Snowflake crafts - tips on choosing materials, interesting master classes, photo ideas and examples

How to use the snowflakes made by hand

In anticipation of the upcoming holidays, it is already easy to get busy making decorations and making crafts suitable for different uses:

• children's exhibitions held in schools and kindergartens, for decorating classes and groups, decorating special halls, to create a festive atmosphere;
• toys for the Christmas tree to be installed in the house or decorate the outdoor Christmas tree, decorate your own home for the holiday, for the packaging of gifts and presents;
• making garlands, such set and exclusive products from can be used for decorating window and doorways, walls and seating areas.

Choosing a simple template as a basis, you can not be afraid to experiment and complement the created masterpiece with bright and original additions.

Materials for making original crafts

To create interesting and simple products helps a simple paper, glue and scissors, and for more complex products can be useful other materials:

• Office and colored paper, newspapers and glossy magazines;
• colored and foiled cardboard, shiny foamiran;
• woolen threads for openwork crafts, beads, and wire;
• polymer clay and salt dough, glue sticks with sequins.

Each selected idea opens a new space for creativity and helps develop children's skills in working with different materials and decorative elements.

Interesting, varied and simple ideas for making

Looking at the inspiring photos, it is easy to choose a design on your own and implement the idea you like, supplementing it with original elements. For the creative process, you can stop at simple crafts or use templates for making volumetric or 3D snowflakes, which feature an unusual and interesting design.

Openwork paper snowflakes

The best material for such snowflakes is paper, for such crafts it is enough to have templates and scissors, using different techniques of working with paper:

• cut out according to the template, as a material for work you can use thin napkins or pages of glossy magazines without bright pictures, newspapers and colored paper;
• snowflakes-balarins or angels, for their production it is necessary to buy in advance openwork napkins for baking or to cut out beautiful dresses and wings yourself;
• the technique of quilling, twisted thin strips with different design elements help to create exquisite and airy masterpieces, reminiscent of real snowflakes.

To create such elegant and airy crafts, which will decorate the group, class or home, you can use different types of paper and even napkins.

Dimensional decorations

It will be difficult for a child to make large and designer snowflakes by himself, so he will need help and support to make different products:

• A lotus snowflake made from twisted cones, you can use different shades of colored paper to enhance the aesthetics of the composition;
• large snowflakes made of foil cardboard or foamirin, they are collected and glued from separate and pre-prepared strips;
• Origami technique, to create three-dimensional products will need to spend some time making the individual elements of the collected design.

Handmade crafts can be taken to kindergarten or school, and at home to open a workshop of Santa Claus and learn other techniques to create crafts.

Beautiful Christmas tree decorations

A simple school of homemade crafts will help turn a boring evening into a real holiday of creativity if you and your children do crafts together:

• set snowflakes made of beads or small beads, assembled according to a pre-selected pattern;
• Fluffy wire is easy to work with and holds its shape perfectly, helping to create beautiful decorations;
• wooden popsicle sticks and toothpicks can be folded into snowflakes and decorated with small or large glitter;
• glue sticks for a glitter gun can easily be used to create unusual and design different shapes;
• from salt dough it is easy to make openwork snowflakes, they will be suitable for decorating the Christmas tree or interior decoration of the house;
• threaded crafts made from woolen threads soaked in PVA glue, are made according to a template, and after drying retain their shape;
• snowflakes from the bottoms of plastic bottles, shaped bottoms are painted with acrylic paints and used in decorations.

Many of the materials used are used all the time, without them it is impossible to prepare an autumn or spring holiday, and you can stock up on them in advance.

Making an original decoration from paper tubes

A simple instruction and an accessible master class will help to create a voluminous and beautiful snowflake from two tubes from toilet paper. For the creative process you will need a glue gun, a pencil with a ruler, scissors or a box cutter, fine glitter and PVA, white or light blue paint:

• tubes are painted using paint of the chosen shade, it is important to carefully paint the outer and inner surface;
• the workpiece is carefully folded and outlined in strips up to 1.5 cm wide, then cuts are made according to the marks;
• For the side monograms it is necessary to fold the finished petals in half, you should get 6 large blanks and 12 folded ones;
• a snowflake is formed starting with large petals, glued at a distance of 1-2 cm from the center of the future craft;
• The folded elements are inserted one by one between the carefully fixed petals and carefully fastened with glue;
• The final stage of the creative process is its decor, the ends of the snowflake are covered with a thin layer of PVA and sprinkled with dry glitter.

Having made several of these crafts, they can be suspended, imitating a beautiful snowfall, decorating a children's room or a lounge area in the hall. The consecutive connection of the elegant elements will be an excellent basis for an exclusive panel, it can be used to decorate walls or window glass, doorway.

As you prepare to celebrate the New Year, you can worry in advance about beautiful and unusual decorations for your own home. Snowflakes associated with winter are used as Christmas tree and interior decorations, a stylish and original decoration and in the process of their creation it is easy to improve the creative skills of the child and their skills.

Photo ideas and examples of homemade snowflake crafts