The expectation of a miracle is why we love the New Year so much.year. And in anticipation of this miracle, we try to turn our lives into a fairy tale at least for the time of the New Year holidays. And even having become adults and having stopped believing in fairy tales, on New Year's we again become a little children who sincerely believe in this fairy tale. Well, let's remember childhood? Let's remember how to make snowflakes out of paper with your own hands? Let's remember how prosaic white sheets of paper turn into fabulous New Year's snowflakes with a wave of our hands? After all, the New Year is just around the corner, and therefore we again, like in childhood, expect a miracle!
Traditional open-work snowflakes
Do you remember how, as children, we diligentlycut out these weightless laces from paper folded into a corner? And the process itself was almost a miracle. We knew how to make snowflakes, but what kind of snowflake would turn out remained a mystery. Just use scissors to snip-snip along the edges of a paper triangle. And then unfold it and admire with admiration what came out of this “snip-snip”. Over time, the process improved, the hand got the hang of it, and the snowflakes turned out more and more beautiful and more delicate. Let's try to create such a miracle? For such traditional snowflakes, you don't need any special tools (what can I tell you, you know it yourself!), only paper and scissors. Well, and a pencil, as an item of improved technology. The most important thing is to fold the paper correctly. Therefore, we take a standard A4 sheet and start folding.
Now we continue making the snowflake and draw on itpatterns on paper. Make the lines barely noticeable so that there are no greasy and dark pencil marks left on the snowflake. First, try drawing some very simple patterns: along the right edge, along the left edge, along the base, in the upper corner. And after practicing, draw more complex and intricate patterns. And then it remains to make the final “passage” - cut out the snowflake along the drawn lines. Unfold the finished snowflake and iron it so that it does not wrinkle. If you want to make voluminous snowflakes, then cut out six or eight identical snowflakes, and then glue their tips. First, you need to make a row of three (four) snowflakes and close it into a ring, connecting the tips of the rays of the outer snowflakes. Then you need to glue three (four) more snowflakes in the same way. After that, glue the upper edges of one ring of snowflakes to the lower edges of the second ring. By the way, this is not the only way to make voluminous snowflakes out of paper.
Volumetric snowflake
To make such a snowflake, you will needpaper, ruler, scissors, pencil, tape and stapler. First, cut six identical paper squares. The larger the squares, the larger the snowflake will be. Now let's start making the snowflake itself. Take a square and fold it diagonally, making a triangle out of the square. Draw lines for future slits along the ruler, parallel to the sides of the triangle. First, draw three parallel lines along the right side, without bringing them to the edge. The closer to the middle of the triangle, the shorter the line. Then three of the same lines parallel to the left side of the triangle. Make the distance between the lines equal, about one to one and a half centimeters. The result should be a "Christmas tree" whose branches do not converge in the middle. Start making cuts along these lines, without bringing them to the edges of the sides of the triangle. Unfold the workpiece. In front of us is a square with slits along the perimeter, the lines of which do not connect along one diagonal of the square. Now let's form a snowflake. Place the sheet so that the diagonal with uncut lines lies vertically. First, fold it inward and glue or tape the corners of the inner square together. Turn the workpiece over to the other side and also connect the corners of the second (from the center of the sheet) square-frame. Turn the workpiece over again and again connect the corners of the third square. Also connect the corners of the last outer square-frame, turning the sheet over again. Make three such blocks and connect them with a stapler, forming one half of the snowflake. In the same way, you need to make the second half, consisting of three more blocks. Now connect both halves and get a three-dimensional snowflake.
Snowflake - flower
A very simple way to make volumetric snowflakes in the shape of a flower. For such snowflakes we will need colored paper, glue, a stapler and scissors. Let's start making a snowflake step by step.
Similar snowflakes can be made from white orcolored paper, you can decorate them with glitter or even paint them by hand. In general, paper snowflakes can be not only cut out. Amazingly beautiful, almost like real snowflakes are made using the quilling technique. Thin sheets of paper are twisted into separate blocks, from which such a New Year's miracle is then assembled. And paper snowflakes can be made using the origami or kusudama technique. You can use ordinary office or colored paper, corrugated or tissue paper for these purposes. Snowflakes can even be made from ordinary paper napkins. Chic voluminous snowflakes are obtained with contour cutting, strict and stylish snowflakes can be made using the paper plastic technique. In short, no matter what technique of working with paper you have, start making New Year's snowflakes. This process will bring many pleasant minutes and will make you remember your childhood. And to become a little child at least for the duration of a magical holiday – isn’t that a miracle? We recommend reading: