With the onset of winter and the approach of the New Year, which envelops us in its magic, buildings and streets are filled with snowflakes, both real and artificial. Applied arts that allow you to create amazingly beautiful snowflakes are a great way to spend time on the eve of the New Year holidays.
Snowflake decorations are most often made from paper. Paper is a plastic material that has the ability to take on different shapes. Snowflakes are made by cutting out paper blanks, embossing and folding. These techniques can be combined or used separately.
Not so long ago, paper snowflakes had almost no differences. A few years ago, these decorations were cut mainly from white napkins. The configuration turned out to be identical, only the design was different.
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Today, techniques for making snowflakes have become more diverse. Various creative techniques make it possible to make New Year's snowflakes that are similar in appearance, but have individual differences.
Of greatest interest are snowflakes made from paper blanks with a three-dimensional configuration. Making such beauty is not much more difficult than flat snowflakes.
There are many options for decorating rooms for the winter holidays. For this purpose, you can use purchased decorative items and make homemade decorations. Lately, many have opted for New Year's handmade items.
It takes time to create New Year's accessories, but the result is worth it. Thanks to homemade New Year's decorations and, first of all, snowflakes, you can decorate your home for the holidays quickly and originally.
The main task is to master the techniques for making three-dimensional snowflakes, and this article will introduce you to master classes and popular snowflake templates that you can draw or print and cut out.
After spending a little time, you will get acquainted with the most popular schemes for creating homemade snowflakes of various shapes.
Do-it-yourself voluminous paper snowflake, photo Option No. 1 – decoration with twists
This option for creating a homemade 3-D paper snowflake, the peculiarity of which is its three-dimensional configuration, is worth trying for those who want to decorate the room with large decorative elements. The design of such snowflakes can include several colors at once. Of particular interest are the transitions of tones in a circle.
Make six square pieces of paper with the same dimensions.
Important! The radius of the decoration will coincide with the diagonal of the square-shaped paper part; Taking this point into account, first decide what format of snowflakes you want.
In addition to paper, you will need scissors, a simple pencil and glue. You will need a ruler for marking, and a stapler to fasten the parts.
Let's look at the scheme for making a three-dimensional New Year's snowflake in more detail:
If you do not fully understand the scheme for making a snowflake yourself, watch the video: the master class will help you create a paper decoration:
Option No. 2 – template decorations
Involve children in arts and crafts. Jointly creating New Year's accessories using templates is a great opportunity to chat with children and help them learn new creative techniques that will surely be interesting to them. Together with your children, make homemade paper decor in the form of three-dimensional snowflakes.
To make a 3D decoration, you just need to fold the pieces in a circle and then glue one on top of the other; In this way, you will create a three-dimensional snowflake from flat elements.
Those who are not going to make a three-dimensional decoration by gluing together several identical pieces should use the “accordion” technique - it is quite simple.
Fold the paper sheet like an accordion and fold it in half, then make markings.
The paper turned out to be too thick, and you can’t immediately cut out a solid product? It’s easy to solve the problem - draw markings on one side and the other of the accordion: this technique will save you from the need to fold a sheet of paper in half. In addition, using this technique, you can create details of halves and quarters of future snowflakes. The blanks are laid out and then glued together.
The photo shows an easy-to-create jewelry option, but you can make more unusual designs. Attach loops to the snowflakes or combine them, thereby making a garland, and decorate the room for the New Year holidays.
To better understand the accordion technique, watch the video demonstrating how you can make a voluminous paper snowflake step by step:
Option number 3 – snowflake star made of paper strips
Let's look at another simple and yet interesting technique for creating paper snowflakes with a three-dimensional shape with a step-by-step technique, perfect for beginners. This technique in most cases involves the use of paper, which is used in the quilling technique. Such paper can be purchased at stores offering handicraft supplies.
If you can’t find special paper, plain paper sheets will do. In addition to paper, prepare brushes, glue and clothespins.
Step-by-step instructions for making a star snowflake:
Option number 4 – flower snowflake
Snowflake decorations, reminiscent of flowers in appearance, will add tenderness to the festive decoration of the room and help create a fairy-tale atmosphere.
Let's start making a flower snowflake. To make such a decoration, you will need a landscape sheet, a pencil, an eraser, scissors and stationery glue.
Use these instructions to make a voluminous flower snowflake for the New Year:
You can look at the technique of making a flower snowflake in more detail in this video:
Option No. 5 – decoration using quilling technique
New Year's quilling decorations are very popular: they look much more attractive than standard decorative elements. Quilling snowflakes decorate windows, Christmas trees, walls, and you can also use them to decorate a holiday table. Often, such jewelry is made in several colors and decorated with sparkles to make them more vibrant.
First, cut the strips: their number depends on the configuration of the future decoration. The length of one strip is 15-25 cm and the width is approximately 2 cm.
The most important part of the job is to curl the strips correctly. To prevent the strips from losing the required shape, coat them with glue. It is recommended to secure the round parts with a clothespin until they dry.
After finishing preparing the parts, assemble them into a snowflake. Glue the elements to each other. In the middle of the decoration, place a circle consisting of several layers - one folded strip. To make your work more convenient, use a thread spool.
The final step is decorating and fixing the resulting snowflake. You can start decorating only after the parts have dried and adhered well.
Video with a master class on making homemade quilling snowflakes:
Option number 6 – beautiful snowflake with rhinestones
This scheme for creating a New Year's paper snowflake is one of the simplest; even children can master it.You will need paper in at least two different colors, scissors, rhinestones for decoration and stationery glue.
Let's start creating a snowflake.
Make square-shaped paper blanks of identical sizes - and form them into a cone, one corner should stick out from the back side. Fix the parts with glue at the base, thanks to this they will securely hold the structure.
Fix all the details in a circle and repeat these manipulations, then you will get a decoration consisting of several layers.
Decorate the snowflake with beads and rhinestones to make it brighter.
Option No. 7 - modular snowflake
We bring to your attention another scheme for making paper New Year's snowflakes, the peculiarity of which is their three-dimensional form: decorations are created from several parts in the origami style.
Make rectangular paper blanks - they should have identical dimensions.
The technique for creating blanks will become more clear if you look at the photo:
Place the triangles one on top of the other, securing with glue. It is advisable to first decide on the color and configuration of future snowflakes. First try connecting the parts without glue.
By fixing the triangular blanks, you will receive an origami-style snowflake decoration from the modules.
In this article, we looked at the most popular techniques for making New Year's snowflakes from the most common material - paper, the peculiarity of which is their three-dimensional configuration. Paper makes it possible to bring many original ideas to life; thanks to even very simple stencils you will get fabulous holiday snowflakes.
Another video instruction for creating a homemade paper snowflake using an original technique:
The New Year makes you believe in miracles. Create wonderful New Year's decorations with your own hands. Beautiful paper snowflakes will allow you to decorate your home in a New Year's way. Decorative elements that keep the warmth of your hands will make the atmosphere not only festive, but also cozy.
Be inspired by the beauty of New Year's accessories, create mini-masterpieces and delight others with designer decorations.
For many years, the paper snowflake has remained the most popular and most affordable New Year's decoration. They are cut out both in kindergarten and at school. Shops, offices and apartments are decorated with snowflakes. In order to make this patterned miracle, you need a little: paper, scissors and patience. You can’t create truly beautiful snowflakes at once. But there is no need to be afraid. We will tell and show how to easily and quickly make amazingly beautiful, openwork and unusual snowflakes.
Making a paper blank
First, we fold the paper from which we will cut out snowflakes. The diagram in the photo will tell you how to do this correctly.
When we have made paper blanks for making snowflakes, the most interesting part comes - applying the design. You can come up with your own drawing, or you can download diagrams from the Internet. We also publish a number of patterns that will help you make a truly beautiful snowflake. The most important thing is to make sure that the lines do not reach opposite sides of the workpiece, otherwise the snowflake will not work.
When you have applied the design, cut off the excess with sharp scissors. We remove small parts with nail scissors or a stationery knife.
Snowflake with a plot
Recently, unusual snowflakes with figures of animals and people have been gaining popularity. Snowflakes where you can see the real plot. Take these pictures as an example and come up with your own.
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What kind of paper should you cut snowflakes from?
Any kind, as long as it is easy to cut. You can decorate your home with snowflakes made of gold or silver paper. You can use colored or translucent paper. And some people prefer to create using old newspapers and magazines.
Ballerinas on the window
By the way, ballerina snowflakes have not lost their relevance for many years. From such figures you can assemble a real garland. In this case, you will have to cut out the silhouette of the dancer (preferably from cardboard) and a snowflake, which will be put on the figurine as a skirt.
This is how you can decorate the windows of your apartment with ballerina snowflakes. It turns out charming and tender.
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Volumetric snowflakes
Volumetric snowflakes look unusual and very elegant. They are also quite easy and quick to make. A good example is in this video.
And finally, a few tips from site readers:
– Use tracing paper to cut out snowflakes, it is thin but durable. Snowflakes made from tracing paper are more airy.
– Roll it not into a hexagonal snowflake, but into an octagonal one, this way you can make a finer pattern, but no one counts the rays of paper snowflakes.
– It’s easier to cut out snowflakes with nail scissors than with regular scissors.
– Snowflakes that look better are not uniform, but with larger details, alternating with thinner ones. For example, thicker rays, thinner branches from them.
– And try to cut out snowflakes, and not lace napkins, so less roundness, leave less paper.
How to make snowflakes out of paper
There are many ways to make a paper snowflake. You will learn how to make a regular and voluminous snowflake. Call the kids and let's get started. You will definitely succeed.
How to make a snowflake with your own hands (diagram)
1. Prepare a square sheet of paper and fold it in half, diagonally.
2. Fold the resulting triangle in half again.
3. Notice how the new triangle is formed. This is done by eye. The main thing is that one side of the triangle touches the opposite fold.
4. Cut off the bottom of the shape and you can draw an outline along which you will further cut
Here are some pattern options.
How to make a snowflake (video)
Step 1: make the blanks
Step 2: draw a pattern and cut out a snowflake
How to make a 3D snowflake
You will need:
Paper of any color (preferably not too thin);
Scissors;
Stapler (you can use glue or tape);
Simple pencil;
Ruler.
1. Prepare 6 squares of paper. The squares must be the same size. Bend each square in half, diagonally.
* If you want to make a small snowflake, then the side of each square can be 10 cm, and if large, then the whole 25 cm. For large snowflakes, it is better to use thick paper. For beginners, it is advisable to make the first snowflake small.
2. Using a ruler and pencil, mark 3 parallel lines. The distance between each line should be the same. When making a large snowflake, you can make more stripes.
* In the image, the lines are drawn with a red felt-tip pen to make it easier to see.
3. Using scissors, start cutting the paper from the edge, not reaching a little to the middle (about 3-5mm).
4. Turn the paper back into a square and start rolling the first row of strips into a tube (see picture).
* Strips can be fastened with a stapler or glue.
5. Turn the paper over to the other side and fasten the next two strips, also fastening them with a stapler, glue or tape.
6. Turn the snowflake over again and connect the last strips.
7. The same process must be repeated with the remaining five paper squares.
8. When all the parts of the snowflake are ready, they need to be connected in the middle with a stapler. First you need to connect half of the snowflake, that is, 3 of its parts, and then the remaining 3 parts.
9. Staple both halves together, as well as all the places where the snowflakes touch. This way the snowflake will not lose its shape.
10. Start decorating the snowflake the way you want. You can use stickers, glitter, etc.
* You can hang your beautiful craft on a window, wall, or Christmas tree.
How to make a big snowflake from paper strips
You will need:
Thick paper of any color;
Scissors;
1. Cut 12 strips of paper 1cm wide and 20cm long.
* You can slightly increase the size of the strips - width 1.5cm, length 30cm.
2. Fold the two strips crosswise in the middle and glue them together as shown in the picture.
3. Add 2 more strips vertically and horizontally, intertwine them and secure with glue if necessary.
4. Glue the corner strips together as shown in the picture. We get this figure, which represents half a snowflake. Using the same technology, prepare the other half of the snowflake.
5. Now it's time to glue the halves together. To do this, you need to rotate each one 45 degrees. Glue the loose strips to the corresponding corners of the petals (see picture).
* You can glue the halves in the middle so that the snowflake looks like a flower.
How to make beautiful snowflakes from pasta
You will need:
Pasta of various shapes;
Acrylic paints;
Brush;
Decorations to taste (glitter, stickers, artificial snow (you can use sugar or salt instead), etc.);
* To make it easier, place the pasta on a large flat plate.
* To avoid staining the table with glue and paint, cover it with paper.
1. Before you start making a snowflake, you need to come up with a shape, i.e. what it will look like. At this stage, it is also worth considering what form will be durable and will not come apart.
2. Once you've come up with a shape, you can start gluing. In this case, Moment glue is used, but if you don’t have it, you can try replacing it with PVA glue.
2.1 First glue the inner circle of the snowflake. After this, you need to leave the glue to dry and this small part of the snowflake to get stronger.
2.2 Start gluing the next circle.
* Using the same scheme, you can “build” several circles, but remember that the material is fragile, which means you shouldn’t get excited and make huge snowflakes.
2.3 After gluing, leave your snowflakes for a day.
3. Time to paint the snowflake. For this you can use acrylic paint. Spray paint may be the best option, but it is best to apply it outdoors rather than indoors.
* You should not use gouache - not only will it take longer to dry, but it may also crack if applied in a thick layer.
*If you're using acrylic paint, you'll also want to choose a brush that can get into all the crevices of the pasta.
* It is advisable to have several brushes of different sizes for convenience. If necessary, you can apply a second coat of paint.
4. Decorating a snowflake. You can use glitter or artificial snow, for example.
* Snowflakes do not dry quickly, so it is better not to rush to hang them on the Christmas tree immediately after making them. You can hang such snowflakes both on the Christmas tree and on the wall.
How to make a snowflake from a toilet paper reel
One such reel is enough for just one snowflake.
Press the bobbin down and cut it into 8 equal pieces (each about 1 cm high).
Simply glue the resulting rings together.
Now you can decorate your snowflake as you wish.
How to make a very beautiful snowflake from buttons or rhinestones
In stores you can buy ready-made thick snowflakes made from cardboard or felt.
But you can make such a snowflake yourself. Simply draw your snowflake on cardboard and cut it out. You can draw each detail separately and then glue everything together.
You can decorate these snowflakes with rhinestones or buttons of different colors and shades. You can also use small figures by gluing them to the snowflake.
Remember how, as children, we folded sheets of paper into triangles and randomly cut out all sorts of corners and circles on them, and when we unfolded the sheet, we got an unusual snowflake?
New Year is coming, and the soul, just like in childhood, asks to decorate your home and office, but also with magical openwork decorations.
Only if earlier we came up with everything ourselves, now there are a lot of all kinds of templates and stencils, by circling them and cutting out the necessary parts, you can create with your own hands stunningly beautiful and quite unusual creations no worse than frost drawing on the windows.
Do you agree that now you want to create a pre-holiday mood? What's the cheapest and easiest way to do this? Cut out homemade ornaments, of course!
Simple and beautiful snowflakes made of paper will perfectly decorate the interior.
There is nothing easier than folding a regular paper square and looking at beautiful patterns to create triangular bases. Or transfer unusual curls from stencils, cutting them out to create unpredictable decoration options in expanded form.
Finished products can be used either separately or formed from them, for example snowfall.
And if a flat openwork snowflake seems too simple to you, then you can use your imagination and make voluminous decorations.
Do-it-yourself volumetric paper snowflakes
Volumetric jewelry looks more impressive than regular ones, and they are also created in a matter of minutes. The only thing is that you will have to tinker a little with gluing the protruding parts, but it’s worth it!
And if an ordinary snowflake is most often then attached somewhere to a surface, then a three-dimensional (volumetric) one can be made of any size. And hang it, either as a Christmas tree decoration, or as an additional decoration for a chandelier or doorway, or as an independent hanging decoration in the middle of the room.
Volumetric jewelry can be made using several techniques. The most common are: three-dimensional designs from strips, origami, cutting out stencils and gluing them.
Volume is created either by cutting and joining elements of a flat snowflake into protruding elements, or by gluing composite volumetric parts into a single structure.
To create them, in addition to sheets of paper, scissors and imagination, you will need a stapler, thread, glue, clothespins, paper clips and a ruler with a pencil.
Most often, voluminous snowflakes are made from snow-white paper, but no one forbids using colored or shiny paper sheets!
You can also cover the finished product with glitter. Or weave flowing rain and tinsel into it.
Simple patterns for making voluminous jewelry
There is no more intuitive way of needlework than making your own snowflake according to a pattern. The diagram, instead of words, gives a visual representation of how, step by step, to make with your own hands something that you will be proud of, and something that will delight the eyes of others.
So let's get started:
Scheme for making a three-dimensional “Pinwheel”.
Scheme for making a three-dimensional snowflake “Flower”.
Scheme for making a three-dimensional snowflake in origami style.
As you can see, everything is made quite easily and simply.
Beautiful and voluminous 3D paper snowflakes with your own hands
3D snowflakes are a type of three-dimensional products that, although they look intricate, are actually modeled in just a few simple steps.
Don't believe me? Let's try to make 3 versions of 3D snowflakes together.
What if we first try to make snowflakes from individual strips?
We take a strip and glue its ends together to form a droplet-loop.
Glue 5 droplets together to make something like a twig. For better gluing, you can clamp the “trunk” of the branch with a clothespin.
It is necessary to make 8 such branches.
To hold the branches together, you need to make a core. To do this, you can wrap a strip of paper around a regular bottle of varnish and glue it together.
Glue the branches onto the core and - voila! We've got a voluminous snowflake!
The next snowflake can also be made from stripes, but with a slightly more geometric shape:
We fold the strips crosswise and for better gluing, you can temporarily fasten them with paper clips.
We bend the outer strips into a spiral and glue their ends together.
We add more stripes on top of the previous ones and glue them together in the same way as the previous stripes.
Now we glue the spiral petals to the main guide strips. And to be sure, we secure them with paper clips while the glue dries.
We remove the paper clips - our snowflake is ready!
But you can make such interesting snowflakes without using separate strips, but simply by cutting separately folded sheets of paper:
Draw straight lines on the square along which we will cut the snowflakes
Cut along the drawn lines, leaving a slightly uncut edge on one end
Roll up the core and glue it together
We turn the next strips the other way and also glue them together.
The resulting “icicles” must be glued together
And now the voluminous snowflakes can’t wait to be hung on a thread
After all, it really turns out very beautifully?
Snowflake templates for cutting
But if you don’t have much time, then for simplicity and convenience you can use ready-made stencils. To do this, sheets of paper are usually folded in four and templates are transferred onto them, along the lines of which unnecessary parts are cut out. As soon as we unfold the sheet after cutting it out, we will have a snowflake ready!
We suggest you use the following stencils:
Option #1
Option No. 2
Option No. 3
Option No. 4
Option #5
How to glue voluminous snowflakes
Since snowflakes are usually made from plain or colored paper, any stationery glue for paper products will do.
However, it is worth remembering that the glue stick, if it has dried out a little, will weakly glue paper parts together and may not hold the glued components of bulk products.
Silicate glue is well suited for gluing, but it has one drawback - it takes a very long time to dry and some types of paper get wet through it.
The best option would be PVA glue, which, firstly, dries much faster than silicate glue, secondly, it has a higher viscosity than glue stick, and thirdly, it glues paper products almost tightly.
Therefore, if you have a choice, you should still use PVA glue to glue voluminous snowflakes.
Beautiful snowflakes for windows with cutting templates
Do you remember how in kindergarten the teachers helped us cut out snowflakes and then glued them to the windows? You immediately got the impression that it was snowing outside the window.
But in addition to simple lace products scattered around the window, you can create entire compositions from them!
For example, lay them out in the form of such a cute snowman, which will certainly bring a smile to everyone passing by:
Or you can depict a snow blizzard:
And this option for window design can fully replace any curtains!
In other words, use your imagination and create whatever comes to your mind!
Stencils for cutting snowflakes from paper
And to speed up the process of creating snowflakes of the same type, you can use stencils.
You can either translate the drawing using them and literally cut out gorgeous snowflakes in a matter of minutes. Or, following the example given, draw the necessary lines yourself and get openwork fluffy beauties.
Although stencils slightly limit the flight of imagination, you can still use them to learn how to make more “chiseled” shapes for cutting.
Stencil No. 1
Stencil No. 2
Stencil No. 3 
Stencil No. 4 
Stencil No. 5 
It is also worth saying that in recent years it has become very popular to cut out all kinds of shapes from paper using a special, very thin paper scalpel. This trend in needlework has not spared snowflakes!
But for this creation option, we will need stencils that need to be printed, and then applied to a sheet of paper and cut out with a blade using neat, precise movements.
Shall we risk making several of these decorations?
Almost a masterpiece with portraits of movie characters, isn’t it?
And fans of “Star Wars” will appreciate these snowflakes:
Even the most inexperienced needlewomen can cut out such options:
You can even include elements of national ornament: 
As they say, the eyes are afraid, but the hands do! It's definitely worth trying something new!
Snowflake templates for printing from A4 paper
Templates will help in cases where you need to cut out many identical snowflakes.
They can be printed, cut out in the form of such a corner template and then applied to folded paper blanks in order to trace complex details and then cut them out.
To make a template of a suitable size, you can either transfer it from the monitor screen by applying a sheet and carefully tracing the outline. Or by copying it to a Word file and stretching it on the page to the desired size.
Below we offer you several templates that can be printed on a printer and immediately used to cut out snowflakes on A4 sheets folded into triangles.
Template #1 
Template No. 2 
Template No. 3 
Template No. 4 
Template No. 5
Good luck in your creativity! Let this winter delight you not only with snow, but also with homemade stunning snowflakes that you will make yourself and, quite possibly, with your household!
Happy New Year!
