St. Patrick's Day Shelf

I am interrupting the ballerina birthday party posts with some fun pictures of my St. Patrick's Day Shelf / Mantel.  I filled different sized glass jars with mini origami paper stars in the colors of the rainbow.

 At first I thought that it was going to take forever to make all those stars but was really surprised with how fast it went.  I cut up 12x12 sheets of colored cardstock into strips about 3/4 in x 12 in.

All of the tutorials online say to use light weight paper but I actually found that regular cardstock was easier to shape into the star. The light weight paper was easier to fold but sometimes it would collapse in on itself when it came time to turn the pentagon into a star.

A little luck is what you will find at the end of the rainbow.

My youngest likes to dump all the stars out and make star "soup".

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