Froebel Star Craft Project

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Froebel Star Craft Project

1. Cut 4 strips of paper measuring 1.5 cmx 50 cm. You may of course vary on thewidth and length. This particular width andlength will make stars measuringapproximately 4x4 cm. Fold each strip inhalf longwise. Cut the ends to a point. Thatmakes the weaving easier in the latersteps.

2. Insert each strip within the next in eachdirection. When correctly done they shouldpull together and hold each other in place.

3. This is now how the star looks.
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4. Fold top left strip down.

5. Fold the bottom left strip to the right.

6. Fold the bottom right strip up.


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7. Fold the top right strip left. Insert theend point through the loop under the bluepiece. This will secure the strip in place.

8. This is how the piece should look now.

9. Take the bottom left strip (here blue)and turn it under and fold it 90 towardsthe left so that looks like in the picture

above.


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10. Fold then this (here blue) strip 90upwards so it looks like the picture above.

11. Fold then the same strip 90 to theright.

12. You see a small triangle at the bottom.For the moment, tuck it under so that it isnot in the way. Now take the strip (here

blue) and tuck it under the loop that isunderneath it (here green).


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13. ....like this.

14. Now the star looks like this. Now youwill turn your work 90 clockwise andfollow steps 9-14 again. In this case, yournext color will be the pink strip. Repeat

steps 9-14 two more times (in this casethen green, then yellow)...

15. ... until your star now looks like this.


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16. Turn your work completely over.

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18. Now you will fold the bottom left strip (hereblue) to the left so that it looks like the picture

above.


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19. Fold the same strip then up...

20. ... and then towards the middle.

21. Insert the end of this strip through the loopunderneath it. (here yellow)


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22. Turn your work 90 clockwise (to the right)and repeat again with the next color (herepink). Then repeat two more times to finish theremaining 3rd and 4th strips. The pictureabove shows how it looks once all four stripsare finished.

23. Flip your work over again...

24. Now you are looking at the first side againand it looks like this picture above.


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25. Each of the 4 strips now need to be flippedover to the opposite side. Do this in a way sothat none of the strips are overlapping eachother. That means here, the pink strip up, theblue strip down, the green strip to the r ight andthe yellow strip to the left.

26. Now your wo

1. Cut 4 strips of paper measuring 1.5 cmx 50 cm. You may of course vary on thewidth and length. This particular width andlength will make stars measuringapproximately 4x4 cm. Fold each strip inhalf longwise. Cut the ends to a point. Thatmakes the weaving easier in the latersteps.


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2. Insert each strip within the next in eachdirection. When correctly done they shouldpull together and hold each other in place.

3. This is now how the star looks.

4. Fold top left strip down.


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5. Fold the bottom left strip to the right.

6. Fold the bottom right strip up.

7. Fold the top right strip left. Insert theend point through the loop under the bluepiece. This will secure the strip in place.


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8. This is how the piece should look now.

9. Take the bottom left strip (here blue)and turn it under and fold it 90 towardsthe left so that looks like in the pictureabove.

10. Fold then this (here blue) strip 90upwards so it looks like the picture above.


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11. Fold then the same strip 90 to theright.

12. You see a small triangle at the bottom.For the moment, tuck it under so that it isnot in the way. Now take the strip (hereblue) and tuck it under the loop that is

underneath it (here green).

13. ....like this.


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14. Now the star looks like this. Now youwill turn your work 90 clockwise andfollow steps 9-14 again. In this case, yournext color will be the pink strip. Repeatsteps 9-14 two more times (in this casethen green, then yellow)...

15. ... until your star now looks like this.

16. Turn your work completely over.


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17. ...so that it looks like this. The frontside outer po

27. Take the bottom left strip (here blue) andfold it so that it looks like the picture above.

28. Now stand the strip up so that it lookslike the picture above.


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29. Insert the end of this strip under andthrough the strip to the right (here green).

30. The point of the (here blue) strip shouldappear between the triangle point to thebottom right of the star as you see in thepicture above.

31. Pull the end of the (blue) strip until the 3-Dpoint forms. Turn your work 90 to the right orclockwise and repeat the above steps to the

next color. (here green). Then repeat for thenext 2 colors...


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32. ... until your work looks like the pictureabove. The first 3-D points are finished on thefront side. Now you need to do the back side.

33. Now you will flip your work over and itlooks like this.

34. Again you will flip each of the strips overto the opposite side so that they do notoverlap each other. That means here... the

blue strip to the left, the yellow strip down, thepink strip to the right and the green strip up.When correctly done, it now looks like thepicture above.


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35. Now you will again be forming 3-D points.Take the bottom left strip (here yellow) andfold it so that it looks like the picture above.

36. Now stand the strip up so that it lookslike the picture above.

37. Insert the end of this strip under andthrough the strip to the right (here pink).


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38. Pull the end of the (yellow) strip until the3-D point forms. Turn your work 90 to theright or clockwise and repeat the above stepsto the next color. (here green). Then repeatfor the remaining 2 colors...

39. ... until your work looks like the pictureabove.

40. Cut the remaining strip lengths now offand you will have your star.

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