Giant Lucky Star

Disclaimer: I did the project featured in this blog back in 2024 and I'm just getting around to writing about it because I have a horrible habit of putting blog projects in a folder and never writing about them.

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Have you ever made any lucky stars?  Where you take a strip of paper and fold it into a cute little star?  

I made my first one in 2014...

..and since then I've made just a few.

So when I saw this video...

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... I knew I wanted a go.

Here's the largest lucky star in my collection so far.  (Without anything for scale, because apparently in 2024 I was an idiot.)

This time I took a few sheets of A4 paper, and sliced them up.  

With those thinner strips on the right, I made these stars.

I took a bunch of those wider strips, and taped them into a strip so long I had to roll it up to get a picture of it all.

And then I made a lucky star with it.  Here it is once I'd finished the the folding, compared to a pen and the littler stars.

And here it is all puffed out.

The final step isn't important to the structure of the star, but it is important to me: I added a face.  And stacked it up with the others.

Giant lucky stars use a LOT of paper, but you can't deny that they're adorable.  Should I make a larger one?