If the thought of trying to make a show-stopping cake for your child’s birthday fills you with dread, you could let My Baker take the strain. If you enjoyed making these moveable origami ninja stars, be sure to check out my game of ultimate ninja. Hopefully, the photos are easier to follow. I hope that you managed to keep up with my explanation.

To turn this into your ninja star you need to push on each side to make them slide into the middle. Make sure that you really fold the flaps over tightly to keep everything in place.Ĭontinue doing this until you have made a ring. Going in alternate colours, slip one piece into the first one and fold the corners of the first piece of the second piece. Open itĪnd push it inside so that you get a valley fold. It should be a rhomboid shape (if I have correctly remembered my shapes). Make sure you unfold it at the end.įold the two bottom corners to the centre point.įold the top right corner down. Take one of those squares and fold in half vertically and then horizontally. Start by cutting your 2 pieces of paper into quarters. 2 different coloured piece of origami paper.To make your own moving origami ninja star you will need: Make sure you follow my origami board on Pinterest for more ideas. BB certainly gets a kick out of them at the moment. But they are still fun to make and throw around now. It’s a pity that we never did these moving origami ninja stars then.

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I’m guessing there will some more origami activities this afternoon after school. Probably fulfilling requests from more friends!ĭisclosure: There are some affiliate links in this post. Then the circle slides closed to make an 8 pointed star.īeing a generous kid, he immediately created another for his best friend in the friend’s favourite colours – and let me take some pictures – before he carefully made them back into circles “so the points won’t get bent on the way to school”. These very cool transforming ninja stars! Once the 8 squares are folded, they slot together to create a circle. My paper trimmer was up to Mr happy’s exacting cutting standards and he went back to YouTube armed with 8 paper squares. We found my origami paper stash and decided that if we cut the 7″ paper into four squares, it would be perfect for this star. I reminded him that as an ex-Japanese-teacher I could do better than that: I had a stash of proper origami paper. Then he found this origami 8 Point Ninja Star tutorial and came asking about paper and cutting squares to exactly 9cm. I bit my tongue for a while but eventually offered to help. Some of them worked and others of them just made him very frustrated. ( This plane was super cool but also super tricky!) So I held my tongue all afternoon yesterday as he looked up origami tutorials on YouTube and tried various planes, boats and stars. But being an 8-year-old boy, I’m not supposed to notice - and certainly not supposed to make any comments! Every now and again my boy – often known as Mr Happy here at CraftyMummy HQ – has a burst of creativeness.

Origami ninja star