5 Pointed Origami Star!

5 pointed origami stars are easy to fold and make for beautiful decorations. You can make them from magazines, scrapbook papers or sheet music, whatever you happen to have lying around.

PREPARATIONS FOR FIVE POINTED ORIGAMI STAR:

• a square sheet of paper. I like to use 12×12 scarpbooking paper.
• some scissors

First up, you’ll need to cut a pentagon out of your square. You have to cut a regular penatgon of any measurements or size you want.

METHOD~FOLDING THE FIVE POINTED ORIGAMI STAR

Step-1

Start with your paper nice-side-down. Fold the pentagon in half through each of its points and unfold again, so that you have a set of creases like this:

Fold up the bottom edges that the corners meet the creases you just made:

Unfold again, then make the same fold for all the other sides of the pentagon, so that you have a set of creases like this:

Step-2 

Fold in the left edge along one of the creases you just made. Then fold up the bottom edge, at the same time pulling the corner of the pentagon out to the left like this. Squash the fold flat.

Unfold completely. Rotate the pentagon 1/5th of a rotation so that the next side is at the bottom, then repeat the folds as in the image above. Do the same thing for all the rest of the sides of the pentagon.

When you've finished you will have a new set of creases that look something like this:

Step-3 

Starting with the pentagon completely unfolded, pinch all the corners together and squash them toward the center. With a bit of “massaging” the paper will collapse into a star shape.

Step-4 

Turn over the star. Fold in the right edge to the center line, like this:

Working clockwise around the star, do the same thing for all the other arms:

FINISHED!

Tada! Here's the finished star:

Here's an example with a colorful sheet and increased measurements: