Christmas heralds, light catchers, signposts: window stars made of glassine paper fulfill many luminous and decorative tasks (not only) during the Christmas season. If you would like to add more stars to your existing starry splendor, you will find the necessary material in these square glassine paper sheets - from now on you can happily fold window stars in series and get together with the whole (extended) family for a crafting session. Before you send invitations to all the children, aunts, uncles etc., just remember that this supply set does not come with a folding plan or gluing template. Please take the templates from your respective Fascinating, Easy as Child's Play or Wonderful craft set, to which the supply set is perfectly coordinated with its six colors (only white is not included). The glassine paper in the supply set is also made from 100% compostable cellulose, only recycled paper (awarded the Blue Angel) is used for the packaging and all production steps take place in Germany.

For standing so brightly in the sky, it makes quite a mystery of itself: scientists are still puzzling over what real phenomenon could be behind the Christmas star. Was it a supernova that showed the Three Wise Men the way? However, the traces that a supernova would have left in space around the time of Christ's birth should still be detectable today - but no evidence of this has been found. In any case, not even the highly gifted Chinese astronomers recorded a supernova in the period in question (historically between 7 and 4 BC). So was it perhaps a comet that passed across the sky after all? A promising candidate would be Halley's Comet, whose orbit brought it close to the Earth around 12 BC - at least five years too early. Moreover, comets have always been regarded as messengers of doom, and it is rather unlikely that people wanted to associate the events of Christ's birth with a calamity. The tradition of depicting the Christmas star as a comet probably goes back to 14th century painters, especially Giotto di Bondone. He was able to observe Halley's comet in 1301 and was so fascinated that he immortalized it as a Christmas star in his fresco "The Adoration of the Magi" around 1305. And finally, what about the theory that the Star of Bethlehem was caused by a clearly visible planetary conjunction? There are also many pros to this explanation - and just as many cons. For example, Jupiter and Saturn, regarded in Babylonian astronomy as a symbol of the highest God and the people of Israel respectively, were brilliantly close to each other in the constellation of Pisces (symbolizing the land of Judea) around 7 BC, and three times in the same year - but not so close that their conjunction could (or should) have been interpreted as the shining of a single star.In any case, most exegetes take the view that the Star of Bethlehem is a much older tradition that has already been taken up and literarily processed in the Gospel of Matthew. Accordingly, the Christmas star would simply be a symbol - without any real background.