What can you make a snowflake from? Schemes, master classes

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Let's find out what you can make a snowflake from, and also give a few master classes on how to create it. With the proposed crafts, it will be possible to decorate windows and walls, a festive table, a New Year tree and many other interior items.

What can you make a snowflake out of?

The answer to this question is quite simple - from everything. After all, in fact, there are a lot of materials from which you can make a snowflake. Therefore, the list is quite extensive:

• paper;
• beads and beads;
• cloth napkins;
• fabric;
• thin branches of bushes and trees;
• wood sticks;
• woolen threads and so on.

As you can see, there are quite a few options for making a snowflake. The main thing is to show your imagination.

Plain paper snowflakes

When we talk about cutting out New Year's snowflakes, the first thing that comes to mind is a bunch of sheets of paper folded into a triangle. This is the most popular way to make a craft, known even to a small child.

So, to make these snowflakes, you will need paper, pencil and small scissors.

Step by step instructions how tocut snowflake:

1. Take a plain sheet of paper and make it square (Figure 1). This can be done in two ways. First: use a ruler to measure four identical sides and draw a square, then cut it out. Second: fold the upper left corner to the right side and smooth the fold, cut off the excess paper.
2. Roll the sheet into a triangle (Illustration 2).
3. Make another triangle (Figure 3).
4. Fold the right side to the middle of the triangle, then tuck the left side (Figure 4).
5. Cut off the extra ponytails (Figure 5).
6. Draw a diagram with a pencil and cut out the snowflake (Figure 6).

Beautiful Christmas snowflakes - stencils

In this way, as described above, you can make a huge number of completely different snowflakes. The whole variety lies in the use of templates.

If you have already become a master and know how to cut beautiful New Year's snowflakes, you don't need stencils. After all, you can independently draw any pattern and cut it out. The main difficulty is to end up with a beautiful snowflake. And that doesn't always work.

If you do not really want to bother yourself and invent patterns, then you can use ready-made stencils. It is enough just to redraw them on the blank and cut along the contour.

In the illustration above you can see examples of such stencils. Actually their hugequantity and only you can decide which snowflakes you want. After all, depending on the pattern, you can get an openwork craft, more square, with a pattern of figures, and so on.

Most often, the more curls and thin lines in the stencil, the more airy the finished product will be.

Which paper is suitable for making snowflakes?

To make paper snowflakes, almost any paper will do. The main thing is that the sheet can be easily bent, and then easily cut out of it with a pattern. Therefore, it is better to use the following options:

• office paper (another name is for a printer);
• album sheets;
• color paper;
• for origami;
• for decoupage with patterns;
• kitchen napkins.

You can also make snowflakes out of cardboard, just in a different way. After all, this type of paper is difficult to bend several times. And it’s definitely not possible to cut thin patterns out of it. Therefore, if you want to make a cardboard snowflake, then this must be done in the following way: draw all the outlines of the craft on a whole sheet, and then cut it out.

3D Snowflakes

Volumetric snowflakes (3D) look very nice in the quality of the interior decor. They are made from several sheets of paper.

Master class on how to make 3D paper snowflakes:

1. Take a sheet of paper and make it a square (picture 1).
2. Fold the paper in half to make a triangle.
3. Use scissors, make triangular cuts at least three times as in illustration 2. The number of cuts depends on the size of the paper.
4. Open the sheet and glue the ends of the first cut square with PVA glue (Figure 3).
5. Turn the snowflake over and glue the ends of the second square in the same way (Figure 4).
6. Turn the part over several times until all the squares are wrapped (Figure 5).
7. Make five more pieces of the same size in the same way.
8. When all the details are ready, they need to be glued together. Take two parts and glue them together at two points: at one end and in the middle (Figure 6). Connect all six parts in this way. Straighten the loose ends.

Everything is ready! You have a voluminous snowflake.

The second way to make 3D snowflakes

You don't need a lot of paper to make such voluminous snowflakes. For one craft, you only need to cut twelve strips of the same width and length.

How to create a three-dimensional snowflake:

1. Cut as many strips as needed (Illustration 1).
2. Take two strips and glue them together to make a cross (Figure 2).
3. Place two more on the sides of one of the strips, only now above or below the perpendicular part (depending on where the first one is located) (Figure 3).
4. Do the same but in the other direction. As a result, you should get something like in illustration 4.
5. Now take the two ends of the side strips and glue them together (Figure 5).
6. Repeat the same with three more sides (Figure 6).
7. Make another exactly the same part (Figure 7).
8. Slightly bend all the loops inward at each piece (Figure 8).
9. Connect the two parts together by putting the resulting loops on the remaining stripes (Figure 9).
10. Glue them together.

The original volumetric snowflake is ready!

Tip: so that all elements stick together faster and better, and do not fall apart during work, connect the necessary points with paper clips.

Tissue napkin snowflake

To make wonderful snowflakes from napkins, you do not need any additional materials, except for a ready-made piece of fabric. All you need is some sleight of hand and the tutorial below.

Instructions on how to make snowflakes from napkins to decorate the New Year's table:

1. Take a clean and ironed linen napkin (picture 1).
2. Fold all corners towards the center (Illustration 2).
3. Flip the new four corners to the center again (Figure 3).
4. Hold the center of the napkin and turn it over to the other side (Figure 4).
5. Fold the four corners to the middle (Figure 5).
6. Holding the middle to prevent it from opening, turn the inner parts forward at all corners (Figure 6).
7. Now lift up the corners left behind (Figure 7).

Snowflake napkin is ready!

Tip: so that the craft does not fall apart, you can clamp the middle with special clips.

Wicker snowflake

Original crystal fluffs are obtained from beads. Then they can be used as Christmas toys. Snowflakes in this case are hung on a Christmas tree by a string or fishing line.

Instructions on how to make a Christmas tree pendant:

1. Take three types of beads: 8 mm, 4 mm and 2 mm. You also need a fishing line about 70 cm long (Illustration 1).
2. Take the fishing line and string 5 beads of 8 mm on it (illustration 2).
3. Put on the sixth bead and pass the other end of the line through it to make a loop (Figure 3).
4. Tighten the loop (Figure 4).
5. From one end of the fishing line, put on the beads in this order: 4 mm, 2 mm, 4 mm, 2 mm (illustration 5). It will be more beautiful if you use beads of two different shades.
6. Next string beads in this order: 8mm, 2mm, 8mm, 2mm, 8mm, 2mm (Figure 6).
7. Pass the now used end of the line through the second 2mm bead (Figure 7).
8. Tighten another loop (Figure 8).
9. Thread beads on the working end of the line in the following order: 4 mm, 2 mm, 4 mm (Figure 9).
10. Pass the line through the bead from step 3 (Figure 10).
11. Pass the right end of the fishing line through another large bead and string the following beads on it: 4mm, 2mm, 4mm, 2mm (Figure 11).
12. String another bead: 2mm, 8mm, 2mm, 8mm, 2mm, 8mm, 2mm. Pass the line through the second 2mm bead and put on the 4mm and 2mm beads (Figure 12).
13. Pass the line through the beads shown in illustration 13.
14. Tighten the loops (Figure 14).
15. Bring the line through the adjacent large bead (Figure 15).
16. In the same way, weave three more sides of the snowflake (Figure 16).
17. Continue weaving the tops of the snowflake on the other side of the fishing line (Figure 17).
18. Pass the two ends of the line through several different beads and tie small knots (Figure 18).

Snowflake is ready! It remains only to tie a ribbon, thread or piece of fishing line so that the craft can be hung on a fishing line.

Using popsicle sticks

Absolutely wonderful decor can be built from ordinary wooden ice cream sticks (for example, popsicle). You must either collect them or buy them (they are sold in large sets of 50 pieces or more).

First, assemble a free-form snowflake. When you are happy with everything, carefully glue the wooden sticks together with a glue gun. Then paint the structure in any color with acrylic paint. It fits very well and dries quickly.

When your snowflake is ready, make a wire hook and hang it on the wall or on the door. This is a very simple and at the same time stylish New Year's room decor.

Tip: to make the craft lookneat, sticks should be stacked on top of each other on one side only.

Natural materials come to the rescue

Snowflakes look very nice, made from the simplest cones that you can collect while walking through the forest.

To make such an original craft, you will need about nine small cones. Connect the material together with a glue gun. To do this, drip glue on the back of the cones and tightly connect them together. That is, the “butts” should be in the middle, and the lush parts form a snowflake. To make the craft look more elegant, cover it with white paint and sprinkle silver sequins on top.