Are you ready for the perfect Christmas craft? Then learn how to make a snowflake with paper in minutes. This DIY paper snowflake tutorial is simple to make and is great to decorate your Christmas tree on a budget.
This is a DIY paper Christmas snowflake ornament for you. It is a very simple Christmas craft project that can be made with a piece of cardstock, scissors, and a glue stick. This DIY tutorial will teach you how to make a paper snowflake in no time!
I have made these snowflakes with cardstock to make it easy for kids. If you need a shinier and brighter snowflake, you can easily replace the cardstock with glitter foam and use a glue gun in place of gluestick!
If you would like to learn how to make a cute Christmas gnome, click on the picture below:
How to Make a Snowflake with Paper
Supplies Needed:
Cardstock in a desired color- 1 sheet.
Glue stick or Elmer’s glue.
Scissors.
Pen or pencil for marking the lines.
Ruler.
Gather your supplies.
The snowflake is made of 6 petals. Let’s start making them.
Cut your card stock into 2.5” x 2.5” squares.
You will need 6 of them.
Fold the squares in half along the diagonal.
Draw a line, 1/4- inch from the fold and parallel to it.
Next, mark points, 1/4- inch from each other, starting from one edge and along the entire line. Draw lines perpendicular to the base of the triangle, starting from the marked points.
Cut along the lines, leaving the marked line at the top.
Open the square and it will look like this.
Turn the square over to the other side. Fold the strip from either side over to the center and glue the tips of the strips together with the glue stick.
Turn the petal over to the other side and glue the tips of the next line of the paper strips (picture for illustration purpose).
Repeat the steps till you glue the last line of the paper strips together.
Similarly, get the 6 petals of the snowflake ready.
Let’s glue the petals together.
Take two petals, apply glue at the base and along the sides. Glue the stalk together.
Glue the third petal in a similar way.
Glue the remaining three petals to get another set as shown above.
Glue the two sets together and our snowflake is ready! Tie a string at the end of one of the petals and you can hang it on your Christmas tree.
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Sigrid
Sunday 21st of November 2021
Danke für die schönen Anregungen zum Basteln mit den Kindern. Wir werden einige davon umsetzen. LG s Sigrid
Sandi
Friday 19th of November 2021
That is so much easier than it looks and it looks excellent. Perhaps some glitter could be added over the upper areas. Very clever. Thank you for sharing