Making poinsettias: 4 instructions to make yourself

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Make poinsettias
Beautiful DIY instructions that anyone can do

Making poinsettias: poinsettia, shining star hanging in the window, DIY poinsettia

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Mareike Schumacher

by Mareike Cämmerer

Making poinsettias in Advent and before Christmas is a lot of fun for both young and old. You can bring the resulting cozy atmosphere into your own four walls. We'll tell you how to do it here.

The time before Christmas is a very special one every year. People start to decorate everything for Christmas, both outside and inside, more and more warm lights fall outside the windows of the other eye and the first frost and the first snowflakes come to the fore every now and then, that's where it starts Heart quickly to get very warm. It's a nice atmosphere that comes up and should stay that way for as long as possible.
Making poinsettias comes at just the right time, because it brings families and friends closer together, stimulates creativity in this usually rather dark season and promotes the state of mind by having created something of your own.

Make poinsettias:

1. Simple and quick paper stars

What you need for crafting:

That's how it's done:

  1. The easiest and fastest way to make this poinsettia is to use a five-pointed, symmetrical star as a template. Alternatively, templates for a paper star, which you can find in a craft book or on the Internet, download and print out, are of course also suitable.
  2. If you have obtained this, you can trace the shape, paint the star in color beforehand and then cut it out along the lines.
  3. Fold the poinsettia towards the middle so that two points overlap each other exactly. The fifth point is halved in the middle. You do the folding a total of five times, so that every prong is turned.
  4. The folds in the star are now clearly visible. Carefully fold all the inner edges outwards.
  5. Now arrange the points as they should be later, one point should always point upwards. If you can still see bumps, you can carefully fix them with your fingernails.
  6. You're done with the poinsettias in beautiful 3D shape. Depending on your preference, you can now spray it with gold lacquer and z. B. hang it on the Christmas tree by simply pulling a thread through the lace with a needle or you can use it as a beautiful Christmas decoration and place it on the table as it is.

2. Christmas stars in a Scandinavian look

What you need for crafting:

This is how it works:

  • Cut the paper into strips about 6 cm wide and fold each strip lengthways in the middle.
  • Lay the strips down so that the open side is facing up and mark the center of the strip with a pencil.
  • Then draw a line from the middle into the corner to the bottom right and cut the paper along the line.
  • Repeat the process with all paper strips.
  • When you are done, you can sew the individual strips together. Make sure that you leave about 1 cm open at the bottom.
  • When you have sewn all the strips together, you can close them in a circle and sew the two edge strips together. And the poinsettias are finished!

3. Make a poinsettia out of bread bags

You need these materials for crafting:

This is how your poinsettia is made:

  1. Take a sandwich or kraft paper bag and apply some liquid glue in the middle of this from top to bottom as well as on the lower edge of the bag.
  2. Let the glue dry a little and then carefully press a second bag onto the first.
  3. You can repeat these steps until you have made enough poinsettias.
  4. When the liquid glue has dried on all of them, take a pair of scissors and cut off the top left and right corners.
  5. To create a nice pattern in the star later, cut two or three triangles of different sizes into the bags. Caution: Do not get over the middle of the bags, otherwise the poinsettia will lose its stability.
  6. Now apply a little more glue in the middle and on the lower edge.
  7. Then place or lay the bags on edge one after the other and carefully pull them apart in a circle.
  8. Continue the circle to the end, then glue the first and last parts of the bag together and carefully press them together.
  9. Now it's time to let everything dry well!
  10. If you like, you can pull a thread through a lace with a needle so that you can hang the star nicely.
  11. Your self-made poinsettia is ready.

4. Pearl Christmas stars

This is what you need to make fast poinsettias:

This is the easiest way:

  1. Thread different pearls one after the other onto the star blanks and then bend the end of the wire with the round nose pliers into a small loop.
  2. Now the beads should sit firmly on the wire. Now fill the other sides as well and pay attention to a symmetrical arrangement of the pearls, so the poinsettia will look nice and harmonious later.
  3. Then attach the star with a loop made of gift ribbon and hang it up somewhere in your home. The light poinsettia is ready!

Alternatives to the DIY poinsettia

And if you're in a hurry and don't manage to make poinsettias yourself this year, you will definitely find it here. The large variety of different poinsettias is definitely unbeatable – and no matter which star you ultimately choose, your apartment or garden will be cozy one way or another.

Go for more choice here to the Otto shop.

Here there are even more sizes.

Here you get even more information.

Here there's a huge range of colors.

Here you will definitely find a different kind of poinsettia.

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