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How to Make Your Own Tanabata Decoration

Making the Flower: Step 6 (Tanabata Kazari How-to: Making the Flowers Step 6)


Published: Aug. 6, 2009 Modified: April 11, 2025

Hold the twist tie firmly and taking one side of the sheets fan open the sheets so they make a half circle. Flip the edges of the sheets up to make this step easier. Repeat on the other side. You should have what resembles the bottom of a circular container.
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Tanabata Kazari How-to: Making the Flowers Step 6

One of the steps to create a mini Tanabata fukinagashi decoration made with tissue paper flowers, foil streamers, and other materials for assemblage.

Directions for this step:

Hold the twist tie firmly and taking one side of the sheets fan open the sheets so they make a half circle. Flip the edges of the sheets up to make this step easier. Repeat on the other side.

You should have what resembles the bottom of a circular container.

See "How to Make Your Own Tanabata Decoration" album collection for the entire set of directions.

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This is one of the steps for a craft activity created by Discover Nikkei staff at the Japanese American National Museum for a Tanabata Workshop as part of the Museum's 10th Anniversary of the Pavilion Open House event on June 20, 2009. The how-to instructions for these mini-fukinagashi are courtesy of Vicky Murakami-Tsuda.


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