How and from what to make a snowflake?

Preparing for the New Year holidays, many people spend a lot of time decorating their homes. Fortunately, there is everything necessary for this - a lot of interesting and beautiful scenery are sold in stores. However, some parts can be made with your own hands. In this article we will learn from what and how to make a snowflake.

Snowflake is a cute and attractive decoration in almost any environment. With such decorations, the interior seems to come to life, it becomes more comfortable and welcoming. Beautiful snowflakes can be bought at the store, but you can do it yourself. For such crafts, you do not need to have expensive materials and tools, and their production time is minimal. To make a neat Christmas snowflake, needlewomen can turn to different materials. It all depends on the type of decor and its texture. Consider in detail what is most often used to create flat and volumetric products.

The easiest way to make a flat snowflake with your own hands. For this, many of the materials at hand are suitable. If you act carefully, the result is an attractive New Year's crafts that effectively decorate any environment. Let's analyze the list of the most popular materials that are used in the creation of flat snowflakes:

• it can be paper strips - such products are considered the simplest, even small children can easily cope with their manufacture;
• from swirling paper stripes - these snowflakes also make nice snowflakes, which take a little time to make;
• napkin - usually the napkin should be folded into a triangle, after which you can give the product intricate patterns.

Flat Christmas snowflakes are often attached to various bases, glued to glass, mirrors, windows. Thanks to such decorations, the interior noticeably “comes to life”, creates a festive mood.

Volumetric homemade snowflakes turn out to be more complicated in execution. However, they look more interesting, attract more attention to themselves. To make such interesting scenery, the needlewoman can use a number of materials:

• paper - suitable for the manufacture of not only flat, but also voluminous snowflakes, you just need to make multifaceted figures from it, for example, triangles or rectangles;
• plasticine - chic snowflakes of various shapes can be made from the specified material; specimens made of plasticine of various colorful colors look especially original and attractive;
• cotton buds - they make interesting and cute snowflakes from them, although for some masters working with this material seems not so simple and quick, because interacting with a lot of small details is not very convenient;
• counting sticks - crafts from counting sticks are most often done by small children;
• polystyrene foam - futuristic and beautiful snowflakes can be made of polystyrene foam, often combined with foam rubber;
• felt - malleable, pleasant to the touch and kind of material from which you can make a snowflake of various shapes;
• cardboard - just like paper, you can make both simple flat and voluminous snowflakes, it holds its shape better, it’s easy to work with it.

Each master chooses which snowflake he wants to make, and what material to use. If you do not want to spend a lot of time, it is better to give preference to flat paper details.

Before you start cutting out snowflakes from paper, you need to draw up a detailed diagram of the future product. Only an experienced craftsman who “got his hand” in the manufacture of such things can easily do without it. Let us consider in detail how to make a template for a future snowflake using the example of a “pattern” of paper.

• Take an A4 sheet.
• Fold it as in the picture.
• Trim and get a resized shape.
• Expand the workpiece, fold along the dashed lines.
• As a result, you will get a new figure. Fold it again and again dotted.
• Cut the workpiece and it will be ready for further creative work.

If you prepare a good template in advance, the master can make not only a miniature and modest, but also a large, elegant craft that will become a chic decoration of any interior.

Let's look at a few examples of making original and beautiful snowflakes for decorating your home for the New Year.

You can make a nice snowflake out of neat paper stripes. Such materials will be needed:

• thick paper of any color you like;
• sharp scissors;
• glue.

Let's consider step-by-step manufacturing procedure.

• Cut 12 strips of paper. The width should be 1 cm and the length should be 20 cm.
• Fold 2 strips crosswise, glue in the center.
• Vertically add a couple more stripes. Bind and glue.
• Connect the corner strips to each other. You will have half the snowflakes ready. According to a similar scheme, make the second half.
• Finally, glue 2 halves. Expand each 45 degrees. Fix the loose stripes with the corresponding corners of the petals.

To make such a snowflake, you need to prepare:

• pasta of various forms;
• glue;
• acrylic paints;
• brush;
• scenery (sequins, sparkles, imitation of snow).

Now let’s highlight the manufacturing process of this unusual snowflake.

• For convenience, it is recommended to put all the pasta in a large and flat plate.
• Lay paper on the table so that nothing is stained with glue.
• Before starting work, carefully consider the shape of the future crafts. Choose more durable options that won't fall apart.
• When you have developed the shape of the product, you can stick it together. It is better to use the Moment glue.
• Glue the inner circle of the snowflake first. Allow the glue to dry in this small part, so that the structure gets stronger.
• Next, glue the next round part.
• After gluing, leave a snowflake from pasta for a day.
• Then you can paint the craft. Use white acrylic paint. Gouache won't do.
• Decorate a pasta snowflake with your favorite decor, for example, in bulk with sparkles.

The original snowflake can be made of plasticine. We will highlight the main stages.

• Choose a clay of the right shade. Remember it in the palms. Divide into 6 servings. Build small sausages from them.
• Fasten the workpieces together in pairs. Form harnesses.
• Build a hexagonal snowflake from 3 harnesses.
• Remember a little darker clay.
• Make an elongated and thin thread.
• Cut the plasticine into small pieces.
• Build 7 spiral-shaped components and a few thin “antennae”.
• Set one spiral part in the center of the snowflakes, and fix the remaining 6 between the beams.
• Fasten a thin "mustache" of 3 pieces, attach to each of the ends of the crafts.
• Then the craft should be sent to the shelf of the refrigerator so that it froze there.

The snowflake will turn out to be interesting and non-standard.

Any snowflake - both simple and intricate, can easily be decorated with a variety of decorations. Due to such additions, crafts become more original, attract more attention to themselves. Consider what often decorate such products:

• applications - snowflakes with various applications will certainly attract a lot of attention;
• color combinations - snowflakes (for example, paper) look bright, which combine 2 contrasting colors, this can be an elegant thing in the form of an accordion;
• inserts in the center - the original snowflake can be obtained if its central part is non-trivially drawn: to draw in it the face of the Snow Maiden or Santa Claus;
• sparkles - a sprinkling of sparkles on the surface of homemade snowflakes can give them a unique look, from the side they will appear soft and fluffy.

There are many ways to decorate cute homemade snowflakes. Each master himself chooses an interesting solution that he likes more than others.

Products resulting from paper clippings or from art such as clay sculpting can have a very unusual look. With such decorations, the accommodation becomes fabulously beautiful, welcoming and filled with New Year's mood. Let's look at some good examples.

• Funny and fluffy instances can be made from dense threads of different colors. To make crafts even more cute and attractive, in their central part you can depict funny faces with eyes and lips. All components for the design of such crafts can be found in stores where everything is sold for creativity.

• Unusual snowflakes are obtained from cones. In the center of such products, you can glue small snowflakes obtained by molding from dough or plasticine. As a result, the product will turn out to be elegant and non-trivial.

• Who said pasta snowflakes always look childishly ridiculous? If you approach the manufacture of such a product wisely, it will turn out elegant and stylish. For example, the finished design can be additionally painted with silver paint and parts from different types of pasta can be used in one snowflake.

• Many craftswomen prefer to make beautiful decorations using dough. If you work with it correctly, the result is aesthetic and practical jewelry. It can be miniature homemade snowflakes with a carved center.

• You can fasten together counting sticks or cardboard strips for the base for gluing additional decor. As the latter, unexpected material is suitable - small buttons. You can take copies of different shades of blue and glue them all the surfaces of the frame base. The center can be decorated with a round or any other (for example, square or rectangular) part.

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