And you know that the preparations for the New Year's Evedoes it give you less (if not more) of joy than the holiday itself? And why? Because the expectation of the New Year is the expectation of a miracle. And with age, we do not cease to hope for a miracle. That's why we are so carefully preparing for this magical holiday, we are looking for new recipes for the festive table, we are selecting new outfits, we are buying gifts for relatives and friends and, of course, decorating our house. And we decorate the tree, and hang garlands, and we must cut out snowflakes. Well, even if we do not cut out now, in childhood this pre-New Year occupation was fond of everything. New Year's snowflakes with their own hands - which was easier? Yes, nothing, except that the cotton balls on the thread under the ceiling. And beautiful, laced man-made snowflakes sculpted on windows and mirrors, hung on walls and doors and decorated with a Christmas tree. Even today, despite the abundance of bright and glittering Christmas decorations in stores, my hands and itch to make something like this New Year. And by that to touch a miracle. Here we are stretching from old memory to paper and scissors, and again, as a child, we cut out snowflakes, cut them out, cut them out - until they get bored. And, incidentally, the making of New Year's snowflakes by just cutting out of paper is not limited. So you know, for example, that New Year's snowflakes can be made with your own hands from pasta, from foil, from salted dough? Yes they can simply be crocheted or stitched. Let's see what comes out of all this. 
Snowflakes from dry macaroni
For these snowflakes are suitable little macaroni(shells, flowers, wheels, feathers). The most interesting is to come up with a snowflake. Collect beautiful, different in form and composition of snowflakes first on the table, and only then glue. To snowflakes well dried and not adhered to the work surface, place them on waxed paper and turn occasionally. After that, paint the snowflakes with a brush or an aerosol paint. They can be made white, blue, golden or silver. Be careful and do not apply a lot of paint immediately - pasta from moisture swells! After painting snowflakes can be decorated with sequins, beads or beads. Hang up the snowflakes on the ribbons and decorate them with a Christmas tree and a room. 
Snowflakes from foil
For snowflakes from foil, a food rollFoil or foil from chocolate. Cut from it square candy wrappers with sides from 5 to 10 cm (it all depends on the size of the future snowflake). The number of candy wrappers will also depend on the volume of the snowflake itself. Each wrapper rolled into a ball (not very tight, but even). Actually, these balls and will be the rays of snowflakes. Now in one of the balls (it will become the center) with an awl or a thick needle, make the necessary number of through holes (three or four). And insert into them pieces of wire (10-12 cm) and then put on the wires the remaining balls. Finish the ends of the wire inside the last lumps of foil. Attach the ribbon. All - the snowflake is ready!
Knitted snowflakes
Those who know how to crochet, you can applyHis skill for making elegant knitted snowflakes. Small open-work beauties will decorate not only the Christmas tree and the house. They can also be used to decorate knitted things (for example, children's hats). Knit snowflakes from white, blue, blue (as you like) thread for knitting or iris, or floss, or stiff reel thread for sewing. Especially creative craftsmen can come up with a pattern for their own snowflakes on their own. And with the decline of creativity or lack of time, you can find many interesting ready-made schemes. By the way, with no less success for knitting snowflakes you can use the motifs of openwork napkins. A ready-made snowflake is slightly starched and ironed with an iron. However, for those who do not know how to crochet yet, making knitted Christmas snowflakes is an excellent opportunity to master this simple and very useful technique.
Snowflakes from twigs
For such snowflakes you will need twigs of anywood (thick with a pencil), a knife or sharp scissors, glue (glue gun) and anything for decorating - buttons, beads, berries, ribbons, coniferous branches and so on. We cut twigs according to the number of rays of the future snowflake. Remember that there should be an even number of them - six or eight? On the basis (the middle of the snowflake) from the cardboard around the circle, glue all the rays. In order to give the branches a resemblance to snow crystals, we add to each ray transverse or V-shaped short crossbeams. And you can and that, and another. We decorate the middle in the way we like: a bow, a green twig, bright buttons, in a word, whatever you want. The snowflake is ready. We want, we hang it on the tree, we want - on the wall and admire! 
Snowflakes from felt
This is a great option for making creativesnowflakes for those who are friends with a needle and thread. But even if you do not know how to sew well, snowflakes from felt - a great excuse to begin to learn it. For such snowflakes you need a red and white felt (disks with a diameter of 10 centimeters and a strip of 0.5 for 10 cm), a pencil for a fabric, a sewing machine, red and white threads, scissors. Through the center of the white disc, draw a horizontal strip with a pencil and divide the disc into six equal sectors. Two centimeters from the center of the circle, mark the points on the drawn bands and connect them in turn with each other in straight lines. In the center of the snowflake should be a pentagon. And then on each long strip (ray of snowflakes) draw two perpendicular short stripes. However, this is only one of the variants of the picture. It is possible to depict on the felt any other snowflake of the correct geometric shape. After that, add a red and white circle to each other, and place a thin strip of felt (one of them for hanging snowflakes) under one of the beams. Thread the thread in the sewing machine so that the upper thread is red and the lower thread is white. Stretch the snowflake along the lines drawn - first beams, then small strips. Cut off all excess threads. And then cut out all unshielded parts of the circle with scissors, retreating from the seams of two millimeters on both sides. Erase the pencil and you can admire the unusual red and white felt snowflake. Not only to admire, decorate with such snowflakes a tree or a room - the effect will surpass all expectations.
Snowflakes from salted dough
Beautiful snowflakes from salted dough can be madetwo ways. In either case, you will need a dough from one part of the salt, one part of the flour and two parts of the water. For plasticity to the test, you can add a spoonful of vegetable oil. In the first case we make snowflakes from thin sausages. Roll out the sausage and turn off the monogram. The ends of the sausage are wrapped in a spiral on both sides (two or three turns each), and then tighten these spirals to each other so that a loop forms under them. This is the first element of a snowflake. The second element is a simple loop. Roll out the dough sausage into a loop and cut off the extra tips. For one snowflake you need four monograms and twelve loops of dough. In the center of the future snowflake, place a small circle (also made of dough), and around it arrange the monogram with spirals inside the snowflake. Four loops (a cone down), place between the spiral of monograms, and the other eight (cone up) - between the eyelets of monograms. In the second case the snowflake is made from a single piece of salted dough rolled into a thin layer. Cut out the snowflake on the stencil - you can openwork, you can be solid, without lumens. Make a hole for the tape. Dry the snowflake with white paint and decorate with dashes, circles and curls. To decorate, use a red or a blue felt-tip pen. If desired, cover the finished snowflake. As it turns out, the New Year's snowflake with their own hands is not only scissors and paper. All your craftsmanship can fully manifest itself in the manufacture of such a simple and wonderful symbol of winter and New Year - snowflakes. So, preparing for the New Year's Eve, we sew, knit, sculpt and glue these magical lace ornaments, but how else - the New Year on the threshold! We advise you to read:
