Homemade snowflakes are a cheap and easy way to beautify your house for the holidays. You can make colorful decorations with which you can decorate your fir tree, gifts, windows, walls and much more. Do you also want to know how to make snow crystals?
To make a snowflake, you only need a paper square and our detailed instructions for folding and cutting. But you can also make snow crystals with clothes pegs, ice cream steams and cotton swabs yourself! Under the supervision of adults, children can do dozens of snowflakes themselves with a lot of fun. After that, the adults can help decorate the house. Gurate the whole family and experience the arrival of your own snowstorm.
DIY ideas for paper snowflakes
Tinker cool snowflakes made of paper with your children! To make a paper snow crystal, keep the paper folded. You can create a variety of patterns and designs by playing around with different sizes, shapes and styles.
What you need:
- Craft paper
- Pencil
- Scissors
Instructions for tinkering paper made of paper:
First take a square sheet of paper. The second step in the production of paper snowflakes is to fold the paper diagonally - so you can create a triangle. Then fold the triangle in half. Continue to cut off the lower part of the snowflakes with scissors.
Finally, cut your folded paper with different cuts. You can use straight lines instead of curved ones because they are easier to draw. If you want, you can download one of our templates and adapt the size to your paper. Then print them out and cut them out. Cut out the desired shapes by stinging the template on the folded paper and then cutting with a craft scissors along the pulled lines and on the exposed parts.
Carefully fold up the snowflake. Take the imperfection of your snowflake: every snowflake is unique.
The paper snowflakes are ready and can be used as a decoration for all types of winter decorations, gift packaging and more.
Tinker snow crystals with clothes pegs
With this clothes clammer snowflake idea you can easily and inexpensively tinker Christmas decorations! The white patterns are inspired by winter, but you can also adapt your snow crystals to your Christmas tree and decoration in the house!
What you need:
- Laundry pegs in different sizes
- Acrylic paint
- Glitzer color (as required)
- Strong handicraft adhesive or hot glue gun
Make the clothes clammer snowflake yourself-instructions:
Disconnect the clothes pegs and remove the spring. Brush half of the clothes peg with a strong handicraft or hot glue and then stack the other half on it. Press the parts together. 8 clothes pegs are required for a single snowflake. Glue the clothes pegs together to shape a snowflake. Make sure that you do not use more than a little hot glue. A lot can be reached with little glue. Hot adhesive can leave and leave lumps if too much of it is used.
For example, you can paint the entire snowflake white when it is dry. The color you choose for the snowflakes is actually entirely up to you! Tinker snow crystals in a red, green, silver or golden shade that fits your Christmas tree if you want. The best part is still coming! The snowflakes can also be decorated with various decorations such as pompons, rhinestones, glitter, confetti and much more. Finally, you can attach a piece of rope to the back so that your snow crystal can be hung up.
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Produce 3-D sneakers yourself
You need that:
- Craft paper - 6 pieces
- Glue
- Tacker
Directions:
Fold the paper diagonally and cut it as shown in the picture. Glue the individual pieces of paper together. Attach all pieces in the middle with glue so that you can shape a plant sheet. For the remaining five paper sheets, repeat the process from the start. Put the six leaves together in the middle and attach them to with a tacker.
Snowflakes at Christmas tinker with cotton swabs
Did you think you only need a few cotton swabs and a hot glue gun for a creative Christmas decoration? You can do the most beautiful DIY decorations with cotton swabs yourself. The snow crystals are perfect for the windows or their Christmas tree. Start immediately to make this DIY decoration because it brings you into real, festive atmosphere.
Christmas crystals with ice cream stems
This is another creative opportunity for homemade decoration at Christmas. Leave your childrenPaint a few ice cream pipesand attach the decorations with a rope. So you can make a cool snowflake in a few minutes.
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