Bulky snowflakes look bright and elegant. They are able to decorate the house, table and Christmas tree. There are many techniques for creating such crafts - origami, quilling, cards, stripes, fan designs. A little assiduity, attention, fantasy, simple and accessible materials - and the luxurious creation is ready.
Needlework is a valuable form of self-expression and creativity, which helps to save finances on the purchase of ready-made designer items, have a good time in private or with family, and create unique decorations. Bulk paper snowflakes look airy, magically, give a festive atmosphere to a home, a working office, a public place. The ability to create miracles from paper will also be useful to parents who want to spend more time with their children on the eve of the winter holidays.
How to make a volumetric snowflake
The first thing to do, wanting to make a snowflake with your own hands, is to organize a working space and prepare materials. Work on a surface that you are not afraid to stain or damage, otherwise use an oilcloth or tablecloth.
To create a decor in different styles may need:
- sheets of colored or white paper, cardboard;
- accessories (glitter, rhinestones, paper with glitter or holographic effect);
- scissors;
- stationery knife;
- ruler;
- pencil;
- glue;
- Scotch;
- thread or ribbon (to hang the product).
Choose materials that you like, it's nice to work with them, and the process itself will bring only pleasure. Make sure that the tools are working, and the paper and accessories are of good quality, this will facilitate all the steps of creating snowflakes.
Origami
Origami - oriental art of creating three-dimensional models of paper. This lesson trains fine motor skills, develops imagination, perseverance and accuracy. There are two popular directions - classical origami and modular (that is, the creation of models from several parts).
Usually this type of creativity does not require the use of scissors and glue. Square, not rectangular sheets will be required. Some options require rectangles. It will not be easy for a beginner to invent snowflake patterns by himself, so it’s better to use ready-made diagrams.
Modular snowflakes look very impressive and difficult, but their creation requires only perseverance. Simple blanks are folded out of paper and then joined together.
Of stripes
To create such a snowflake you will need paper clips to hold the parts together while working.
- the strips are placed on the table, interlacing them with each other by the type of fabric weaving - one through one;
- the number of vertical and horizontal strips can be varied, to begin with, create a 5 by 5 weave;
- horizontal and vertical stripes connect at two ends, creating a volume and smooth bends;
- Clips are required if you need to make an empty center.
Very beautiful snowflakes or panels and postcards with them can be made in the popular quilling technique. You will need glue, as well as special strips that are sold in stores for creativity and stationery departments. To create small parts, prepare tweezers and a toothpick:
- using a toothpick and tweezers, rolls of paper of the required shape are created;
- they are interconnected by glue so that the cuts remain visible, creating a pattern;
- the model can be thought up independently or use ready schemes.
Crafts from strips seem luxurious, voluminous, very complex, although in fact the work on their creation consists in repeating simple actions. A little patience - and you can make your own paper snowfall.
Fan snowflake
The technique of creating fan-shaped snowflakes resembles modular origami; however, scissors are required here:
- it is necessary to take two sheets of paper and fold them together with an accordion so that a narrow strip is obtained;
- the stripes are folded in half, patterns are cut along the length;
- now it is necessary to connect two blanks among themselves in four places;
- the craft is revealed, it can decorate the house.
There is a more complex version of the fan model. It creates several blanks that differ in size. They are worn over each other as elements of a children's pyramid and fastened in the center.
You can create a fan snowflake without the help of glue - you need a thread. We need to take a long rectangular strip and cut triangles on one side (as on a wooden fence). The strip is bent along the entire length like a fan, then the ornament is cut out. Needle pierce the entire billet through the center and thread the thread. The craft is straightened and turned out to make a snowflake out of the “skirt”.
Master with fantasy
Do not limit your creative thought, take colored paper, experiment, combining multi-colored modules. Hang snowflakes with beautiful laces and ribbons. To make the snowflake bright and elegant, sprinkle it with glitter, glue a few rhinestones. Decorate the center with Christmas tinsel, paint ordinary paper.
Volumetric crafts can be created not only from sheets, but also from large beads and tiny beads. If there is only a box with a colorful fluffy rain at hand, it can also be folded in the form of snowflakes or wrapped with wire blanks. The material can also serve as music sheets and glossy magazines.
In the stores for needlework, you can find ready-made kits for assembling wooden openwork models, among them there are snowflakes. Crafts can be created from plastic materials such as clay, salted dough or polymer clay.
Video for making large volumetric snowflakes
Snowflakes can be round, six-pointed, eight-pointed. There are no “standards” and “norms” - the only question is ingenuity. Any creativity should be a joy, so create bright, individual things and do not be afraid to try new techniques.
