-dimensional star out of paper

The star consists of two parts. Cut them out like this:

It turns out such cute details for a three-dimensional star:

Carefully, along the fold lines, bend the parts, as shown in the photo:

Bend back the places for gluing parts. The first detail of the future volumetric star is ready:

Do the same for the second piece for the star. Use paper of a different color, then the star will shine even brighter :).

To glue the two halves of the star, smear all the places for gluing with stationery glue and carefully connect the parts:

The five-pointed paper star is ready!

The last and the simplest option how to make a paper star

For one craft, cut out 2 five-pointed stars of the same size from colored cardboard. Draw them yourself or use this diagram:

Make cuts on each star as shown in the diagrams.

Scheme of a notch on one star:

Scheme of the notch on the second star:

Connect the stars by inserting one into the other through the cuts made according to the schemes and you get a pretty star:

Any voluminous star made of paper can be decorated with drawings or applications, then hung by a thread. They will be great neighbors or.
Good luck!

These large voluminous ones in the form of paper stars came to us from Sweden and Scandinavian traditions. Today, for several years now, these stars have been one of the Christmas and New Year trends throughout Europe and even in the USA. Which is not surprising: their charm, both lit and extinguished, evokes the most that neither is festive mood. They are hung in the house and on the street, in clubs and cafes, placed on shelves, placed on festive table on special thin high holders and even attached to the tops of decorated Christmas trees, like a classic symbolic star of Bethlehem.

These stars are glued together from music paper, from filigree cut (like) modules, from colored, waxed and tissue paper. They are made plain and colored, simple and decorated. You can glue a huge and small star, with long or short tops, a classic five-pointed, 18-pointed or even a ball in this style - the choice is yours. First, let's look at the basics of creating such a star, then discuss design options and how to implement them.

To you will be required:
- Thick paper (the heaviest for a printer) or very thin cardboard (or thin sheets of plastic that can be easily cut), and optionally colored paper or scrapbooking paper with prints;
- Access to the printer;
- Scissors of different sizes - from long to manicure;
- Stationery knife(optional);
- Glue or a good double-sided adhesive tape;
- Needle and thread;
- Unnecessary newspapers.

We collect - a star:

1. We print out a template of one vertex for a star from here. In the pdf file you will find templates for stars in three different sizes - choose according to your taste. Later, starting from them, you will be able to model stars of individual shape and size.

For a small star, all 5 vertices fit on one page, for large ones, accordingly, you will have to print several pages if you make a star from plain white paper. If your printer is capable of printing on thin colored paper, make sure you print on the back - white - side of it.

If you just need a template for colored paper - which you will then trace with a pencil on the back of colored sheets - print out only 1 template from all presented in the file. If the colored paper is too thin to create a star, simply paste it first onto thin sheets of white printer paper and let the glue dry.

2. Cut out the details from the template along solid lines (dotted line - fold lines). We bend the parts along the dotted lines.

So far, for the first craft, you need 5 of these pieces. Then you will calculate and set the quantity yourself.

3. We glue each module on the side by the tongue specially provided in the template. We make sure that each time the tongue is glued exactly inside the modules, and not outside. We put the glue a little at a time so that it does not protrude beyond the edges and does not leave marks on the paper.

You can always use a quality double-sided paper for these purposes. sticky tape- it will keep no worse, and it will be easier (and faster) for many to work with it. But really hot bulbs can melt the tape, so choose your material wisely and be careful!

4. We take 2 modules each and glue them in pairs for the 2 lower tabs of the first module like this - see the picture below. The tongues go inside the second module.

5. We glue two paired modules and one remaining in the same way into a star. At the same time, we do not glue the first and last modules together (if you want to place a light source inside the star; if your star is a simple decoration without lighting, feel free to glue these modules with the edges too). Instead, we cut two identical long ropes from yarn of medium thickness (or take two thin ribbons), glue the tip of the first one (at least 5 cm) or stretch it into the hole from the inside out of the first module from the bottom (if you decide to “sew in”, do it on the tip of the rope / tape a larger knot, you can also string a small circle of cardboard on top of the knot for sealing, finally, sew in ropes / tapes no more than 2-3 cm from the lower edges of the modules), the tip of the second is inside the second module. We are waiting for the glue to dry, if used. With these ropes, you can tie the cones so that the star retains its shape.

Or you can take one long rope to thread it into the holes of both modules - also from the inside out. This method is not suitable if you put a Christmas tree garland inside the star.

Here the ropes are sewn in the middle of both modules, but this is not aesthetically pleasing, and in general they do not do this. By the way, tying the ropes will be quite difficult, so be patient and/or ask someone with longer and thinner fingers to do this (or just help you - hold the first knot).

6. We completely put a short Christmas tree garland with a battery-powered control unit inside the star (we put the unit at the very hole in the star) and then tie the ropes on the bow - so that later you can easily untie them and turn the garland on / off or change the battery in the garland as needed. See lighting options below.

7. Remarkably, when you untie the strings and take out the light source, your star folds nicely into this layered flat shape for absolutely safe storage - and takes up almost no space!

IMPORTANT : Although your stars are not connected to the network, for safety reasons, do not leave them on unattended, because sometimes the bulbs get quite hot, which can cause a fire. The optimal type of light bulbs for these fixtures are compact fluorescent light bulbs and of course light-emitting diode (LED) light bulbs, which are usually - usually! - remain relatively cold.

Alternative light source for the Swedish star lamp - also switchable:

1. Buy individual small LED bulbs (1 bulb per star, optimal length light bulbs - about 10 mm; are available for free sale both in Runet and in real building supermarkets), a set of large flat round batteries (CR2032; 1 battery - 1 light bulb) and the same number of small flat neodymium magnets (in free sale). Also prepare a transparent or matte ordinary tape - you can separately reels of adhesive tape with a width of 1.9 and 1.2 cm - and any double-sided tape. The coin in the picture below is just for clarity of size.

2. From cardboard we cut rectangles 4.5 cm long and the same number of rectangles 1.9 cm long. Their width should be slightly larger than the width of a large flat battery. The number of such paired parts is equal to the number of stars that you want to illuminate. We buy a set of seals for holes (if you find it on sale) or cut rings from the same cardboard (the diameter of the ring is equal to the width of the strip).

3. Glue the ring to the tip of a longer cardboard rectangle. The glue is dry - we cut out such a hook on this tip. A hole for convenience in the center can be made with a hole punch.

5. We shorten the wire-antennae of the LED-bulb with wire cutters by about 0.6 cm. This can be done or not done - depending on the size of your star - so that the bulb then hangs strictly in the center of the star. Moreover, if you still cut, do it at the same angle at which the antennae were cut initially, so that one antennae remains shorter than the second.

7. Now we squeeze the battery with adhesive tape - completely sealed edge forward - between the antennae of the LED bulb, while the longer antennae should fall on the side of the battery with a plus, and the shorter one on the back side of the battery. And we stop the longer antennae at the edge of the adhesive tape so that the wire does not touch the battery. If you are not sure which antenna should be attached to which side of the battery, push the battery deeper so that both antennae touch their sides of the battery: if placed correctly, the bulb will light up - and then pull the battery back to the desired level; if it doesn't light up, swap the antennae on the battery.

8. We glue the battery with the light bulb with the back side down to the bottom of the cardboard label - to the double-sided tape - and securely fix it in place and from the bottom with adhesive tape originally glued onto the battery. Careful - do not move while doing this upper tendril light bulbs beyond the border of adhesive tape.

10. Finally, we take a small piece of cardboard from step 2. We glue a piece of double-sided adhesive tape on it again, put a flat magnet on the tape in the center of the cardboard.

And here's how it works: we apply a magnet simultaneously to the free tip of the antenna from the light bulb and to the large battery - and the light turns on. The magnet will attract to the battery and it will “sit” in place quite firmly. We turn the cardboard with the magnet over to the other side (magnet up) - and again apply it to a large battery - and the light turns off, but the cardboard with the magnet still stays in place. That's the whole secret!

For such a label with a light bulb, the connecting rope on the star on top must be made solid - so that you can hang the label on it by the hook.

Variants of designs of classic Swedish lamps in the form of stars:

1. Buy figured hole punchers and put in bent, but not yet glued star modules (after step 2) figured holes - as symmetrically as possible or just in random order. These can be completely different figures from stars and months to hearts and flowers, or you can use only 1 type of figures (and also - of the same or different sizes). Classic voluminous Swedish stars - usually come with curly holes, and not from solid paper.

2. Having outlined with a pencil the same design of large slots on each module that has not yet been glued together (it is optimal to do this using a single cardboard template - for complete symmetry of the pattern on the finished star), place each module on a stack of newspapers or a special cutting mat and cut it out with a clerical or craft knife this design.

4. From above, the stars can be decorated with a pencil or rhinestones, sparkles or additional details from colored paper, but, as a rule, the patterns in these cases are made very simple and as discreet as possible so as not to distract from the simple graceful beauty of the star itself. It's just that it's accepted according to the classics, the rest is up to you!

5. Paste thin colored paper on a thin white one (so that the light passes better later) before cutting out the modules - and you will get not a white, but a colored star.

6. If you have 5 sheets of paper with the same large pattern, you can, by overlaying and tracing the pattern in a strictly defined place on the patterns, cut the modules with the pattern in the center, and then, as described in step 2, cut out individual specific parts of this pattern on all modules. Under the cut out areas, you can again stick a colored tissue paper, or you can just leave the holes as they are.

Add additional ears to all the lower edges - and you can glue a pointed “ball” instead of a star.

And it doesn't matter whether you made a complex pattern on a star or a simple one - it will look amazing in any case!

Happy New Year!

Sources:
www.homemade-gifts-made-easy.com/paper-star-lantern.html
www.meandmydiy.com

Paper will perfectly decorate a Christmas tree, a chandelier or a window.
I bring to your attention a photo tutorial on how to make a three-dimensional star out of paper. Together we will add two stars from paper modules- six-pointed and seven-pointed.

While I was dealing with the circuit, I got another asterisk of seven modules ( option 2). But more on that below.

In the meantime, take a square sheet of paper. I used squares of colored paper with a side of 8 cm.

Option 1. Six-pointed volume star made of paper

We fold the square in half in the longitudinal and transverse directions.

In the same way, we bend the remaining corners to the point of intersection of the fold lines.

We get the next figure.

Flip it over to the other side. We bend the upper part on both sides, aligning the sides along the horizontal fold line.

We do not push the fold line completely, but only to the vertical line. First on one side.

Similarly, we form a fold on the other side.

And now we bend the bottom part in the same way.

Here's what we should get.

Flip the figure over to the other side. We bend the corners from the center along the existing fold lines.

Repeat all for the bottom.

* We get the next figure. This figurine is common for folding stars. If you add up a seven-pointed star, then go to option 2. To fold a six-pointed star ( option 1), keep adding.

Bend the figure in half along the vertical axis.

And again bend along the horizontal axis. The resulting triangle is placed in this way. We bend the right corner, as shown in the photo.

We unbend. We divide the top into two layers and begin to stretch in different directions.

At the same time, with the fingers of the right hand below, we bend the corner to the left.

We iron the fold lines well.

We get such a module.

If you folded the bottom corner to the left, then the entrance to the pocket is on your right. From the side of the entrance to the pocket, it is necessary to wrap the extreme triangles along the existing fold lines inward. So they will not interfere with the assembly of modules.

On the other hand, straighten the triangles.

To assemble a six-pointed star, we need six modules.

We take two modules. We put one on top of the other. We fill the free corners into pockets.

This is what the two assembled modules look like.

Similarly, we attach the third module.

In order for the star to be hung, we attach to one of the modules a cord made of several folds of thread.

We straighten the module, drip a drop of glue and put a knot of lace.

We complete the assembly of modules. Our six-pointed paper star is ready.

After practicing, you can fold a star out of beautiful wrapping paper.

If something was not clear to you, then you can use the video lesson.

Option 2. Seven-point volume star made of paper

We begin to add the modules of the seven-pointed star in the same way as the modules for the first star ( option 1). We reach ( * ), where we got this figure.

We fold the figure in half not along the vertical axis, as in the first case, but along the horizontal axis.

We bend the side of the triangle to the base on one side and the other. We iron the fold line well, dividing the top of the triangle into two layers.

Now we take the side triangles and stretch the figure in different directions, bending it in half.

Here's what we should get.

From the side of the entrance to the “pocket”, the side triangles along the existing fold lines must be bent inward so that they do not interfere with the assembly of the modules.

This is what the finished module for the seven-pointed star looks like.

In order to assemble a star, seven modules are required.

We take two modules and fill the protruding side corners of one module into the “pockets” of the other.

We well join the modules with each other so that they fit together as best as possible.

We also connect the remaining modules.

Until you get such a seven-pointed three-dimensional star.

In order for the star to be hung on the Christmas tree, we glue a rope loop of the right color into one corner.

You can decorate ready-made stars with beads by gluing them in the center.

Here is such a star turned out of colored wrapping paper.

If you like video tutorials more, then a detailed video tutorial is below.

As a rule, the older a person becomes, the more nostalgically he begins to remember his childhood years. For many adults today, this time is permeated with Soviet symbols, among which red stars can be noted.

In this master class, I will show several options for how to make a paper star with your own hands with step by step photos. Such a five-pointed symbol may be relevant now. For example, a red star is perfect as a decoration or as a decoration. New Year's interior. It is not difficult to make it out of paper, focusing on the proposed master classes.

How to make a paper star with step by step photos

01. Do-it-yourself voluminous paper star

To create a three-dimensional star, we need to prepare:

• red paper;
• scissors;
• pencil;
• ruler;
• PVA glue.

First, cut out 5 squares of the same size from red paper.

Our blanks have a side of 9 cm.

After that, you can begin to add each square. First, make a diagonal fold.

Then we unfold the square blank. Bend the right side to the middle.

A similar fold must be done on the left side.

Now we need to make folds in the upper part of our workpiece. First we fold the right side.

After that, make a fold on the left side. Our workpiece has acquired the shape of a rhombus.

Fold it in half.

The top layer needs to be bent to the side.

At the same time, attention should be paid to reverse side the vertex of the triangle coincided with the fold line.

Slightly unfold the workpiece.

Smooth out the fold lines.

Now we begin to straighten one of the rays of the future star.

Gently straighten its inner layer.

Now we give the workpiece the following form. We have an element consisting of one whole beam and a half.

We need to make 4 more such blanks.

You can start assembling the star, and this will require glue. We apply it to one half of the beam.

After that, we insert one element into another.

So we connected 2 modules.

We glue the remaining elements in a similar way. Our volumetric paper star is ready.

02. How to make a star using the modular origami technique

Technics modular origami allows you to create three-dimensional figures using the same elements. In our master class phased production stars from several modules.

To work, you need 10 square sheets of paper. We took sheets of paper in red.

We start by making one module. For him, we need two sheets. First, bend them along two diagonals. Now these same sheets of paper should be bent in transverse directions, but in the other direction.

From one we fold the workpiece in the form of a double square.

From another sheet of paper with pre-planned folds, we fold the blank in the form of a double triangle.

Now insert the triangle inside the square.

We bend the protruding tips from the square inward. First, we do this from two opposite sides.

Then we unfold the module blank and bend the protruding corners again. So we got one of the modules.

We need to make 4 more such modules for the future star. Let's start connecting the modules. They will be attached to each other due to the corners protruding on the sides.

Two corners of one workpiece should be inserted under the folds of the other from the inside.

We introduce the corners of another module from the outside under the folds of the neighboring one.

So we continue to connect the individual modules.

We close all 5 elements in a ring.