Photo lessons how to fold paper for snowflakes and cut out beautiful patterns from it

Many remember from childhood how to cut snowflakes from paper. Such handicrafts can easily decorate the room before the New Year, and the process of making them is very interesting and fascinating. Thanks to the imagination, you can come up with a variety of patterns. Today we will visually consider how to fold paper for snowflakes and cut them at home.

Methods of folding paper

The easiest way to make a snowflake is to fold the sheet five times. The first four times fold the sheet in half, and the fifth time on the diagonal. When making billets in this way, the patterns turn out to be angular. If you use the scheme, the snowflake will be beautiful, but simple enough. To cut out more complex and interesting snowflakes, there are other ways of folding paper.

Four-edged snowflake

Five-edged snowflake

Hexagon snowflake

Octagonal snowflake

The most difficult task is the execution of a six-pointed version of a paper snowflake, since it is necessary to lay a corner 60 degrees at random or with a protractor. But you can use a special blank for making such snowflakes.

Another way to perform 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. The resulting triangle is divided into three equal segments. Bend one corner so that the edge ends at the level of the mark. Fold the second part and trim uneven ends. So I got a blank for a snowflake.

Carving out snowflakes as per the

scheme. Having figured out how to fold the paper to cut out the snowflakes, you can proceed to its design. To do this, use different schemes.

1) The workpiece for cutting a snowflake from a paper in the form of a triangle is placed at an acute angle to itself and on the longest side cut out rounded and sharp fragments.

2) Make a few notches on the shorter side of the triangle.

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

4) If you cut an acute angle of a figure in the form of a triangle, then the center of the snowflake will turn into a multibeam star.

You can see the above procedures on the video:

Cutting out snowflakes using the

pattern Templates are used to cut snowflakes from paper. More details on how to do this, let's look at an example.

We will need such materials:

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

1) To transfer the selected pattern to the paper( Figure 1-4), you need to make a template using tracing paper, carbon paper and a pencil. Next, put on the paper for the template copy paper and tracing paper. Circle the drawing with a hard pencil. Cut the drawing with scissors - the template was made.

2) Take a sheet of a square shape and fold it diagonally 4 times. Paper can be colored or plain white.

3) Put the template on the folded paper and circle it with a pencil. Cut out the resulting pattern with scissors.

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

Method for cutting snowflakes using the

stencil. Snowflakes cut with stencils have the most intricate shape.

1) Stencils of snowflakes to find and download on the Internet, print on the printer.

2) Cut out the stencil, obtaining a square.

3) Square fold in half a few times.

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

5) Expand the workpiece - it turned out a charming snowflake.

To cut out the most delicate ornament, thin paper is used. But such a paper can be jammed by the printer, so it's worth printing out the template on plain paper and cutting only the colored part - the stencil. And cut the square of thin paper and attach a stencil to it to see how to cut out the picture.

If in the manufacture of snowflakes a pattern, a template, a stencil is used, even children of young age will be able to cut such artifacts.

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

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