Paper Snowflake Making Step-by-Step How-To

Last night I was helping out with a Kid's Christmas Party at my church and one of the activities we did was a paper snowflake making contest; I was truly surprised to find out how many of not only the kids, but leaders, didn't know how to make a snowflake!

For those of you who can relate to being unable to make a flakey thingy out of a sheet of paper, here, let me help you.


YOU WILL NEED: scissors. paper. the ability to cut paper with scissors.

STEP 1: Take a sheet of white (or any other color you'd like your snow to be...?) computer paper.

It is a rectangle.

You want a square.

So take the top right corner and fold it over onto the rectangle until you have a nice triangle with the excess of the rectangle sticking off of the bottom.










STEP 2:

Cut that excess strip of retangularality off of the bottom with the scissors. You should be left with a triangular piece, which is your square, folded in half.














STEP 3:
Take your triangle (which is still a square folded in half) and fold it in half once more, by taking one of the acute-angled corners and folding it to the other acute-angled corner (now you have a square folded into triangular fourths...)








STEP 4:
Take the acute angle on the right and fold it into the middle of your big triangle.
















STEP 5:
Then take the left corner and fold it over, just as you did in step 4.
You should now have a skinny little triangle, with 2 points coming off of the bottom.














STEP 6:
Cut off the little points at the bottom.
You should now have a skinny triangle (which is still your square, only folded a bunch of times...).
















STEP 7:
This is where the actual fun part starts. Take that skinny little triangle and cut shapes out of it, anywhere, anyway you'd like.

*just make sure to never cut wholly through any of your creases, or you will end up with something that looks like a snowflake with a large piece missing. Then all you can do with it is color it in and use it as a pie graph, and that is so much less festive.







STEP 8:
THE FUN PART.
Carefully unfold your little snipped up triangle and reveal your masterpiece!

Then make a bunch more! Each time experiment with cutting different shapes and patterns, or try a smaller or larger square, and be surprised with a totally different snowflake!