How To Make a Origami Star Box

Making this very conventional origami star box throughout the year is a terrific way to offer snacks or store jewelry and trinkets.

This box looks festive when used for displays of chocolates or nuts during Christmas, or when mini-Easter chocolate eggs are placed inside and placed on the dinner table or given as gifts to small children at Easter

To make this box, all you need is one square piece of paper.

Items You’ll Require;

Materials;

One 8-by-8-inch piece of solid colored paper

Guidelines;

Create the Square Foundation.

Make a traditional origami square base first.

Fold your paper in half, starting from the left to the right and the top to the bottom.

Turn the page over.

The paper is folded in half diagonally on both sides.

The paper can now be picked up, folded in half, and the diagonal folds pushed toward the center.

Bring the edges to the center.

Turn your square base so that the flaps are at the top before proceeding.

To get to the central crease, fold the right edge.

Carry out the same action on the left.

Keep folding.

After folding the right flap, unfold it and flatten

Carry out the same action on the left.

The right side of the flattened flap should be folded behind.

On the left side, repeat.

On the opposite side of the model, carry out the same procedure now.

Construct a Triangle Out of It

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The bottom point should be folded up.

Open the prior fold.

Put one layer under each fold.

On the other three sides, repeat the previous process.

Complete the Box

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Pull the flaps to carefully open the box.

Elevate the bottom and align the lower margins.

Recall that perfecting the box requires practice.