How to make a snowflake with 6 rays. Photo tutorials on how to fold paper for snowflakes and cut out beautiful patterns from it. Drawing a pattern for cutting out snowflakes from paper

They teach you how to do) 4- or 8-point options. In nature, snowflakes always have 6 peaks (in extreme cases, three). I decided to be closer to nature and chose the 6-ended option. I myself learned this technique in school, and every year before the New Year I make a lot of snowflakes.

For this project, you only need paper and scissors. Some people use some kind of colored, elegant paper, but I cut out pure white snowflakes - it’s easier and more natural.

Step 1

Start with just a square white piece of paper. I usually make two snowflakes from each A4 sheet, so I first cut it in half, then cut a square out of each half. The size of the snowflakes is about 12 cm. If you are just learning, it is easier to start with larger snowflakes, cutting one out of a whole A4 sheet.

Making a square from a rectangle is very simple. Place the piece of paper in front of you and touch one of the top corners of the sheet to the opposite side so that an equilateral triangle is formed (such as you see in the photo). The extra piece of the sheet just needs to be cut off evenly.

Step 2

Fold the square diagonally to form a triangle.

Step 3

Fold the resulting triangle in half again to create a smaller triangle.

Step 4

Imagine a triangle divided into three equal parts, and fold it in three. If you want to be precise and use a protractor for this, then every third is equal to an angle of 30 degrees.

Step 5

Fold and fold the left third. Try to keep the folds clear and all thirds equal. This will make the snowflake as symmetrical as possible.

Step 6

Cut the top edge of the paper at an angle. Make sure you cut all layers of folded paper so that the cut is the same on all edges of the snowflake. The corner cut forms the tops of the snowflake. You'll soon learn to cut at different angles to create more or less sharp points.

Step 7

And this is where your imagination comes into play. Start cutting different shapes along the sides of the folded paper. It's easiest to cut small triangles, but be sure to experiment with different shapes.

For this snowflake, I changed the top edge a little so that my tops were a different shape. I also cut out a couple of “spines” on the inside. Use your imagination for decoration!

I don't use any stencils for my snowflakes: I just cut and design as I go. I never get two identical snowflakes. Sometimes I find some elements I like and use them in a few snowflakes, but I've never copied an entire pattern before.

Step 8: U-Turn

Once the cutting is complete, carefully unwrap the snowflake.

The snowflake won't be straight and flat at first, so I usually place the snowflake between the pages of the book for a while to help it level out. I also ironed them (between two sheets of paper) to line them up perfectly. If you repeat this, be careful as the paper may become very hot during ironing (never use a steamer!). Therefore, before picking up a snowflake, let it cool. And of course, remember about the flammability of paper.

Ironing will make the snowflake a little stiffer, which is very good if you plan to hang the snowflake rather than gluing it to some surface.

Step 9: Hints!

Materials:

Use sharp scissors and keep your hands clean. Dirty hands will leave marks on the snowflakes, which is not very festive!

Some people recommend using nail scissors as they are easier to cut out intricate designs. I don't like this for two reasons. Firstly, nail scissors are uncomfortable to hold in your hand. And is it important. Secondly, you can go overboard with the ornateness of the pattern; too many tiny cuts and not enough cutting along the contours can turn a snowflake into a lace doily. The look and idea are lost.

Snowflake carving experts recommend using tracing paper and an X-acto knife for more subtle designs and more perfect symmetry. But I still prefer plain paper and scissors - they are in every home and are safe for children, you can cut out snowflakes together.

Some people cut out snowflakes from wrapping paper or other colorful paper. You can use any material to create the desired effect. My soul is closer to clean, white paper simply because I wildly like to create beauty from something simple and ordinary.

Cutting process:

I usually make my snowflakes while I'm sitting on a couch or chair with a coffee table in front of me and a small urn at my feet. It’s convenient for me to fold the paper on the table, and then I get comfortable and cut out the design, throwing the scraps into the urn. This way I don't litter around me in the process.

When folding paper, steps 4-5 are the most difficult, especially dividing the triangle into equal thirds “by eye.” When you fold the second side part, it very often turns out that it is not equal to the other two. Then you will have to unfold and bend the parts again, and so on until you get three equal parts. The more identical parts you get, the more symmetrical the snowflake will be in the spread. Given the thickness of the paper and the number of folds, it is almost impossible to get a perfectly symmetrical snowflake. The biggest asymmetry will be in the center: look at my snowflakes. The asterisk in the center of some of them is not perfect. Real snowflakes have imperfections too, so don't worry too much about it.

Avoid what I call “voids.” This is when you cut out the snowflake in step 7 and leave a large space of paper without any cuts. Any place on the snowflake larger than half a centimeter can be decorated, for example, with the same “spines” that I cut out in my snowflake. Otherwise, when you unwrap the snowflake, you'll end up with a rough design instead of a patterned, detailed snowflake. You shouldn’t be too fussy in the pattern either; it’s better to use small and large parts together.

Snowflake decoration:

You need to place a small piece of double-sided tape on each top of the snowflake and stick it to the surface to be decorated. I like to hang mine on windows so they can be seen from both the inside and outside. At night they look beautiful in the dark.

You can also hang snowflakes from the ceiling, but be careful as they are quite fragile. For such purposes, it will be better to cut out snowflakes with thicker outlines and not too detailed designs (imagine a snowflake with a wide “skeleton and small details around the main lines). White thread or fishing line is suitable for hanging.

Snowflakes can be used to beautifully decorate gifts instead of bows. I like to simply glue one snowflake to the gift box and a card with the recipient's name on top of the snowflake. The lacy snowflake creates a beautiful background for your signature.

Do not throw away the scraps of A4 sheet after cutting out the squares. Use this paper to cut out small snowflakes that hang beautifully between larger ones. This will create a beautiful scattering effect and allows you to fill the space between large snowflakes. Unfortunately, this idea came to me after I took the photos below.

Step 10: Analyze the Snowflakes

If you want to try to copy snowflakes you saw somewhere, then you need to understand the idea of ​​how you can even repeat someone’s drawing. Looking at the finished snowflake, try to visualize a repeating fragment of the ornament. This snowflake contains 12 identical fragments. This will be a fragment between two lines. One line bisects the top, running from the center. And the second line runs between the two vertices in the middle. We can imagine a snowflake as a clock, and the lines we need are between 12 and 1 o'clock. See the designations in the photo.

This fragment shows what cuts need to be made on both sides to end up with the same snowflake. If you look at a dark background, then all the dark fragments are what need to be cut out.

Step 11: Recreate a Real Snowflake

Good afternoon, we continue to cut out snowflakes. Today you will see STUNNING BEAUTY, and new snowflake patterns. And also learn how to CREATE TEMPLATES for snowflakes YOURSELF - from your own head. Consider that you have signed up for God's courses, the faculty of creating snowflakes))), you will be able to make a snowflake pattern as cool as nature. Today you will see the complete and detailed instructions for cutting out all types of snowflakes from paper. You will become a master in cutting out paper snowflakes and will create new templates for them yourself. In this article I set myself a task tell and show NON-STANDARD WAYS to make snow beauties from paper. Since childhood, we all know how to make snowflakes out of paper with our own hands. Fold and cut the pattern on a whim without thinking ahead what will happen. Then we unfold it and are either enchanted or disappointed by the result.

Forget snowflakes that resemble round knitted doilies. We will make graphic SIX-rayed snowflakes, with clear rays of a beautiful shape. I will give detailed and clear explanations for beginners. I will teach you how to draw patterns and diagrams of snowflakes. All the secrets of the craft of paper snow lace will be revealed to you.

Today I want to show you LAWS of creating beautiful snowflakes from paper. Moreover, we will make a variety of snowflakes using various techniques - from flat to three-dimensional crafts. There will be many interesting ways and unexpectedly simple solutions. So, let's spin in the snowy waltz of light lace paper crafts...

WHAT ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES?

will open up to you

when will you learn

cut snowflakes from paper.

Firstly, you can make these elegant Christmas tree decorations from paper with your own hands. Beautiful bright. You will only need to cut out a silhouette from red cardboard, and stick on it two layers of snowflakes with 6 rays, cut from thick paper using a stencil that you will learn how to make yourself.

Secondly, you can make amazing openwork airy New Year's wreaths to decorate windows, doors and any areas in the interior. Because you will be able to cut out six-rayed snowflakes of various graphic shapes - the snowflakes will have clear, expressive rays and a regular symmetrical shape.

Thirdly, you can make airy elegant garlands to decorate your home or office for the New Year.

You can decorate your hairstyle or your New Year's feast with snowflakes with 6 rays.

This article will tell you the secrets of making all those VOLUME snowflakes in the photo below. Detailed explanations, instructions, diagrams and master classes are all in this article.

Introductory part.

Laws of carving

FLAT snowflakes.

A six-pointed snowflake is actually simple. Six rays are the classic shape of a snowflake. These are the ones found in nature.

In nature, only SIX-RAY snowflakes are found (no eight rays). Look at the amazing design nature dictates to us.

You can make any of these natural shapes from paper. To do this, you need to do ONLY ONE thing - learn once in a lifetime make a folding paper module.

To get SIX RAYS from a snowflake, you need to fold a paper square in the same way as in the diagram below. We cut off the protruding ends of the paper fold with scissors (see photo below) and you will get a TRIANGULAR FOLDING module.

Basic LAWS for creating such 6-ray snowflakes of different shapes.

If you want a snowflake to have only six rays, you must follow the rule: leave the paper “meat” along only ONE side of the folding module.

It’s not clear?)) We look at the pink module below - this is a triangle of paper folded for a snowflake. We see that the white zone of the snowflake is located only along one side of the fold of the module - and the opposite fold is cut off from the snowflake. But please note that you cannot cut off the entire opposite fold; at the bottom near the center of the snowflake it should remain intact. If we cut it, all the rays will crumble into separate pieces.

Now let's see how to modify the six-pointed snowflake.

For example, let's add a hole in the center and a sharp tooth between the rays.

Or we’ll also make changes to the design of the six-pointed snowflake. For example, let's add a star in the center. And on the main rays we will make not one branch, but two branches.

You see how interesting it is to work with a snowflake NOT AT RANDOM, but consciously. Adding elements with intelligence and understanding.

Shall we continue?

Now let's see how we we can influence the TOTAL MASS of snowfields. After all, sometimes we need thick massive snowflakes (to decorate Santa Claus), and sometimes we want to cut out fragile and weightless snowflakes (to decorate the Snow Maiden).

The style of the rays of a snowflake depends on the style of drawing it at the module stage.

Everything is very simple and clear when creating a flat snowflake from paper. Each line of your drawing sets the parameters of the future snowflake. What you draw as a smooth line will be round on the snowflake. What you draw with right angles and straight linear cuts will turn into acute angled elements.

And now our task is to make sure that there is a hole inside the beam of the snowflake. The photo below shows how such a slot was intentionally and planned to be made in each of the six rays.

Now let’s see how beautiful PEAKS are made at the ends of each ray of a paper snowflake (1).

On many snowflakes - paper and those found in nature - you can make additional small rays that will be located between the main six rays. This is how it is drawn in the template diagram below.

To get such a snowflake, you need to follow the following rule - ON ONE side of the paper module we draw a long ray, ON THE OTHER side of the paper module we draw a small short ray.

Here's how to make holes inside a snowflake. All the holes inside the snowflake are cut out sides of the module ribs. That is, we gnaw holes in the edge of the folded module. The shape is set with scissors.

We can cut out SEVERAL SNOWFLAKES of the same color but of different shapes and sizes - and put them in LAYERS on top of each other. This way we will get a multi-layered fluffy snowflake.

We can cut out MULTI-COLORED LAYERS for the snowflake. That is, cut out a large white snowflake, a medium red one and a smaller green one. And put them on top of each other to form a beautiful lush snowflake of THREE NEW YEAR COLORS.

Please note that above we see EIGHT-RAY snowflakes - they turned out due to incorrect folding of the module. This is permissible (although not according to the laws of nature). And the eight-ray fold forms a too thick module - and it is more difficult for us to cut the pattern with scissors through as many as 16 layers of paper.

Now let's move on to the next lesson... how to make layered snowflakes, where each layer floats over the previous one.

Puff snowflakes made of cardboard

With my own hands.

If you put a snowflake on thick cardboard, trace the outline with a pencil and cut it out, then we will get solid cardboard snowflakes. Now we can play with these solid flat shapes. And collect such a beautiful snowflake from them.

First we give the snowflake an interesting color. We take blue paint and smear it on the saucer. We blot this paint with a foam sponge and run the sponge along the edges of the rays of the snowflake. We get an interesting color (look at the photo below).

For a three-dimensional cardboard snowflake you need the following parts.

• 2 snowflake outlines from cardboard - paint one completely, the second only along the edges of the rays.
• 2 round pieces - one with a wavy edge, completely painted over. The second round piece is painted over the edges and a cardboard spiral is glued onto it, completely painted over.
• And you also need an adhesive rhinestone to match the color of the main dye.

We collect all the details together. And so that they hang over each other, we lay pieces of thick cardboard between them, or a paper spring (a fold of 2 paper strips, overlapping crosswise, everyone wove such springs in childhood).

And here are more options for puff snowflakes. The left snowflake in the photo below has an openwork edge, which is made using a figured hole punch (used in making handmade cards). And the snowflake itself has a simple shape of its rays - and it is the hole-punching pattern that gives it its openwork graphics.

PLISSE snowflakes made of cardboard

With my own hands.

And here are snowflakes with a PLISSE effect (fold). That is, a snowflake with a light accordion effect. Let's figure out how such a snowflake is made.

We cut out the usual flat silhouettes of a snowflake.

Using a hard, sharp object, line the snowflake along the RAY LINES. We draw under the ruler with a smooth stick or a non-writing ballpoint pen.

And now along these pressed lines we work out the folds. Place a plastic arithmetic ruler on the line and bend the cardboard along the line.

We make the folds so that the long rays have an edge TO THE UP, and the short intermediate rays have an edge TO THE BOTTOM. That is, with alternation. We make several such faceted modules and collect all the layers into one snowflake.

Folds for a line of flat cardboard forms are interesting and unusual. The snowflakes turn out FACETED, as if carved from ice. You can also make side edges on the branches extending from the main rays of the cardboard snowflake.

You can make 2 faceted snowflakes - slightly convex in one direction. And fold them in pairs - with the bulges up. You will get a voluminous snowflake-box. You can put a flashlight or a glowing garland inside.

Can be done two are identical accordion snowflakes. Cut each along the radius (from the center to the edge, anywhere). And connect them to make one out of two snowflakes - that is, each snowflake will occupy half a circle. How two semicircular fans join together to form a circle. In the photo below we see the process of assembling two snowflakes into one common one. Such a snowflake produces FACETS-RAYS that are more accordion-like.

Using this technique, you can make beautiful new LAYER snowflakes, when the bottom layer is a FLAT SILHOUGHETTE OF A SNOWFLAKE, and the top layer is accordion-shaped with ribs-rays. Like in the photo of the white snowflake below.

But these are not all the ways to make a snowflake with a folded accordion. Now I will tell you about a quick way to make lush snowflakes in the form of a round fan.

FAN snowflake

Paper master class.

First, cut out a regular snowflake from paper (this will be beam pattern template). Then we fold the paper into a wide accordion (like when we make a fan). We lay this fan out flat again, but the fold lines are visible. They will serve as guides for us.

We place a sample of the beam on each fold of the fan and outline it with a pencil. Cut along the drawn edge. And in the lower part we pierce a hole with an awl or a hole punch. Thread or twine will go into this hole to tighten the KNOT of the snowflake.

This is what the assembly of such a snowflake looks like - when we thread the string into the lower holes and tighten it. And in the process of tying the snowflake itself turns into a circle, with a tie knot in the center. All that remains is to glue the sides of the fan together - close them in a circle. Master class in the photo below.

Using exactly the same principle, you can make large snowflakes fans out of paper to decorate walls and windows for the New Year.

Such fan structures can be used inside MULTILAYER snowflakes. As in the photo below.

If the fan is folded not from a straight sheet of paper, but from paper, one edge of which cut into triangular large teeth. Then, when turned into a round fan, such an accordion gives a petal snowflake, as in the photo below.

And if you make an accordion from a straight strip of paper and pull it onto a string into a round fan (as I showed in the master class above), then we will simply get a round fan shape (left photo below).

If you fold an accordion into a straight strip of paper, and then cut one end of the folded fan at an angle with scissors, you will get a Jagged EDGE of the fan circle (right photo below).

Fan shapes can give us the opportunity to make beautiful New Year's decorations for the Christmas tree or walls. The middle of the fan screed can be covered with purchased snowflakes or round cutouts from New Year's cards.

You can make tiny round fans to decorate the center of a thick cardboard snowflake (as in the photo below). Fans can be made from newsprint or music staff - we get a paper snowflake in a vintage style. Especially if we deliberately yellow the paper (for example, blot it with a napkin dipped in black tea).

PAPER SNOWFLAKE

From little rolls.

with your own hands.

Now let's look at another technique for making snowflakes from paper - from paper tubes. In the photo below we see paper bags sticking out from under a cardboard star.

The paper bag technique can be combined with other materials when making snowflakes with your own hands. The bags can be decorated with sparkles, tinted in vintage aged tones and decorated with rhinestones.

Let's watch a master class on making a similar snowflake, where the bags are made from trapezoidal pieces of paper.

And here is a snowflake using the same technique, but here paper bags are rolled up from triangular pieces of paper.

Below we see the process of assembling this paper snowflake.

Paper snowflakes

IN BLADE TECHNOLOGY

how to do it yourself.

Here in the photo below we see a beautiful bladed snowflake - each ray of the snowflake looks like a PINNER with paper BLADES-FACES.

The shape of the individual rays of such a snowflake is similar to a Christmas tree decoration made of paper. This is a blade technique, when the craft has paper blades in different directions.

This form is assembled from 4 flat parts. Each flat paper piece is folded in half (lengthwise, vertically). And the parts are glued together - ONLY IN HALVES. Sidewall to sidewall. We get a volumetric paddle pinwheel made of paper.

If you collect SIX of these pinwheel rays, you can fold them into a snowflake. A beautiful three-dimensional snowflake.

The center-middle of such a BLADE snowflake can be covered with a round fan (as in the photo above). Or the snowflake can be supplemented in the center with a flat snowflake and a small bladed one made of paper of a different color (photo below).

Or you can make such a COMBINED multi-layer snowflake with your own hands, add a fan center, a smaller bladed snowflake and satin ribbons.

These are the ideas for DIY snowflakes made from paper and cardboard using a variety of techniques that you saw today. You learned how to do the same New Year's work yourself. We realized that everything was possible and within our means. Everything is simple if you figure it out. And when you figure it out, then your hands themselves ask to make the same craft - in order to surprise yourself, surprise your loved ones and feel the pleasure of life. In life, any thing is as simple as a snowflake made of paper... you just need to figure out what you want, then take three steps to meet your desire - three simple steps 1) start, 2) continue and 3) finish.

Good luck to you this New Year. New decisions, new desires, new attempts, new achievements.

Olga Klishevskaya, especially for the site

This step-by-step tutorial will teach you how to make SIX-pointed paper snowflakes. Most people make (or most tutorials teach how to make) 4- or 8-point variations. In nature, snowflakes always have 6 peaks (in extreme cases, three). I decided to be closer to nature and chose the option with 6 ends. I myself learned this technique in school, and every year before the New Year I make a lot of snowflakes.
For this project, you only need paper and scissors. Some people use some kind of colored, elegant paper, but I cut out pure white snowflakes - it’s easier and more natural.

Stage 1: Starting with a square

Start with just a square white piece of paper. I usually make two snowflakes from each A4 sheet, so I first cut it in half, then cut a square out of each half. The size of the snowflakes is about 10 cm. If you are just learning, it is easier to start with larger snowflakes, cutting one out of a whole A4 sheet.

Making a square from a rectangle is very simple. Place the piece of paper in front of you and touch one of the top corners of the sheet to the opposite side to form an isosceles triangle (like the one you see in the photo). The extra piece of the sheet just needs to be cut off evenly.

Step 2: Fold in half

Fold the square diagonally to form a triangle.

Step 3: Cut in half again

Fold the resulting triangle in half again to create a smaller triangle.

Step 4: Fold in thirds

Imagine a triangle divided into three equal parts, and fold it in three. If you like to be precise, you can use a protractor; every third is equal to an angle of 30 degrees.

Step 5: Fold again

Fold and fold the left third. Try to keep the folds clear and all thirds equal. This will make the snowflake as symmetrical as possible.

Step 6: Cut off at the top

Cut the top edge of the paper at an angle. Make sure you cut all layers of folded paper so that the cut is the same on all edges of the snowflake. The corner cut forms the tops of the snowflake. Over time, you will learn to cut at different angles to create more or less sharp points.

Stage 7: Pattern

And this is where your imagination comes into play. Start cutting different shapes along the sides of the folded paper. It's easiest to cut small triangles, but be sure to experiment with different shapes.
For this snowflake, I changed the top edge a little so that my tops were a different shape. I also cut out a couple of “spines” on the inside. Use your imagination for decoration!
I don't use any stencils for my snowflakes: I just cut and design as I go. I never get two alike. Sometimes I find some elements I like and use them in a few snowflakes, but I've never copied an entire pattern before.

Stage 8: U-Turn

Once the cutting is complete, carefully unwrap the snowflake.
The snowflake won't be straight and flat at first, so I usually put the snowflake between the pages of the book for a while to help it level out. I also ironed them (between two sheets of paper) to get them perfectly smooth. In this case, be careful as the paper may become very hot (never use a steamer!). Therefore, before picking up a snowflake, let it cool. And of course, remember about the flammability of paper.
Ironing will make the snowflake a little stiffer, which is very good if you plan to hang it rather than glue it to some surface.

Stage 9: Inspiration

Materials:

• Use sharp scissors and keep your hands clean. Dirty hands will leave marks on the snowflakes, which is not very festive!
• Some people recommend using nail scissors as they are easier to cut out intricate designs. I don't like this for two reasons. Firstly, nail scissors are uncomfortable to hold in your hand. And is it important. Secondly, you can go overboard with the ornateness of the pattern; too many tiny cuts and not enough cutting along the contours can turn a snowflake into a lace doily. The look and idea are lost.
• Snowflake carving experts recommend using tracing paper and an X-acto knife for more subtle designs and more perfect symmetry. But I still prefer plain paper and scissors - they are in every home and are safe for children, you can cut out snowflakes together.
• Some people cut out snowflakes from wrapping paper or other colorful paper. You can use any material to create the desired effect. My soul is closer to clean, white paper simply because I wildly like to create beauty from something simple and ordinary.

Cutting process:

• I usually make my snowflakes while I'm sitting on a couch or chair with a coffee table in front of me and a small urn at my feet. It’s convenient for me to fold the paper on the table, and then I get comfortable and cut out the design, throwing the scraps into the urn. This way I don't litter around me in the process.
• When folding paper, steps 4-5 are the most difficult, especially dividing the triangle into three equal parts “by eye.” When you fold the second side part, it very often turns out that it is not equal to the other two. Then you will have to unfold and bend the parts again, and so on until you get three equal parts. The more identical parts you get, the more symmetrical the snowflake will be in the spread. Given the thickness of the paper and the number of folds, it is almost impossible to get a perfectly symmetrical snowflake. The biggest asymmetry will be in the center: look at my snowflakes. The asterisk in the center of some of them is not perfect. Real snowflakes have imperfections too, so don't worry too much about it.
• Avoid what I call “voids.” This is when you cut out the snowflake in step 7 and leave a large space of paper without any cuts. Any place on a snowflake larger than half a centimeter can be decorated, for example, with the same “spines” that I cut out in my snowflake. Otherwise, when you unwrap the snowflake, you'll end up with a rough design instead of a patterned, detailed snowflake. You shouldn’t be too fussy in the pattern either; it’s better to use small and large parts together.

Snowflake decoration:

• You need to place a small piece of double-sided tape on each top of the snowflake and stick it to the surface to be decorated. I like to hang them on windows so they can be seen from both the inside and outside. At night they look beautiful in the dark.
• You can also hang snowflakes from the ceiling, but be careful as they are quite fragile. For such purposes, it will be better to cut out snowflakes with thicker outlines and not too detailed designs (imagine a snowflake with a wide “skeleton and small details around the main lines). White thread or fishing line is suitable for hanging.
• Snowflakes can be used to beautifully decorate New Year's gifts instead of bows. I like to simply glue one snowflake to the gift box and a card with the recipient's name on top of the snowflake. The lacy snowflake creates a beautiful background for your signature.
• Do not throw away the scraps of A4 sheet after cutting out the squares. Use this paper to cut out small snowflakes that hang beautifully between larger ones. This will create a beautiful scattering effect and allows you to fill the space between large snowflakes. Unfortunately, this idea came to me after I took the photos below.

Step 10: Analyze it

If you want to try to copy snowflakes you saw somewhere, then you need to understand the idea of ​​how you can even repeat someone’s drawing. Looking at the finished snowflake, try to visualize a repeating fragment of the ornament. This snowflake contains 12 identical fragments. This will be a fragment between two lines. One line bisects the top, running from the center. And the second line runs between the two vertices in the middle. We can imagine a snowflake as a clock, and the lines we need are between 12 and 13 o'clock. See the designations in the photo.
This fragment shows what cuts need to be made on both sides to end up with the same snowflake. If you look at a dark background, then all the dark fragments are what need to be cut out.

From time to time I try to copy real snowflakes that I find in a book or on the Internet. Of course, it is impossible to completely recreate a snow crystal, since a snowflake has a very complex structure, and it is a three-dimensional figure, not a flat one. Snowflakes are often multi-layered, and we are dealing with just one piece of paper... However, you can try to get as close as possible to the shape of a real snowflake.
Real snowflakes have a lot of “gaps” in the patterns that don’t look very good when transferred to paper. I flipped through the entire book of photographs of snowflakes, and there were very few copies that looked like simple hexagons with simple details. If the snowflake you choose has too much “free space”, still use it in the paper copy, making the pattern more complex. Since this is not an exact copy, you can improve it without any problems!
Use the technique described in step 10. Imagine that the snowflake is a pie, and the repeating pattern is a piece of it. Or think of a snowflake as a clock face.
Above are examples of snowflakes that I tried to copy from real ones. I have added a photo indicating the repeating fragment.

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Many people remember from childhood how to cut snowflakes out of paper. It’s easy to decorate a room with such crafts before the New Year, and the process of making them is very interesting and exciting. Thanks to your imagination, you can come up with a wide variety of patterns. Today we will clearly look at how to fold paper and cut out beautiful snowflakes at home.

How to fold paper for snowflakes in different ways

The easiest way to make a snowflake is to fold the sheet five times. Fold the sheet in half the first four times, and diagonally the fifth time. When making a workpiece using this method, the patterns are angular. If you use the diagram, the snowflake will be beautiful, but quite simple. To cut out more complex and interesting snowflakes, there are other ways to fold the paper.

Tetrahedral snowflake

Pentagonal snowflake

Hexagonal snowflake

Octagonal snowflake

The most difficult is considered to be the six-pointed version of a paper snowflake, since you need to draw an angle of 60 degrees at random or using a protractor. But you can use a special blank for making such snowflakes.

Another way to make a hexagon is also suitable. You need to bend the sheet diagonally, cut off the excess part to make a square. Bend the workpiece diagonally again. Divide the resulting triangle into three equal segments. Fold one corner so that the edge ends at the level of the mark. Fold the second part and trim off the uneven ends. So we have a blank for a snowflake.

Cutting snowflakes according to the pattern

Having figured out how to properly fold the paper to cut out snowflakes, you can begin to design it. To do this, you should use various schemes.

1) Place the blank for cutting a snowflake out of paper in the form of a triangle with an acute angle towards you and cut out rounded and sharp fragments on the longest side.

2) Make several cuts on the shorter side of the triangle.

3) Make cutouts on the remaining third side of the figure.

4) If you cut off the acute corner of a triangle-shaped figure, then the center of the snowflake will turn into a multi-rayed star.

You can watch the above procedures in the video:

Cutting snowflakes according to a template

Templates are used to cut out snowflakes from paper. Let's see how to do this in more detail using an example.

We will need the following materials:

• white paper or foil;
• tracing paper;
• copy paper;
• thick paper;
• scissors;
• pencil;
• glue;
• spoon.

1) To transfer the selected pattern onto paper (Figure 1-4), you need to make a template using tracing paper, carbon paper and a pencil. Next, place carbon paper and tracing paper on the template paper. Trace the drawing with a hard pencil. Cut out the design with scissors to create a template.

2) Take a square sheet of paper and fold it diagonally 4 times. You can use colored or plain white paper.

3) Place the template on the folded paper and trace it with a pencil. Cut out the resulting design with scissors.

4) Unfold the sheet with the pattern, put another sheet of paper on it and smooth it out with a spoon so that there are no folds.

Method for cutting snowflakes using a stencil

Snowflakes cut out using stencils have the most intricate shapes.

1) Find and download snowflake stencils on the Internet and print them on a printer.

2) Cut out the stencil, resulting in a square.

3) Fold the square in half several times.

4) Fold the workpiece along the fold line and cut it out.

5) Unfold the blank - you get a charming snowflake.

To cut out the most delicate ornament, thin paper is used. But the printer can wrinkle such paper, so you should print the template on plain paper and cut out only the colored part - the stencil. Cut out a square from thin paper and attach a stencil to it so you can see how to cut out the design.

If a diagram, template, or stencil is used to make snowflakes, then even young children can cut out such crafts.

They can decorate not only windows, walls, but also cards and gifts. This is an indispensable accessory that creates a New Year's mood.

Video on the topic of the article

Both adults and children love to cut out snowflakes before the New Year.
However, not all parents understand how useful and developing this activity can be.
Invite the children to bend a strip of paper lengthwise and cut out windows of the desired shape on the fold, say, houses and Christmas trees.

In fact, the ability to guess what shape a window will turn out to be is pure mathematics, but many children comprehend this science in practice much better than in theory.
Cutting out a house and a Christmas tree is much more difficult than just cutting out a snowflake, cutting out any holes.

It can be difficult for children to cut out exactly the Christmas tree - from triangles, and not from diamonds,
and even place the picture in the center of the sheet.

At some point we came to the conclusion that in order to cut out a beautiful snowflake, we need to learn how to cut out windows of different shapes, and leave gaps between the windows of approximately the same width.

A real snowflake has 6 rays.
How to fold a square sheet,
to cut a 6-sided snowflake?

Cut along the dotted line
to make the snowflake not square,
and hexagonal

To begin, fold a square piece of paper diagonally,
and find the middle of the sheet.

Now you need to make two folds at an angle of 60 degrees.
You can use a protractor or a square
Or you can choose the angle by eye.

Now you can start cutting out the snowflake along the folds.

If we want to get a snowflake that is the same on all 6 rays,
then you need to make the same windows on both folds.

Unfold carefully.
The snowflake is ready!

You can make the cutouts straight or round - whatever you like!

Please note that each cutout will cut 3 folds,
that is, the windows will be located along 3 rays, and not along all 6.

You can glue snowflakes to windows using soap.
Or you can hang snowflakes on strings under a lamp so that they swirl in the breeze.