Fun ideas for kids to make all kinds of snowflakes. Children can let
their imaginations run wild with colorful coffee filter snowflakes, or have
fun cutting out paper snowflakes.
Children love making gifts for their parents and other adults who
are important to them. But what can they make that will delight the
person they are giving the gift to?
Here's how you can quickly and easily get lots of simple, high quality
gift ideas that you children can make. Guaranteed to be fun the
children making the gift, and a delight for the person receiving it.
Round coffee filters are easiest for the
younger children. Any shape works with older kids.
Color with markers. Any shapes, any
design, any amount.
Plan to experiment with the first ones
until the children can see how they turn out.
When finished coloring, move the snowflakes
onto newspaper and spray with water. The children can flick
drops of water on them, ring a wet wash cloth over them,
anything to get water onto the colored filters.
They dry fast and are very sturdy-they don't fall apart.
Fold at least three times, and then cut out
shapes for the snowflake.
Hints
Put the black-brown and grays or muddy colors away.
When working with younger children, an
adult could cut out intricate shapes. Some younger
children are happy with the results of their own cutting skills,
but other children can be
discouraged about their scissor skills. If the a child
looks discouraged, ask them if they would like to show you where
they want it cut.
Start with any square piece of paper. If you are using a
standard sheet of paper, take a bottom corner and diagonal fold it
across to the opposite side of the page. Cut off the 2.5 inch strip at
the top of the page to create an 8.5 x 8.5 sheet of paper. Fold
it in half. Fold it in half again creating a smaller
square.
One corner will be all folds, the other three corners will
have some open edges. Finding the fold corner is key to
making a snowflake.
Turn the paper so that the fold corner is at the bottom.
Fold the corner on the right side over to the left side.
You should now have a long, triangular paper, with the fold
corner still at the bottom.
Depending on the thickness of the paper, and the children's
skill with scissors, now may be when you start cutting out the
snowflakes. Older children can continue folding the sides
together to get narrower pieces of paper.
Cut off the tip opposite the fold corner. It can be
point or rounded depending on the shape you want for your
snowflake points.
Continue cutting out bits of the snowflake, but be sure to
keep intact enough of the fold lines running out from the fold
corner.
Open up your snowflake when you are finished cutting.
Children love making gifts for their parents and other adults who
are important to them. But what can they make that will delight the
person they are giving the gift to?
Here's how you can quickly and easily get lots of simple, high quality
gift ideas that you children can make. Guaranteed to be fun the
children making the gift, and a delight for the person receiving it.
