Paper window stars are one of my favorite winter projects. They look beautiful and bright with the light shining through them, and they make great holiday gifts! The last couple of years, I called on my origami skills, and the kids and I just winged it by folding up squares of wax coated kite paper from our Waldorf school store into different shapes with points on the end and glued the center points together in a circle with some overlap. We came up with all kinds of beautiful, cheery creations.
This year we are going to try using this book, Magical Window Stars by Frederique Gueret. It has a lot of fancy shapes and designs, and I’m excited to see what we come up with.
This is the kite paper we used, but the book says you can use regular tissue paper from the store and watercolor it first. It sounds lovely.
I cut up some of the paper squares in quarters and made a bunch of these tiny ones for each pane of glass on the windows in our front and back door. It looks like a little flurry of snowflakes.
This one is in my kitchen window to brighten up those rainy Oregon days.
I have a magical window star on my kitchen window, you can see it on my photo, they do bring a lovely glow to the room. cheers Marie
On my list of things to learn to make. They look so beautiful.
These are quite lovely, Lara. I'd not seen anything like this until about a month ago when I ran across a photo of one on another site when doing a search for photos of snowflakes. I may have to buy that book and try them out. I'm currently doing a year-long project called "A Year of a Thousand Snowflakes" – http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=261721&id=558940893&l=c4f40d3c10 . I'm giving them all away in sets of fifty at the end of the year and would love to send you a set if interested. Look forward to reading more of your wonderful blog. – R.
Thanks! This year long snowflake project sounds really cool, and since we don't get much snow around here, I would be very excited to have a set of these come my way! Keep me posted!
I just saw this great tutorial posted on one of the blogs I follow and thought I'd share it here. She did these colorful rainbow ones: http://theenchantedtree.blogspot.com/2011/01/paper-star-craft-tutorial.html