Today I decorated the bookshop for Christmas. It’s a little earlier than I would normally do it, but because I’m not at work next week I needed to get it done.
One of the main components of my red and white winter theme were these large, hanging 3D snowflakes.
I’ve had so many compliments on these, but they’re actually really easy to make. Here’s how…
- Get six pieces of square paper and fold them in half diagonally.
- In the first triangular piece of paper, cut four lines each side of the triangle from the folded edge, but be careful not to cut right through the unfolded edge too.
It’s easier to get a symmetrical cut if you fold the triangle in half and just do four cuts.
- Unfold your paper so that it is a diamond shape.
- Roll the innermost 2 lines together into a tube and tape together.
- Flip the diamond over and do the same thing with the next paper lines.
- Keep turning the paper and making tubes out of the paper lines, until all of the lines are joined.
- Repeat this process with the other 5 bits of paper.
- Now you have to join all the ‘arms’ together into a star shape. It’s easiest if you hold three together at first, and staple them together. Then do the same thing with the other three and staple the two together.
- To secure the ‘star’ shape staple where each of the six arms meet.
You can change the size of the snowflake by changing the size of the paper square you begin with, so that they can be used as hanging decorations or tree hangings.
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