How to make a round snowflake from paper

If you are preparing for the winter holidays, it's time to learn how to make a round snowflake with your own hands. Such decor can decorate windows, cabinet doors, postcards, gift wrappings, from dense elements to make a garland, Christmas tree toys or simply pretty fishnet pendants on threads.

Choose the size of snowflakes

Before you learn how to make a round snowflake from paper, decide on its purpose and size. This will determine which sheets to buy, and how to make them. Ordinary snowflakes for decorating windows are made from white office paper used for printing. Such a decoration is performed with the help of scissors, with which the picture is cut on a workpiece folded in several layers.

If you need large snowflakes from thick paper or paperboard that can not be folded, you will have to use the technique of silhouette cutting according to a pattern printed in advance (printed or penciled, for example, on a stencil).

If you require very small snowflakes, and in large quantities, it is better not to suffer with excision, but to buy a figured punch with the appropriate cliché. Qualitative tools will allow you to make decor even from fairly thick paper.

What will be required

So, we have already figured out how to make a round snowflake: cut with scissors, a knife or a punch. Now define the materials and tools. Prepare the following:

• Paper;
• scissors;
• Pencil and eraser, if you draw a pattern pattern for the carving;
• Schemes (optional);
• Compasses (if you prepare a snowflake for them);
• Punchers with figured cliches (for small snowflakes).

In fact, to produce a spectacular decoration, enough thin paper and sharp scissors.

How to make a workpiece for cutting

To understand how to make a round snowflake in stages, take a sheet of A4. Usually the paper is sold in a rectangular form. To get a circle, you need square blanks. So, to create a workpiece for excision, work like this:

• Place the album sheet in front of you vertically.
• Take the left upper corner and bend diagonally to the right side. From above you get a diagonally folded square, and below - a narrow strip.
• Cut a narrow strip.
• Then the work goes on with the square. Fold it in half and once again in half (you will get a triangle).
• With the resulting blank, fold the corners in opposite directions.
• Trim the resulting "horns."

In this sequence, the workpiece will be created to cut out different snowflakes.

How to make a round snowflake from paper in stages

The workpiece for cutting out snowflakes and itself can be done in a somewhat different way. The sequence of work is:

• Take the standard sheet A4 and put it vertically.
• The lower left corner is folded to the right upwards so that an isosceles triangle is obtained from the sheet.
• The right bottom corner is aligned with the one on the upper left.
• Bend the resulting blank in half along the vertical axis of symmetry. Cut off excess on the line.
• Carefully follow the slots along the edge of the workpiece.
• Make a pattern of the snowflake itself. Take the same as in the diagram below.
• Unfold the workpiece. If the bends are too visible on it, gently iron the product with an iron through a sheet of paper.

Now you know how to make a round snowflake from paper in two ways. It is not difficult to make a blank for cutting out, although if you do not want to fold sheets, cut off excess, and you need snowflakes of a very specific diameter, you can work in one more way.

How to make a beautiful round snowflake from paper

This option is performed on the basis of a blank created with a compass. Work like this:

• Draw a circle on the sheet.
• Cut out the workpiece.
• Fold it twice in half to get a quarter of a circle.
• Make one more addition (usually this stops).
• If the workpiece size and thickness allow, you can add more.
• Cut out the pattern. You can expand the last fold (if the workpiece is too dense) and cut some more small parts.

Experimenting with the number of additions, variants of excerpts, you can make an unlimited number of the most intricate items. If you are tired of working with scissors, you can use a punch with any cliché, even standard, round. With its help it is easy to get very unusual patterns of snowflakes.

Ready-made templates for cutting

To long not think how to make a round snowflake of beautiful shape with carved and delicate details, take any pattern that is in special periodicals for needlewomen. Typically, the diagrams are displayed next to the version of the finished product that will be produced using this template. Draw the template onto your folded workpiece. And if you want to perform many identical snowflakes, it's best to make a stencil out of cardboard and already draw it around on the workpiece.

Analyzing the found schemes, you must understand, for cutting out which part of the circle they are intended for. This will determine the number of folds that need to be done on the original workpiece. The illustration shows templates that are intended for 1/6 of a circle. It is easy to determine by comparing the circuit and the finished sample.

In the selection, located further, the schemes for 1/12 part of the circle are given. If your paper is thin, or you work with foil, then the previous templates can be easily used for 1/12. All patterns are mirror symmetrical, and therefore if you take only half, then cut with scissors will require fewer elements.

If you have a good imagination, and you do not like ready templates, you can combine your patterns based on the patterns seen.

Figured punchers

How to make a beautiful round snowflake of a large size, we figured out, but cut out of a folded in several layers of a sheet a tiny piece will not work. If you need a lot of small snowflakes (up to 7.5 cm in diameter), you can buy a figured punch with the appropriate cliché. There are options for creating very miniature details, for example, 5-6 mm. Different manufacturers can find different openwork cliches. With these punchers, you can easily and without much effort cut a lot of snowflakes from both thin and thick paper. Pleasure is not cheap, but the result is quick and looks effective and realistic.

You saw how to make a round snowflake with your own hands from paper in different ways. Suitable options for working with foil, and for preparing templates for burning through the fabric.