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White or invisible thread, or fishing line, works great. It may be wise to cut some with thicker lines for support (imagine making a skeleton for the snowflake: thicker lines for structure surrounded by the delicate parts for show) if you want to hang them. These can be hung from the ceiling, but be careful because they are delicate. They show up beautifully at night against the dark glass.

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I love to put mine on windows so that they're visible from inside and out. Decorating With Snowflakes: -A tiny piece of double-sided tape behind each point is a good way to stick them to a surface.

Sometimes thicker lines do create a different effect when contrasted with thinner lines, but use sparingly. Otherwise, when you open your snowflake, it will have thick, clunky lines instead of nice delicate ones. Generally, anything thicker than 1/4th of an inch gets cut down into a thinner line, or by decorated it in some way (like by making tiny triangle snips all along the edge to give it 'teeth'). This is when you're cutting your snowflake in Step 7, and you leave behind big spaces of blank paper in your snowflake. Real snowflakes have defects too, so don't worry about it. The star in the middle of some is not perfectly symmetrical. This will be most obvious in the center of the snowflake: look at some of mine. As it is, the thickness of the paper and the amount of folding that you do will make it so that making a precisely symmetrical snowflake is almost impossible. The closer to exact thirds you can get it, the more symmetrical your snowflake will be. You'll have to unfold and refold until it's as exact as you can get it. Often, you'll fold the second third over, only to discover that it doesn't line up exactly in thirds. When folding, steps 4-5 are the hardest, when you have to try and estimate thirds. This way I can lean forward to fold the paper on the table, and then sit up and snip bits of paper into the trash can. Making Snowflakes: -I usually make my snowflakes while sitting down on a couch or chair with a coffee table in front of me, and a small trash can between my knees. I stick with plain white copy paper because somehow I get a lot of satisfaction from creating something so beautiful from something so ordinary. Use whatever you like to create the desired effect. Some people like to use wrapping paper or other fancy paper to make their snowflakes. However, I still like plain paper and scissors, since those are things that anyone has and you can use them with kids. Snowflake experts recommend using tracing paper and an X-acto knife to make snowflakes, to make them even more delicate and more perfectly symmetrical. Too many tiny snips and not enough shaping will just make your snowflakes look like lace doilies. Second, it is possible to get too intricate. First, cuticle scissors are not comfortable in your hand. Dirty hands make for dingy snowflakes! -Some people recommend using cuticle scissors so that you can make even more intricate snowflakes. Materials: - Make sure you have sharp scissors and clean hands. If you want to view a gallery of my snowflakes, see me on Flickr: Paper Snowflake Gallery.

Some people like to use fancy paper, but I use plain white copy paper because somehow the simplicity of white is more beautiful to me. Steps 4-6 tend to be the trickiest, so step 6 has an extra image to hopefully help explain better for those who are having difficulty.Īll you will need for this is paper and scissors. doesn't always show all of the steps on one page, so hit 'next' to go on to the next step.

Each step is one fold, but some steps have two pictures shown to help explain things, so please read the description underneath. Real snowflakes in nature form with six points (or occasionally three if they formed weird) so I choose to make my own with six points.īe sure that you follow each step carefully. Most people make (and most how-tos teach) snowflakes with four or eight points.

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This step by step guide will teach you how to make SIX pointed paper snowflakes.

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