A few quick snips with the tips of your scissors is all it takes to make a paper snowflake. Start with a square piece of paper —then follow our step-by-step tutorial on how to fold, cut, and create a six-pointed snowflake. Kids can happily occupy themselves by cutting snowflakes out by the dozens. Then adults can step in to help decorate the Christmas tree, gifts, windows, and walls. Together, you can watch your family's own gentle blizzard materialize.
To make a paper snowflake, you need two essential craft supplies : paper and a pair of scissors. When choosing paper, remember: lightweight paper—wrapping paper, tissue paper, or crepe paper—is lighter and easy to cut but more fragile for decorating.
Medium to heavy weight paper—butcher paper, card stock, or text-weight poster paper—is harder to cut but is more sturdy for decorating.
Enter to Win Our 30 Days of Giveaways! Start with a square piece of paper. Tip: To cut a perfect square from a standard 8-byinch sheet of paper, fold paper into a right-angled triangle; trim off excess. You should have a perfect triangle shape, with a long rectangular shape above it. Cut the rectangular strip off right at the edge of the paper that was folded over. Step 3: Fold this smaller triangle into thirds. Start by bringing the right point towards the left by one third.
Step 4: Then bring the left point towards the right by one third. Step 6: Cut your snowflake pattern into the sides of this small triangle. You can cut triangles, diamonds, curves, even half hearts. Step 7: Unfold your snowflake carefully and use your fingers to flatten it out. If you want it to be really flat, you can iron it using a very low heat setting. You can use printer paper, newsprint or construction paper to make paper snowflakes. I like to use plain old letter 8.
You can use legal sized paper 8. Parchment paper is much thinner than regular paper which makes it easier to cut. We created 9 printable paper snowflake templates that you can print out and use to make beautiful snowflake patterns every single time! Find the pattern you like in the image above, and click the link below to get the corresponding printable template:.
Just make sure that the printed lines stay on the outside as you fold. This is such a classic kids craft and a super fun winter activity for kids, teens, tweens, grown ups and seniors. Similarly fold the right section towards the front. Cut along the horizontal edge so that you end up with a wedge.
While keeping the wedge folded, cut out random shapes out of the edges. Check out more paper snowflake instructions for: 4- and 8-Sided Snowflake - though real snowflakes have 6 sides or points, try making 4- and 8-sided paper snowflakes just for fun!
Paper Snowflakes with Printable Patterns - check out eleven templates that you can print out and easily cut and fold into beautiful paper snowflakes. More Ideas. Make glitter snowflakes. The star in the middle of some is not perfectly symmetrical. It happens. Real snowflakes have defects too, so don't worry about it. This is when you're cutting your snowflake in Step 7, and you leave behind big spaces of blank paper in your snowflake.
Otherwise, when you open your snowflake, it will have thick, clunky lines instead of nice delicate ones. Sometimes thicker lines do create a different effect when contrasted with thinner lines, but use sparingly.
Decorating With Snowflakes: -A tiny piece of double-sided tape behind each point is a good way to stick them to a surface. I love to put mine on windows so that they're visible from inside and out. They show up beautifully at night against the dark glass. It may be wise to cut some with thicker lines for support imagine making a skeleton for the snowflake: thicker lines for structure surrounded by the delicate parts for show if you want to hang them. White or invisible thread, or fishing line, works great.
I like taping a single snowflake to a gift, and then putting a plain gift tag on top of it. The lacy looking snowflake makes a pretty backdrop for the tag. Use these little pieces to make tiny simple snowflakes that you can place around your larger snowflakes when decorating.
This makes a "sprinkle" effect that looks wonderful, and you can fill more space without using up all your larger snowflakes. I didn't discover this idea until after the picture above was taken. If you do want to try and copy a snowflake that you see, or at least get an idea of how to make one similar, try to visualize the slice of the snowflake that represents the completely folded paper. This is one slice out of twelve symmetrical slices. It will be a line that cuts through the middle of one point, and intersects with a line cut though the middle of the "valley" between it and the adjacent point.
If it makes it easier, pretend that the snowflake is a clock and the lines you're imagining are the hands when it's one o'clock. See picture. This slice of the snowflake shows what your cuts should look like if you want a snowflake that looks like this. It may be easier to visualize if you look at the black cut out spaces and think about those shapes being cut away. This is how you can make a "template", in a way, based on snowflakes that you see.
From time to time I try and copy a real snowflake that I see in a book or online. It's impossible to copy an actual snow crystal exactly because they're simply too intricate, they're 3-D, and some parts of the snowflake are attached with a layer of ice so thin that it looks invisible However, you can still try to mimic the form of a real snowflake. Real snowflakes often have large areas of "blank space" that don't look very good when rendered in paper.
A flip through a snowflake photography book shows that quite a few snowflakes form as just a simple hexagon with few details.
If the snowflake you're copying has a lot of blank space, embellish it anyway. Since it can't be an exact replica, it might as well be pretty! Basically, just use the technique from step Imagine the how a real snowflake would look if it were a slice of a pie. Think of the clock hands at 1 o'clock.
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