Don’t you find decorating the house with homemade decor each year really makes the holidays that much more personal and joyful? I sure do. For art in my 4/5 class we made these 3D snowflakes which my students absolutely loved. They’re so pretty and even though they look complicated they are super easy to make with just a few key materials!
This one is a larger one to hang around your home, but you could also make smaller versions to hang on your tree. How cute would that be?
(sometimes I feel I need about 10 christmas trees so I can decorate them with all my ideas/themes at once!)
Here’s what you need:
You don’t need to use strictly origami paper, but it needs to be square. The paper can be any size depending how large or small you want your snowflake to be.
1 Fold your six sheets of square paper diagonally, making sure the edges line up evenly.
2 Starting at the bottom fold, use your scissors to cut three lines on each side running parallel to each edge of your triangle. Cut almost to the top and leave the same distance between each cut. If you feel more comfortable you can mark the lines out with pencil before cutting as shown above.
3 Unfold your triangle so that the fold runs horizontally. It should look like the first picture above.
4 Take the corners of the inner most cut diagonal and roll them together to make a tube. Use double sided tape to hold them together (pic. 3).
5 Flip your diamond over and take the next two paper lines and create another tube to tape just like the first one (bottom left picture).
6 Flip again and repeat until all cut lines have been joined (last photo). Repeat with all 5 sheets of paper.
7 Take three of your completed rolled pieces and use your to join them together at the point. Do the same with the other three pieces to create two halves of your snowflake.
8 Use double sided tape to join where each arm meets.
9 Join the two halves at the centre with your double sided tape, and to finish join the last two arms.
10 To get it to hang, puncture a hole at any point and run twine through it, tying a knot at the top to create a loop.
Hang and dream of a white Christmas.
Ours is currently hanging in the old fireplace (since torn out…sigh) above our tv. I’m quite tempted to make many more of various sizes to hang all over!
What handmade holiday decoration do you use each year and treasure?
Tan, these are beautiful! What a fun class project. Snowflakes are one of my favorite holiday motifs. 🙂