Printable 3 Dimentional Paper Snowflake Instructions and Patterns for Young Children

3 Dimentional Paper Snowflake Folding Patterns for Children # Instructions

Instructions: How to Make Three Dimensionals Snowflake Ornaments with Paper

Design your own snowflake 3-D ornaments and turn flat paper snowflakes into spectacular 3-d ornaments. 3 D Snowflake craft patterns, learn to how to cut and fold paper into three dimentional paper snowflakes hanging ornaments.

Create a winter wonderland by livening up your Christmas tree or windows and doorways with 3-D folded paper snowflakes.

Once you learn how to make one 3-D snowflake ornament, you can make a blizzard of Christmas and winter holiday ornaments.

Follow the step-by-step instructions below to make your perfect 3-d snowflake from regular or colored paper, or a mixture of colored paper.

Gather Your Craft Materials

How to make 3-D snowflake ornaments to hang for your holiday decorations:

First gather all the materials and equipment you need:

• printer
• paper (preferably thicker paper)
• scissors

Depending upon how intricate and detailed you want your final ornament to be, you might also need:

• pencil
• crayons, markers, paint
• string, yarn, thread, ribbon
• tape, stapler
• masking tape
• X-acto knife
• ruler
• double sided tape
• art board or safe surface for cutting

3-D Snowflake Instructions:

• Print the snowflake template provided here:3-d snowflakes
• Color or decorate before cutting out the design
• Cut out the snowflake pieces or sections
• Cut out the center slits being careful to stop cutting halfway through the design
• Match the snowflake patterns
• Slide the snowflakes together using the center slits, top to bottom
• Hole punch a small hole or glue a ribbon onto the top pattern to tie a ribbon to hang, or use a wire christmas ornament hanger.

Ideas for decorating the snowflakes:

• use silver sparkles or sparkle glue
• Rub chalk with coarse sandpaper to get chalk dust and pour the dust over glue covered paper.

More 3-D Paper Ornaments

You will find many more fun paper 3-D ornament patterns for children here at Paper Decorations for Children, many ornaments patterned using mathematic, geometric symbols.

Pretty Good Online Tutorials for 3-D Snowflakes

These are a few really nice, useful visual tutorials I found on the internet.

• Video: How to Make a 3-D Paper Snowflake
• How to Make a 3D Paper Snowflake on Wikihow.com
• Nice three dimensional snowflakes Capadia Designs: Fabulous Finds Snowflakes.