Decorations made with your own hands are part of the New Year's mood. Surely, everyone cut out paper snowflakes in childhood, made garlands from them, and fiddled with tinsel with enthusiasm. Simple schemes of snowflakes were usually popular, sometimes, you didn't even need any prompts: it was a purely creative process. Each unique snowflake improvised during the carving is intriguing. You never know what will happen in the end. It turns out like in nature: you can make a hundred snowflakes and never repeat it.
Here's what we have:
- patterns for rolled paper snowflakes;
- schemes for printing (vytynanka).
Snowflake patterns for paper cutting
To simplify the task of creating decorations for your home or office, you can focus on ready-made schemes for cutting snowflakes. This is a simple step-by-step option that requires only a few items.
- Office paper (white, A4 or colored) or some kind of special thin material for jewelry. The main thing is that it can be folded three times.
- Scissors.
- Cutting diagrams - you do not need to print them, you can do needlework using the manual on the monitor screen.
- A pencil or pen to draw the outline for cutting (not always needed).
- Time and good mood :)
Children especially enjoy cutting snowflakes. For them, it's like a small real miracle - to create beauty from a sheet of paper with your own hands! The child needs to choose smaller scissors for cutting, so that it is convenient to work with them on the product.
The beginning of the cutting process is to take a piece of paper and fold it three times exactly in the middle. Usually a sheet of a square format, the decorative edges of the snowflakes are either formed from the corners, or they are removed to give a rounded shape. Further, on the folded triangle, outlines for cutting are drawn with a pencil or pen. Often, if the diagram is simple and clear, you don't need to draw anything, you can just look at it and repeat.
After all the necessary parts have been cut out, the piece of paper needs to be unfolded to see the result.
You need to unfold it carefully, carefully, since the openwork beauty-snowflake can easily break.
Snowflake patterns for printing on paper
There is another kind of New Year's wonderful snowflakes - the so-called vytynanka. Their peculiarity is in a different cutting technique. As a basis, a dense material is taken - cardboard, faomiran, with or without glitter, a linoleum substrate. Such material cannot be folded to cut symmetrical patterns. Punch stencils are printed and outlined on the base, then cut out. This business can be entrusted to older children or left to adults.
In order to cut a beautiful snowflake on a stencil, the latter must first be downloaded and printed. If the printer is not at hand, there is another way out: put thin paper on the screen of the device and trace the contours of the stencil in the light. This sheet with an outline is then applied to the material for the snowflake and the future product is cut along it. This method is suitable only for simple schemes, but this does not prevent you from getting a beautiful result.
To cut a beautiful snowflake along the contour, you will need a clerical knife, a sharp penknife or small scissors, which will be convenient for working on small details.
Where to apply snowflakes?
When your own hand-made snowflakes are ready, you can start placing them. The first place where the hand stretches to stick them on the tape is the window panes.On the eve of the New Year holidays, from the street you can see how many windows are full of bizarre compositions of snowflakes.
The next popular good for New Year's decor is a chandelier. A few snowflakes of dense material suspended on it look especially good. You can experiment and combine jewelry in different sizes and colors.
At home, paper and thick snowflakes can be placed on refrigerator doors, cabinets, doors. Elegant festive compositions are obtained from snowflakes and garlands.
The Christmas tree is another place where a handmade snowflake would be appropriate. You can place them as many as your heart desires, as long as it brings joy.
Children can give snowflakes, carved with diligence and love, to their grandmother or grandfather, their favorite teacher or teacher. Made with your own hands, they will bring a smile to even the most puzzled adult with everyday life.
