Winter crafts from paper - snowflakes in the technique of kirigami

Creating snowflakes from paper in the kirigami technique is a very simple, but incredibly fun process. With each cut out snowflake you will have a new decoration, most likely, the products will not be repeated. Thus, changing the colors of colored paper and changing the ways of cutting out the rays and bending individual elements, you can get unique New Year's crafts, different from each other. When starting the activity together with children, remember that you can't do with one leaf. This work will fascinate you so much that you will not stop until you create a whole colorful snowfall.

To cut out snowflakes, you need to pick:

[INDENT]- bright colored paper, white on the back;
- scissors;
- pencil.[/INDENT]

1. Take ordinary colored paper and small scissors for work.

2. Prepare the blanks for cutting out. The easiest way is to divide an A4 sheet of paper into squares. The larger the square, the larger will be the size of the finished craft. The correct geometric figure should be bent twice along the diagonals, and then once again bend the resulting triangle in half. The outer side of the workpiece will be uneven. It should be cut out arbitrarily in the process of work. For example, form a concave bird.

Snowflake #1

3. Next, draw lines with a pencil, which will help to make a symmetrical workpiece. Cut out the piece along the marked lines.

4. When unfolded, the snowflake has eight triangular rays. As a result of longitudinal cuts on the body of the blank will appear separate corners, which can easily be curved and show the back side of the paper.

5. If you flip it over, the colored patterns will also look beautiful on the white background.

Snowflake #2

6. If you initially cut the outer corner of the piece at an oblique angle, you will have a snowflake with four rays.

7. The corners in this format can also be curved if you can get them to fit under the top strips formed by cutting.

8. The reverse side will produce a white snowflake decorated with additional colored elements.

Snowflake #3

9. It is impossible to enumerate all the different options for cutting out kirigami snowflakes. Create an arrow-shaped blank by cutting symmetrical wings at the base.

10. Unroll the resulting sun.

11- Start creating the pattern by folding the cut out part backwards, the corners are conveniently tucked under the paper layer.

12.If you look at it from the other side, the colors are reversed.

Snowflake #4

13. In the next workpiece presented, a V-shaped cutout is made with scissors, as well as longitudinal notches.

14. In the resulting flower with eight petals, triangular elements will be highlighted.

15. The final stage of snowflake formation is bending triangles.

Snowflake #5

16. If the V-neck is made in the opposite direction, the resulting version will be more graceful.

17. There will be eight V-shaped notches in the unfolded blank.

18. Curve them all upward.

And the back side of the snowflake will look like this:

Look at snowflakes from different angles, deftly wield scissors and try on the finished products to New Year's attributes. Unusual snowflakes look beautiful and are very easy to make.