How to make paper snowflakes?

Is there someone who did not cut paper snowflakes in his childhood to decorate a Christmas tree, room or school audience? True, far from always they went out openwork and beautiful, as true, though they were done with all the effort. If you wish to work out really slick lace snowflakes you’ll need only sharp scissors, a bunch of leaf, a patience and our denotements in that article!

Compose the snowflakes from the paper!

The tradition of cutting touching “snowflakes” and then decorating them with rooms and Christmas trees are familiar to us from childhood. Indeed, without such nice beauties, scattered on glass windows, walls, and fluffy green branches or collected in the garland, the New Year will surely lose part of its charms. But to the subtle “snowflakes”, reminiscent of the frost, you can add a smiling “sun” in the centre of it! And everything that your soul wishes.

If you desire to know how to cut a snowflake with your own hands you ought to take scissors, paper, and a simple pencil. Just think over what colours of sheets you will need for them: white or coloured. It is best to take such a paper with a higher density because if you open your masterpiece, it can break. But you should not use too dense material since it’ll fold several times and scissors will not be able to carve too thick leaf. The best option is a special paper that is used when printed. Also, any coloured paper used for children's art can come in handy. But in order not to spoil the good paper, it is preferable to work on the drafts.

All of the precious snowflakes since childhood - that is rolled up 5 times of the leaf. The primary 4 times it is doubles folded, the last time in diagonal. From the intention we cut some patterns, unfold and get our New Year's beauty.

But this method of making the work makes the templates awkward. The snowflake made by such scheme, of course, will be good, but very simple. Doing all the jewellery on one such template is not interesting. Let’s look at several more models of paper clippings.

Step-by-step guide for cutting the snowflake

1. Before proceeding immediately to the creature of a snowflake, we ought to transform a square into a hexagon. This is one of the most responsible steps on which the welfare of the entire venture depends on.

2. Fold the paper in half twice to get clear bend lines.

3. We make one corner vertex to the centre. Expand to the edge of the upper valve. Now we have two additional bending lines.

4. Bend the paper in half once more. Then curve the paper from the medium of the fold to the middle of the side. You will get a form with one superfluous and not equal finiteness.

5. We do the same with the next part. The result of the manipulation must be a shape, like a heart with two cubes that extend beyond the triangle.

   

6. Cut the scissors part of the workpiece, that is, the corners beyond the folded triangle. For further work, we will only need a hexagon shape. You can make a snowflake only from this shape.

7. Bend one of the sides of the hexagon towards the centre. Do the same with all six pieces. Now, within our hexagon, there are many fold lines that form small triangles.

8. Pull the hexagon end to centre again. Using the bending lines that we made in the previous step, bend the valve to the valve like petals in the flower. Similarly, we compose the other sides of the hexagon until a figure similar to the shape of the reel is obtained. The last valve can cause you slight confusion because it will be hidden under bend. We extract it so that we get 6 outward valve sockets.

9. Slightly press the finger to the end of each pocket, so that something similar to the petal of the flower came out. It does not matter which of the valves will be on top.

10. To make the bending lines for the next stage, bend each of the folded pockets in two corners to the centre.

    

11. To open the bending lines, gently rotate the bends that we made in step 9. In each pocket connect the angles with the centre of the prepared bends. The lines of the bend in the tenth step will help us with this. When we process this operation with all six pockets, our workpiece will look like an asterisk in a circle.

12. Turn the workpiece and every angle of the hexagon is bent to the centre. Each adjacent bend must form a small valve. Let it stay on top; do not hide it under bending.

13. Press the bending line of each of the small valves to form the new bending lines required for the next step.

14. Turn the bends that we made in step 12, hiding the valves at the bottom.

15. Turn over the workpiece, turn out every corner as far away as possible from the centre and bend. We have to get 12 valves - 6 small and 6 large.

    

16. Turning the workpiece, you will see small valves between two large valves. Each small valve is pushed forward. Now we have six diamonds.

17. For each half of the diamond, pull the blue edges to the centre of the diamond and squeeze the bend to the edge. It remains to replicate this 12 times and our snowflake is finished!

What else ought you to know as to how to make paper snowflakes?

• Get started with schemes or fancy! Sure thing! You may cut paper as you desire if you have experience and artistic taste on how to make paper snowflakes. Then they’ll come out beautiful. However, it does not all come out to improvise with paper - sometimes it is preferable to utilize a ready-made template, print it and move it with a pencil to a sheet.

• To create a snowflake with eight rays, a piece of paper is folded twice in half, and then one more time obliquely (triangle). Eight-edged snowflakes are beautiful, neat, but they are harder to cut - they have more layers of paper than six- edged ones.

  

• The cut snowflakes can be painted on both sides with a watercolour paint, or even initially take for them instead of plain white paper sheets from old magazines or promotional cards - then you will get a bright and unusual decoration for the room and windows. Very beautiful looking snowflakes are cut out of foil. You may also create multi-layered snowflakes - it's sufficiently to affix a pair of snowflakes with a variety of pattern with a glue or stapler.

• The use of snowflakes from the paper in the design of the room has almost no limits! They can be glued to windows or walls, or pinched with studs to curtains. You can do something curious with them - for example, collect through various forms of snowflakes garland or glued wreath. You can also attach them to the windows - so that a snow pattern comes out. Let the children experiment - or give your imagination a chance!

  

One more simple scheme for snowflake

How to get squares of various sizes from a sheet of A4 format

1. Fold a piece of paper in any way but so that one part is more than the other, and then cut it along the line.

2. Make the most of the sheet in bisector.

3. Cut off the extra paper and a square that has come out.

4. Preparation for a big snowflake is ready.

5. Repeat 2-3 with the smaller part of the sheet remaining after the end of step 1.

6. Preparation for the average snowflake has come out.

7. With the scrap remaining after step 6, repeat steps 2-3.

8. Preparation for a little snowflake is ready. Thus, from one sheet of A4 format, it is possible to make workpieces for three different snowflakes of different sizes.

The dimensions of the workpieces may vary slightly. They depend on how complex the outgoing paper was in paragraph 1. In addition, a large snowflake can be obtained by cutting the square of the entire sheet of A4 format.

How to make a square hexagonal workpiece?

Now from the square, we need to make the right triangle (in expanded form - hexagon), from which the snowflake will be cut out.

Method number 1

1. Place the square in half.

2. Then fold the sheet “on the eye” so that the edges are equal.

3. Turn the workpiece to the other side.

4. The bend must pass along the edge of the workpiece, which is bent in paragraph 2 of the layer, and the upper edge must coincide with the left bend.

5. Cut extra paper evenly.

Method number 2 “Snowflake in the form of a sunflower”

These symbols of sunny winter are made in two stages: first, you ought to cut the central part of the face, and then - the base with rays. Then to the central part of the base stick the face.

• You can make a face “sun” differently. Here is one of the options. Draw the face of the sun on the paper from which you want to make the template. Cut it with sharp knives or with variable blades. Face template is ready.

• Cut the square, and from it - the circle.

• Fold the circle in half and attach the pattern to the bend. You should circle it with a well-sharpened pencil, and then you need to cut the image with scissors or knife with variable blades.

• Select the size of the workpiece (large, small or medium) independently based on the paper you use to cut, the complexity of the snowflake and the skills of working with scissors.

You can use another way to curtail the hexagon.

• Begin with diagonal bending. If you have not taken a square sheet, cut the extra part of it. After that, fold the workpiece diagonally again.

• The basis of the triangle (the widest part) is divided into 3 equal sections. Bend one corner so that the edge ends at the level of the mark. It will be below the base, but strictly under the label.

• Fold the second part, cut off the uneven ends and our hexagonal workpiece is ready. It remains to draw or immediately cut the pattern of snowflakes.

  

Cut the snowflake:  how to make a snowflake out of paper

1. Obtained in one of the methods described above, put the right triangle (in the expanded form of the hexagon) in half. Perform all steps very accurately, so that the scissors do not cut the folded crooked layers of paper. Make sure that the crocheted circle is in the centre of the future snowflake.

2. Start cutting. Draw a diagram and paint one part in a different colour. You have to cut them. First, form the outer edge of the snowflake. To do this, cut the pattern on the upper side of the workpiece.

3. Then cut the pattern on both sides of the workpiece. Then cut small elements inside the workpiece and close to the sharp corner.

4. The snowflake is ready, only it is necessary to expand it accurately.

All presented snowflakes we will cut from this description starting from paragraph 2 when the right triangle has already been folded in half. The fact is that all the snowflakes are cut the same, only the pattern changes.

The process of making each snowflake consists of 3-5 consecutive steps.

The snowflake should look like a graphic image with a well-readable pattern, to perform all stages of the work very carefully and accurately.

Fluffy snowflake of paper strips

For such a paper toy you will need 12 identical strips of paper (sizes - 0.5 cm on 10 cm or 1 cm on 20 cm, etc.) scissors and glue.

We make a bulky snowflake:

• Prepared strips connect cross-overhead.

• The strips are fixed with glue. Half of the snowflake is ready.

• We do the same operations with the second half.

• The whole structure needs to be glued. To do this, unfold the second part so that over the stripes were circles, and over the circles were the stripes. The strip is stuck inside the cobblestone in the place of fixing.

• As soon as the glue dries up - the snowflake will be considered ready.

Probably, each of us remembers since childhood how to make a snowflake out of paper. In the snowy winter evenings the whole family sit on the big table and carved out these simple designs, and then the children glue them on the windows.

Paper snowflakes are the obligatory part of New Year's decor. Openwork butterfly white on the windows, woven in garlands, decorates a festive table, leaflets and gift boxes. Patterns fascinate, make again and again consider the wonderful interweaving of lines. Even if there is heat on the street, winter tale will dominate in your house!

We disassembled several major types of New Year jewellery making made of paper. We have passed the way from simple to complex. It's time to convey this experience to children - infect their idea of creating new products, and then every winter evening will be filled with warmth and joy at the family table. So make yourself and children nice and make snowflakes with them with your own hands.