DIY paper snowflakes. DIY volumetric snowflakes

Many of us can make simple paper snowflakes. Openwork volumetric snowflakes, which are made from the same source material, look much more interesting and beautiful. Despite the complex and bizarre patterns, it is not at all difficult to make such crafts with your own hands. Below we will give, as an example, four master classes in which different techniques making volumetric snowflakes with your own hands.

Master class number 1: do-it-yourself volumetric snowflake from colored stripes

An openwork snowflake can be made using the weaving technique. By combining stripes of paper by color, you will get a very bright and interesting snowflake. You can prepare the strips themselves from double-sided colored paper or go the simpler way and buy ordinary quilling strips.

Materials (edit)

To make a voluminous snowflake from colored stripes with your own hands, take care of the availability:

• quilling papers;
• PVA glue;
• brushes;
• clothespins.

In total, you need 20 strips to make one snowflake. The snowflake itself must be made by making its halves.

Step 1... Place the blue stripes on your desktop in a criss-cross pattern.

Step 2... Along the edges of them, lay out strips of light blue and cream in pairs.

When laying out the stripes, weave them together.

Step 3... Lubricating the ends of the strips with PVA glue, glue them together. First, as shown in the photo, glue the strips of light color.

Step 4... Glue the strips to the light rays blue... Don't touch the blue ones yet. It will be half a snowflake.

Step 5... Make the other half of the snowflake in the same way. Put them together.

Step 6... Glue the ends of the blue stripes, inserting them into the rays of the snowflake. The strips of one half must be threaded and glued to the rays of the other half. Fix the gluing points with clothespins and wait until the glue is completely dry.

Step 7... Remove your clothespins. An openwork volumetric snowflake is ready!

Master class number 2: DIY 3D snowflake

Despite the apparent complexity, making a 3D snowflake with your own hands is very simple. Children will especially like this activity. You can make a variety of ornaments for snowflakes, showing your imagination.

Materials (edit)

To create this craft, you will need:

• sheets of paper;
• pencil;
• scissors;
• stapler.

The paper will be needed in the form of small squares 10 x 10 cm. To make one snowflake, you will need 10 of them.

Step 1... First, you will need to cut out a snowflake from a simple sheet of paper. Take one piece of paper and fold it in half twice.

Step 2... Bend the resulting square diagonally.

Step 3... Use a pencil to draw the ornament that you will need to cut out.

Step 4... Cut the triangle along the pre-marked lines.

Step 5... Lay out the snowflake.

Step 6... Make similar blanks from the rest of the pieces of paper.

Step 7... Fold five flat snowflakes in a circle. Fasten them together with a stapler.

Step 8... Make the same half of the volumetric snowflake from the remaining five blanks.

Step 9... Staple both halves together and gently straighten them with your fingers.

Your large voluminous snowflake is ready. You can tie a ribbon or thread to it and decorate the room with a snowflake.

Master class number 3: volumetric snowflake from one sheet of paper

Most voluminous snowflakes are made from several sheets of paper, but you can cope with a similar task by taking only one sheet as a starting material.

Materials (edit)

To make a voluminous snowflake from one sheet of paper with your own hands, you need to prepare:

• a sheet of A4 paper;
• scissors;
• glue;
• pencil;
• eraser.

Step 1... Fold a sheet of paper diagonally, cut the bottom extra strip so that when you turn the paper, you get a square.

Step 2... Fold the diagonally folded square in half again as shown in the photo. As a result, you should get a triangle.

Step 3... Cut the petals out of the triangle. If you want the petals to come out even, you can first draw them with a pencil and then erase the extra lines.

Step 4... Repeat the contours of the petals along the edges and make cuts along these lines. Do not cut the petals to the end.

Step 5... Expand the resulting workpiece.

Step 6... Grease the tip of the middle part of the petal with glue and glue it to the middle of the workpiece, lightly pressing down with your finger.

Step 7... Glue the middle parts of the remaining petals in the same way.

Step 8... The volumetric snowflake is ready. You can make it double-sided. To do this, make a similar snowflake out of a sheet of paper and glue both parts together, attaching them to one another. back sides.

The snowflake is ready!

Master class number 4: volumetric snowflake from several sheets of paper

You can make an original volumetric snowflake from ordinary sheets of office paper. If you take a whole sheet of standard A4 format, the toy will turn out to be very large. To make it smaller, the sheets will need to be trimmed a little, but remember, they must all be the same size, otherwise the snowflake will not be symmetrical.

Materials (edit)

Before you make a voluminous paper snowflake with your own hands, check if you have in stock:

• sheets of A4 paper;
• scissors;
• thin scotch tape;
• stapler;
• satin ribbon.

Step 1... Cut the sheets of paper you have so that you have six equal squares.

Step 2... Fold the square diagonally, then fold it in half again. As a result, you should have a triangle with a single fold on one edge, two on the second and several sheets at the bottom.

Step 3... Place the triangle on your work surface and carefully make three cuts. Cut the strips from the double fold to the single fold. They should be parallel to the underside of the triangle. Make cuts, not reaching 1 cm to the end.

Step 4... Expand the workpiece, you should get a square with notches.

Step 5... Wrap the strips of paper along the cuts, those closer to the center, towards each other, forming a kind of cylinder. Fasten them by gluing on the inside with a thin strip of tape.

Step 6... Flip the square. Bend the next pair of strips in the same way, but wrap them in the opposite direction. Continue fastening and alternating stripes further. As a result, you should have a shape like this. This is one of the rays of the volumetric snowflake.

Step 7... From the squares of paper, make five more of the same blanks.

Step 8... Attach the beams of the snowflake to each other with their sides and first fasten them with a stapler from below, and then at the top.

Pass a ribbon through the snowflake and tie it in a loop. She's ready!

The most beloved 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 sorts of snowflakes, sparkles, garlands, balls, Christmas tree - the indispensable attributes of this merry world holiday.

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

Volumetric snowflakes do it yourself, photo

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

I liked these holiday decorations? Now you and I will learn to make our own with my own hands all kinds of snowflakes.

Let's start with simple options, and then move on to more complex ones, especially since there are such volumetric snowflakes, which 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 paper ballerina?

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 involved in making snowflakes, which in this case will play the role of delicate ballet tutus, and at the same time do 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 contour of the figure, cut out the workpiece and transfer it to a regular one. white paper(you can, however, and 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 understand everything at once:

To make such snowflakes, we need:

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

The more segments, 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 accurate you can do it, the neater the snowflake will turn out, which means it will be more beautiful!

Embossed 3D paper snowflake

Let's 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, than bigger size a snowflake is planned, the more dense sheets of paper you will need);
• Simple pencil;
• Ribbon or thread;
• Scissors.

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

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, lay them out 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 have 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.

For starters: from rectangular sheet 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?

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 in this fun and creative activity your household and close friends! Remembering this adventure, you will laugh more than once in new year's eve- which means that the mood for the whole year will be provided!

Hello everyone! Today I want to continue the topic of crafts and show you how at home you can easily and quickly create wonderful toys in the form of paper snowflakes. The other day my little sons and I made such beauty that now this wonderful creation pleases us. Watch and do with us.

I remember how as a child I sat and cut snowflakes, it gave me so much joy and pleasure. And then she ran and pasted it on the window. Time passed, but until now nothing has changed, I still love this occupation, only now I am doing them with my children.

I'll start, as always, with the simplest manufacturing options, and there will be more and more complicated options along the way.

In order to create a snowflake, just one tool is enough - scissors and a sheet of paper and a great mood.

Then you need to correctly fold the paper in the form of a triangle, and then draw suitable pattern and cut. You will need a simple pencil yet))).

The main thing is to take a square-shaped sheet, fold it in half (1), then in half (2), repeat steps (3, 4), almost done! Draw with a pencil what you will cut out, for example, as in this photo:

So, from this triangular blank, I propose to make such magically beautiful and light versions of winter snowflakes that you can use everywhere, even bring them to kindergarten, school and decorate the rooms in the apartment, in the stairwell and windows with them.

If you like everything openwork, then this look is for you:

If you like classic options more, then choose these weird little snowflakes:

The following layouts and diagrams will be a little more complicated:

In general, I really liked this selection of all kinds of decorations on snowflakes, which I saw on the Internet:

Look at how picturesque and patterned they are, it's just super beautiful, and most importantly, it's accessible to every child. preschool age, even though a schoolboy and us adults.

For the little ones, you can offer such a craft in the form of curls from stripes.

Cutting snowflakes from napkins or paper

Have you ever seen such, yes, such that the cutest snowflakes appeared from the napkins that absolutely everyone would like. I found these and share with you, the method is simple and easy, and besides, budgetary, you will need glue, napkins, scissors, a pencil or pen and cardboard.

Interesting! Napkins can be replaced with any other type of paper, such as corrugated paper.

The stages of work themselves are not complicated here, but these pictures outline the whole sequence, so watch and repeat.

The end result of the work will be unrealistically beautiful and will be remembered by everyone, and if you decorate it with more colored sequins or something like that, then it will generally be cool.

Or such, depending on who decides how to decorate the initial sample.

Well, now I will show you a rather primitive, old way, before such cute snowflakes did everything in labor lessons or in kindergartens on fine arts. You will need paper and good mood scissors and glue, of course. From paper, you will need to cut long strips from a regular A4 sheet, the width of the strip should be 1.5 cm, and the length should be about 30 cm.

Such multi-colored, you can make monophonic stripes, you should get 12.

This is how, one by one, step by step gluing these stripes together.

It turned out unusually original, this one can be hung even on a Christmas tree, even on a window or on a chandelier))).

Another similar option from paper stripes.

At a friend's, I saw a snowflake made from ordinary newspaper, then you can cover it with shiny varnish or glue the mesh.

Or you can twist cones out of paper and glue them in a circle, alternating colors.

DIY volumetric snowflake with step-by-step descriptions

To begin with, I want to offer you this way of working, maybe you will like it better than the following:

This type of work is a little more complicated, but it is the most interesting in my opinion, because it looks eats such a snowflake as if in 3D. Of course, it's time consuming, but it's worth it, my child and I made such a masterpiece in 1 hour. We gladly share step by step wizard class with you.

Stages of work:

1. You will need 6 squares of paper (blue and 6 other, white), we took the usual squares that we already had, they are sold as notes for notes. If you don't have one, then do it yourself.

Fold each square in half from one end to the other.

It will turn out something like this, and the last figure lies on the table, this is the result of the work.

2. Then wrap the two ends of the paper over the fold line on both sides.

Flip the finished templates over to the wrong side.

Now again turn the craft over to the other side and rip off the parts that stick out.

4. This is how it should turn out, absolutely not difficult.

The next step is to prepare 6 squares of white color, from which we will make the following blanks.

5. So let's start, this work is even easier than the previous one, again we will make origami out of paper.

So it should turn out, there should be 6 blue blanks, white also 6.

6. Well, after you have cut the white squares, fold each leaf in half, taking one end and attaching it to the other.

Do it after the envelope.

7. Now flip all envelopes over to the other side.

My youngest son also helped, and the older one joined a little later.

8. Bend the sides.

Flip on reverse side and fold down the sides, and then fold them towards the center. Cut a small circle out of the paper and attach all modules.

9. Now go to the gluing.

Take your time, do everything carefully. Use a napkin.

10. Almost everything is ready, it remains to somehow decorate and cheer up yourself and those around you.

Therefore, I called my eldest son for help, and this is what we did with him.

11. A photo was glued to the middle, such a funny and mischievous modular snowflake made of paper. We will hang such beauty tomorrow on a booth in the kindergarten. Live it looks just amazing and much brighter). So be sure everyone will like this miracle!

In fact, there are a lot of voluminous options, they can be made using the origami technique, or it can be done in the most usual way.

I dug up these on the Internet, I hope they will be useful to you, take paper, scissors and glue:

Here's another similar option.

If you have a lot of time, then you can make volumetric snowflakes more complicated, I know that usually the halls of kindergartens, schools, universities, universities and even shops are dressed up like that.

Interesting! You do not need to glue the parts, but use a stapler to get it done faster.

Video on how to cut a Christmas paper snowflake for children

At first I wanted to show you a primitive video, and then I thought that you can easily do the most ordinary things yourself. So I thought, I thought and ... I propose to cut out an unusual snowflake in the shape of an angel:

Simple snowflake patterns for beginners in origami technique

As far as I know, origami is also divided into subspecies, for example, modular origami from paper. Which one do you like the most? I give some interesting ideas.

Or the simplest and easiest to execute, even school-age children can figure it out:

Modular origami is already going on more difficult, here you initially need to learn how to fold modules correctly, and then everything will go like clockwork.

You will need to make a lot of modules to put together such a composition, but you will develop fine motor skills)))

Each of these modules can be easily inserted one after another, so you yourself can come up with any options on the go.

It remains for me to wish you good luck and creative success.

Schemes and templates for cutting paper snowflakes for the New Year

As for a variety of ready-made schemes, I suggest you these types of snowflakes. The main thing is to remember that first you need to fold the sheet correctly, as I showed you at the very beginning.

Now outline what you want to see and cut along the contours.

If you want to make the snowflake more voluminous, use ready-made templates, for example, like this one:

Then for this purpose you will need to cut out 3-4 templates, and then sew or glue them in the center, press down with a stapler. Who needs such ready-made blanks and diagrams write a comment below, I will send you an email absolutely free of charge, I have a lot of them in my piggy bank, I will gladly share a whole bunch of them.

By the way, you yourself can compose your own pattern, see how it looks, try it, creative lesson:

I once thought it was last year, and fiddled with such a charm:

For those who love fishnet and very complex options, although there is nothing complicated, I can offer this video for viewing, in it, by the way, the paper is folded differently, look, there is something to learn:

Quilling style snowflake master class for beginners

This type of toy is quite complicated if you have never done quilling in such a well-known technique before. But this is at first glance, because the main thing is to understand the essence.

The most simple circuit and a snowflake can work even for a beginner, even for a child:

And also this video will help you with this, everything in it is available and step by step painted and shown. You just have to repeat all the actions for the presenter and you will get a masterpiece.

Snowflakes in the quilling technique, this one is stunningly beautiful and charming. Try to do.

Well, ideas for implementation festive mood gave you a whole bunch, decorate your house, apartment. It will just look great, especially with your own hands, such crafts will always bring warmth and comfort to every heart))).

See you! Have a great day, sunny mood! Come visit more often, join my group in contact, write reviews and comments. Bye everyone!

Best regards, Ekaterina Mantsurova

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How to make paper snowflakes

There are many ways to make a paper snowflake. You will learn how to make a regular and voluminous snowflake. Call the children and let's get started. You will definitely succeed.

How to make a snowflake with your own hands (diagram)

1. Prepare a square piece of paper and fold it in half, diagonally.

2. Fold the resulting triangle in half again.

3. Notice how the new triangle folds. This is done by eye. The main thing is that one side of the triangle is in contact with the opposite fold.

4. Cut off lower part shapes and you can draw a contour 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 the pattern and cut out the snowflake

How to make a voluminous snowflake

You will need:

Paper of any color (preferably not too thin);

Scissors;

Stapler (glue or tape can be used);

Simple pencil;

Ruler.

1. Prepare 6 paper squares. 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 all 25 cm. For large snowflakes, it is better to use thick paper. For beginners, it is advisable to make the first snowflake small.

2. Use a ruler and pencil to mark 3 parallel lines. The distance between each line must 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 for better visibility.

3. Using scissors from the edge, start cutting the paper, not reaching a little to the middle (about 3-5mm).

4. Unfold the paper back into a square, and begin to roll up the first row of strips with a tube (see picture).

* The strips can be stapled or glued together.

5. Flip the paper over to the other side and hold the next two strips together, also holding them together with stapler, glue, or tape.

6. Turn the snowflake over again and connect the last strips.

7. Repeat the same process with the other five paper squares.

8. When all the parts of the snowflake are ready, they need to be connected with a stapler in the middle. First you need to connect the half of the snowflake, that is, 3 parts of it, and then the other 3 parts.

9. Use a stapler to staple both halves together, as well as all the places where the snowflakes touch. So the snowflake will not lose its shape.

10. Start decorating the snowflake however you like. You can use stickers, glitter, etc.

* Your beautiful craft can be hung on a window, wall, or tree.

How to make a large snowflake from paper stripes

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 two strips crosswise in the middle and glue them together as shown in the picture.

3. Add 2 more strips vertically and horizontally, interlace and secure with glue if necessary.

4. Glue the corner strips together as shown in the picture. We get just such a shape, which is half a snowflake. Prepare the second half of the snowflake using the same technology.

5. Now it's time to glue the halves together. To do this, you need to turn each one 45 degrees. Glue loose strips to the corresponding corners of the petals (see picture).

* You can glue the halves in the middle to make the snowflake look like a flower.

How to make beautiful pasta snowflakes

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.);

* For convenience, 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. how it will look. At this stage, it is also worth thinking about which form will be durable and will not come apart.

2. Once you've come up with the shape, you can start gluing. In this case "Moment" glue is used, but if you do not have it, you can try to replace it with PVA glue.

2.1 Glue the inner circle of the snowflake first. After that, 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.

* You can "build" several circles according to the same scheme, but remember that the material is fragile, which means you should not 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... Perhaps, the best option there will be paint in a can, but it is better to apply it outdoors and not indoors.

* Do not use gouache - not only will it dry longer, but it can crack if applied in a thick layer.

* If you are using acrylic paint, you should also choose a brush that can penetrate all the crevices of the pasta.

* It is advisable to have several brushes of different sizes for convenience. A second coat of paint can be applied if necessary.

4. We decorate the snowflake. You can use glitter or fake snow, for example.

* Snowflakes do not dry quickly, so it is better not to rush to hang them on the tree immediately after making. You can hang such snowflakes both on the Christmas tree and on the wall.

How to make a snowflake from a toilet paper roll

One such reel is enough just for one snowflake.

Press down on the bobbin and cut it into 8 equal pieces (each will be about 1 cm high).

Just glue the formed rings together.

Now you can decorate your snowflake however you like.

How to make a very beautiful snowflake from buttons or rhinestones

In stores, you can buy ready-made dense snowflakes made of cardboard or felt.

But you can make such a snowflake yourself. Just 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. different colors and shades. You can also use small figures by gluing them to a snowflake.

Today we will show how easy and simple it is to make beautiful snowflakes on your own to decorate an apartment, house or office for the New Year. Cutting them out using the example of the schemes and templates given here will not be difficult even for a beginner!

What is needed first of all is to pick up suitable color and the thickness of the paper. It will be much easier to make snowflakes from thin paper: it can be easily bent and cut without applying special efforts.

Of course, thick paper blanks can be used. But then, instead, it is better to take a sharp knife or scalpel in order to prevent the edges of the paper from moving. For most of us, cutting with scissors is more familiar and convenient: even ordinary hairdressing salons are suitable for making perfectly smooth contours. Small details are best done with miniature nail scissors.

It is worth deciding in advance on the size of the paper. The best option in most cases is A5 sheets (this is half of the usual A4 landscape sheet).

After the suitable material has been selected, you can proceed directly to manufacturing.

We tried to make some really beautiful paper snowflakes. This is one of the best we've got.

The diagram below shows how you can fold the paper to further cut the classic 6-ray snowflake.

Fold a sheet of paper to cut a six-pointed snowflake

As you can see from the diagram, a regular sheet of paper of the selected format is folded as shown in figure (b), then the excess part is cut off (figure (c)). Next, we unfold the folded paper and bend it along the dotted lines as shown in figure (d). The resulting figure (figure (e)) must be folded again along dotted line and then trim off the excess edges. That's it, the paper is ready to cut out the snowflakes.

There are other ways to fold a triangle. For example, a blank can be made as in the figure below.

How to fold a triangle to cut a snowflake

How to cut a snowflake?

You can clearly see the whole process from folding a piece of paper to cutting out a beautiful New Year's snowflake from it in the videos below. Particularly tricky curls and fine cuts are best achieved with stationery knife.

If you already know how to fold paper to cut snowflakes, then you can go directly to the templates. You can start with simple ones. Examples are shown in the figure below.

Snowflake patterns

Do you want to know all the possible ways to cut six-pointed snowflakes? Watch a special video, which clearly shows 3 such methods. Which one is better - decide for yourself!

In the following videos, you will learn how you can independently draw a pattern for cutting out a beautiful New Year's snowflake.

How can a beautiful snowflake be cut out of a folded paper triangle using schemes downloaded on the Internet? Everything is very simple!

Examples of schemes for cutting six-rayed snowflakes

In the examples above, you need to cut the snowflake according to the diagram above so that only the white part remains, the black must be cut off.

By analogy, snowflakes are made, the templates for cutting are presented below.

Yet more schemes for cutting out easy-to-make snowflakes, you can take the link - Download templates

How to make your own template in various PC programs

Agree, a lot of time and paper can be spent on cutting out snowflakes blindly from many freaks to choose at least a few normal ones. In order to carefully work out the shape of the snowflake before proceeding to carving it in nature, it is best to use some kind of CAD program.

We draw a diagram on our own

Original schemes can be created using computer-aided design systems. Let's consider this on the example of the KOMPAS-3D program. Who knows how to work in it - use it, there is no desire to understand - skip this part of the article, it is not for you.

Let's create a 3D model of our future snowflake. Open "File" - "New", select "Detail". First, we need to create a sketch. We draw two auxiliary lines in it, intersecting at the origin at an angle of 30 ° to each other, as shown in the figure below.

How to create a snowflake model in Compass 3D

Then another line can be drawn at right angles to the vertical construction line. The result is a triangular area bounded on all sides. In this sector, we have to draw the future template of the six-rayed snowflake. You can use the Point Spline tool to create various fishnet elements and curls. As a result, you should get a snowflake pattern like this.

Sketch for cutting a snowflake from paper with 6 rays in the Compass 3D system

Now let's see how a snowflake cut in this pattern will look like. Select our drawing with the mouse and press the "Symmetry" button in the "Editing" tab.

How to create a template for cutting paper snowflakes

Now it remains only to select the resulting ray of the six-pointed snowflake, in the "Editor" tab, select the item "Copy" - "By circle". We indicate the center - the origin and 6 copies with a step of 60 degrees. It should look like the picture below.

The snowflake is almost ready

If you wish, you can display everything in 3D and get a better look at the resulting beauty. But in principle, everything is already perfectly visible, so there is no need to spend time on this. If the result suits you, it is enough to save the template obtained above to disk in a suitable format, print it on a sheet of paper of the required format and you can start cutting out the snowflake.

Snowflake model 3D №1

To make a snowflake template from a three-dimensional model, create a 3D drawing in Compass (Click with the mouse in the top menu "File" - "New" - "Drawing"), insert a view from this model into the document, select the appropriate scale and print it on a printer.

Paper snowflake template from 3D model

Of course, using a CAD program to make templates is not the easiest option. But do not be upset, because there is an intuitive and simple program for drawing snowflakes - the Snowf graphic editor, which even a child can use. When drawing a pattern in this program, you do not need to draw any axes, mirror something, etc. - everything is done absolutely automatically. The intuitive interface allows you to master the program in a matter of minutes. To draw, you just need to move the mouse and watch how the pattern changes on the screen.

Other options for making snowflakes

Snowflakes made using a hole punch look original. Making them is easier and faster than cutting intricate patterns.

To cut out such multi-ray snowflakes, the paper sheet is folded according to the diagram that is clearly shown (see Blank No. 2).

The models and video tutorials in this article will help you and your kids learn to cut amazing christmas snowflakes that will bring a festive atmosphere to the house and will delight the eyes of others!