For each snowflake you will need six squares of paper, scissors, adhesive (tape/gluestick/whatever), and a stapler.
I began with an 8 1/2 inch x 8 1/2 inch Square of paper for a 16 inch snowflake (you can use any size square).
Fold it in half, diagonally (corners together) to make a triangle. Then do it again.
Mark each triangle as shown (well, really after the first you can do it without lines, but if you want kids to help the lines are a good idea.) DO NOT cut all the way through! Stop cutting about a half inch from the edge.
Mark each triangle as shown (well, really after the first you can do it without lines, but if you want kids to help the lines are a good idea.) DO NOT cut all the way through! Stop cutting about a half inch from the edge.
You will cut strips about one inch apart, going from the side with only one fold toward the side with two folds, parallel to the side with four pieces of paper. (Huh? Yeah, better go by the above image.)
Open it up and you will have a diamond with four triangles on each side.
Put glue/adhesive/tape on every other point. Where the x is. You will be rolling two up, and then the alternate two down.
See. Two up. Then turn it over, and do two the opposite direction...
Thus, ending up with this cool thing. You will need six of these to make one snowflake.
Staple three together at the point and then at the place where they touch together (where the stapler is in this pic.) Then staple two of these together.
These can be hung by a nylon thread and look absolutely stunning!
Big B answered a date for Winter Formal last year, by hanging these all over her entry. The smaller snowflakes had the letters Y,E, S, cut into their patterns. Tricky!
Happy Snowflake making!
25 comments:
I have been wanting to know how to make those! We will have to make them tomorrow! I am going to copy you and hang them outside!!
TOTALLY super cool!! i am seriously going to make these!!
♥ THose are really GREAT!!! I love the way they look! :)
Holy crap you people are fast.
I love those. Maybe it will be a FHE activity for tomorrow...my boys will love them. I think we'll hang them in our porch area. I'll post pics if we really get them done.
Those are AWESOME!!! Now lets see if UNCRAFTY me can figure out how to make them! ;) I know, there's a tutorial, but it's ME we're talking about here!
Cool! Thanks for the tutorial ~ I'll have to try that with the girls.
I'm linking away! I'm sure we will use this often, thanks for posting it.:)
These Rock!!
I am so going to try these bad boys..
I just hope I am smart enough to figure them out..
Oh my word...
Those are amazing!!!
Bizarre! I commented on this last night.. where did it go? Oh well. Theses are awesome! I definitely will be doing these with the kids. Thanks for sharing your (or others') great craft ideas!!!
these are beautiful! ok, i am going to try them. Thank you for the directions!!! I don't seem to do very well with instructions. I'm basically a look at the picture and figure it! so, I promise I will read the directions.
I'm going to have to come back and go through this again when it's not so early. Well, I guess it's about 9, but I'm still sleepy. Haha. These look amazing!
Thank you for taking the time to share this. I'm going to give them a try this week. :)
I really have to try this one. thanks!
I finally did a post about these cool snowflakes and referred them to your tutorial. So, you'll probably be getting some extra traffic on you blog in the next couple of days. Thanks for the idea.
Just made it!!! My husband thinks it's the coolest things ever!!! I love it. Thank you so much for your tutorial!
That's awesome. Thank you for giving the directions. My hubby and children were impressed.
Hey thanks for those snowflake directions. Now I just wish I had a reason to make a whole bunch of them!
I did make ONE and posted it to my blog
www.carrotsticksandcupcakes.blogspot.com
I love this! I'm definately going to try it next winter!
I am going to show this to my daughter ASAP! She has really been into the paper folding thing lately. I think she will really like this.
Thanks!!
My cousin's friend sent her this link b/c she's doing a penguin bday party in January 2010 and wants the house to look like "Elf" had been there. she knows i love snowflakes too, so I just made one too. thanks!
I made some and they turned out sooo cute you can see them here!! Linked back to you.
Adena @ Friendship Alley(dot)com
U would love to learn how to make this spectacular ornament (super cool snowflake) and would be pleased if you would sent the directions to me at nutoyu2@gmail.com.
Thanks so much,
Kathleen
I made one of these the other day! Thanks to your lovely tutorial :) I blogged a pic of my finished snowflake!
Thanks again for the great tutorial!
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