Paper Snowflake

Paper Snowflake 

 

We are still keeping with the Christmas theme!!

Serena raced home from school to show me how to make these snowflakes as they made them at school – Thanks Mr McGuirk we love them!!

They are 'easy peasy' to make and I think they look terrific!!

All you need is 7 square pieces of paper some scissors, sticky tape and stapler.

First step was to fold the paper from corner to corner to make a triangle, then fold in half again so it’s now a smaller triangle. (you need to do this with all 7 pieces of paper!!)

Hold the triangle so that the two loose ends are at the bottom and the folded edge is at the top.

With the scissors carefully cut 4 lines/strips from the loose end to almost the folded end. (again do this with each piece of paper)

Now open up the squares, fold the two inside strips/diamond together and tape.

Flip over the square and join the next two strips/diamond together. Keep flipping and taping all the strips/diamonds together.

They should look like this-

 

Now gather all the bottom pointed strips/diamond ends together and staple. (that should now be in the centre of the snowflake)

 

The next step is a little bit fiddly but you gather the edge strip of 2 sections of the snowflake and staple them together. (We found it easiest having the snowflake lying on the table, you can see which ones need to be staple together better) continue stapling the snowflake sections together until each one is joined to the one next to it.

How effective do these look!!