How to Make an Origami Ninja Star

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Difficulty: Intermediate
Follow our simple, visual step-by-step instructions to make your own throwing ninja stars and you’ll be a ninja in no time.

With just a single piece of paper and a few minutes of your time, you can create a stunning and affordable ornament called an origami ninja star.

Children often imagine themselves as someone else, such as an astronaut exploring the depths of space or a cowboy galloping across the plains. Some wish they were ninjas.

Giving kids real, sharp-edged throwing stars might be frowned upon by the community. But you can make satisfactory substitutes from a few simple pieces of paper. The origami instructions below use traditional sheets that are approximately 6ร—6 inches.

Initially, metal ninja stars, or Shuriken, were used as throwing weapons in Japanese variations of martial arts. Using the Japanese art of paper folding and Origami, you can make a replica of a ninja star from paper.

Folding ninja stars with paper is an easy and fun project and folded ninja stars can be used as a decoration or craft piece when completed.

The origami ninja star is fun and easy to fold. The weight, form and shape is even and balanced all around making it also fun to throw.

However I have to warn you that the corners are sharp and can poke an eye out or cause injury. This origami ninja star is no ordinary toy. You have been warned. Now fold it and have fun.

What Size Paper do you Need to Make a Ninja Star?

The origami instructions below use traditional sheets that are approximately 7ร—7 inches. You could easily scale up the size of the pages you use to make giant throwing stars, but I wouldn’t go much smaller. The only real necessity is that your papers are the same size, and that they’re both square.

How Many Points Does a Ninja Star Have?

These are flat, metal disks with four sharp points. While movies and shows show ninjas using the hira-shuriken, they were used by samurai.

Step 1
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Start with a square sheet of origami paper. I am using an 7×7 inches origami paper.

If you only have regular paper, follow these instructions on how to make a square origami paper.

Step 2
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Fold the paper in half.

Step 3
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Unfold.

Step 4
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Cut in half by using crease as a guide for cutting.

Step 5
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Fold the halves in half again so it’s thinner.

Step 6
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Fold both sheets down in half.

Step 7
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Unfold. All we need is the halfway crease.

Step 8
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Fold the top half to the side as shown without passing the halfway crease.

Step 9
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Fold the lower half of both sheets opposite of the upper half.

Step 10
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Turn both paper over so they match the positions as shown.

Step 11
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Fold the top squares of both sheets in half as shown.

Step 12
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Fold the bottom squares of both sheets in half as shown.

Step 13
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Fold the top triangles in as shown, but make sure the base of the triangle does not pass the halfway crease.

Step 14
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Fold in the bottom triangles of both sheets.

Step 15
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Unfold the top and bottom triangles of both sheets.

Step 16
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Turn the right sheet over and position it exactly as shown.

Step 17
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Place the right sheet on top of the left sheet.

Step 18
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Tuck the right and left of the bottom sheet under the left and right side of the top sheet.

Step 19
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Turn the figure over.

Step 20
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Tuck the above flap into the pocket of the top sheet.

Step 21
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Tuck the lower flap into the other pocket of the top sheet.

Step 22
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Finish! Now throw it like a ninja but don’t throw it on someone else, haha!

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One response to “How to Make an Origami Ninja Star”

  1. Amazing worked like a charm even with an uneven cut

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