How to make a big origami snowflake. Snowflake in origami technique for beginners

DIY snowflakes are the most affordable and simple New Year's decor for your home, school or workplace. You can make them from the most ordinary paper, cutting them out according to ready-made templates and patterns, which can be found in large numbers on the Internet. You can also make a beautiful snowflake large and voluminous or using the quilling technique, origami. Moreover, as a source material, in addition to white paper, newspaper sheets, pages of an old book or an unnecessary music notebook are also suitable. Such non-standard material, especially if it is artificially aged with coffee, will give the finished craft a special charm. As for the manufacturing technique, most of the master classes for New Year's snowflakes are quite simple and accessible even for 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 patterns 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 making them yourself.

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

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

Necessary materials for a simple do-it-yourself paper snowflake for children

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

Instructions for a DIY Christmas snowflake master class for children

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 wrap each strip on a felt-tip pen or marker, fixing the edges with paper tape.
3. We leave the blanks for at least an hour so that they take on a wave-like shape.
   
4. We remove the paper strips from the felt-tip pens and connect them together using a stapler in the shape of an asterisk.
   
5. We decorate an ugly junction with bright sequins, beads or rhinestones. Also, if desired, you can add pieces of New Year's rain or stick confetti. Ready!
   
   

Do-it-yourself volumetric snowflake 2017 made of paper, a master class with a photo

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

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

• sheet A4
• scissors
• tape or glue

Instructions for a master class of do-it-yourself 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 dense 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 adhesive tape or glue.
   

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

7. We repeat the procedure with the next edges of the notch, 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 volumetric snowflake, 6 to 8 such blanks will be required. They can be made in different colors to add colorful crafts.
    
11. Using adhesive tape or glue, we fix all the blanks according to the template below.

Beautiful big snowflakes 2017 do-it-yourself paper - step by step with a photo

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

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

• sheet A4
• Ruler and pencil
• clothespins
• Christmas garland, glitter

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

1. First you need to cut thin paper strips in the amount of 20 pieces, 10 strips on each side. The longer they are, the larger the finished craft will turn out. Then we lay out five strips in a row at small intervals, and lay out five others on top according to the braid 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 first the neighboring, and then the extreme strips and glue them. 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. We connect both parts together by rotating the bottom of the snowflake 45 degrees. Now free strips can be fixed with ready-made 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! Instead of glitter from the store, you can use broken Christmas decorations. To do this, carefully crush a glass toy wrapped in a dense cloth with a rolling pin. The resulting crumb must be mixed with transparent glue and then used to decorate crafts.

   Snowflake 2017 from the 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. It is impossible to call a snowflake from a book for the New Year with your own hands (a step-by-step master class below) as a simple children's craft. Small children will definitely not cope with it. It's more of a master class for creative adults who don't see making Christmas decorations solely as child's play. On the contrary, they are happy to create beautiful and exclusive decorative elements.

   

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

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

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

   1. First you need to draw book sheets into strips of 2 centimeters wide.
      
   2. For one side, you will need 7 of these strips: 1 the full length of the page, two 2 centimeters shorter, two more 2 cm shorter than the previous ones, and two strips 6 centimeters shorter than the first.
      
   3. The longest strip should be folded in half in the form of 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 these manipulations with the remaining strips and fix them under heavy oppression, for example, a table lamp.
      
   5. When the workpiece dries, you should additionally fix its edges with a thin fishing line. In general, you will need 6-8 such blanks for one snowflake.
      
   6. Draw the book sheet again into strips of the same length. Cut and roll into a tight ring, tie with a fishing line. The ring can also be additionally smeared with transparent glue.
      
   7. After complete drying, you should proceed to the connection of the craft. To do this, the end of the workpiece is tightly coated with glue and connected to the ring.
      
      
      
   8. We repeat with each workpiece.
      
   9. To better fasten the snowflake, glue the extreme loops of adjacent rays of the snowflake with glue.
      
   10. As a decor, small sparkles are suitable, which should be applied to the side edges of the snowflake. You can also use pieces of garlands, sequins, small beads.
       
   11. Then you need to make a loop of fishing line so that you can attach a snowflake, for example, to a Christmas tree. Ready!
       

   Do-it-yourself children's paper snowflake using origami technique, master class

   The art of origami is multifaceted and difficult, but with the right instructions in this technique, you can make a fairly simple craft with your own hands, 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 children's do-it-yourself paper snowflakes, in addition to the origami technique, threads with scissors will also be used.

   

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

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

   Instructions for the master class of children's snowflakes using the 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. In the middle of the resulting columns we draw small rhombuses. Then we mark the middle of each centimeter with dots and pierce them with a thin needle.
      
   2. Now we take the ruler and put it on top of the first line dividing our “fence” section in half. Carefully bend the workpiece inward, and then remove the ruler and bend it in the opposite direction. We repeat the same with each section. The result should be an accordion, as in the photo below.
      
   3. Hold the harmonica tightly with the fingers of one hand and cut out the rhombuses outlined earlier in the middle of each section with scissors.
      
   4. We take a needle and thread and carefully thread it through the small holes that we already pierced with a needle two steps back.
      
      

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

   5. When the thread has already passed through all the points, we introduce it again into the first hole to close the structure.
      
   6. We remove the needle and begin to gradually tighten the thread until a tight ring is formed. We tie the thread into 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.

   Do-it-yourself openwork snowflake using do-it-yourself quilling technique, master class with photo

   Quilling is the real art of weaving the amazing beauty of crafts and postcards from simple strips of paper. Using the quilling technique, you can create truly 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 amazing 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 pattern.

   

   Necessary materials for an openwork snowflake using the quilling technique

   • pencil and ruler
   • scissors
   • glue and brush

   

   Instructions for the master class of openwork snowflakes using the quilling technique

   1. Using a ruler and a simple pencil, you need to draw a sheet. To do this, we make marks of 0.5 cm along the width of the sheet and draw lines along the entire length. Then cut out the strips with scissors.
      
   2. To form rolls, you will need an awl. We wind the strip on it quite tightly, and then let the roll bloom a little and glue the edge to its base.
      
   3. At the heart 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-shaped rolls to the base. We will also make them from round rolls, but already flattening both edges with our fingers. 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. From each small strip we twist a small round roll. To begin with, you need six pieces of such elements.
      
   6. Glue small rolls along the edges of the elements in the form of a cat's eye.
      
   7. We twist 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. We glue the squares to large round elements, after turning them over 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 the thread through a large roll. Ready!
       

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

   The easiest way to make a Christmas snowflake with your own hands is to cut it out of paper according to 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 origami or quilling crafts. Do you want to learn how to cut a beautiful Christmas 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.

Openwork paper snowflakes are the best way to decorate your home for the New Year, create an atmosphere of a winter fairy tale and just have fun with children, cutting fancy ornaments out of paper. But not everyone knows how and knows, and many simply forgot how to make a snowflake out of paper. No problem! Forgotten - remember! If you don't know how, we'll teach you! Each snowflake is unique and special. So we suggest you make many, many snowflakes for the New Year holiday and all are different! Well, if ordinary paper snowflakes seem too banal to you, try making chic voluminous origami or kirigami snowflakes.

New Year's "beauty" in quilling technique

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How to cut a paper snowflake

Turning a humble piece of paper into a luxurious snowflake is surprisingly easy. All we need for the New Year's magic is paper, scissors, beautiful diagrams, a pencil, some free time and inspiration!

First, from a square sheet of paper, we fold the blank for the future snowflake, as shown in the picture below. Using different schemes, hundreds, if not thousands, of snowflakes of the most unpredictable shapes and patterns can be cut from such a triangular base.

With a simple pencil, we transfer the drawings according to the diagrams to the base and cut out snowflakes from paper.

Look for additional patterns for cutting snowflakes at the end of the article.

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How to make a paper snowflake

Making a voluminous snowflake out of paper is not much more difficult than ordinary paper, but it looks much more spectacular. With these amazing 3D snowflakes, you can decorate a Christmas tree or simply hang them in a room to create a New Year's atmosphere. Six square sheets of paper, scissors, glue, a stapler, 15 minutes of free time and a little inspiration - that's probably all we need to assemble a beautiful 3D snowflake for the New Year. If desired, the snowflake can be made multi-colored by making individual elements from colored paper. Until you fill your hand, practice on plain white paper, especially since snow-white classics are always relevant in New Year's decor.

1. First of all, we make six such blank squares for the future snowflake. To do this, you can download and print blanks for a small or large snowflake on a printer. In order for a large snowflake to keep its shape, it is advisable to use high-density paper. We fold each square in half diagonally and make cuts with scissors, moving from the fold to the center line.

We open the diagonally folded square with cuts and put it in front of us as shown in the picture on the left. We twist the first row of strips with a tube and fasten them with glue.

We turn the snowflake over to the other side and take the next two strips: connect and fasten with glue. We continue in the same spirit: turn the snowflake over and fasten the remaining strips. As a result of the manipulations done, we should get such a bizarrely twisted element.

This is one of the rays of our future snowflake, and we need exactly six of these! Therefore, we do the same with the remaining five square blanks. We connect three rays of snowflakes in the middle with a stapler. We connect the remaining three rays in the same way. Now we connect the two large parts together.

Our beauty is almost ready! It remains only to connect the snowflake with glue in those places where the rays touch each other so that the snowflake keeps its shape well.

Eat! Phew, done it! Well, aren't we great?! Now to make it colorful...

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How to make a three-dimensional origami snowflake

The cult snowflake by Dennis Walker, with its sophistication and beauty, won more than one heart, and more than one amateur origami player was put into a stupor. What do you say, let's not let a piece of paper intimidate us? Or weak? If you decide to test your strength, pictures, step-by-step instructions and video tutorials from Sarah Adams will help you. Don't get lost! You will probably have to spend at least an hour on your first snowflake. Once you understand the principle of creating snowflakes, things will go faster. And one more nuance: the thinner the paper, the more elegant the snowflakes will turn out. Translucent translucent snowflakes will look great on the window. Well, you can train on ordinary office paper.

Before proceeding directly to the creation of a snowflake, we need to turn a square or rectangular piece of paper into a hexagon. This is one of the most crucial moments on which the success of the whole undertaking depends.

1. Fold the paper in half twice to get clear fold lines.

2. We add one corner with the top to the center. We bend the top valve to the edge. We now have two additional fold lines.

3. Again we bend the paper in half as shown in the left picture. To get the figure from the right image, we use two X marks as reference points and bend valve A along the dotted line.

4. Combining the red and blue lines, we bend valve B. The result of the manipulation should be a shape similar to a heart.

5. With scissors we cut off a part of the workpiece along the blue line, focusing on two X points as reference centers. For further work, we need only part A - the hexagon.

If you have any difficulties with the hexagon or have questions, look for answers and tips in the video:

6. We bend one of the sides of the hexagon to the center to get a fold line. We do the same with all six sides. Now inside our hexagon there are many fold lines forming small triangles.

7. Again we bend the edge of the hexagon to the center. Using the fold lines we made in the previous step, fold flap A to flap B like in the left image. Similarly, we add the other sides of the hexagon until we get a figure that resembles a pinwheel in shape. The last flap may cause you some confusion as it will be hidden under the fold. We pull it out so that we get 6 valves sticking out, as in the image on the right.

8. Lightly press your finger on the fold of each pocket to get something similar to the image in the center. Which of the valves will be on top, does not matter.

9. To make the fold lines for the next step, on each unfolded pocket, we bend two blue corners to the central part of the dotted line. The resulting figure should look like the right picture.

10. To open the fold lines, carefully unfold the folds we made in step 8. In each pocket, we combine the blue dot X with the red dot X. The fold lines obtained in the ninth step will help us with this. When we do this operation with all six pockets, our workpiece will look like in the picture on the right.

11. We turn the workpiece over and bend each corner of the hexagon to the center. Each adjacent fold should form a small flap. Let it stay on top, don't hide it under the fold. If you get a figure similar to the picture on the right, then you did everything right.

12. We press the fold line of each of the small flaps to form new fold lines necessary for the next step.

13. We turn out the folds that we made in step 11, hiding the flaps from the bottom.

14. We turn the workpiece over, turn each corner as far as possible from the center and bend it. We should get 12 valves - 6 small and 6 large.

15. Turning the workpiece over, you will see small valves between the two large valves. Each small valve is pushed forward. We should now have six diamonds.

16. For each half of the rhombus, pull the blue edge to the center of the rhombus and press the fold to the edge. As a result, we will get a figure, as in the picture on the right. It remains to repeat this action 12 times and our snowflake is ready!

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Video tutorial on folding an origami snowflake

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How to make a kirigami snowflake out of paper

Kirigami is one of the types of origami, the main distinguishing feature of which is that in the process of making a model it is allowed to use scissors and cut paper. The method of cutting unusual kirigami snowflakes is not much different from making ordinary paper snowflakes, but they look much more creative and interesting. A small master class from the author of the blog “Share your smile” Nataliya k. will help us learn how to create this beauty with our own hands.

First of all, we make such a template, with which even a child can make the correct six-ray snowflake. To do this, on a sheet of paper with the help of a protractor, we build an angle of 60 degrees. Having folded a square sheet of paper diagonally in half, we impose the blank on the template as follows:

We bend the corners of the triangle as shown in the photo:

The lines of future cuts can be applied to the workpiece with a simple pencil, and then erased with an eraser, or you can attach a pre-prepared or printed template and cut it out. If the workpiece is folded in half again at this stage, it will be possible to use not a clerical knife, but ordinary nail scissors to cut a snowflake. In this case, even a child can be entrusted with the work.

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Patterns for cutting kirigami snowflakes from paper

To make snowflakes made using the kirigami technique even more original and fantasy, they can be painted with felt-tip pens, decorated with sparkles, rhinestones or cute pompoms and woolen balls.

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Home decoration with vytynanki

Do you remember when we used to stick snowflakes and other paper pictures on glass as a child? In kindergarten and at home, together with our parents, we tried to cut out Christmas trees and Santa Claus so that from the street you could see how beautifully our window was decorated! Sometimes it turned out beautifully, and sometimes crookedly obliquely. Now everything is much easier. Vytynanki or paper cut out pictures for decorating windows and furniture can be downloaded, printed and cut out with a breadboard knife on a special board.

How beautiful the windows look in the evening, decorated with bulges! Fairy-tale characters come to life on them in the illumination of home lamps.

If you are still new to making protrusions, then start with simple pictures.

And if you are sure that you will get more complex drawings, then you can cut out entire plots!

You just need to print and cut out the picture!

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Home decoration with paper ballerinas

Another interesting paper cutting technique is ballerinas in snowflake skirts.

Ordinary snowflakes will no longer surprise anyone, and paper charms that whirl in a dance with any movement of air will please your loved ones and guests. The mysterious dance is fascinating, and making such ballerinas is very simple. You need to print and cut templates from a photo!

Or these ones.

And you can cut the ballerinas simpler.

Dress them up in snowflake skirts and hang them around the house. This is a very unique piece of jewelry.

Well, our paper masterpieces are ready and now ...

Think and wish!

And the New Year, which is about to come,

Fulfill your dream...

If the snowflake doesn't melt

(Won't melt in your palm)

Until the clock strikes twelve!

Our snowflakes will definitely not melt! So now you can wish big!

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Paper snowflakes: patterns for printing

Did you know that in nature there are simply no two identical snowflakes? So that in your New Year's decor there are also no twin snowflakes, and each one is unique and unlike other openwork sisters, do not get hung up on one template! Experiment! Try as many schemes as you can! How do you like these options?

Paper snowflakes are the best decoration for the New Year. They create comfort, warmth in the house and a festive mood.

There are several options for using snowflakes:

• as a Christmas tree toy;
• as a garland on the wall or on the ceiling;
• to decorate the festive table;
• for gift wrapping
• as a gift.

Various sizes and designs are available from light to complex. If you do not know how to make an origami snowflake, this detailed master class for making a toy from modules is for you.

This technique may seem very complicated and impossible. But if you try and focus your attention on the process of creating jewelry, then you can enjoy the result of your creativity. The origami technique involves only folding paper in different patterns, without the use of glue and scissors. And as a reward for your efforts, you will receive a three-dimensional decoration with a 3D effect. It must be remembered that a beautiful product will turn out only if a sheet of paper is folded neatly and correctly.

Let's start making paper snowflakes. We need to prepare modules. Scheme of folding triangular modules:

The blank that we got has two corners and two pockets.

Assembling the snowflake

• We take 12 blanks and connect them together with another circle of modules.
• We insert two more blanks on every second module.
• We connect with each other with one more fragment.
• Adding 10 more modules.
• If desired, you can connect all the modules together.

So, thanks to ordinary paper and hands, we got an origami-style decoration.

Another snowflake technique

I also want to introduce you to another technique for making voluminous origami paper snowflakes. For this you need:

1. Ruler;
2. Regular pencil;
3. Scissors;
4. Glue stick;
5. Paper.

You need to prepare 6 squares of paper with dimensions of 7.5 * 7.5 cm. Circles with a diameter of 3 cm, 2 cm, 1.5 cm will also come in handy. You can use both white and multi-colored paper.

3D snowflakes

If you want to surprise your family, then we suggest decorating your home with 3D 3D snowflakes. If you make them different in size and hang them at different levels, then the snowfall in the house is ready.

Materials you will need:

1. White paper;
2. stapler;
3. Scissors;
4. Glue.

Let's start making our snowflake.

Initially, make stencils with which you will make blanks. To do this, take a sheet of white paper (or cardboard) and draw 6 lines on it at right angles. It is important that they are placed parallel to each other and do not intersect. The distance between them should be at least 1 cm.

Here are our snowflakes and ready, you can start decorating the house.

Attention, only TODAY!

When the first snow falls, a special festive mood appears. I just want to decorate my house with something wintery. Air origami snowflakes are perfect for this. It is easy to make from improvised means.

Product Application

There are several types of origami: classic, modular. In any of them you can make a snowflake. Such a product will decorate not only the house, but also the workplace or the place of the holiday. Experiment with the shape and color of products and create a winter mood with your own hands.

Here are some more options for using the product:

• Christmas tree toy
• garland element
• part of the decoration of the festive table setting
• gift decoration
• part of a handmade postcard
• holiday souvenir

The simplest snowflake

This type of simple origami is known to everyone since childhood. Bending a sheet of paper several times, cut out the stencil shape with scissors. You will receive paper origami snowflakes that you can stick on windows. These stencils will make openwork products.

Volumetric product with a pencil and glue

For manufacturing, you will need A4 squares (from six pieces), scissors, glue and a simple pencil.

1. Bend the square diagonally and mark the lines on the square. They are made in the form of a Christmas tree, without cutting to the middle. You need 6 pieces on each side. 2.Cut the lines. 3.Place a pencil in the center and glue the opposite corners together. Alternate corners on one side and the other. 4.Air volumetric elements turned out. They need to be glued together in the center and on the sides. 5.Fasten the product on a thread and boldly decorate the apartment.

Volumetric snowflake-rose

In order to make it. You will need 16 squares of paper and glue. We fold the square along the vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines.

Now you should wrap two corners to the center of the product.

The junction of the corners will be the center of the snowflake. Now position the product at a slight angle. Composite element needs to be completed. Make small folds in one side of the element. Inside, you need to wrap small triangles so that the model looks like a bird's feather.

Such elements need 16 pieces. They are interconnected in a circle with the help of PVA. If you make two sets of modules of different sizes, you can get a two or three-level snowflake.

Origami snowflakes in modular origami technique

This product can be made by people who already have experience in origami. It is made up of standard triangular modules, which are made according to the scheme. Modules are parts of the designer that allow you to make products of varying complexity. Here is one way to make a snowflake using the modular origami technique: Make 12 triangular modules. To connect them, use additional modules that will fit on the sides of the first row. This will make the basis for the snowflake.

Now two more are put on each module. For clarity, they are made of red paper. Then they are combined into one module (in the photo - yellow). Next, alternate steps "two-one" to the desired height of the snowflake beam.

Do steps with other modules in a circle. By different ways of folding the modules, you can get snowflakes of different shapes. But this work is painstaking and suitable for patient people.

Snowflake in kirigami technique

This product is both simple and unusual. The kirigami technique is a separate type of origami in which the use of scissors and paper cutting is allowed in the process of folding the model. Using this technique, you will get both simple and beautiful snowflakes with three-dimensional elements without folding modules. The technique requires some preparation, but by creating a template once, you can make many different stenciled snowflakes.

Prepare an A4 sheet. To create a template, take a pencil, ruler and protractor. Draw a horizon line. Draw a perpendicular (line at a 90 degree angle) to the middle of the horizon. Use a protractor to measure 60 degree angles. Next, take a square of paper and fold it diagonally. Apply to the template with the top of the triangle on a perpendicular line, and the base on the horizon. Make folds along the marked lines. Using a pencil, draw a stencil and cut it out with sharp scissors.

Use some simple kirigami stencils:

Snowflakes will serve as a pleasant decoration during the winter holidays. The product is easy to make with your own hands and give as a souvenir or decorate the workplace. Simple openwork snowflakes are cut out of paper. For experienced craftsmen, modular origami is suitable. And the synthesis of classic and voluminous origami is kirigami. With it, you can quickly and easily get snowflakes with three-dimensional elements.

Video master classes “Origami snowflakes”

In this tutorial, I present the most interesting, beautiful and original templates on how to cut snowflakes out of paper with your own hands with diagrams and unique step-by-step photos. On the eve of the New Year holidays, everyone wants that the house was extraordinarily beautiful, cozy and fabulous. A good option for decorating a house before the New Year holidays is to decorate the windows with paper snowflakes, unusual drawings, holiday motifs that will bring pre-holiday mood and a New Year's fairy tale to the usual room decor.

The easiest thing you can do with your own hands is to cut and attach paper snowflakes in different places. Everyone remembers how, as a child, they cut them out before the holidays in kindergarten or at home. Today, having become parents, you can spend time with your child with benefit and pleasure, cutting out beautiful snow-white snowflakes with your own hands from paper. Kids are always happy to take part in such events.

Paper snowflakes made with your own hands and with joint efforts with children are not only a way to decorate your home, but also bring the New Year spirit, a sense of celebration and family comfort and unity into it.

Teaching a child to cut a snowflake yourself is not at all difficult. To do this, prepare the necessary tools and paper. As a basis, you can take napkins, colored paper or just a white sheet from the album.

The thickness of the sheet does not really matter. But you need to know that the most delicate and airy snowflakes are obtained from thin sheets. And too thick paper will be difficult to cut.

You will also need a pencil and sharp scissors. After the pattern for the future snowflake is selected, the paper is folded, as shown in the photo. If you have a sheet of A4 paper, then cut off the excess to get a square.

Fold diagonally.

The more additions you make, the more interesting and openwork the snowflake will turn out.

The size of the future decoration depends on how large the sheet is initially selected. In this case, only the desire to have a large or small snowflake influences the choice.

When the drawing is applied to paper, we proceed to cutting. This process requires special care and accuracy. In no case should you cut off the edges of the paper at the folds, as the snowflake may simply fall apart.

Children really like this process. After all, in the end you will get beauty with your own hands, which is so nice to decorate a Christmas tree, windows or walls in a room.

It should be noted that, it would seem, such a simple activity as cutting snowflakes out of paper with your own hands is a great opportunity to develop a child’s imagination, a sense of beauty and artistic taste.

Ready-made snowflake templates for download

It so happened that the snowflake has become an attribute of any New Year's holiday. Often at New Year's parties, the first role for girls is a snowflake. We can safely say that a snowflake is the main attribute of the celebration of the New Year.

Paper quilling snowflake

Quilling snowflakes look elegant, especially if they are complemented with sparkling rhinestones and small foil elements or in the form of small patches. It is not necessary to buy special paper to create New Year's snowflakes, you can cut ordinary office sheets into thin strips, and use a toothpick instead of a split stick. You can wind the strips according to a simple technique, pressing the paper to the stick with two fingers, scrolling in your hands.

What to prepare for snowflake modeling:

• a sheet of office white paper;
• scissors;
• any glue with a brush or a special thin nose;
• stick or toothpick;
• a snowflake created with a hole punch or a blue patch;
• blue half beads.

How to model a quilling snowflake

Take either special paper or cut the sheet into strips of the same width. Use scissors or a stationery knife, a ruler and a special thick rug. It will take a lot of strips to create individual parts.

Roll each strip individually onto a stick. Paper easily remembers a forced bend, but in order for the parts not to unwind, to take a certain shape, it is necessary to glue the ends together.

For the center, prepare 1 large round. Make also droplets to fill the body of the snowflake. Only 12 pieces. Make sure they are the same size.

Stick 6 drops around the circumference, adding a drop of glue to the side wall.

If there are sufficiently large gaps between the details of the first layer, you can fill them with small rolls. Twist 6 small circles.

Glue small circles into the gaps of the first layer.

Stick the second layer of droplets. Spread glue on small parts and press down the droplets with the back (wide) part.

The paper quilling snowflake model is assembled. Now you have to decorate it with blue decor. Glue a snowflake and a half-bead in the center. Add 6 blue crystals to each ray.

Blue sparkle will add a festive touch. New Year's craft is ready. It can be hung on a green branch or on a window.

In this master class, I propose to make an unusual paper snowflake card on a stand. She will be an excellent gift for mom or grandmother, and she will have no equal at the school exhibition. And by doing this craft, the child will learn how to fold paper, carefully cut it out and use glue. And of course, fantasize! After all, the creation of snowflakes is a real art!

Materials needed for the postcard:

• colored paper of delicate shades;
• cardboard for the base or stand;
• glue;
• scissors;
• sequins for decoration.

Consider snowflakes with children, tell how snow is formed, what types of snowflakes are and how they differ. Usually snowflakes are six-pointed, but we will have an eight-pointed snowflake, since it is made in the origami technique. In order to make one snowflake, you need to fold a sheet of colored paper in half and cut out two identical squares.

Now fold each square in half in different directions. You should get two folds that divide the sheet into four squares. Make marks on the back with a pencil. They are in the middle of the side of the small square.

Carefully cut the paper to the marks.

Such blanks are obtained. For one snowflake, you need two things.

Using glue, attach the corners to the rays.

Now you need to put the workpieces on top of each other with an offset. It turns out such a snowflake!

It's time to decorate the snowflake. To do this, you can take rhinestones, beads or sequins. They need to be glued so as to close the joints of the corners.

It remains to make the base - stand. To do this, you need to fold a wide strip of cardboard inward so that you get three equal parts. Then round off the corners with scissors.

Inside the base, you can write a congratulation. It remains to glue the snowflake on the edge of the workpiece. We placed a small snowflake cut out of foil in the center.

These snowflakes are obtained in half an hour - bright, airy, sparkling! And most importantly, they keep the warmth of children's hands.

How to make a simple paper snowflake step by step video tutorial

Blue origami mosaic paper snowflake

The origami mosaic technique allows you to create beautiful relief paintings from paper. They look unusual and very attractive. Those who have not yet mastered this needlework technique and are only going to try it should immediately tune in to painstaking work that requires maximum concentration and perseverance. Even the simplest image in an origami mosaic will take a lot of time, because you need not only to choose a clear scheme, but also to make a lot of miniature square blanks.

In this master class, I will show you how to make a three-dimensional blue paper snowflake using the origami mosaic technique.

To create such a New Year's panel, you will need different materials and tools:

• scissors;
• black lead pencil (simple);
• wide tape;
• ruler;
• 2 sheets of white cardboard;
• 6 sheets of white paper;
• 2 sheets of blue double-sided colored paper;
• tube of PVA glue.

First, on white and blue paper, you need to draw squares 3x3 cm in size.

Now cut the blanks into individual elements.

And proceed to the formation of squares, from which a panel in the form of a blue snowflake on a white background will be assembled.
How to make a paper square using the origami mosaic technique?
Take one square.

Gently fold it in half.

Fold this blank in half again to end up with a square half the size of the original.

Unfold all sides to their original position.

Now bend each corner of the square towards its center.

It turns out here is such a preparation.

Flip it over to the wrong side.

And again, begin to bend the corners of the square to the center.

The result should be a very small square measuring 1.5x1.5 cm.

In total, you need to make 136 blue squares and 225 white ones. This number was calculated according to the scheme, which is attached below.

Now take a simple pencil, a school ruler and draw a grid of squares with sides equal to 1.5 cm on two sheets of white cardboard.

Using tape, glue two sheets together and cut out a square, each side of which holds exactly 19 squares.

Now we move on to pasting the base with small squares. First, mark the center of the craft and glue a white square on it.

Now apply a drop of PVA glue to each shaded cell and fill them with blue blanks. Glue the center stripes.

Then place the squares diagonally.

Form a pattern according to the scheme.

The blue paper snowflake mosaic is almost ready!

It remains only to glue white squares on empty cells.

When the work is completed, you will receive an original panel in the form of a blue snowflake on a white background. She looks like this! See how the texture of the craft is unusually visible, volume and relief are created.

In this technique, you can make many other snowflakes that will differ in image scheme or color.

This panel looks great on the wall and creates a festive atmosphere. And it can also be used as an original postcard for one of your friends.

How to make a paper 3-D snowflake with your own hands

Modern technology has also reached such a seemingly simple task as creating a snowflake. As the name implies, 3-D snowflakes are a more complex, but very effective technique, due to which the made decor is distinguished by a special elegance of lines and rather unusual shapes.

What may be needed to make a snowflake with a 3D effect?

Prepare a square sheet of paper of the desired color, a pencil and a ruler, scissors or a sharp paper knife, glue. The work of making 3-D snowflakes is very painstaking and requires a lot of patience.

The first step is to draw a sheet of paper into squares. We need 6 identical squares. Then such a scheme is applied. It can be printed.

Fold the square in half diagonally, transfer the diagram as shown in the figure. Fold in half again.

The next step is cutting parallel lines. The incisions must be made in such a way that they are directed towards each other, but do not converge to the end.

We connect and glue the corners of the first small square.

Then turn over and glue the corners of the next square.

And so on in order, until all the corners are glued together.

To make the snowflake voluminous, you need to very carefully glue the corners of all the squares. As a result, six snowflakes are obtained, which, gluing together, form a three-dimensional 3-D figure.

We connect the corners of all the blanks to each other.

In order for the figure to keep its shape and not fall apart, you need to additionally glue the sides of the snowflake.

That's all, our 3-D paper snowflake is ready!

By inventing various patterns, painting the figure with paints and even decorating with beads, you can not only create a very beautiful New Year's decoration, but also help develop your child's imagination and sense of style.

Snowflakes - paper kirigami instruction

Snowflake kirigami is a fairly easy way to quickly and effortlessly make a lot of beautiful decorations. The highlight of this type of snowflake is the selection of paper. For snowflakes - kirigami you need bright colored paper.

It can be colored on one side only, but you can choose paper with rich colors on both sides. We take an A4 sheet and fold it as shown in the photo.

Cut out a square, fold in half diagonally.

We fold two more times.

Then we print and transfer just such a scheme to the finished workpiece.

The next step is to cut patterns on the workpiece using nail scissors.

Carefully cut out the snowflake and unfold it.

Bend the resulting corners, as in the photo.

A snowflake can be decorated with stasas, beads, Christmas tinsel, and then it will become the central decoration of your New Year's home.

2 more do-it-yourself kirigami snowflake options:

The light, airy figure of a ballerina is very beautiful. If you combine two types of a beautiful snowflake and a ballerina figurine together, the effect can exceed all expectations.

It takes a lot of time to make this type of jewelry. But the work of cutting it out is quite simple, even a child can handle it. Not single figures look very impressive, but a whole garland of graceful ballerinas.

What you need to prepare for work:

• dancing ballerina figure template;
• thin white paper for a ballerina's tutu. Paper multilayer napkins are very well suited;
• thin white cardboard;
• scissors.

Choose a ballerina figurine template. In the Internet, you can find a large number of options. Simply copy the selected template into a text document, format and print. But it is much more interesting to draw a sketch yourself. Transfer the template to cardboard and cut it out.

It is very important that the cardboard is white on both sides, since the snowflake is voluminous and is clearly visible from any side. The size of the figurine is optional. There are no restrictions in this matter.

Watch the video - how to make a snowflake ballerina with your own hands

A very beautiful pack is obtained from a white multilayer napkin. We make a snowflake in the usual way. We put the pattern you like on paper and cut it out with sharp scissors.

The only caveat to consider is that the paper snowflake should have a fairly large central hole. In this case, she will easily and simply sit on a cardboard figure of a ballerina.

Paper heart with a snowflake in the form of a handbag

In this master class, we will make such a heart with a snowflake. It can be used as a bag for a small gift or just as a Christmas decoration with your own hands.

First you need to print this diagram.

We transfer the scheme to paper and cut it out.

The result is two identical blanks.

To fasten together, we make cuts - on one side from the top to half of the snowflake, on the other - from the bottom to half of the snowflake.

We collect the finished volumetric snowflake, threading each other.

Attach the handle.

Do-it-yourself voluminous paper heart-shaped snowflake is ready!

Master class - beautiful voluminous snowflake video

No need to think that all home decorations can only be purchased in a store, while spending a fairly impressive amount of money. It would be much better, having united with the whole family, to make a variety of decorations for the house and the Christmas tree on their own. For such an activity, you can allocate a certain day, for example, when it is planned to install a New Year's beautiful spruce.

Do not deprive yourself of the pleasure of making decorations for the New Year holiday with your own hands. A variety of methods for making snowflakes allows everyone to choose the most suitable one for themselves. And it doesn't have to be spending a lot of money. It will take a minimum of costs, imagination, patience, accuracy and a great desire to do something beautiful with your own hands.

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