Wish Upon a Paper Wishing Star

Photo from http://foldingtrees.com/2008/06/lucky-wishing-stars-tutorial/

Wind’s starting to blow cold and Christmas lights are starting to flicker to life. Christmas is really on its way! And red isn’t just the color of the Simbang Gabi season but also green. Being so excited for the twenty-fifth of December, this day, my sisters were up making a D.I.Y paper wishing star from http://foldingtrees.com/2008/06/lucky-wishing-stars-tutorial/. In fact, the paper wishing star was from a recycled material and in that sense, my sisters are being eco-friendly.

First thing, my sisters gathered magazines that aren’t much of or none of importance at our home. For safety measurements, I told them to make sure they’re old because my sisters might get into mom’s nerves! Scissors were needed and rulers, too. Then they made strips out of the pages of magazines that were a half inch. One strip is good for one paper wishing star. But well, one can always make as many as he wants.

Next, they made a loop at one end of a strip and form a basic knot; letting the shorter end get into the loop. I noticed that they, then, pulled the ends of the strip to have the knot tight, making a pentagon shape. Funny is that, my second sister termed the loop as the Cory Aquino’s Ribbon. The shorter end was folded to maintain the shape then the pentagon was turned over, making other part of the untouched strip wrap around the shape. The very tip of the strip was tucked into the flap in the pentagon so that there will only be a pentagon no more excess part of the strip.

The pentagon is then, ready to be shaped as a 3-D star. To have it form like a real star with the shape and dimension and all, my sisters pushed the in between of the points of the flat pentagon with their index finger. They did this pushing stuff to all the in between sides of the points. It seemed to be hard for them to shape the stars. Maybe it’s because of the size of the strip that they had used.

With all the stars that my sisters made, my mom will be glad to have them decorated at home. They are small and puffy and seemed to bulky which makes it unique from our other Christmas decors. Surely, Mother Earth will be glad. I believe that there a hundred or a thousand more D.I.Y that uses things that aren’t so useful in the house already. Learning to recycle them for the season rather than dumping them in the garbage bad, isn’t only price-wise but also environment-wise!