How to make beautiful paper snowflakes

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Flat and voluminous figures that can be used to decorate a room for the New Year.

How to cut flat paper snowflakes

How to fold paper

There are several ways to do this. In all cases, you will end up with a hexagonal snowflake. So choose the option that you like best.

Option 1

Cut a square out of paper. To make it from an A4 sheet, fold one short side to the long one and cut the rectangle that will turn out from the side.

Fold the square diagonally. Then fold the shape in half by connecting two opposite sharp corners. Do not fold the paper completely, just mark the fold at the bottom.

Unfold the shape. Fold one side up so that the bottom corner of the resulting triangle is at the mark.

Fold the other part in the same way, but on the opposite side. The top side triangles should be the same, so trim the shape if necessary.

If you can't fold the corners evenly, make pencil markings as shown here:

On the reverse side, lay the right side of the shape over the left, folding it in half.

Flip the shape over - you will see an even, straight edge. Cut the paper along it. You can trace this edge with a pencil for convenience.

Here is a video tutorial:

Option 2

Cut a square out of paper. Fold it diagonally.

Then fold the triangle in half.

Place the resulting shape right angle up, and fold to the left. Fold the right side slightly past the middle of the triangle.

Fold over the left side to the right. The curved triangles should look the same.

From the back, cut the paper along the line, as in the previous option.

Visual process:

How to draw a pattern

On the resulting triangle, you only need to draw half of one vertex of the snowflake. Remember, the middle of this vertex is at the fold of the paper stock.

Draw the pattern with a pencil. Don't press too hard.

You can come up with a pattern yourself or use ready-made templates. Here are some interesting ideas. The photo shows the patterns and what the result will be:

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Public domain / Pinterest

Public domain / Pinterest

Public domain / Pinterest

Public domain / Pinterest

In fact, there are a lot of snowflake patterns, because it all depends on the imagination of the person drawing. So don't be afraid to show it.

How to cut a snowflake

Cut the paper along the lines you have drawn. Where the pattern is small, it is more convenient to use small nail scissors.

Then flatten the paper gently.

If you don't like the folds on the snowflake, cover it with a cloth or parchment and iron it with an iron.

How to make voluminous paper snowflakes

All flat snowflakes are cut according to the same principle, but the ways to make volumetric figures differ from each other.

For example, for such a fluffy decoration, you need to cut out several identical snowflakes of different sizes and glue them on top of each other:

For this snowflake, the same carved parts need to be glued in a circle:

A similar option:

This snowflake is very simple to do, but it looks amazing:

To collect such a snowflake, you will need. Print it out, cut out the parts and glue it, as shown in the video:

With this master class, you will create a large openwork snowflake from six identical parts:

For this similar decoration, six paper squares are also needed, but the parts are glued together differently:

Here's how to glue a snowflake from individual paper strips:

And here is another version of the winter figure made of strips of paper: