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The most favorite holiday of the population of the whole world is approaching - New Year! There is very little time left to thoroughly prepare for it - buy gifts, come up with "cute pranks", decorate the interior properly ...

A lot of things to do! We will postpone the pranks and gifts for later, and start decorating the interior - after all, you all know that, first of all, the New Year is felt thanks to all kinds of snowflakes, sparkles, garlands, balls, a Christmas tree - the indispensable attributes of this merry world holiday.

And we will deal with snowflakes today! Yes, yes, yes - today our hands are learning how to make snowflakes of all kinds of sizes and shapes, voluminous and flat, and EVEN - dancing balleinki snowflakes!

DIY volumetric snowflakes, photo

Let's first look at these with you, let's tune in the right way ...

Did you like these holiday decorations? Now we will learn how to make all kinds of snowflakes with our own hands.

Let's start with simple options, and then move on to more complex ones, especially since there are such voluminous snowflakes that consist of many segments of flat snowflakes.

Simple paper snowflakes, templates

For flat snowflakes, we need tools and materials such as plain paper (white or blue) and scissors!

Simple paper snowflakes pattern

Snowflake cutting patterns

Have you considered? Have you chosen a snowflake? You might as well get creative and come up with your own exclusive option! Connect your children to this fun and festive activity - great pleasure is guaranteed!

Paper snowflake templates

As for snowflakes, just fold a square piece of paper several times to make a triangle. Draw on it one of your favorite snow patterns and use scissors to carefully cut out your snowflake! ALL! Even a kid can handle it, right?

How to make a voluminous snowflake - a ballerina out of paper?

We have already learned how to cut snowflakes from paper, now we will complicate our task a little and move on to making a voluminous, dancing snowflake. Attention - a dancing ballerina in a chic patterned tutu is at your service:

To make this beauty, we need:

  • Paper;
  • White cardboard;
  • Templates for ballerina figurines;
  • Simple pencil;
  • Scissors;
  • Needle with thread.

Get your kids into making snowflakes, which in this case will play the role of delicate ballet tutus, and at this time take care of the blanks!

If you have a printer, just print out the templates that we offer to your attention, or select the silhouette you like from various ballet photos on the Internet:

Carefully, so as not to cut off the outline of the figure, cut out the workpiece and transfer it to plain white paper (you can, however, on thin cardboard). Attach the finished base to a sheet of white cardboard and outline the outline of the shape.

While you "brought to life" paper ballerinas, your talented and diligent child has successfully created a great variety of all kinds of patterned snowflakes! It's time for our dancing beauties to try on new ballet tutus!

We put a "tutu" on the dancing figure - a snowflake - the ballerina is ready!

We make voluminous snowflakes from paper with our own hands

Let's complicate the task a little more! Since you and I have already learned very well how to make flat snowflakes, now we can easily make two volumetric snowflakes, consisting of several flat elements! Consider these photos and you will immediately understand everything:

To make such snowflakes, we need:

  • Patience;
  • Already cut out the same type of snowflakes;
  • Glue.

The more segments there are, the fuller and rounder (more voluminous) the snowflake will be.

We fold each segment in half and glue one half of one segment with the second half of another segment. Yes, IMPORTANT - do not forget to coat the segments with glue and very accurately combine all the reliefs! The more accurately you get it, the neater the snowflake will turn out, which means it will be more beautiful!

Embossed 3D paper snowflake

Let's take a look at another interesting version of a snowflake made from ten small, separate flat snowflakes:

Prepare the following materials and tools:

  • Stapler;
  • 10 sheets of white paper (moreover, the larger the snowflake is planned, the thicker the sheets of paper you will need);
  • Simple pencil;
  • Ribbon or thread;
  • Scissors.

So, first we cut out the following squares from ordinary white A4 sheets, 10x10 cm in size:


I hope you haven't forgotten what kind of pattern was drawn on the first snowflake? You will need to cut 10 identical snowflakes! Not an easy task 🙂

When all the parts are ready, move on to the next step!

So, we take five snowflakes, put them in a circle on the table and use a stapler to fasten the corners together. You should get something like a snow wreath:

Repeat the entire procedure one more time with the remaining five snowflakes.

And now we proceed to the main procedure - giving volume to our snowflake by connecting the outer contours of the snow wreaths to each other. Please note that the snowflakes are aligned, but only the outer parts of the snow wreath are connected with a stapler! Internal - straighten!

Look at what a wonderful voluminous snowflake we made with our own hands from paper - a feast for the eyes! So he asks for the exhibition!

Let's also make such a snowflake - it will replenish your snow collection and fit perfectly into the New Year's interior:

To make it, one single sheet of white paper will be enough!

Please prepare for work:

  • A4 sheet of white paper;
  • Scissors;
  • Glue;
  • Simple pencil;
  • Eraser.

To begin with: from a rectangular sheet of white paper, we will form a white square according to all the rules. For those who do not yet know how to do this, we suggest looking through the photos without further ado and learning everything right away:

The square is ready - fold it in half diagonally. Repeat this action again. As a result, you should get a triangle like this:

Draw these petals on the resulting triangle with a simple pencil. Cut them out and carefully erase all traces of the pencil with an eraser:

We pay all our attention to the middle parts of the petals of our blank. We need to gently bend each middle part of the petal, grease the tip with glue and glue it to the center of the future snowflake.

The snowflake is ready, but you can improve it even more and give it even more volume. To do this, make another such beauty, go through all the stages of manufacturing again. Glue the finished snowflake with the back sides in this way:

Did you like the result you got?

Having considered a large number of options for snowflakes and having familiarized yourself with the master classes for making them, I think that you can quickly and confidently prepare your home for the celebration! Do not forget to involve your household and close friends in this fun and creative activity! Remembering this adventure, you will laugh more than once on New Year's Eve - which means that the mood for the whole year will be provided!

Good afternoon, today I am uploading the largest article on in a variety of ways make a snowflake with your own hands. You will see snowflakes performed today in different techniques from cut from paper to molded from liquid caramel. You will see beautiful snowflakes-crafts - braided beads, sculpted from dough. Will many interesting MASTER-CLASSES on snowflakes(glue, beaded, paper). You will definitely find an idea for your homemade snow craft here. Making snowflakes with your own hands is easy and pleasant at home - feasible snowflake ideas for crafts with children and smart ideas for adult creativity.
So let's see what we are going to do today.

  • Culinary snowflakes (from dough, from caramel, from corn balls)
  • Recycled snowflakes ( from toilet paper, made of thread and glue)
  • Snowflakes in twisted Quilling technique(with elegant decor
  • Plastic snowflakes ( bottoms of bottles and children's thermo-mosaic)
  • Snowflakes from natural material(made of ice, wood)
  • Snowflakes from felt, crochet and braided from beads.

That is, there will be many interesting things. So ... let's get started.

PAPER SNOWFLAKES for interior decor.
how to do it yourself.

Let's start with paper ideas to create craft snowflakes. And this is not only cutting out of thin paper ... now I will show you 3D snowflakes, using origami technique, twisting-quilling technique and cardboard roll snowflakes.

FLAT PAPER SNOWFLAKES.

(openwork beauties and crafts from them).

Snowflakes can be regular FLAT ... when paper is made convolution triangle... a pattern is cut out on it ... they unfold a triangular fold and get an openwork snowflake and paper in which it is reflected circular symmetry of the pattern.

A lot of ideas and patterns of carving of openwork snowflakes made of paper I will describe it in a separate article (so as not to clutter this page). And then a link to it will appear here.
Because paper snowflakes can be made NOT ONLY using the openwork CUTTING technique. And you will see for yourself in this now.

As you can see in the photo above, paper snowflakes can not only be glued to windows (as in childhood) they can be used to decorate gift packages, postcards, trees near the porch, ribbons hanging from the curtain rod.

And you can make paper snowflakes christmas wreaths on the wall... A wreath of just white snowflakes looks very gentle and beautiful ... and it is very good if you pair another color (red or blue) with the white color.

It is precisely such delicate snowflakes that I teach to cut in a special article.

You can make others from paper snowflakes. silhouette display on the wall- for example christmas tree silhouette... And with the light hand of an unknown author, I learned the idea of ​​how to create snow-white figures of ballerinas in a paper snowflake skirt. Dancer silhouette we also cut it out of white paper ... and make the central hole on the snowflake bigger - so that it fits.

You can also complement such a Christmas wreath made of paper snowflakes. LED Christmas garland.

The photo below shows that this requires a wire frame - but this is optional. You can simply cut out a ring of their cardboard, wrap this ring with a garland - and then with scotch tape (with double-sided Velcro) glue the carorn ring with openwork snowflakes made of thin paper.

And snowflakes are also cut out of thicker cardboard or felt. and hang them on the trees. Naturally, the cardboard does not need to be folded into a triangular fold - we just transfer the outlines of a thin-paper snowflake onto the cardboard, outline it with a pencil and cut it out. And then you can decorate the paper snowflake with a pattern.

SNOWFLAKE WITH GLUE PATTERN- to make the pattern convex-contour, you can simply take a jar of PVC glue with a thin nose and squeeze the pattern onto the plane of the snowflake (as in the left photo below).

SNOWFLAKE WITH A PATTERN OF COTTON STICKS. You just need to take cotton swabs and cut off the cotton tops from them (smooth them a little with the same glue) and attach them in the form of a pattern to a cardboard cut. (as in the right photo below).

VOLUME 3D- SNOWFLAKES made of paper.
(layered, fan and origami crafts)

And here are some more layered snowflake ideas. ... The principle of the craft is simple- cut out snowflakes of different sizes from thin paper. We translate their contours onto thick cardboard - cut out the silhouettes of cardboard snowflakes.

We take a piece of polystyrene (the one that insulates the cracks on the windows is suitable, the remnants of such material are always in your home) and cut a few small pieces... These plump squares foam we use as spacer between cardboard layers snowflakes.

Or you can go to our paper snow creativity add some ORIGAMI principles... That is cut out paper modules - bend them in such a way that you get FIGURINE BEAMS and lay out the rays in the form of a snowflake on the round base (attaching them to the base with glue).

Or collect cardboard 3D-snowflake of two stars cut on thick cardboard. Every star has vertical incision - between the legs... And cardboard stars put on each other this incision (see the photo of the snowflake above) is very easy to do with your own hands.

Schemes and master classes for creating these snowflakes (pictured above) - in the article

And you can also do crafts-snowflakes like a paper fan... They only look complicated, but they are made very simple. I even found a master class. Very simple.

Below I give a diagram of the assembly of such a voluminous paper snowflake. You can see for yourself what are the simple stages of this master class on assembling a fan paper snowflake... A simple craft that is easy to do at home with children.

Moreover, the edges of such a snowflake accordion can be make curly in advance(like in the photo below).

You see, when we were drawing our model of an accordion, we came up with make some of the cloves on a paper accordion higher than the rest- in the form of a three-leafed peak.

This FAN SNOWFLAKE can be made from NOTE PAPER ... and additionally decorate with Christmas tree branches, pieces of shiny tulle rags and pictures cut from a postcard. Here's how in the photo below. It turns out one-piece artwork do it yourself - you can stick it on the gift bag. Or hang it by the eyelet on the Christmas tree ..

Snowflake made from toilet paper ROLLS

THREE CRAFTS with your own hands.

You can also make a beautiful snowflake from toilet paper rolls. Here's how to do it yourself. Toilet roll squeeze a little and cut it into rings... Every squeezed ring lay symmetrically in a circle in the shape of a snowflake.

This paper snowflake can be painted red and sprinkle with glitter for nails.

And note in the photo below that inside the beams-rolls there are more a few smaller paper rolls.

Toilet paper rings can be cut very thin and link them a beam in a circle(stretch the thread and pull it into a bundle). You will get such an airy miracle as in the photo below. Paint everything with white paint and sprinkle with silver glitter.

And even if you don't have toilet paper rolls, you can make a snowflake. from ordinary white sheets of office paper(cut into strips and twist them into rings of different sizes ... And then from these rings collect rays of snowflakes... and then put all the rays together and glue them together - and you get a paper snowflake as in the photo.

Paper snowflakes - using the QUILLING technique.

(photo of the best options)

You can also make paper snowflakes with your own hands - IN THE QUILLING TECHNIQUE. This requires from thin strips of paper wind up the FIGURATIVE flagella.

It's easy. I just wrap the strip around a toothpick (or a special pin for quilling), and then I remove the twist (I loosen it to the size we need, press it down with my hands, giving it the desired shape ... and fix the tip of the twist with glue).

Make many twist modules of different shapes and assemble them quilling snowflake... You can practice at home with your children to make such a paper snowflake craft. Children will be happy to spin the modules and fold the snowflake pattern.

Such a paper snowflake-craft using the Quilling technique can be made from colored paper... It turns out even more beautiful. Airy lines and crisp color spots. And the opportunity decorate the anchor points of the pattern bright rhinestones. These are such multi-colored snowflakes crafts we get.

A snowflake made of paper of red and white flowers looks beautiful. If you are planning to meet and have conceived to dress the Christmas tree in white-red colors - then such paper snowflakes will help you save on buying New Year's decorations. They can be made in the same color scheme but different in shape and size.

Snowflake made from caramel.

We take caramel lollipops white (milky) and red (for example, barberries). We put them in different saucepans, pour water on the bottom (so that the caramel does not burn) - and put on fire. Our task melt caramel until liquid... When the caramel is liquid, we will make snowflakes out of it. Take a sheet of foil for baking(even not crumpled) - put it on the board. And on this metal sheet we draw snowflakes with liquid caramel - pouring a plump trickle(it is more convenient to pour from a hot saucepan with a spout). Cool down and get caramel-glass snowflakes - such crafts can be hung on ribbons by the window and let the rays of the winter sun play in them.

And you can just string pieces of marmalade on the wire and also get an interesting snowflake. Or glue a snowflake from corn balls. Children will love this New Year's craft. It is more interesting and tastier than a paper craft.

DIY snowflakes - from pasta and glue.

And children will also like these New Year's pasta crafts ... When we take pasta of different shapes, we put them in a snowflake pattern on paper - and then carefully one after another glue them together in barrels. This pasta snowflake can be painted with gold paint

Also, pasta can be glued to round pieces of cardboard or linen paper, so that they have a solid base for gluing.

How to make a snowflake-craft FROM TEST.

And here is a master class on how to make a snowflake from dough. We make a dough for cookies and squeeze out a symmetrical circular pattern with ordinary molds.

You can cut a snowflake from salted dough... Squeeze out with a fountain. And if there is no such snowflake mold, then you can do it in an artisanal way - put on the dough cardboard figurine snowflakes and circle it with a knife along the contour.

PLASTIC SNOWFLAKES.

(beautiful crafts with your own hands)

I found several examples of Christmas plastic crafts with the image of snowflakes. Let's take a look at them now - for sure you will choose a method for yourself.

Model 1 - snowflakes from the bottoms of a plastic bottle.

We take a plastic bottle from under the mineral water - it is just made of bluish plastic - that is, it has a beautiful snowy hue. What we need.

Cut off the bottom with scissors or a file. On it we draw the outlines of a fluffy snowflake with white or blue paint. And we drill a hole - through which we pass the hanger ribbon. A good craft for working with children - you saw the bottles (with a regular knife it works well), and the children draw a snowflake pattern.

DIY snowflakes from transparent plates.

And you can also made of a thick sheet of transparent plastic cut out neat stars and decorate them in the center with a snowflake pattern. Plastic can be taken from old packing boxes with a transparent display side. Another sheet of plastic can serve transparent kitchen table mat... Or a thick binder is fine too. We get a beautiful New Year's craft with our own hands.

Snowflakes made from caps.

Even plastic bottle caps can serve for the common cause of the New Year's decor of the apartment. They can be glued onto a piece of cardboard or plywood, and then cut along the contour. Or, glue the lids together using a glue gun.

Snowflakes-crafts from thermo-mosaic.

And you can also take an ordinary children's thermo-constructor - with such bubbles - you string them on pins, making a pattern, and then bake in the microwave or oven - and you get a whole piece of craft. In our case, we lay out a snowflake pattern and get an author's patterned beauty made of plastic, made with our own skillful hands.

Snowflakes made of GLUE and THREAD

Three simple crafts for kids.

And in this chapter of our article, I have collected THREE IDEAS on how to make a snowflake USING GLUE, where it is the glue itself that will be the main material snowflakes. Let's take a look at these methods - they are all simple and easy to do with your own hands at ordinary home conditions.

MASTER CLASS # 1 - snowflake from the GLUE GUN.

A simple method on a sheet of polyethylene with a glue gun we apply a snowflake pattern. Dry it and cover it with glitter.

MASTER-CLASS â„–1 - a snowflake made of glue on a thread frame.

Very beautiful translucent and delicate snowflakes. Now you will learn step by step how to make such a craft with your own hands.

STEP 1 Draw a snowflake on a sheet of paper - the snowflake pattern can be any - but with one prerequisite - the drawing must be FRAME - so that there are closed cells (for which, you will now understand).

Cover the sheet with the picture with a thick film (or simply put this sheet inside a polyethylene office file).

STEP 2. And now, according to this pattern, we lay a thick thread (from any suitable yarn for knitting). To make the thread fit easily into the shape, it needs to be moistened - but not in water, but in PVA GLUE. A wet thread will easily take the shape we need. And it will harden and harden in it due to the drying of the glue.

STEP 3. Now (without even waiting for our thread frame to dry) we will fill the cells of the snowflake with glue. Directly pour from the tube inside- we do this puddle, the sides of which are the thread.

And so that the glue fill is not white, but colored - it can be mixed with paint... We take a drop of gouache on a brush and knead it in our glue pool, right in the cell of the snowflake.

We do this - with each cell - leaving empty cells between them. And we put our sheet neatly dry out of the reach of children... Let it lie there for a couple of days - so that everything is thoroughly dry.

When the snowflake dries up, it will already be easy to separate from polyethylene and hang it by a string on a window or on a Christmas tree. But it is better to the window - since the light will beautifully penetrate through the blue glue cells of the rays of the snowflake-crafts.

And here is another good way to make a snowflake from glue and threads with your own hands.

MASTER CLASS # 3 - a snowflake made of sewing thread and glue.

We need a sheet of polyethylene - glue and white bobbin threads.
On a piece of paper - making a round pool of glue- the size of the puddle must match the size of the silhouette of the future snowflake. That is, first we will cut out our cardboard snowflake shape sample and then we make a puddle of glue that is proportional to this snowflake silhouette.

Next, on this puddle of glue we CHAOTICALLY STACK the thread - we put it and put it, as it fits - in several layers - in different directions. And we dry all this puddle. And then when everything is dry - we take this round thread glue plate... apply a snowflake stencil to it - and cut it along the contour. We get a beautiful graceful handmade snowflake.

DIY snowflakes

FROM NATURAL MATERIAL.

You can make a snowflake from the material that nature gave us. These can be knots from chopped tree branches.

You can make a snowflake from the remnants of lumber brought from the cottage.

You can make snowflakes from straw and thread - as shown in the photo below. If you look closely at the photo, you can see how to do it all.

Better yet, I'll draw and tell you step by step how to make one such snowflake. And it will become clearer.

And you can also do snowflakes-crafts from ICE. Take a few glasses and freeze the ice cubes in them (pour water and put in the frost. Take the ice cubes out of the glasses and draw a snowflake on each one with paints and melt a hole with a hot carnation. It is better to carry out work in a cold room on the street so that the ice does not melt. And then you can hang nicely along the cornice of the window - from the back street side, or on a tree by the gate ... or under a canopy above the porch.

How to make felt snowflakes.

I have . Very large, and there are many ideas on what decorations can be made for the Christmas tree from bright felt.
And of course you can cut snowflakes out of it. Thick felt just cut out the outlines and the snowflake will keep its shape. From thin felt the snowflake must be glued to the base base.

But the PETAL snowflakes - they are made very easily with your own hands. Now you will find out how ...

Round piece of felt cut DIAGONALLY in a circle- like a pizza in pieces - we get something like flower petals. Every petal round the edge(by any pattern - a rib or pipette).
And then at the very root we SEW-STRAIN each petal - that is, we press the blades of the petal to each other and sew with threads. We get a petal snowflake from felt - we decorate it with oval beads or long bugles.

And here is the model of a snowflake, which at first was flat - and then it was carved and folded into a volumetric one. And decorated with large rhinestones and a small decorative textile flower.

You can make beautiful DIY Christmas wreaths out of felt snowflakes.

SNOWFLAKES made of beads.

MASTER-CLASSES of weaving and SCHEMES.

Well, finally, it’s turn to bead snowflakes... Very beautiful things. And most importantly, they are created very quickly - it takes a beginner 30 minutes to create such a snowflake. I checked on myself - last week weaved just such a BLUE SNOWFLAKE - weaved without a diagram according to this photo(from gold and white beads with bronze bugles - it turned out gorgeous) For the first time in my life. And everything got it. Weaved not on the line, but on the wire- large snowflakes should be woven just like that - with wire - so that the rays are kept exactly to the sides.

The alternation of large long beads and small grained beads looks beautiful - in ONE COLOR RANGE. Home-made snowflakes made of beads and beads, made in a dazzling snow white color, are especially beautiful.

Beads look beautiful their transparent crystals. It turns out a crystal ice snowflake - quite real, made by hand.

And here is the MASTER CLASS for weaving snowflakes from beads. In the detailed photo instructions, we see each step of the lesson on how to assemble a snowflake from blue beads. And it immediately becomes clear that making such a snowflake with your own hands is quite simple and easy. Try it and you will succeed. Only six large beads are needed - the rest are ordinary beads.

And here's another master class of weaving curly snowflakes from beads of different colors... Red sterlocks show the movement of the beads over the beads - sometimes through passages through the previous row, or new layering of bead rows and stove passages through the first tier of the pattern.

And here are some more schemes ... IN THE FIRST SNOWFLAKE, the rows are shown in different colors - so that the sequence of weaving is clear. And in the SECOND one should already look closely and figure out for ourselves what follows what.


And here are examples of snowflakes in which the BEGINNING OF WEAVING IS THE SAME - that is, you see that the central part of three snowflakes is the same. We start weaving one by one for all patterns, and only then we add different patterned rays, as the soul likes.

Here are examples of snowflakes in the assembly of which more are involved. and long tubes of bugle... The weaving pattern of such a snowflake-star is clear even from a photograph. But if not, write in the comments, I will draw a step-by-step picture and post it here.

Such snowflakes braided from beads can become designer earrings.

Or braided snowflakes can be a decoration for a New Year's ball. Also, as you can see, it is original and beautiful.

These are the ideas for doing it yourself. SEA OF SNOWFLAKES I poured today for you - whole drifts of snow ideas. Choose any one for your home New Year's joy.

Happy crafts.

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To make a beautiful snowflake out of paper, you should stock up on ready-made templates in advance to create a pattern. Of course, you can cut paper without using special schemes, but this method is only suitable for those who already have a certain experience and artistic taste. The process of making openwork snowflakes is quite simple; for this, a sheet of paper must be folded in half so that a triangle is formed. We fold the resulting triangle two more times, after which we cut out the pattern using a prepared template. This one can be used to create traditional hexagonal snowflakes.


To make a snowflake with eight corners, first fold a sheet of paper twice in half with a triangle, and then one more time obliquely. Octagonal snowflakes look more elegant, but they are harder to cut due to the more layers of paper.


Schemes for cutting paper snowflakes



Instead of plain white paper, you can use tissue paper, tissue paper, foil, or old magazines. Beautiful openwork snowflakes on the walls and windows of the room will perfectly complement the festive decor. From light paper snowflakes, you can make a great garland or stretch with threads hanging down. You can also decorate a New Year's card or gift wrap with a homemade snowflake. Snowflakes made of a denser material will be the perfect decoration for a children's New Year's costume.


Volumetric paper snowflake


Necessary materials:


  • thick paper of any color;

  • pencil;

  • ruler;

  • scissors;

  • stapler (glue or tape).

Manufacturing:



Beautiful pasta snowflake


Necessary materials:


  • pasta of various shapes;

  • brushes of different sizes;

  • glue Moment;

  • acrylic paints;

  • decorative elements (beads, rhinestones, sequins, artificial snow, stickers, etc.).

Manufacturing:


Openwork snowflake using quilling technique

Quilling(paper rolling) - is the name of the direction in art associated with the manufacture of flat or volumetric figures from strips of paper twisted into spirals. Using the quilling technique, you can create incredibly beautiful openwork snowflakes.



Necessary materials:


  • paper;

  • ruler;

  • pencil;

  • scissors;

  • brush;

  • glue;

  • awl.

DIY snowflakes are the most affordable and simple New Year decor for your home, school or workplace. You can make them from the most ordinary paper by cutting out according to ready-made templates and diagrams, which can be found in large quantities on the Internet. You can also make a beautiful large and voluminous snowflake or using the quilling technique, origami. Moreover, in addition to white paper, newspaper sheets, pages of an old book or an unnecessary music book are also suitable as source material. Such non-standard material, especially if artificially aged with coffee, will give the finished craft a special charm. As for the manufacturing technique, most of the New Year's snowflake master classes are quite simple and can be played even by children, for example, as part of a labor lesson at school. In our today's article, we have collected for you a whole selection of original templates and patterns for cutting beautiful paper snowflakes for adults and children. In addition, here you will find interesting step-by-step master classes with photos of snowflakes, as well as videos with lessons on how to make them yourself.

Simple New Year's snowflake 2017 made of paper with your own hands for children, master class

First, we suggest that you master a very simple do-it-yourself New Year paper snowflake master class for children. It is so affordable that it is even suitable for a kindergarten. To make this simple New Year's paper snowflake with your own hands for children, you can use both plain white paper and colored sheets. Thin corrugated paper is also perfect.

Necessary materials for a simple DIY paper snowflake for children

  • A4 sheet
  • scissors
  • markers
  • Scotch
  • stapler
  • decor (sequins, rhinestones, buttons)

Instructions for a master class of New Year's snowflakes for children with their own hands

  1. We cut the sheet into strips 2-3 cm wide and about 15-20 cm long. The number of strips will determine how voluminous the craft will be in the end.
  2. We wind each strip on a felt-tip pen or marker, securing the edges with paper tape.
  3. We leave the blanks for at least an hour so that they take a wave-like shape.
  4. We remove the paper strips from the felt-tip pens and connect with each other using an asterisk-shaped stapler.
  5. We decorate the ugly joint with bright sequins, beads or rhinestones. Also, if you wish, you can add pieces of New Year's rain or glue confetti. Ready!

Volumetric snowflake 2017 do it yourself from paper, a master class with a photo

Do-it-yourself volumetric paper snowflakes are considered one of the most difficult in technique. However, if you have at your fingertips detailed instructions with step-by-step photos, as in our next master class, then you should not be afraid of difficulties. We assure you that after the first self-made voluminous snowflake made of paper with your own hands, the rest of the copies will "go like clockwork." See for yourself by following the instructions below.

Do-it-yourself materials for a volumetric paper snowflake

  • A4 sheet
  • scissors
  • tape or glue

DIY instructions for a master class of volumetric paper snowflakes

  1. For the next craft, you will need a rectangular sheet with the following parameters: length - 25 centimeters, width - 18 centimeters.
  2. We bend the lower left corner of the sheet inward, as in the photo below.
  3. Cut off the extra edge to make an isosceles triangle.
  4. Fold the triangle in half.

  5. With scissors on the tight side of the fold, we make two shallow cuts, as in the next photo.
  6. We unfold the workpiece so that we get a rhombus with notches. We connect the inner corners of the central incision with each other using tape or glue.

    On a note! If you use glue, be sure to additionally fix the workpiece, for example, with a clothespin, until it dries completely.

  7. We repeat the procedure with the next cut edges, fixing them in the opposite direction with the first workpiece.
  8. The edges of the last cut will also be fastened together, but in the opposite direction.
  9. The result should be the following construction.
  10. For one voluminous snowflake, you will need from 6 to 8 such blanks. They can be made in different colors to add color to the craft.
  11. Using tape or glue, we fix all the blanks according to the template below.

Beautiful large snowflakes 2017 with your own hands from paper - in stages with a photo

You can make a beautiful paper snowflake with your own hands for decor and quite large sizes. Such decor will certainly attract everyone's attention and will become an interesting interior solution on the eve of the New Year. Learn how to make a beautiful large snowflake with your own hands out of paper in stages from our next master class.

Necessary materials for a large do-it-yourself paper snowflake

  • A4 sheet
  • Ruler and pencil
  • clothespins
  • christmas garland, glitters

Instructions for a step-by-step master class of a large beautiful snowflake with your own hands

  1. First you need to cut 20 thin paper strips, 10 strips on each side. The longer they are, the larger the finished craft will be. Then we lay out five strips in a row with small intervals, and on top we lay out five others according to the braiding principle.
  2. We turn the resulting workpiece so that it lies in front of us in the form of the letter "X". Now we connect the adjacent strips first, and then the extreme strips and glue them. Fasten the top with clothespins until completely dry.
  3. We repeat with each side. As a result, one strip should remain on each side, forming a thin cross.
  4. Leave the workpiece to dry completely for about half an hour. Then we remove the clothespins and move on to the second identical part of the craft.
  5. Connect both pieces together by rotating the bottom of the snowflake 45 degrees. Now the loose strips can be fastened with the already prepared beams.
  6. We glue them with glue and fix them with clothespins, leave them to dry completely.
  7. It remains to decorate the finished snowflake. This can be done with pieces of Christmas garland and sparkles.

    On a note! Broken Christmas tree decorations can be used instead of store sequins. To do this, carefully crush a glass toy wrapped in a thick cloth with a rolling pin. The resulting crumb must be mixed with transparent glue and then used to decorate crafts.

Snowflake 2017 from a book for the New Year with your own hands, a step-by-step master class

In the next step-by-step master class, we will make snowflakes for the New Year with our own hands from an old book. This is a great way to breathe new life into its yellowed pages. Calling a snowflake from a book for the New Year with your own hands (step-by-step master class below) is not a simple children's craft. Small children will definitely not cope with it. It is rather a master class for creative adults who do not perceive the making of New Year's decorations solely as child's play. On the contrary, they are happy to create beautiful and exclusive decor elements.

Necessary materials for a snowflake from a book for the New Year

  • book sheets
  • sequins
  • ruler and pencil
  • scissors
  • fishing line or thick thread

Instructions for a step-by-step master class snowflakes from a book for the New Year

  1. First you need to line the book sheets into strips of 2 centimeters wide.
  2. For one side, you will need 7 such strips: 1 in the full length of the page, two are 2 centimeters shorter, two more are 2 cm shorter than the previous ones, and two stripes are 6 centimeters shorter than the first.
  3. Fold the longest strip in half in a loop, gluing the bottom edges together. On the sides, you need to fold the strips shorter, also gluing their lower parts, as in the photo below.
  4. Repeat similar manipulations with the remaining strips and fix them under heavy pressure, for example, a table lamp.
  5. When the workpiece dries up, you should additionally fix its edges with a thin fishing line. In general, you will need 6-8 such blanks for one snowflake.
  6. Cut the book sheet again into strips of equal length. Cut and roll into a tight ring, tie with fishing line. The ring can also be additionally coated with transparent glue.
  7. After complete drying, you should proceed to the connection of the craft. To do this, tightly coat the end of the workpiece with glue and connect it to the ring.


  8. We repeat with each piece.
  9. To better fasten the snowflake, we glue the extreme loops of the adjacent rays of the snowflake with glue.
  10. Small sparkles are suitable as a decor, which should be applied to the side edges of the snowflake. You can also use pieces of garland, sequins, small beads.
  11. Then you need to make a loop of fishing line so that you can attach the snowflake, for example, to a Christmas tree. Ready!

DIY origami paper snowflake for children, master class

The art of origami is multifaceted and difficult, but with the correct instructions in this technique, you can do it yourself and a fairly simple craft, for example, a children's snowflake. True, to be frank to the end, the next master class with a photo, made exclusively in the origami technique, cannot be called. In it, for a children's paper snowflake with their own hands, in addition to the origami technique, threads with scissors will also be used.

Necessary materials for origami children's snowflakes for the New Year

  • thick colored sheet
  • pencil and ruler
  • needle and thread
  • scissors

Instructions for a master class for children's snowflakes using origami technique

  1. To begin with, we cut out a strip 5-7 cm wide and about 20 cm long. Using a pencil and a ruler, we make notes on each centimeter along the length. Cut out an imitation of a "fence" from above, as shown in the photo. Draw small rhombuses in the middle of the resulting columns. Then we mark the middle of each centimeter with dots and pierce them with a thin needle.
  2. Now we take a ruler and place it on top of the first line dividing our “fence” section in half. Gently bend the workpiece inward, and then remove the ruler and bend it in the opposite direction. We repeat the same with each section. As a result, you should get an accordion, as in the photo below.
  3. We hold the accordion tightly with the fingers of one hand and with scissors cut out the previously marked rhombuses in the middle of each section.
  4. We take a needle and thread and carefully thread it through the small holes that we have already pierced with the needle two steps back.

    On a note! The thread must be taken tight so that it holds the finished structure tightly!

  5. When the thread has already passed through all the points, we re-enter it into the first hole to close the structure.
  6. We remove the needle and begin to gradually pull the thread until a tight ring is formed. We tie the thread to a knot, and put a coil on top of the snowflake to straighten it.
  7. From the remaining thread we form a loop and our children's snowflake is ready! And for those who want to master the pure origami technique for creating snowflakes, we have selected a video tutorial with a step-by-step diagram below.

DIY openwork snowflake using DIY quilling technique, master class with photo

Quilling is the real art of weaving amazingly beautiful handicrafts and cards from simple strips of paper. With the help of the quilling technique, you can create really unique openwork snowflakes with your own hands, a direct confirmation of which is our next master class with step-by-step photos. But the most surprising thing is that by swapping individual details and adding new elements, you can create several different openwork snowflakes with your own hands using the quilling technique according to one general scheme.

Required materials for an openwork snowflake using the quilling technique

  • pencil and ruler
  • scissors
  • glue and brush

Instructions for a master class of openwork snowflakes in the quilling technique

  1. Using a ruler and a simple pencil, you need to outline the sheet. To do this, along the width of the sheet, we make marks of 0.5 cm and draw lines along the entire length. Then we cut out the strips with scissors.
  2. To form rolls you need an awl. We wind the strip on it quite tightly, and then let the roll unfold a little and glue the edge to its base.
  3. At the base of the snowflake there will be one round element and six drop-shaped rolls. To get an element in the form of a drop, you need to lightly squeeze one edge of the round roll with your fingers. We connect the structure with glue.
  4. Now add six eye rolls to the base. We will also make them from round rolls, but by flattening both edges with our fingers. We glue the "eyes" between the drops according to the pattern below.
  5. Now we need small rolls, so we fold the standard strip in half and cut it into two parts. Twist a small round roll from each small strip. To get started, you need six of these elements.
  6. Glue small rolls along the edges of the elements in the form of a cat's eye.
  7. We roll six standard large rolls.
  8. We glue them to the drop-shaped elements, as shown in the diagram below.
  9. Now we need six square rolls. We will form them from standard round ones, slightly flattening the sides into a square shape.
  10. Glue the squares to large round elements, having previously turned them into the shape of rhombuses.
  11. It remains to twist a large round roll according to the standard scheme and glue it to the top of our craft. Let the snowflake dry completely and thread it through a large roll. Ready!

How to cut a New Year's snowflake 2017 from paper with your own hands, diagrams and templates

The easiest way to make a New Year's snowflake with your own hands is to cut it out of paper using a ready-made template or pattern. Such simple, but at the same time very beautiful do-it-yourself snowflakes are available primarily for children's creativity. However, there are quite complex schemes with which you can make even large and voluminous decorative snowflakes, which, in their originality, will not be inferior to crafts using the origami or quilling technique. Do you want to know how to cut a beautiful New Year's snowflake out of paper with your own hands? Then a selection of photo templates and schemes for adults and children, as well as video tutorials, you will find below.

There are only a couple of weeks left until the New Year, which means that it's time to think about how you will decorate your home. If you think that there will be enough Christmas trees and festive garlands, then you are deeply mistaken. The forest beauty can become a decoration of the living room, but in all other rooms the festive mood can be felt will not.

If you want to recreate the New Year's atmosphere in every corner of your home, then do not be lazy and decorate everything around with New Year's attributes. Bulky paper snowflakes are best suited for this. And although this decor seems very simple at first glance, it is he who can turn your home into a fabulous snow kingdom.

Therefore, find some free time in your busy work schedule, stock up on white paper and scissors and start creating a New Year's fairy tale for yourself and your family.

How to make a 3D 3D snowflake out of paper for the New Year?

Volumetric snowflake 3D

If you want to really surprise your household, then decorate your house with 3D volumetric snowflakes. Such a craft, depending on its size, can be placed on a tree, window, wall, or even furniture. A garland made from such a hand-made decor will look very beautiful.

Try to make snowflakes of different sizes and fasten them on a string so that they are all at a different level. If you are not lazy and make several of these garlands, you can make an imitation of snowfall in some room.

Materials for making volumetric 3D snowflakes:

  1. White paper (you can use any other color if you wish)
  2. Stationery stapler
  3. Scissors for cutting paper
  4. Ruler and pencil
  5. Any glue
Picture No. 1
  • The first step is to make a stencil, with which in the future you can make individual blanks for the future decoration. To do this, take a thick sheet of paper (you can even use cardboard) and draw six straight lines on it at right angles. Make sure that they are placed parallel to each other on the sheet and do not intersect anywhere. Draw them 1 centimeter apart.
Figure # 2
  • After that, take six sheets of the same size (square shape), fold each of them separately diagonally and, using a pre-made stencil, cut three cuts into them. If you did everything correctly, then you should have six isosceles triangles with parallel cuts on your table.
Picture No. 3
  • Take one of the blanks and unfold it carefully. There should be a square on the table in front of you, made up of several smaller squares. The corners of the smallest square (it is located in the very center of the workpiece) must be carefully tucked towards the center and fastened with glue.
Picture No. 4
  • After that, the sheet must be turned over to the next side and the free corners of the next square must be fixed in the same way. You need to continue such actions until you get a semblance of a multilayer icicle. Thus, you need to glue all the remaining five parts.
Picture No. 5
  • Next, we take ready-made icicles and carefully use a stapler to fasten them together. We do this in two steps. First, we fasten three icicles into one whole. Then, with the same stapler, we fix the two formed halves together. Do everything as carefully as possible, but do not spare the brackets, if you fix them poorly, then the finished product will simply fall apart.

DIY volumetric paper snowflakes: step by step instructions

Step-by-step instruction

Volumetric snowflakes always look very beautiful, but unfortunately, they take a lot of time to make. In view of this, if you want to decorate your home for the New Year with just such a festive entourage, then try to make a simpler version of the volumetric decoration. It will have a slightly different forum, but most importantly, you will spend a minimum of your time on making it.

Materials:

  1. Sheets of paper
  2. Thread and needle
  3. Compass
  4. Pencil and ruler
  5. Red or yellow fabric

Manufacturing rules:

  • Take a piece of paper and draw four circles of the same diameter on it. For making small snowflakes, a diameter of 5 centimeters will be enough, and for creating larger products, this figure can even increase up to 10 centimeters.
  • Carefully cut out the drawn circles with scissors, and then using a ruler and a pencil, divide each circle separately into eight equal parts. Along these lines, the workpiece will need to be cut with scissors from edge to center.
  • Then the ends of the formed petals must be carefully bent towards the center and fixed with glue. If you are having trouble getting the petal into the correct shape, try helping yourself with a simple pencil.
  • Thus, make three more of these paper flowers, and then begin to fix all the blanks to each other. This can be done with glue, or you can take a thread with a needle and simply sew all the parts of the snowflake.
  • In order for such a snowflake to look complete, be sure to cut a small circle out of the fabric and attach it in the very center of the product. If you wish, you can decorate it with sparkles and small sequins a little.

Types of volumetric snowflakes - origami: photo



Volumetric snowflake

Bicolor origami
  • Many of us associate origami with something very complex and incomprehensible. But in reality, this technique simply requires a little more concentration than any other man-made process. Therefore, if you show just a little patience, you can probably make voluminous snowflakes in this way. But in this case, there are several methods for creating New Year's decorations.
Origami snowflake
  • The first type includes ordinary origami, which involves folding paper sheets in a certain order, after which a three-dimensional product with a 3D effect is obtained. In this case, you do not have to glue and fix anything. All that will be required of you to create the decoration, just fold the sheet correctly.
Snowflake-karigami

The second and more complex type of this technique is the so-called karigami. In this case, the process involves both the correct folding of the sheet and the most accurate cutting of the pattern. If you are making such an origami snowflake for the first time, then it will be better if you first draw the future pattern and only then start cutting it out.

This can be done with both standard scissors and manicure scissors. The latter option is preferable for beginners as they will make it possible to correctly cut through the most intricate pattern. After cutting, you just have to fold some parts and the voluminous snowflake-karigami will be ready.



Modular snowflake

Modular Snowflake Elements
  • The last method of creating snowflakes is the most difficult, but the finished decorations are truly fabulous. This type is also called modular origami. In this case, you first have to make a lot of different small parts, and then put them together in the correct order. The downside of this origami method is that if during the connection process you make the smallest mistake, then this will spoil the visual perception of the decoration quite strongly.

Volumetric snowflakes from strips of paper: schemes



Volumetric snowflake in the form of a star

If you want to get the most voluminous snowflake, then make it out of paper strips. In this case, you can independently regulate how much this or that part of the product will protrude, but most importantly, you do not have to keep track of how you bend or draw lines all the time.

To create this decoration, you will need scissors, glue and thin strips of paper of any color. If you want to make the most airy snowflake, then use strips from 3 to 5 millimeters wide to make it. If you plan to decorate the house with large voluminous snowflakes, then cut strips from 8 millimeters wide.

Scheme No. 1

Volumetric snowflakes from stripes:

  • So, first of all, we take a sheet of paper and cut off five strips of the same width from it. The length of these blanks will be different. In order to make one part of the snowflake, you will need 1 strip 25 cm long, 2 21 cm long and two 19 cm long.
  • At the next stage, we coat the ends of the blanks with glue and carefully fasten them. Let the petals dry out a little, and then we begin to form a voluminous leaf out of them. Be sure to check whether all the parts are well fixed to each other and, if necessary, then additionally fix them with a thread or an ordinary clothespin.
  • Thus, we make at least eight more pieces of paper. If you want the finished product to turn out to be more voluminous, then make 10 or 12 leaves. Let the blanks dry well and start assembling the product.
  • Cut a 1 cm wide strip of thick paper and glue it in a circle. All previously made blanks must be carefully attached to this circle. If you see that the structure is not very strong, then first try to glue the leaves together and only then fix them on the core.

The next way to create a voluminous snowflake is considered quite difficult, but nevertheless, if you decide to make a decoration with this particular method, then you will be satisfied with the result (scheme number 2). To create a medium-sized piece of jewelry, you will need 6 strips, 25 cm long, glue and paper clips.



Scheme No. 2

So:

  • At the first stage, we begin to weave the strips together in such a way that a square forms in the center. We fix each strip with glue or a paper clip.
  • At the second stage, we begin to connect strips closely spaced to each other. To do this, first grease their ends with glue, and then carefully fasten them together. After these steps, you should get a kind of leaf.
  • In this way, we form the three remaining parts of the blank and proceed to create another such part of the snowflake. After it is ready, you just have to put them together in such a way that visually your product resembles a flower. After the glue has dried, the paper clips can be removed and the snowflake can be hung on the tree or attached to the window.

Beautiful volumetric snowflakes - balls: schemes, photos



Photo # 1

Photo # 2

Below we will tell you how to make a Christmas snowflake ball out of colored paper. If you want it to look more like a snowflake we are used to, then before you start gluing all parts of the product together, cut an interesting pattern on them. This will help make the decoration more light, airy and festive.

Picture No. 1
  • Take paper of any color and draw 12 circles on it. In order for your Christmas decoration to be perfect, they must all have the same diameter.
Picture No. 2
  • Fold all the blanks in half and put them in one neat stack. If you use multi-colored paper to create a snowflake-ball, then do not forget that the colors must be alternated.
  • Put this blank for a while underneath anything heavy and leave it there for 10-15 minutes. During this time, the inflection line of the circles will become very noticeable, and you will be able to fix them correctly together.
Picture No. 3
  • To do this, gently straighten the workpiece, and then use a stapler to connect all twelve parts together. Make sure that the staples are found exactly on the fold line.
Picture No. 4
  • When you're done with this process, you can move on to creating the form. Spread out the circles and begin to glue them together with glue. It is necessary to connect them in such a way that each separate half of the circle on one side with the top, and on the opposite side with the bottom is attached to the adjacent part of the product.

Large volumetric paper snowflakes: templates

Template # 1

Template No. 2

Today we have already introduced you to the most common ways to create volumetric New Year's snowflakes. And as you probably already understood, if desired, even a child can make this beautiful New Year's decoration out of ordinary paper.

But in the end, we nevertheless decided to introduce you to another method of creating a festive decor. Below we will tell you how you can quickly and easily make a large volumetric snowflake.



Scheme for manufacturing

Snowflake accordion:

  • To get started, take paper and cut strips of the same width from it. Their width can vary from 7 to 15 centimeters.
  • Fold the blanks in half, and then draw the outline of the future ornament on them. Take scissors (you can use manicure scissors) and carefully cut through the drawing.
  • If you chose not very thick paper for making a snowflake, then you can fold two parts at once and cut them together.
  • Then fold each piece separately. Make sure that all segments of the workpiece are the same size. If at least one of them is more or less than necessary, then you simply cannot glue the two parts together.
  • When the accordions are ready, coat their edges with glue, hold them together and wait until they dry completely. After that, take a snowflake and smooth it out with smooth movements.

If you want your Christmas decoration to be brighter, then use paper of different colors to make it. For example, pair white with blue, pink, peach or mint. Also, if you wish, you can glue a few small beads or bright glasses on the snowflake.

Video: DIY volumetric snowflake