Paper stars have been a trend on the rise these past few weeks. Something so simple and easy has become one of the talks of the town starting with just one TikTok.

A girl named Sophie made a TikTok after coming back from the mental hospital talking about how the time she spent there she used all her time to make paper stars. She spent twelve to sixteen hours every day ending with a total of three weeks spent in the hospital. This easy little craft takes about 45 seconds to make and can differ in size, color, and design. websites like Amazon, Temu, and Shein even sell special paper with fun designs for people interested in the craft.

This trend has become popular with Gen Z and Gen Alpha since TikTok is also very big in their generation and creates a lot of inspiration for arts and crafts specifically. You may be asking, what would someone do with hundreds of little paper stars? well some people like to keep them inside clear containers like mason jars or you can string them up and use them as decor, or even entangle them with fairy lights and have a unique decoration to light up the room.

To make these fun little crafts you first start out with a thin line of paper about 1 inch thick. You can then make a circle at one of the ends and pull the other end through creating a hexagon. Once you’ve got your hexagon shape you continue to fold the paper going along with the shape of the hexagon until you run out of paper. then fold the end into the body of the star and begin pinching the corners and popping the middle part up. If done correctly, you should have your very first paper star and you can now create them with any personalized style you’d like.