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Illustrated Craft Tutorial - How to Make a German Paper Star - “Froebel Stern” - Page 1
This star can also be made with metallic paper strips which adds an elegant touch to it. This tutorial is using 4 different colors of paper to make the steps easier to follow.
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1. Cut 4 strips of paper measuring all measuring 1 x 45 cm or 1.5 cm x 50 cm or 2.5 x 90 cm.
This particular width and length was 1.5 x 50 cm and will make stars measuring approximately 4x4 cm. Fold each strip in half longwise. Cut the ends to a point. That makes the weaving easier in the later steps.
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2. Insert each strip within the next in each direction. When correctly done they should pull together and hold each other in place.
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3. This is now how the star looks.
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4. Fold top left strip down.
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5. Fold the bottom left strip to the right.
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6. Fold the bottom right strip up.
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7. Fold the top right strip left. Insert the end point through the loop under the blue piece. This will lock the strips in place.
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8. This is how the piece should look now.
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9. Take the bottom left strip (here blue) and turn it under and fold it 90° towards the left so that looks like in the picture above.
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10. Fold then this (here blue) strip 90° upwards so it looks like the picture here.
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11. Fold then the same strip in lengthwise in half (90° to the right).
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12. You see a small triangle at the bottom. For the moment, tuck it under so that it is not in the way. Now take the strip (here blue) and tuck through the loop that is underneath it (here green).
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13. ....like this.
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14. Now the star looks like this. Now you will turn your work 90° clockwise and follow steps 9-14 again. In this case, your next color will be the pink strip. Repeat steps 9-14. Now do the same two more times (in this case then green, then yellow)...
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15. ... until your star now looks like this.
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16. Turn your work completely over.
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17. ...so that it looks like this. The front side outer points are finished.
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To do outer points on the back side, click here to continue
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