Snowflakes from paper

Bulk snowflakes from paper are very beautiful and quite large. Of course, small children can not dosuch products, so it is better for them to cut snowflakes from paper. But older children can easily cope with such an interesting task. Try the whole family to make a lot of New Year's snowflakes, which will decorate the apartment!

To make beautiful snowflakes from paper, You will need certain materials:

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  6 squares of paper (length of one side from 10 to 25 cm)


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  pencil


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  ruler


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  scissors


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  stapler

We begin to make parts of snowflakes. Each of the six squares should be bentin half diagonally, to make a triangle. Using a ruler and a pencil, each square should be marked out. Draw three lines parallel to the two sides. The distance between the lines should be the same. Cut the paper along the lines with the scissors. Not reaching the middle of the paper, leave a couple of millimeters uncut, so that the paper does not break up into separate strips.

Expand the folded square. Put the square in front of you so that one of theThe corners of the figure looked at you. Now you can start wrapping the elements of the square. Fold the inner box with a tube and fasten it with a stapler. Flip the snowflake element over the other side. Fold the tube closest to the center of the stripes and fasten them with a stapler. Turn the snowflake element over again and fold the stripes. Thus, bend with fasten all the stripes of one element.

Of the remaining five squares of paper make the same elements. Fold the three elements together and fasten them together.the basis of a stapler. In the same way add three more elements. Two parts of the snowflake are held together by a stapler. And that the elements of the snowflake stick together well, they are also fastened together. Your three-dimensional snowflake is ready. You can make similar snowflakes of different sizes and colors. Ready-made Christmas snowflakes from paper can be decorated with sequins or paillettes.

We offer you to make also snowflakes with their own hands, made of strips of paper. New Year's snowflakes from strips of paperare obtained by openwork. Remotely, they resemble snowflakes made in quilling technique, but the process of making them is much simpler. To make three-dimensional snowflakes from paper, you will need the following materials:

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  white or double-sided colored paper


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  scissors


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  glue


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  ruler


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  pencil


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  stapler

Let's start making snowflakes. To start, the paper should be cut into strips 1.5 cm wide and about 30 cm long. To make one snowflake, you need 18 pieces of paper.

Take six slips of paper. Each bend in half so that you haveformed the form of a drop. Fasten each strip with a separate stapler or glue. On a flat surface, spread the resulting drops from the strip of paper in the form of a hexagonal star. Place the joints of the paper with a stapler or glue.

Take three more long strips of paper. Bend them in half and cut them. You will get six identical stripes. From these stripes make six identical rings. Do not forget to glue their ends together. The resulting rings are put inside each drop and glued.

The remaining nine strips of paper are also folded in half and cut. From the resulting strips make smalldroplets. Then the droplets are collected in hearts. For one heart, two droplets are used. Make six hearts. You should have 6 more droplets left. Each heart is inserted one drop so that a bud of three petals is formed. The obtained buds are glued between the sides of your snowflake.

Collecting a snowflake, You can use paper of different colors. Thus, each of the snowflake elements will be executed in a certain color. In addition, experimenting with various figures, you can make snowflakes, which will differ from each other.