Snowflakes

This was a memorable family craft project for a night or two when the kids were growing up.

Folding squares of paper in half and then in half again, either on the square or on the triangle and then one more time. Then cut into the folds and the tip and the loose edge ends with your scissors to take away half circles or triangles or wavy shapes. The more cut-aways the more intricate the snowflake.

Then have fun unfolding it until it lays flat and see what you made 🙂 If you don’t like it just make another one.

We did this with colored papers as well as white. We used full sheets of paper for large snowflakes down to 1 – 2″ squares for smaller ones.

As we made them the excitement grew, and we used Elmer’s glue (glue sticks work best nowdays) and pasted them to the windows. When you want to take them down, a wet soapy cloth will soften and remove any glue left on the windows.

We’re carrying on the fun with grandkids, cutting and pasting, dreaming and creating. The snowflakes look so happy and light on the dark window glass at night.

This might be fun for our tropical state people who dream of a white Christmas 🙂