A Nesting Islamic 8 Point Star Mobile

The eight pointed star is a common motif in Islamic architecture.  There is a fascinating website that that explains about all the complexities of Islamic geometric designs and there is where I found the eight pointed star.

Today we made this 8 point star mobile.   We were going to make three sizes of them and nestle them together, but we ran out of time before dinner.  So when we finish all three, I'll take a photo of the whole thing and update this blog post.  In the meantime, this is what one looks like:

A Nesting Islamic 8 Point Star Mobile by A Crafty Arab

Supplies
2 different color cardstock
Scissors
Fishing wire
Hole punch with small hole

I drew out my star in Photoshop and make a few more layers of it nesting in each other to come up with this nesting image.

A Nesting Islamic 8 Point Star Mobile by A Crafty Arab

I then used a technique that I had talked about earlier to turn the thick lines into thinner lines so that the images won't be black when they are printed out.

A Nesting Islamic 8 Point Star Mobile by A Crafty Arab

I took the jpg and put it on my pretty 8 1/2 x 11 yellow and blue paper and my daughter cut out the lines. I made one size the full page, the next size at 75 percent and the final page at 50 percent.  The inside lines might be hard to cut for little hands, so I helped a little with those.

A Nesting Islamic 8 Point Star Mobile by A Crafty Arab

She then hole punched two holes, one on top of the other, on one of the points of each star. Note that we have a hole punch that makes holes a bit on the small size. You might want to invest in on of these sizes as we find ourselves using it all the time around here.

A Nesting Islamic 8 Point Star Mobile by A Crafty Arab

Then we tied some string between each hole and connected all the stars to each other.

A Nesting Islamic 8 Point Star Mobile by A Crafty Arab

Your Ramadan decoration is done and ready to go up on the porch!

A Nesting Islamic 8 Point Star Mobile by A Crafty Arab