Winter Window Star Tutorial

These beautiful eight-pointed stars are easy to make and it's fun to decorate your windows with them during the winter months.

What You Need:

• 8 square sheets of kite paper (or any paper, but kite paper is translucent so when you hang the stars in your window they have a beautiful stained glass window effect)
• Glue stick

How to Make:

• Fold a square in half, open up, rotate and fold in half again so your square is dived into four quarters.

• Fold each corner into the centre

• Fold two corners in to line up with the centre line so you end up with a kite shape. This is your first star point!
• Repeat all the steps above so that all eight pieces are folded into star points.

• Put a dab of glue on the bottom of the right side of each star point (make sure you glue with the folded sides facing up toward you).

• Continue and pause before you glue the last point.

• Before you glue the last point, tuck it under the point in front of it.  This will assure your pattern is just right when you turn it over.

• Lift each of the flaps on the left sides and glue down with a dab of glue.
• Turn over and admire your beautiful eight-pointed star! Hot diggity, you are amazing!
• Prefer learning from video tutorials? Check out this in depth tutorial on our YouTube Channel.

Not only are these window stars a wonderful craft to do with your children, but they also make beautiful gifts. We often make tiny eight-pointed stars out of old watercolour paintings and attach them onto gifts with a little string on the end so they can be hung on a tree or as decorations around the home. 

Looking to up your window star game?
Check out this site which has step-by-step instructions for making a large variety of window stars.

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