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Make Paper Snowflakes - Folding Patterns for Young Children

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How to Make Paper Snowflake Patterns for Children

Snowflake Designs for making tons of paper snowflake ornaments and decorations for Christmas and winter holiday season. Adorned your Christmas tree with Scherrenschnitte, white cut paper snowflake ornaments.

Most of these paper snowflake designs are easy to cut out. Some paper snowflake designs are virtually impossible to cut out.

Easiest Designs Geared towards Beginners

First Step Easy snowflakes

First Step, Snowflake Templates, Basic Shapes and Frosty MiniFlakes are the easiest paper snowflake patterns.

These are beginning to intermediate level patterns perfect for young children.

All Paper Snowflake Patterns to Fold and Cut Out

Select a snow crystal thumbnail image to view the collection for that specific category. For example: 2-sided category will bring up a page listing all two-sided snowflake patterns, 3-sided category will display all three-sided snowflake patterns, etc...

Print your snowflake design choices on thin to regular weight paper. The thinner the paper, the easier to fold and cut out the snowflake.

To give your finished snowflake a translucent appearance, lightly dab one side with lemon oil and allow to dry on news paper.

6-sided Coffee Filter Snowflake and 12-sided Coffee Filter Snowflakes. Coffee filters produce little paper waste because they are preshaped into a circle, and are easy to fold and cut! They make perfect 12 sided snowflakes! You might iron or flatten your coffee filters between heavy books overnight to make them easier to fold.

Many of these paper snowflakes were designed using Wilson Bentley, "The Snowflake Man" photographs on display in The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration!

Snowflakes come in more than just the 6-sided variety. Click to learn more about the Science of Snow and Ice Crystal formation.

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