Stars and Flowers

Stars and Flowers: Window Transparencies

Stars, snowflakes, suns, flowers, and other luminous figures can decorate your windows. This is for all the seasons, not just Christmas. Vibrant colors of tissue paper, lit by the sun to the very center of the design, brings joy in many ways. Many of the figures have three-dimensional effects, as well as suggesting movement.

No rulers or calculations are needed for these easy, step-by-step instructions. The colors of the tissue paper can be changed simply by using water or by applying watercolors—the reative possibilities are endless.

Stars and Flowers will be useful in classrooms, for home schooling, and for parents with young children.

About the Author

Frédérique Guéret was born in 1949 in Aix-les-Bains, France, and worked until 1980 in a Paris advertising company. She then lived in Nuremberg and Stuttgart, Germany where she studied painting and drawing. Since 1995 she has developed a lively method for making folded tissue paper figures, which was first presented in Strahlende Sterne, published in 1999 by Augustus (Munich).