origami star tutorial with pictures

　　Have a go at making this origami star! It may seem fiddly, so have a practice run first on a scrap square of paper to get the hang of it.

　　It’s a four-pointed star, so a lot of the folds you’ll be repeating the same thing 4 times on all 4 sections/layers (often 2 front, 2 back) – bear this in mind when following along.

　　You’ll need a square of fairly thin paper (if your paper is double-sided, start with the plain side facing up). Don’t forget to fold neatly and crease firmly!

　　Start with the paper square on in front of you.

　　Fold in half from top to bottom, crease and unfold, then fold in half from side to side, creasing well.

　　Open back out into a square

　　Turn the paper over, then fold from corner to opposite corner; again, do this both ways.

　　Open back out into a square.

　　Pick the paper up and press the centre upwards, bringing the edges down.

　　You should end up with a folded diamond shape, with open layers at the bottom.

　　Taking the top layer only, fold the outside bottom edge to the centre crease.

　　Repeat this step on all bottom edges, front and back.

　　Next, you’ll need to open up the folds you’ve just made and, using the creases from these folds, push them inside…

　　They should look like this!

　　Repeat with all 4 folds. You should have a lot of layers at the bottom now!

　　Using the top layer only (the long triangle at the bottom), fold the bottom point upwards.

　　Repeat for all 4 points in turn.

　　At this point, the model should end look like a triangle pointing upwards.

　　Take one of the bottom outside corners and fold it in to meet the centre crease.

　　Again, this step will need to be repeated with all 4 bottom corners in turn, so fold the front 2 up…

　　…then turn over and fold the back 2 up in the same way.

　　Pick the model up for the next step.

　　We’re going to open up the star, taking all 4 of the top points out and down.

　　It helps if you stick a thumb either side of the central point, to help you ease it open – the middle of the model should kind of lift and flatten into a square.

　　Press all the creases flat and you’re done!

　　Ta da!