No Christmas decorations are complete without poinsettias - and these do-it-yourself window stars prove to be bright signposts in two ways. Firstly, the transparent stars are delightfully easy to make. This is because the crafting template is in the original format so that the glassine sheets can simply be placed on the template and folded one to one according to the precisely outlined instructions. Every fold is easy to follow and virtually comes naturally, without the craft enthusiast, regardless of age, having to struggle with instructional gibberish. We offer three levels of difficulty: The simplest version allows children as young as i-men to have unadulterated crafting fun; the more complex ones require a little more patience - per aspera ad astra! - and are also suitable for older, more ambitious children to combine creative activities with entertaining training of fine motor skills. At the same time, the manufacturer makes sure to leave as small an ecological footprint as possible. The glassine paper is made from 100% compostable cellulose, and only recycled paper (awarded the Blue Angel) is used for the packaging and folding plan. And last but not least, all production steps are carried out 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.