Newspaper Snowflake Garland: Tutorial

Today’s feature is two parts, first from Maya*Made with Newspaper Snowflake Garland: A Tutorial:

These aren’t exactly garlands, more like delicate mobiles. They gently spin and twirl at the slightest breeze. It seems to add to their magic… as if they are spiraling to the ground like real snowflakes.

Supplies Needed:

• newspaper squares
• sharp scissors
• sewing machine and thread
• tape

The tutorial shows you how to make a snowflake garland and also how to make the snowflakes themselves.

How To Make Picture Perfect Snowflakes

The second part of today’s feature is one that ties in nicely with the above project. There’s a helpful video tutorial on Curbly showing you how to make paper snowflakes that are nice:

Holiday magic!

The paper snowflake is nearly everyone’s first Christmastide craft, and its elegant aesthetic keeps folks creating ‘em, year after year. But my elementary-school snowflakes never really captured nature’s precise geometry and symmetry…they really looked more like crude doilies than lilting crystalline water.

As it turns out, the magic doesn’t lie in obsessive, intricate scissorwork…but rather in starting in the right place: folding technique.

You’ll find the video tutorial here: Curbly Video Podcast: How To Make Picture Perfect Paper Snowflakes. Also includes a few handy online resources for paper snowflake making.

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