How to Make Snowflake Crafts

If you have small children, winter days can be frustrating for you if your children are bored; snowflake crafts are easy and with some colored paper and a few odds and ends you can keep your kids busy for hours. The following articles explains how to make paper snowflakes perfect for younger kids.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Colored Construction Paper
• Safety Scissors
• Glue Sticks
• Glitter
• Any other left over craft items such as pompoms, beads or doilies
• Paper-hole Punch
• String

Easy Paper Snowflakes Perfect for Young Kids

1. 
   Colorful Construction Paper and Scissors (Brand X Pictures Royalty Free Photograph)

   Gather all the listed materials. This project is great for using up left over craft items such as stickers, stencils, pompoms, etc. Make sure there is enough space to work and begin by choosing a colored construction paper or doiley. Doilies make great snowflakes because of the lacy design, however if your kids want to be super creative they can choose any color paper for their snowflake.

2. Cut a pattern in the paper for the snowflake or allow the child to design one himself. To cut a design into the paper, fold the paper in half and cut into the fold (triangle cuts are easiest for little ones). For a more thorough design, fold the paper in half twice; once creates a rectangle shape, twice condenses it into a smaller square shape. The more slices and shapes that are cut into the paper, the more design it will have. If your children are a bit older, try folding the paper into a triangle shape or begin with a circular piece of paper and fold that in half and begin cutting into it.

3. Take out the glue sticks, glitter and any other odd and ends you would like to decorate your snowflake with. While you can use regular glue, glue sticks are a lot less messy and won't soak through the paper. Glitter always looks pretty on snowflakes. Kids tend to get heavy-handed with glitter, so once the glue is on and the glitter is poured, lightly shake the snowflake off.

4. Use the paper-hole punch to place a hole the tip of the snowflake once they are dry You then want to thread a piece of string through the hole. The length of the string depends on where you would like to hang it.

5. 
   Sparkly Snowflake Mobile (provided by Amanda Formaro)

   Make several snowflakes and attach strings to create a mobile. You can use Popsicle sticks in an X shape or a wire coat hanger to hang the strings from

Tips & Warnings

• If your kids want to use heavier decorations on their snowflakes, fortify the back of the snowflake with an extra piece of construction paper or a thin cardboard (or posterboard).

Resources

• Amanda Formaro gives step-by-step instructions on how to make a snowflake mobile.