In our holiday craft session this year we made a Christmas star. We used old music sheets to begin with, all sizes worked well, as long as you get eight same size squares from one kind of paper. I had a lot of fun folding many of them!
Here is how it works:
You need 8 papers in square format, then you fold them according these steps.
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This is the final piece, you need eight of them:
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Here you see how you “insert” them into each other – you do not need any glue for that.
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