I learnt how to make a beautiful star from a Taiwanese friend of mine. What amazes me is that the star is so simple to make yet so pretty! When a bunch of them are folded from strips of glossy and colorful junk mail and exhibited in a little glass container, people just stare in amazement. And best of all it looks so great - yet nobody can tell these are made out of junk!
You will learn from experience that the number of times you should wrap around the pentagon will depend on the width of your strip and the thickness of your paper. If at step 7 your object is too thick it will be very hard to push in the sides so use shorter length strip in that case. On the contrary if your paper is too thin, the pentagon will bend and you can't form the hollow inside of the star, so use longer paper.
Well, it is not as complicated as it sounds, so go for it. Couple of times of trial and error and you'll have a perfect star...
[ Back to Origami Main ]