On the eve of the new year, snowflakes not only cover the ground, but also decorate the windows and walls of apartments. The easiest option is to cut them out of paper, but if you have an extra hour of free time, try making snowflakes using the quilling technique. Such a beautiful decoration will help create a festive environment, and you and your children will plunge into the pre-New Year's chores. Such a product can be used to decorate a postcard, a gif.webpt box, or as a New Year's souvenir.
Required materials for quilling
The technique is very simple and you won't have to spend fabulous money on materials. To work you will need:
- strips of paper;
- scissors;
- a tool for twisting tapes;
- glue;
- tweezers.
You can buy a ready-made quilling kit, which will already contain colored strips of paper and tools. But for snowflakes, even plain white paper will suffice. If you want to make beautiful colored snowflakes, then take paper of the corresponding colors.
The strips are easy to cut yourself. Take a sheet and a ruler, draw dots at an equal distance from each other (optimally 0.5-1 cm), shed the sheet and cut along the lines. You will end up with identical stripes that can be used to fold a snowflake. To repeat most of the crafts presented in the photo, the diagrams are not needed, all the individual details are visible quite clearly.
The principle of the formation of all parts is based on curling the strips of paper. They can be wrapped around an ordinary wooden skewer. It is much more convenient to do this if you make an incision in it with a knife of 0.5 cm.Then the end of the paper can be inserted into this hole, it will be well fixed, and you can easily form the necessary element.
Making snowflakes
To create a magical New Year's interior, you will need a lot of snowflakes, so you can safely involve the whole family in the process of making them. It is important to understand exactly how the details are formed, of one shape or another.
Take on board a few tips: to make elements that are identical in size, prepare strips of the same length in advance. To make a circle, simply wind and remove a strip of paper. If you need a semblance of a rhombus, after removing it, pinch it with your fingers on both sides. If you want to get an oblong petal - squeeze a little with your fingers.
Start with simple snowflakes, gradually complicating the patterns. Decorate the finished crafts with rhinestones and sparkles.
