Origami Sunburst Star Tutorial

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” 

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well, sometimes you don't need darkness to see stars. Make one yourself and you will see stars even during daytime...ok...I am talking here about making one all by yourself using paper and here's where Origami comes to help you!

Now, I don't know who is the original designer of this star model but it is probably one of the easiest origami star models, you will find on the internet that comes under the category of modular. All you need is just two equally sized square sheets and follow the instructions closely and you will be able to make an 8-pointed star in just a few minutes. 

In this post, I am giving you a picture tutorial for making the origami star. Found the pictures in my archive folders...have many such pictures but time is a constraint. However, here you will find a detailed step by step tutorial showing you how to make an 8-pointed star using just two square sheets of paper. Fold along with the pictures and you will end up making a pretty star during the daytime!

Category:Modular

Level of Difficulty: Easy. On a scale of 5, I will give it a 2. 

Need to know: Pinwheel Base, Petal fold.

Materials required: 2nos. square sheet. Here we have used 10 cm square sheet for the tutorial.

Procedure: 

If you know how to make a pinwheel base, it is easy from there. However, if you don't then let's just start from the beginning. 

Steps to fold an Origami Sunburst Star

Step by Step Procedure:

• Step 01: Start with a square sheet with white side on top. Here, we have used the same color on both sides. Apply the valley folds on the white side dividing the sheet into 16 equal parts. Also, apply valley folds along both the diagonals.
• Step 02: Turn the sheet over and fold all the four corners of the sheet to the center. 
• Step 03: Turn it over, follow the creases to get the pinwheel base. 
• Step 04: Fold the corners as shown to the centre
• Step 04b: Open the corners and squash them to four squares.
• Step 05: Now apply the valley folds as shown one by one to every square. Also, called the petal fold.
• Step 06: Next peel open the layers along the creases to get diamond shapes at every corner.
• Step 07: Turn over the model.
• Step 7b: Fold the tips down for all the four squares. One unit with four points is ready.
• Step 08: Make one more similar unit.
• Step 09: Place one module over another and secure the stars together by folding the tips down.
• Step 10: The 8-pointed star is ready. 

You can make many such stars and use them for cards, decorations or as gift toppers. Try using glossy sheets to get the shining and twinkling effects if you wish to...

If you make one, do post the pictures here. Would love to see your origami models too.

Hope the tutorial is helpful.

Thank you for stopping by. Have a good day!

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Happy Basant Panchami 2018

Today is Vasant/Basant Panchami - a day when Indians all around the world celebrate the Spring Festival. Basant means Spring and Panchami means fifth day, as it falls on the fifth day of the month of Magh of the Hindu Calendar. 

Bengalis and many others celebrate this festival by worshipping Goddess Saraswati, representing creative energy, wisdom and power. So if you are student you will not give exams or even go to the school today without seeking the blessings of Goddess Saraswati...

Basant Panchami-
Goddess Saraswati is seated on a Lotus,
hence my offering to the deity, seeking Her blessings

It also marks the auspicious beginning of learning known as 'Vidyaarambh' for children who iniate writing for the first time. I don't remember my childhood days, but for my daughter this Vidyaarambh ceremony was done in a temple where a Pandit made her write the first alphabets (a,b,c) in English, Hindi and Bengali. He was a Pandit who knew all the three languages!

Educational institutes in India, arrange prayers or puja in the morning seeking blessings of Goddess Saraswati. While in school, I always participated in some creative activity like dance or music, and not to forget the puja celebrations by the Bengali Association in my township. We were a small community of Bengalis but we celebrated Saraswati Puja with great enthusiasm and energy. In fact, we children didn't go to schools that day but would submit our school books at the feet of the deity to seek Her blessings...we would be dressed in our best yellow dresses and would enjoy the festivity with sweets and prasad bhog (offerings made to the deity) and had lots of fun ofcourse. 

These memories are still fresh in my mind, something I regret as an expat since my daughter misses all the cultural associations and festivities...call it the woes of an expat living abroad!

Wishing you all a very Happy Basant Panchami...to all Indians who celebrate this festival around the world...May Goddess Saraswati remove all the Lethargy and Ignorance, and may She brighten our lives with knowledge and wisdom.

Have a good day...while I go ahead and make preparations for the puja at home with khichuri, labra and payesh - small offering to the Goddess from my side.

Thank you for stopping by.

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Learn to fold an Origami Camel: Origami Tutorial

New Year begins with several new resolutions, new wishes, new hopes and new directions. And as we proceed ahead with the new beginnings, we wish to learn and explore new things and add to our knowledge and skills.

Our first origami project this year begins with an origami camel...yeah..the ship of the desert and these unique creatures are recognized by their humps. And before we begin to learn how to fold an origami camel, here are some interesting facts about a camel that I found on the internet:

• Camels are social animals who roam the deserts in search of food and water. Also, they are known to be very peaceful animals.
• Asian camels have two humps whereas Arabian camels only one.
• Camels have two rows of thick eyelashes to protect their eyes from the desert dust. They can also close their nostrils and lips to keep out the dust.
• They have a strong hearing sense.
• A thirsty camel can drink up to 135 liters of water at a go...now that's what I call interesting!
• In Arab culture, the Camel symbolizes patience, tolerance, and endurance. Oh, and there are over 160 words for 'camel' in the Arabic language. 

Origami Camel

This post contains a freehand sketch of the steps to fold an origami camel. Also, follows is a picture tutorial that will show how to fold the same.

For those of you who know how to fold an origami bird base, the steps to fold an origami camel is easy thereafter. However, if you still wish to learn to fold an origami square base then here the steps to fold the same. Just click on this link that will take you to the tutorial for folding the square base.

Now follows a quick freehand sketch showing steps to fold an origami camel beginning from a square base as shown in step 01. Step 3 shows the bird base and thereafter the steps to fold the origami camel follows.

Steps to fold an Origami Camel

Here is the description of the steps to fold an origami camel.

1. Step-1 starts with a square base. Apply the folds as shown in the step-1.
2. Open the flaps of the model and flatten to get a diamond shape as shown in step 3. Repeat the steps on the back side also.
3. Now, fold along the creases as shown in step-3.
4. Apply pocket folds along the dotted lines.
5. Pocket fold on the back flap along the hidden lines shown to get the rear leg.
6. Fold down the flaps on the front and back side to get the two front legs.
7. Now focus on the head area. Apply pocket fold to get a beak-like shape. Then apply another pocket fold to get the final shape of the head.
8. Also, fold along the dotted lines as shown in step 7 to shape the rear end of the model. 

The picture below shows a pictorial diagram to fold the origami camel.
Only one drawback of this model is that it has one rear leg...so it is a three-legged camel!

Steps to fold an origami camel

Finally, this is how the completed model of the camel should look like.

Origami Camel Model Completed

Hope you find the tutorial useful. In our coming posts, we hope to post more such tutorials..so keep visiting this blog to learn and explore the world of art.

Thank you for stopping by...have a good day.

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Learn to fold Origami Square Base and Origami Bird Base

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year...here's something that origami lovers will find useful.

In this post, you will learn how to fold an origami square base; also called preliminary base. And thereafter learn to fold a bird base. Both these are basic origami bases from which many origami models can be further developed.

Below is a freehand sketch of the origami bases and steps are explained later.

Origami Square Base - Diagram

Steps to fold an Origami Square base:

1. Start with the colored side on the top. Apply the crease along both the diagonals as shown in the figure.
2. Turn over, and fold into half along the center vertically.
3. Now fold horizontally along the center.
4. Squash fold on the two sides to get a square base
5. You get a square base in this step.

Now proceed further to get a bird base.

Steps to fold an Origami Bird base:

    6.  Now apply the folds as shown in step 5

    7.  Open all the folds applied.

    8.  You get a square base again with all the creases ready for the next step.

Origami Bird Base - Diagram

    09. Open the top flap along the folds applied.

    10. Keep opening the flap along the crease such that the sides will start to collapse at the center.

    11. Flatten to get a diamond shape. 

   12. Turn over and apply steps 6 to 11 on the back side as well to get a diamond shape on both sides. The bird base is ready.

Hope this tutorial is helpful.

Thank you for stopping by....Have a good day.

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