Do-it-yourself Voluminous Snowflakes For The New Year: Instructions And Photos Of Ideas

2025 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-23 12:41

How to make voluminous snowflakes for a Christmas tree yourself

Snowflakes are an indispensable attribute of the New Year holidays. They are used to decorate trees, walls, windows and rooms. And if snowflakes cut from paper are suitable for decorating horizontal surfaces, then it is better to use voluminous decorations as hanging ones. They are easy enough to make from scrap materials.

Bulky felt snowflakes

Felt is a versatile material, in particular, it can be used to make snowflakes. You will need:

• felt (white or any pastel shades);
• scissors;
• embroidery needles;
• embroidery threads (for example, floss);
• accessories for decoration (buttons, sequins, beads, rhinestones, etc.);
• ribbons or laces for loops.

You can also make a printed snowflake from felt. In this case, you will need more stuffing material (synthetic winterizer, cotton wool, holofiber, shreds, threads, etc.).

Sew together two pieces of snowflake, use beads

Cut out two identical pieces of snowflake, decorate, sew together with an overlock. Leave a small hole through which to stuff the product with a skewer or toothpick, then finish the work with a overcasting seam. To make the snowflake more elegant, when sewing the details, use transparent white or silver beads (beads for each stitch).

Video: how to make snowflakes using the facing technique

Hot glue snowflakes

Hot glue does more than bond different surfaces. You can make New Year's snowflakes from it. To do this, you will need:

• glue gun;
• templates for snowflakes (you can draw or print);
• baking parchment;
• PVA glue;
• brush;
• ribbons or ropes for loops;
• optional - glitter, acrylic paints, varnish.

Snowflake patterns can be drawn or printed

Operating procedure:

1. Place a piece of parchment over the template and press it down with something to prevent it from curling or shifting while you work.

   

   To prevent the parchment from moving, you need to press it down well

2. Gently squeeze the adhesive along the outline. Let it cool and harden.

   

   The hot glue snowflake should cool and harden well.

3. Carefully separate the snowflake from the parchment and remove unnecessary cobwebs from the glue.

   

   Unnecessary cobwebs left over from the glue must be carefully removed

4. Place the snowflake on a horizontal surface. Apply PVA glue to it with a brush and sprinkle with sparkles.

   

   To make the glitter stick to the snowflake, apply PVA glue on it

5. You can paint it with acrylic paints and varnish it on top.

   

   If desired, snowflakes can be made multi-colored and varnished

6. Attach eyelets - you can hang on the tree.

   

   On the tree, snowflakes made of glue look spectacular

Gun glue comes in a variety of colors, so you can make colorful snowflakes without staining. It is better to lead the gun from the edges to the center, making small droplets at the beginning of the rays. To make it easier to attach the loops, on one of the beams immediately make a circle with a hole for the ribbon.

Polymer clay snowflakes

Beautiful snowflakes made of polymer clay.

1. The clay should be well kneaded and thin "spaghettiki" should be rolled out of it. Cut them into pieces. You will need eight pieces of three sizes in a ratio of 1 x 0.5 x 0.4 (for example, eight, four and two centimeters or ten, five and two and a half). On a piece of parchment, arrange eight long beams. Press in the middle.

   

   The base of the snowflake is laid out from the longest pieces

2. Make squiggles from the second-largest segments and place them between the rays. Cut off all the tips at an angle - the snowflake will be more accurate.

   

   To make the ends of the rays more neat, cut them off at an angle

3. Make droplets from the third segments and place them in squiggles.

   

   Make droplets from the smallest pieces

4. Decorate the snowflake with balls, and the middle with a spiral. Bake at the temperature and time indicated on the clay package.

   

   To get the finished snowflake, decorate it with balls

5. If you wish, before baking, you can tint the snowflake with dry pastel or sprinkle with sparkles, and after baking, varnish it.

   

   Finished snowflakes can be varnished

If you make "noodles" from "spaghetti", that is, flatten it into a thin ribbon, then you can make snowflakes, imitating the quilling technique.

Polymer clay can be used to make snowflakes that imitate the quilling technique

Since the snowflakes will be suspended, it is better to use heat-resistant polymer clay glue when assembling - the products will be more durable. When baking, the clay emits quite poisonous vapors, so during the process it is necessary to ventilate the room, and then wash the oven thoroughly. Place the baked item along with the parchment in a baking bag and tie tightly at both ends. This will prevent toxic substances from spreading.

Video: how to make a snowflake using the quilling technique

Photo gallery: ideas for volumetric snowflakes

Some snowflakes require glue and scissors to make

You can make funny spiky snow balls out of paper

Snowflakes can be made using a kind of quilling technique - folding strips of paper

You can make beautiful voluminous snowflakes from paper pre-folded with an accordion

Bulky snowflakes can be obtained when cutting out of paper

A voluminous snowflake can even be made from a paper roll

According to the scheme, it is easy to make a snowflake with your own hands

Kanzashi snowflake can be multi-tiered

Video: how to make a volumetric snowflake out of paper

It is quite simple to make beautiful snowflakes and you can use almost all available tools for this.