Do-it-yourself Christmas toys voluminous stars. How to make a star on a Christmas tree with your own hands: step by step instructions and master classes

Here you can pick up toys for the Christmas tree, which, with their size, will optimally correspond to the height of a certain city Christmas tree. The shape of the available toys, their colors create a huge variety for choosing the right options. The festive mood will be rich, sparkling, joyful! This is what our toys for a large Christmas tree look like. New Year's events will be complemented by positive original attributes - Christmas tree decorations will become the highlights of the festive decoration.
New Year is considered a family holiday - it is on New Year's Eve that it is very important to be with your loved ones and friends. However, meeting this holiday with your loved ones is not the only New Year tradition. So, a few days before the festive night, you need to take care of decorating the Christmas tree, preparing various LED toys for the Christmas tree so that it sparkles, creating a festive atmosphere in the house.
But besides those Christmas trees that decorate houses and apartments, there are also those New Year's beauties who were honored to decorate the square, the main street of the city. Moreover, not just to decorate - but to create an atmosphere of celebration, joy. The most popular outdoor Christmas trees today are illuminated fir trees, which look like ordinary Christmas trees during the day, but at night they sparkle and shimmer with all the lights of the rainbow. At the same time, you can arrange such a Christmas tree in different ways. Duralight motifs will make each Christmas tree special and memorable. If you want to emphasize the New Year's atmosphere - the snowflake motif will give you such an opportunity. If you want to create a mood of Christmas romance, your choice is the star motif. You can make a Christmas tree exactly the way each of us imagined in childhood - bright, shimmering with all the colors of the rainbow, sparkling with lights, giving joy and New Year's mood.
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The New Year is approaching and most of the time in the last days of the outgoing year is spent preparing for the holiday. To decorate the main symbol - the Christmas tree - we use a variety of different decorations. Someone prefers Christmas balls, others take out old Soviet toys from the mezzanine, and still others prefer to make decorations with their own hands. Let's figure out how to make a star on the Christmas tree yourself, and save this year's holiday budget.

Paper toys are simple and inexpensive

Both children and adults love to make paper out of paper. Try decorating the Christmas tree one of those long winter evenings with your child. So many variations of paper stars for the Christmas tree have been invented that it’s impossible to list them all. You think that paper toys will look too simple - not at all. Just look at what beautiful crafts are made from this material.

	To make a star, use double-sided paper of your favorite color. Fold it like an accordion. To make the parts even, we recommend that you first fold the sheet in half, then unfold and fold each half in half again. Expand again and repeat the steps with a quarter sheet, i.e. a quarter of the sheet must be folded in half again. You will get fold lines along which it is easy to fold an even accordion.
	Fold the accordion in half, this is done to mark the middle line. Expand this fold. Cut a piece of paper diagonally from the outer bottom corner to the middle, but not reaching it.
	Fold the accordion in half and cut off exactly the same piece of paper from the second half along the cut line. In principle, you can cut off the excess at once, but since the paper here is several folds, it will be difficult to do this.
	Tie the workpiece in the middle with what you will subsequently attach it to the Christmas tree.
	Expand the star. There will be extra gaps between the rays of the star on both sides, glue these sections with tape.
	Straighten the star and fasten it to the top of the Christmas tree.

If you like five-pointed stars in the style of the Soviet era, then they are easily made from thick paper or cardboard - ordinary, for children's art, or decorative, which is used in scrapbooking.

Proceed according to the following instructions.

Here is another variation on this theme made of perforated cardboard.

If the previous options are best fixed on the top of the Christmas tree, then the star, made according to the next master class, will decorate the branches. It looks more like a fluffy needle ball, and you can’t immediately say that it is made of paper on its own, it looks so professional.

	Cut out 10 round pieces. For outlining, you can use any object of a round shape or a compass.
	Fold the circle in half. Then again in half and again. Expand the figure.
	In the center, draw a small circle about 2 cm in diameter and make cuts along the folds to the inner circle.
	Lubricate the tip of each petal with glue and, using a sharpened pencil as a form, roll each petal into a cone.
	Lubricate the petals with glue, you can sprinkle them with sparkles, additionally decorating.
	Now let's collect the star. Make a hole in the center of each blank with an awl.
	Put a small sequin on the cord. Insert two threads at once into a thick needle.
	String the first part so that the wrong side looks up. The rest are strung on the contrary. We fix the last detail with sequins. Pulling the two threads in different directions, form a star.

They also make origami stars out of paper. It may seem difficult at first glance. But if you follow the instructions carefully, it turns out that the process is not so much complicated as painstaking. The easiest way is to make a star from separate modules, which are then nested one inside the other.

	To make, you will need 6 squares of paper of different colors 9 by 9 cm.
	All modules stack the same way. Fold the paper diagonally. Rotate 90 degrees clockwise and fold again diagonally.
	Unfold 90 degrees clockwise, flip and fold in half like a booklet.
	Unfold, push the paper from the sides and it will lay in the folds. You get a double triangle.
	This is how it looks from the back.
	And so - from above. Make 6 of these parts.
	Let's start assembling. Each module has two corners on each side. Take the red module and the yellow one.
	Insert the two corners of the yellow module into the two pockets of the red module.
	Insert all the way.
	Fold in half. Turn back. Get a fold.
	Now in this place the paper is revealed.
	Fold it in the same way as in the photo.
	Take new module red and insert into the pockets of the yellow module. Push all the way in again.
	Lay the pleat. Open and bend.
	Attach the modules further in order, alternating the red and yellow modules.
	Close the shape at the end. Don't forget to fold. Straighten. It remains only to thread the thread. Make a loop and slip it into a pocket. Glue so that the thread does not fly out.

Here is another instruction for making small stars, they can decorate a miniature forest beauty.

	We make notes on a sheet of paper two centimeters long.
	We draw lines along the marks to get even stripes. And cut off the strips.
	Take one paper tape. Fold the edges into a loop: the left edge under the right. There should be little left edge.
	Insert the left edge into the loop and align.
	Tuck the little tail up.
	Lower the top ribbon down and to the left. We lay out exactly on the edge.
	Turn the shape over and rotate so that the long piece of tape is on top. Fold down and to the right. Turn over again, bend down and to the left, turn over - down and to the right, then turn over again - down and to the left.
	We hide the remaining piece in the resulting pocket.
	Use your fingernail to push the star from the sides and it will become voluminous.

For a more complex master class on making origami, see the video format.

Video: origami star of Bethlehem

From fabric: a star on the top of the Christmas tree and patchwork pendants

Fabric toys look a little unusual for us. But how great they will look on the Christmas tree. For example, this eight-pointed star can be tied to the crown. It is not done in 5 minutes, but for the sake of such beauty, you can spend some time.

	To sew a lace star of Bethlehem on a Christmas tree, you need a pattern. You can build it yourself, but we recommend using a ready-made one, just enlarge the image to the desired size. In the original, the size of the finished asterisk was 24 cm.
	Source materials: two types of fabric close in tone, but different in texture, however, this is to your taste; fabric for the back of the toy. This can be a piece of the same material that is already used for the front side, if you suddenly have an extra one. ribbons with which the star will be attached to the top of the spruce; for decoration, use whatever you want: sequins, buttons, rhinestones, beads, beads. The lace looks especially good.
	Cut out eight "petals" of the star for the front side and the back side, of course, from two halves.
	Fold the pieces and sew where you see the red lines.
	Smooth out the seams well.
	Fold the resulting parts two together and sew again.
	Now you have two facial parts that need to be smoothed out.
	Just sew them with one center seam.
	Finish off the piece.
	On the reverse side, sew a ribbon 50-60 cm long and a loop 10 cm long.
	Sew both halves, and use scissors to make cuts where marked in green.
	Stuff the toy and sew.
	Decorate as you like or as pictured. The central bead is sewn through, while at the same time a button is attached to the back.

Now see what result you can get. Such needlework can also be given as a gift.

And if you make several small toys, you can make pendants out of them.

A six-pointed star is sewn in a similar way.

Speaking of pendants. Original variations on the theme of the Christmas eight-pointed star are obtained from patches. These stars are unusual, but they are also hung on the Christmas tree.

	By themselves they are round, but the pattern created from patches different color, forms a star. This decoration looks very elegant on the Christmas tree. Moreover, the color of the toy is predominantly red, New Year's.
	First of all, prepare the material. You can buy it specifically in craft stores, but it's much more practical to use old shirts, blouses, bed linens for this purpose - anything, as long as the colors go well with each other. In total, 40 parts with sides of 5 by 4.5 cm are required. From this number of elements of the indicated size, an ornament with a diameter of about 10 cm will be obtained.
	Bend the long side of each part inward by about 1 cm and smooth it with an iron.
	Now lay out a few parts face up and draw a line in the center. Do it with all the details.
	We cut out a square-substrate and draw it as in the photo: two diagonals and a cross passing through the middle of the sides.
	Lay the first part so that the top edge and the line in the center coincide with the lines on the substrate.
	Move the second part down a little.
	Place three more pieces in the same way.
	Sew all the details with a “back needle” seam. Be sure to make sure that the edges of the parts are sewn, the stitch must exactly fall on the beginning of the part.
	Sew seven more rows in the same way. The center lines on the parts match the lines on the backing.
	Bend the right piece first.
	Then drop it.
	Bend again, but up.
	Do the same with the left part.
	Then everything is easier. It will only be necessary to fold the part first in the form of a triangle.
	Then lay down. We do not bend anything up. This is done only with the first part in the row.
	We repeat similar actions with all shreds in all rows.
	As a result, such an ornament is obtained. Pin the front piece to the backing with pins and cut out.
	Sweep and, stepping back from the edge about 1 cm, draw a line in a circle.
	Cut out on the front back and a synthetic winterizer circle for the inner layer. On the back, we also draw a line, retreating 1 cm from the edge.
	We take an oblique inlay from a store or from the material from which the toy was sewn, cut out a strip along the oblique.
	Carefully we sew the decoration in a circle. We process the edges.
	Don't forget to sew on the ribbon.

Openwork and original thread decorations

Maybe you have a small skein of knitting thread left and you don’t know what to make of it for the good of the cause? Try to make airy, graceful charming stars on a wire frame.

	To make such a cute fluffy star pendant, you will need very few materials.
	Prepare the wire.
	Bend the wire so that 5 rays are formed.
	Cut the wire, leaving a small margin.
	Take fluffy yarn.
	Lubricate the frame with glue in the place where you will start wrapping the sprocket.
	Gently wrap the thread around the entire frame.
	Then, in a chaotic manner, fill in the gaps, as shown in the photo.

That's all. It will take only a few minutes to make the pendant, and you can decorate the entire Christmas tree with such toys, you don’t even need anything else.

And how do you like the next master class, which shows the manufacture of a star from cardboard and twine? The original decorations are painted with acrylic paint.

	Make a template out of cardboard. Outline the outline. You will need two identical parts.
	Cut out the frame of the future star from cardboard.
	Lubricate one half of the frame with PVA glue.
	A small star, which turned out from the middle of a large star, can also be wrapped with threads.
	Glue two layers of the frame for the small and large stars.
	Coating cardboard with PVA glue from the outside, start wrapping it with twine. Fasten the edge of the twine with glue.
	The star can be painted with acrylic paints and a sponge.
	It remains only to tie the thread.

An openwork star, similar to a real work of art, will turn out if you make a frame for stretching threads from matches. Soak the thread itself in PVA glue, and then start wrapping the frame: first along the contour, then in the middle, creating a fantasy pattern. Let the star dry and remove from the matches. The toy, thanks to PVA glue, will keep its shape.

See the video for making a star according to this scheme, it will be simpler, but the technology is similar.

Video: thread star

Products from beads and beads

To make stars on the Christmas tree, they also use beads and beads. They are incredibly beautiful and graceful. You will need wire, beads, beads, wire cutters and a lot of patience if you want to make something more difficult than in the photo above.

Video: yellow bead star

The option of several rows looks more interesting, but not everyone can make such a star.

Video: how to make a snowflake

Small pendants made of glass beads can also serve as Christmas decorations. We offer one of the manufacturing schemes.

Do you want a simpler, but very decorative option? Make a frame of thick wire, and collect a lot of multi-colored beads on a long piece of thin wire for weaving. Then wrap the frame with beaded wire. Here's what you should get.

Crafts from newspaper tubes

An interesting direction of needlework is weaving from newspaper tubes. Preparations are very easy to make. It is necessary to cut the newspaper sheet lengthwise into strips about 7-8 cm wide, then twist them diagonally, using a knitting needle, a wooden skewer or something similar at the beginning. Decorative crafts, souvenirs, doll furniture, flower pots and, of course, stars on the Christmas tree are made from such tubes. It is quite difficult to present clear instructions in a photo, so we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the master class in video format.

Video: weaving a star from newspaper tubes

Decorate the resulting star with bows, rhinestones, paint with paint.

Stars are made not only from the listed materials, but also from ordinary thin twigs.

Fantasize and make original decorations for the Christmas tree. Good luck in creativity!

Photo of pendant stars

New Year is everyone's favorite holiday, for which you need to prepare ahead of time. So we decided to learn how to make New Year's toys with our own hands. Today we will make an octagonal star out of paper, it can be hung on a Christmas tree, on a chandelier, in a doorway or just on a wall. It can be made from shiny paper, it can be decorated with glitter (sparkles) after manufacturing. You can make a tail of beads and beads for it. We will show you the basics, and you already show your creative inclinations further on your own.

So, watch the master class on making Christmas decorations "Star".

To make one octagonal star, you will need:

1. Two identical square decorative paper sheets
2. Scissors
3. Pencil and ruler

Fold the sheet in half, right side inward, and then in half again. Crimp the edges, then unfold it.

Now fold the paper diagonally, this time right side out.

Unfold and fold along the other diagonal. Expand.

You should end up with a sheet like this.

On the reverse side of the sheet, mark the middle of each in each wrinkled segment (not diagonal).

Now cut the paper to the marked place.

Fold the paper diagonally so that you end up with a four-pointed star.

Now glue one of the sides folded in the previous paragraph with glue.

Glue all sides of the four-pointed star, overlap one of the triangles on the other.

You have a voluminous four-pointed star.

Follow the same principle to make the second four-pointed star.

Now you need to combine the inner sides of the two stars so that their rays are diagonal to each other.

It turned out an eight-pointed star. Now you can thread a thread through one of its ends and hang it on a Christmas tree. You can decorate the star with glitter, glue rhinestones, or sprinkle with silver spray paint.

So a separate page appeared in our online store for Christmas tree tops made in the form of a star. The stars on the Christmas tree are different: five-pointed - "Kremlin" and Christmas "Bethlehem" - eight- and fourteen-pointed., Which symbolize the one in the light of which the Magi found the baby Christ.

In our online store, Christmas tree tops of both types of stars are presented. A lot of people want to buy a Christmas tree star for themselves and their loved ones.
Do you know how it all started? I can tell.

Many years ago, in a small town with the sonorous name Vysokovsk, there lived - there was one girl. She was a small, pretty, big-eyed girl, of whom there are many in all the cities of our vast country. And she had a grandmother. Grandmother was a Sorceress and worked at a factory producing Joy... It was one of the leading factories in our country in this area. And then one day, Grandmother gave her beloved Granddaughter an amazing thing made with my own hands- a glass Christmas tree top, made in the form of an eight-pointed star and assembled from shiny glass beads using a thin wire. The girl fell in love with her Star very much and since then every year the Star decorated the New Year tree in their house, giving everyone joy and love, as she was a Real Magic Thing!

Many years have passed since then and the little girl grew up into a blue-eyed beauty, learned and went to work at her grandmother's factory. And many more years passed, and Grandma was gone. And the Star continued to give everyone warmth and joy. But then one day something happened that happens to all our dearly loved and often used things. It's broken! Thin wires frayed and the beautiful Star turned into a bunch of shiny glass beads ... And this bunch of beads was taken by the Granddaughter and brought to her factory. The Council of Elder Sorceresses gathered, conjured for a long time, but the Star was saved. And at the same time, they invested so much Love and Goodness in it that it became a pity for them to part with the Star. Why is there such a wonderful Star in only one house?! They conjured more, and sisters appeared at the Star - twins, and then other Stars appeared. And there were more and more of them, so that everyone had enough!

Somehow, before the New Year, my daughter went to GUM and saw the Stars there in all the splendor of their magical radiance! And she told me about them. And I, in turn, bought them for our online store and shared them with all site visitors. And she gave her daughter one of these Stars for her birthday. May we also have a Real Magic Star!

(This is the true story of the glass Christmas tree star.)

The approaching holidays of the New Year and Christmas, of course, cannot be imagined without a smart Christmas tree! Well, what is a Christmas tree without a beautiful star on top? Of course, you can crown your Christmas tree with a beautiful spire. However, the star - Bethlehem Christmas or "Soviet", red five-pointed - traditionally remains the most popular decoration.
In our review, we will talk about how you can make a star to decorate the Christmas tree yourself. In this case, you can use both the most common materials: cardboard, paper, glue, sparkles, and unexpected ones - for example, old books or twigs brought from the forest.

The most common version of a homemade star is a voluminous five-pointed star made of cardboard. For a base pattern, you can use one of the templates:


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The color of the star can be different - silver, gold, red ...


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And one more option for making a similar New Year's star on the Christmas tree. Here, two identical five-pointed stars are bent to create volume, crumpled paper is placed inside, as well as a wire spiral (for strengthening at the top). The halves are glued together with adhesive tape, on top the star is treated with glue, sparkles, tinsel.


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And here is another version of the star pattern, not from two halves, but with separate rays:



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In this master class, a star with a surprise backlight, which looks especially interesting thanks to the carved holes:

To view the photo in full size, click on the image

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On the basis of such a cardboard five-pointed star, you can create an unusual masterpiece from the pouches-pages of old books. Of course, instead of collected works of classics, it is better to take old magazines or outdated textbooks.

To view the photo in full size, click on the image

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Or decorate it in the "forest style". Thin dry twigs cut with secateurs are carefully glued to the surface of a cardboard star, the gaps are filled with their small pieces.

To view the photo in full size, click on the image

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Flat star, cardboard contour wrapped with a thread fixed with glue:


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A very simple three-dimensional star can be made from two cardboard stars:




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Another version of the already six-pointed compound star, more complicated:






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Eight-pointed stars are also popular, especially as Christmas decorations.
Here is an easy-to-make, but requiring patience and precision paper star. Squares of 4 sizes (8 squares of each size) must be folded as in the picture, and then glued.




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The following eight-pointed three-dimensional star is glued together from two halves:


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On the basis of such a pattern, you can make a real masterpiece! This star is made of cardboard using glue, gold spray, fabric, beads. The star is attached to the Christmas tree with a wire glued on the back.

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But this paper eight-pointed star is made quite simply: four paper templates are tied with a wire in the middle, then straightened with adhesive tape. It is attached to the tree with the help of the same wire.


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For origami lovers, there are workshops on folding a star on a Christmas tree without glue and scissors! If you use colored paper, the asterisk will look bright and very elegant:




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This star is suitable for the top of the spruce, and for Christmas days, when, according to tradition, it is customary to go to friends with congratulations: durable, sawn out of plywood and decorated with paints and tinsel, such an asterisk will withstand even a journey through the frost.

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