Decorating your home for the holidays is not an easy task, but nothing is easier if you figure out how to make a paper snowflake - this decor looks attractive and has been relevant for many years. Moreover, you can make not just ordinary flat decorations, but also voluminous ones. By the way, they can be used in interior design, festive table or even decorate a Christmas tree with them.
Traditional garlands from paper leaves have been cut out for several generations and are the most popular type of decoration. It's best to get the whole family together and do this activity - this way you can have a good time and make snowflakes with your own hands - with different designs.
Traditional decorations are made by folding a sheet of paper six times - you can see patterns of snowflakes. However, if you want to get a more sophisticated decor, you should not stop at the classic options; you can quite easily fold the sheet any number of times - like snowflakes on New Year will turn out to be varied.
What you need to make paper snowflakes yourself:
- paper - simple office paper will do White paper, as well as an album for children's creativity. You shouldn’t take particularly dense varieties like watercolor - such a blank will not be very easy to bend and cut.
- breadboard knife and stationery scissors - directly for cutting. If you plan to make paper snowflakes with your children, make sure they have scissors with rounded ends.
- pencil and eraser - for applying markings and patterns to the workpiece.
How to make a beautiful snowflake out of paper if you have never done it before? You can go through trial and error if you have enough time and enthusiasm. Fold the sheet in any way convenient for you, and then pick up scissors or a stationery knife.
This video shows 3 ways to fold paper to cut out snowflakes:
draw the pattern and cut it out correctly:
If you don't mind bends, you can use nail scissors. First of all, you need to give your future snowflake a beautiful edge - you can simply cut it with a smooth line, cut out ice crystals or even a few teeth. It all depends on your imagination.
Then you need to cut through the main decorative elements - they can be abstract or quite logical - for example, a pattern with herringbones looks beautiful. After you cut out the main elements, add small ones - it is more convenient to do them with a stationery knife (for this you can place the workpiece on a special mat for cutting paper or on a pile of old newspapers or magazines - this will help protect the table).
Then the workpiece needs to be smoothed. A few attempts will help you get your bearings and decide on a design.
If you don't understand how to fold paper, you can use the most in a simple way- fold the paper sheet in half, then again - a rhombus will come out. Fold it again to form a triangle - the corner where the most folds will be the central part, and the free sides will be the edge. You can look at addition schemes to obtain elements with any number of rays.
A colored paper snowflake looks impressive - especially if it double-sided colored paper with glitter effect. By the way, the finished snowflake can be decorated with decorative glue and glitter.
Try folding the paper for a snowflake according to one of the patterns and cutting out something at your discretion, and if you don’t like the result, you can always print it out beautiful diagram and make snowflakes with your own hands from paper or blanks.
How to cut big ones beautiful snowflakes?
Download diagrams of large snowflakes for cutting out of paper or look at stencils of beautiful snowflakes.
If you want to understand how to make a three-dimensional snowflake out of paper, then first you need to define the terms. Three-dimensional can be either an ordinary shape, which is folded after cutting and fixed in such a way that it turns out to be corrugated, or a structure that is made from several elements.
The most impressive look is the beautiful huge snowflakes (larger in size than an A4 sheet), which are assembled from several fragments. Making a large snowflake without an assembly diagram is very difficult; you need to have good spatial thinking. To understand how to make each element and understand how a three-dimensional structure is obtained from it, it is better to watch a short and understandable master class.
The best volumetric snowflakes You can make your own from foil and paper when you follow inspiration and at the same time look at the working assembly diagram.
Do you want to figure out how to cut snowflakes from paper with an unusual design in the form of Einstein's head or with symbols from Game of Thrones? You will need snowflake templates to cut out - follow the instructions and you will get exactly the same result as in the image.
If you are confident in your own abilities, then you can try to draw your own stencils for cutting - first we fold the sheet the required number of times, then on one side we make a drawing of what should end up and cut it out.
Such decorative elements you can decorate your apartment or christmas tree, and they can also be used at a party - of course, if it is in the spirit of a popular fandom. However, you can go the other way and not print out the finished design, but study step by step wizard class and figure out how a folded triangle of paper turns into familiar symbols and faces.
Try cutting snowflakes out of paper using cutting templates.
Unusual voluminous paper snowflakes can be made in another way - for example, using the quilling technique. You will need strips from which you will twist spirals and glue them together.
Use a ready-made idea with a photo or video, or come up with something of your own. To make voluminous beautiful snowflakes from colored paper with your own hands - take a look step by step lessons and you will learn how to make unusual snowflakes from paper and colored foil by looking at the cutting diagrams.
However, if you like to cut and have a good knife for cutting out paper, then you can make fan snowflakes with your own hands. This is a complex structure with an interesting design, which is assembled from several layers - like a children's pyramid. Each layer consists of sheets of paper folded like a fan, on which fancy patterns are cut out.
Here's a large, voluminous snowflake you can make from two sheets of paper folded like a fan:
Made this way paper fan glued with three or four similar fans - this will be the largest circle. By the way, you can make it quite dense, without large quantity openwork elements, or take sheets of blue or blue color- subsequent layers will shine through and the product will actually glow with blue light.
The next paper circle is also made from fans, but of a smaller size; you can change the depth of the fold and choose an interesting pattern. This is how several layers are made step by step - you shouldn’t do too much, 3-6 layers will be enough.
To assemble a snow globe, you will need a drawing - you can print it out or come up with it yourself based on the master class. All that is required for this product is to figure out how many elements you will assemble your ball from, and how you will fasten the elements together (the easiest way is to glue them), and then prepare a template for one such element.
Now you know how to cut out New Year's snowflakes and maybe even in the hottest summer you can bring a little winter decoration and comfort to your home.
Until the mood appears, we will not feel the onset of the magical holiday. How to get this mood? Start preparing your apartment or house for the celebration: making New Year's wreaths, paper crafts with the kids winter theme, look at the decor information and stick lacy snowflakes on the windows.
There are craftsmen who have just folded a piece of paper and already see or draw an ornament on it, along the contour of which they will cut out the product. I think that this requires a lot of imagination. We will do it simpler and take the templates and diagrams that I will show in this article as the basis for snowflakes.
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There are very difficult options for cutting, I didn’t even consider them, because a sheet folded in four or five times is simply impossible to cut out. Therefore, let's take simpler schemes.
Of course, you can take these as a base, and use not only paper, but also plywood, felt or cardboard. But it’s easier for your child to cut out such an ornament from a landscape sheet or sheets for a photocopier.
In the diagrams, the white part is cut off.
The paper is folded three times, then 6 corners are obtained.
For those who transfer the pattern by hand, there is a whole selection of all kinds of designs.
Or these are the options.
You can experiment and take something that is not familiar to everyone White color, and buy blue, light blue, red and yellow shades.
And craftsmen glue such beauty not only to windows or walls, but also make a real decorative element using beautiful ribbons and a photo frame, as in the photo below.
Interesting idea, right?
If you want to take a better look at the diagram, you can zoom in on it on the monitor and only then trace it.
I have long noticed that a snowflake looks more beautiful if its tip is cut off a little. Can be in the shape of a heart, circle, diamond or triangle.
If you cut the center at an angle, you will get a star in the middle.
Or like here.
Curls add delicacy to the finished version.
Use animal shapes, such as cats.
Or the shape of stars, Christmas trees.
Very simple circuit for cutting.
Even a small child can cut this pattern.
Petals and rounded shapes will make the snowflake more rounded and full.
It is better to take a larger sheet of paper, then the lines will be thicker and the pattern will look better.
Use well-known openwork shapes: heart, rhombus, curl.
Here's a couple interesting templates, which are easy to print. Cut along the outline and attach to a folded sheet of paper to trace.
Most often, a sheet of paper is folded three or four times. And the more folding, the more delicate and fluffier the snowflake turns out, but it also becomes more difficult to cut.
This is where the gray part is cut out.
My child and I glue paper figures and winter toothpaste applications to the windows. It sticks well and washes off quickly.
Interesting options with silhouettes of Olaf the snowman from the cartoon and deer.
Another selection of beautiful patterns.
To cut out small parts, use a utility knife or blade.
Sharp corners look very beautiful.
You can make a completely round snowflake.
You will want to take a closer look at the snowflake with silhouettes of butterflies and flowers.
Don’t even think about gluing them with PVA glue! It is very difficult to wash it off the glass; sometimes you even have to scrape it off the glass, which leaves scratches on it. A couple of my friends thought of doing this. They had to worry about washing away the consequences in the spring.
Or you can use a self-adhesive one as a basis colored paper, it is sold in many office supply stores. It is quite dense and comes off the surface easily.
I really like it when, while walking in the yard on a winter evening, you see interesting combinations of snowflakes and New Year’s character figures on your neighbors’ windows. Created festive mood and the desire to invent something and make things with your own hands. And not just buy something ready-made in the store. Still, in creativity we realize ourselves.
And how happy the children are! Our process was structured like this: I fold a sheet of paper and draw a pattern on it, the child cuts it out and together with dad or grandmother they go to glue it on the window. Adults control the composition on the window and the consumption of toothpaste, and the child is completely responsible for the gluing process. In general, everyone is involved, everyone is also in the mood.
You can use all these patterns for decorating and gift wrapping.
To create a harmonious composition on the window, it is better to glue the largest snowflakes on top along the perimeter of the upper sash, and reduce the diameter of the decor towards the bottom, this will turn out interesting and tasteful.
Alternatively, you can glue them along the entire perimeter of the window without touching its middle. This design is often used on scarves. It turns out like a wreath, only there are large snowflakes at the edges, and towards the center they become smaller.
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I really love decorating the house for the New Year, and you probably do too, otherwise you wouldn’t be interested in this article))
There are many options for decoration and places for this in the house, today I suggest you learn more about window decoration for the New Year.
It seems to me that when you decorate a window with New Year’s paraphernalia, and then look through it at the street, then all these snowflakes, tinsel, glowing garlands not only add festiveness, but also bring an additional touch of magic and fabulousness.
You look and understand - it’s a miracle :)
There are not so few design methods, I have broken them down into points for convenience, I haven’t used them all myself yet, I haven’t tried drawing on glass, for example, I’m not much of an artist, although thanks to stencils, which are apparently not visible now, perhaps I will dare )
In general, I suggest choosing a decoration option, or maybe several, that suits your liking and taste.
The oldest and most famous method is decorating with snowflakes. Seems simple, no new way, and how beautiful it is.
This is correctly called decoration with vytanankas; this includes not only snowflakes, but also various other figures cut out of paper.
Let's look at other New Year's figures in the next paragraph, but now just about snowflakes. Because cutting them out is more difficult, and this process is more creative than designing ready-made templates.
It’s amazing how much paper I ruined as a child while making something that vaguely resembled snowflakes; they looked more like they were cut out with a hatchet than cut out with scissors 😉
But then there were simply no paper snowflake templates that exist now, looking at them, all you have to do is fold the paper correctly and cut it out in the right places.
Paper snowflakes, templates for cutting.
Now you can download snowflake templates that do not need to be folded and cut out, but printed and cut along the marked lines. In my opinion, the labor costs are the same, but there is less pleasure and expectation of “what will happen”) but here, as they say, it comes down to taste and color...
The result is beauty - you can’t take your eyes off it))
Compositions from New Year's symbols along with the same snowflakes.
I tried this method especially actively last year. At first it seemed to me that cutting out such small details would be a long and tedious procedure, but no, everything went perfectly. The main thing is to choose free time and combine carving with watching your favorite New Year’s movie, plus involve all family members in making vytynankas 😉
Paper decorations are attached to the window either using soap solution, or using tape. I am definitely in favor of tape because if you carefully glue thin strips of tape, then after the holidays you can also carefully peel them off and save them for next year)) and in next year Still need to cut out new ones.
Last year we made different vytynankas, but these were the ones I especially liked.
This one was my favorite))
But I saw something similar to this on someone’s window, it looked very festive and magical, I liked it so much, but I couldn’t find a stencil.
This year I found something similar and am sharing it.
I’ve just picked out these decorations for windows for the New Year, there are stencils of varying complexity, it’s easier to trust the younger children to cut them out, but leave the older ones and yourself with the more labor-intensive “works.”
I’m also very impressed by the houses made of paper; from the street side they look so cozy thanks to the luminous windows.
This option is especially suitable if you don’t have time to cut it out, this also happens, and try cutting it out for all the windows)) And stickers are fast, colorful and elegant.
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