Paper Snowflake Project and Activity Ideas
How to use our free free craft ideas for children to make paper snowflake patterns and designs to make the absolute best paper snowflakes!
What to do with all these snowflakes?
- Completed snowflake designs can be used for making stencils, woodwork, crochet or embroidery patterns, window decals, return address stickers, gwiazdy designs, birthday, special occasion and holiday cards, scherenscnitte (papercutting) decorations, latch-hook rugs - you name it!
- Make a Snowflake Costume
- Printable snowflake shapes for coloring or pattern making
- Tape your one of a kind snowflake to a window for a nice winter decoration - let the light shine through a window covered with falling snow!
- Decorate your Christmas wrapping paper and gift tags with snowflakes
- Substitute snowflakes for christmas tree lights or make a snowflake garland
- Make a winter greeting card by pasting your snowflakes onto a piece of folded construction paper
- Snowflake, winter, Christmas and all holiday Clipart
- Use Snowflake Scrap paper to decorate party hats, holiday wrapping paper, gift tags, scrapbook projects, and other craft projects
- Make snowflakes stencils for your walls, furniture or art project. Make foam snowflake ornaments or a collage or Stenciled Snowflake Wrapping paper!
- Frame your favorite photographs with Snowflakes and Snow Crystals
- Teachers Love Paper Snowflakes !
- Free Lesson Plan
- Visit the Snowflake Chemistry Science section for an online guide to snowflakes, snow crystals and falling snow
How to Display Snowflake Artwork
Folding and Cutting Patterns:
Press your snowflakes in between books to flatten them out overnight. Coat the snowflakes with paraffin to harden them, then sprinkle with glitter.
- Tape the flattened snowflakes onto clean, dry windows.
- Use paper clips or ornament hangers to hang snowflakes on trees and shrubs NOTE: if you use string to hang the decorations outside, use strands as short as possible so birds don't get tangled up when they try to use it for their nests.
- Laminate snowflakes and use as coasters or laminat a large group together to make a decorative place mat.
- Make long paper chains for colorful doorway curtains or drape across window curtains. (Keep clear of hot light bulbs!)
- Frame your favorite snowflakes and give as gifts to loved ones and friends.
- Make extra snowflakes for mom or dad to take to work to decorate their office cubicles!
- Paste snowflake designs onto 1 side of a folded piece of colored construction paper to make your own, personalized greeting card.
- Tape or paste snowflake onto Christmas presents for a personal touch.
- Need to rack up a few last minute "good deeds" on Christmas Eve? Impress Santa by using your best snowflake as a doily upon which to place Santa's cookie dish and milk glass ;-)
- Decorate car windows!
- Give Fido some Christmas spirit and decorate the dog house.
The sky's the limit for these patterns.
- Trace our completed snowflake designs onto your rug canvases to make snowflake latch hook rugs.
- Print these designs on heavy duty-paper and carefully cut out the black sections with X-acto knives to create stencils to decorate virtually any flat surface.
- Again, with heavy duty paper they can be used for wood-working patterns to make long-lasting, unique Christmas and winter decorations, coasters, trivits, candle holders (with metal protectors), etc.
- Embroidery, tatting and crochet patterns may easily be created from these finished patterns. Software programs are available virtually everywhere which can convert these patterns to needlepoint patterns.
- Print these finished flakes on clear decal paper, after using your graphics program to mask out the black sections, and stick on any window glass (house or car).
- Change the background colors and print on magnet "paper." Make removable snowflake magnets with background colors that match your car's paint.
- Make iron-on teeshirt designs.
In addition to all of the above mentioned ideas...
- See Many Different Types of Snowflakes for snowflakes made of animal, vegetable and mineral!
- Create colorful snowflakes to cut out and hang as decorations. Who says snowflakes have to be white?
- Make stained glass snowflakes with clear decal "paper"
- Create a snowflake collage.
- Frame your favorite face in a snowflake.
Another good way to display your snowflakes is to make Snow Mobiles!
