How to make snowflakes for the New Year 2020 with your own hands

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-12 17:37

The New Year is approaching, which means it's time to create a traditional winter decoration - snowflakes. It is not at all necessary to stick to traditional schemes and use only paper. It's worth experimenting. We will analyze the most interesting of the instructions, and tell you how to make snowflakes for the New Year 2020 with your own hands.

Snowflake from glossy magazines with beads

Such a snowflake can be used as a central decoration for a Christmas tree, garland or doorway. It looks great in a modern interior, but it is easy to create with your own hands.

For manufacturing you will need:

• glossy pages - flyers or magazine clippings;
• PVA glue;
• varnish;
• a cutting board or other substrate that will protect the work surface from the marks of a clerical knife;
• acrylic paint;
• knitting needles, sushi sticks, wooden skewers, or any other sticks of a similar shape;
• tape of a suitable shade for it;
• paper knife;
• Ruler and pencil;
• beads.

This craft is based on glossy paper. It is thicker than standard printer paper, curls well and holds its shape, and tears hard. You can find suitable material in mailboxes, where unwanted advertisements are often thrown, on the walls of the entrance.

An old glossy magazine whose content is no longer needed will also do. The cost of creating a snowflake is minimal - in fact, waste is taken as consumables.

Step-by-step instruction:

Below we will consider in detail how to make the most interesting snowflake for the New Year 2020 with our own hands. Take two glossy A4 sheets. Cut into isosceles triangles using a clerical knife, cutting the sheet parallel to the long side. The bases of the triangles should be different: you need 6 with a base of 1.5 cm, 6 with a base of 3 cm and another 6 with a side of 5 cm. At this stage, a backing will come in handy - it will help protect the table from a clerical knife

Twist the triangles into beads. To do this, attach a stick to the base of the triangle and begin to gradually wind a strip of paper, pressing it tightly so that the shape is fixed. When the bead is almost done, apply varnish to the end of the strip. It will interlock the entire structure and will not allow unwinding back

Let the beads lie for 10-15 minutes: during this time the varnish will set. Remove the beads from the sticks. Draw the shape of a snowflake on paper and attach all the resulting beads to the drawing

Drop PVA glue on top of the beads. Leave the structure to dry

To prevent PVA glue from sticking to the drawing, which is used to form a snowflake, put cling film between the paper and the beads

This completes the design of the snowflake, it remains only to paint it and supplement it with ribbon and beads. First, you should cover the craft with acrylic paint. In the example I used metallic silver, but gold, bronze, white, etc. will do. After the paint has dried, use a large needle to thread the tape through the two largest beads

Interesting! DIY beautiful decorations for the New Year 2020

Then string the beads from above and below, make knots so that they do not fall off. You will also need a loop on top to hang the decoration. It is better to fasten it with 2 knots, and the remaining tape that sticks out can be cut or hidden back into the bead using a needle

The most interesting snowflake for the New Year 2020 with your own hands will turn out if you cover the craft with fluorescent paint and bring it to the lamp for a few minutes.

When New Year's Eve comes and the household will turn off the chandelier, leaving only the garland and candles, the snowflake will glow beautifully with them.

Soft felt snowflakes

The most interesting thing in DIY crafts is to select non-standard materials, so you should try to make a snowflake for New Year 2020 out of felt. This is a soft fabric sold at any craft store.

Unlike paper snowflakes, a fabric toy will last more than one year. It can be used both as a New Year's decoration and as an everyday decor item.

To create a toy you will need:

• two sheets of felt in contrasting colors, the classic combination is red and white;
• threads of appropriate shades;
• scissors, preferably small and sharp;
• protractor;
• toy tape;
• ruler;
• pencil or special chalk for fabric.

Step-by-step instruction:

The principle of creating a snowflake is simple. Identical circles are cut from sheets of felt of different colors and applied to each other. On one of them, a snowflake pattern is marked with a pencil, washed off with a marker or chalk. To make it even, you need a protractor and a ruler

• Further, between the sheets of felt, under one of the lines of the pattern, a ribbon is placed, folded in half, with the ends inward. All lines of the pattern are stitched with contrasting threads. For example, if the front side of the toy is white, then it should be stitched with red. The edges should be stitched 2-3 times.
• So, the pattern is stitched. It remains only to remove excess tissue with scissors. You get the following result:

To keep the pattern even, it is better to use a protractor to mark the circle into equal parts (in the example below, into triangles of 60 degrees):

Then you can retreat from the center of the circle an equal distance along each of the lines:

There is also an easier option for creating fabric snowflakes. Felt is a fairly dense fabric, so a toy can be made from just one layer of material. You should choose a cutting pattern, one of those used for paper snowflakes

The resulting snowflakes for the New Year 2020 can be collected in a garland or beautifully hung on a ring.

DIY snowflake accordion

Three-dimensional decorations always look better than flat ones. They can not only be glued to windows and furniture, but hung on a Christmas tree or in a doorway.

Necessary materials:

• scissors;
• colored A4 paper;
• stapler.

Step-by-step instruction:

The first step is to fold the sheet like an accordion. You should get 8 stripes of the same width. It should be folded vertically. For 1 snowflake you need 2 sheets, it is recommended to fold both at once. In order not to have to measure the places for bending with a ruler, it is enough to fold the sheet in half, then each of the halves again in half, and finally, the resulting 4 strips - twice more

The second step is to carefully secure the structure with a stapler. The staple should be centered. In the photo below, the bracket was not quite in the center, so the excess on the left was cut off

The pattern is now cut out. You can not use the proposed one, but come up with your own

At the fourth stage, the snowflake straightens out. It turns out, as it were, 2 fans, interconnected by a thin isthmus of paper. They need to be opened there to make a semicircle, and connected with a stapler. The most interesting DIY snowflake for New Year 2020 is almost ready

Interesting! Making beautiful paper snowflakes for the New Year

On this, the half of the snowflake is ready. All of the above should be repeated with another sheet of paper. The last step is to connect the two halves using a stapler

You will have to leave the staples in 3-4 places, but if you do it carefully, they will not be noticeable. To hang the jewelry, you need to fasten any beautiful cord or ribbon by passing it through one of the holes.

5 most interesting patterns for cutting paper snowflakes

Above are mainly crafts made of felt, glossy paper and other materials. But classic paper snowflakes can also look great if you choose the right cutting pattern.

Consider the 5 most interesting snowflakes that you can make for the New Year 2020 with your own hands from paper. But first you need to figure out how to properly fold the paper before cutting.

In all schemes, the starting shape is a triangle. How to fold it:

Fold a square piece of paper diagonally. Flip the resulting triangle with its larger side down

Pull one corner of the triangle to the center of the shape so that the corner slightly looks beyond the base, as shown in the picture. Then tighten the second corner in the same way, overlaying it on top

It remains only to cut off the corners remaining at the bottom

Our hand-picked of the most interesting snowflakes that you can make with your own hands for the New Year 2020 will be difficult to cut. However, the result is worth it.

The first scheme is for creating snowflakes consisting of many rings. The craft looks out of the box and can be used not only on New Year's holidays, because its shape is not strictly tied to winter motives:

The second snowflake is perfect for creating a romantic Christmas or New Year atmosphere. The inner pattern is hearts. The advantage of this scheme is in its simplicity, thanks to the smooth lines and the absence of small details, even a child can cope with the craft.

Snowflakes 3 and 4 are popular in Asia and are usually made from bright colored paper. Crafts like this go well with multi-colored LED garlands.

The fifth scheme is a complete instruction for creating a ballerina out of paper, instead of a ballet tutu, which will have a voluminous snowflake. The pattern of the "pack" can be different, the picture shows 4 schemes at once to choose from.

Use thick colored paper for cutting. The sheets for the printer are too thin and tear easily, and the cardboard will be difficult to fold and cut in a pattern.

The most interesting DIY snowflakes for the New Year are obtained by those who experiment, introducing something new into a proven scheme. Therefore, do not be afraid to deviate from the instructions, use bright colors, unusual paper, complement the decorations with ribbons, beads and beads.