Volumetric snowflakes from plastic bottles. Snowflakes from plastic bottles master class

Volumetric snowflakes for outdoor use

Plastic bottles are easy to turn into decor items. Although I don’t really like decor, but for the New Year, my hands are itching to create something corresponding to the holiday, most often snowflakes. And not just snowflakes, but voluminous snowflakes, although such snowflakes do not exist in nature. It is difficult to create designs from many bottles, first of all, because it is difficult to collect such a number of ingredients and there are many bottle connection points. All the voluminous plastic bottle snowflakes presented here are the fruits of many years of trial and error. The designs are united by the fact that only plastic bottles and plastic rivets are needed for their manufacture, as well as the desire to create a holiday for yourself.

Idea

Snow is white, which means it is better to create snowflakes from white plastic bottles, most often from dairy products in such plastic packaging. It is better to form a three-dimensional structure in the form of a very aesthetic (spectacular) regular polyhedron - a dodecahedron, which has 12 faces and 30 edges. Polyhedrons with fewer edges do not create such a positive aesthetic effect, and with a large number they are difficult to manufacture. The technology for manufacturing and assembling the presented snowflakes is similar.

Materials and tools

1. Milky plastic bottles with a volume of 0.5 liters or more (depending on the size of the required snowflake). The more bottles there are, the more voluminous a snowflake you can create from them. For the number of bottles is greater than or equal to the number of faces.

3. Scissors, tweezers.

Work

Historically, the first in a series of such volumetric snowflakes was the Langolier snowflake (), on which the technology of connecting conical parts into a dodecahedron was worked out.

For the manufacture of Langolier (), a part of a 1-liter bottle is used adjacent to the neck (conical part). All parts must be of the same shape (the height and diameters of the bases of the cones are identical), so you need to cut it carefully, using the first cut blank as a template, after cutting it is better to immediately cut sharp rays.

The main difficulty in this voluminous snowflake is to mark the points for installing plastic rivets. For an assembly scheme in the form of a dodecahedron, each workpiece must be carefully marked using a template, for example, from 13 necks. Five points on the surface of the workpiece for connection into a dodecahedron must be located on a circle at the vertices of a regular inscribed pentagon (at equal distances from each other) along the smaller neck of the workpiece cone at a distance of about 1 cm from the edge. melted plastic is removed with a shoe knife.

The connection of 12 parts of the dodecahedron into a single structure of this and similar snowflakes is carried out using plastic rivets, the installation technology of which is currently well developed. Thus, all parts of the snowflake are plastic. If such a snowflake has become dusty since last year, then it is easy to rinse it in soapy water.

The next snowflake “Sea Urchin” () was an attempt to enhance the effect of volume and variety in the shape of the rays by increasing the number of bottles involved. In addition, I wanted to cover the rivet installation points by collecting the cut rays into a bundle and securing them with a rivet with. The choice of the shape of the rays can be varied, I used wedge-shaped ones, but you can also make them rounded or even in the form of crosses, you can also cut a fringe into the rays. However, it turned out to be too complex and, so to speak, too voluminous, which is why it was made in the singular.

After the rather unsuccessful (in my opinion) first two options (Fig. 1,2) of super voluminous snowflakes from plastic bottles, the third option turned out to be successful (), for which it deserved a separate detailed article (in which they were used. In this case, to create snowflakes "Transparent star" () used transparent plastic half-liter bottles (bottoms) of a bluish color and milky-white stub stars. White stars on a transparent background dramatically increased the effect of volume, and this, in turn, led to the creation of the next version of a super voluminous snowflake “ ” ().

After assembling the structure of 12 glasses, as many as 60 should be prepared by cutting them out of the curvilinear conical parts of milk plastic bottles - waste products from the production of other super voluminous snowflakes. So many stars are needed because the stars are mounted on the ribs (the main feature of the Starry Night). Asterisks are installed in pairs (Fig. 5b), to two petals of adjacent bottoms from plastic bottles. In this case, the outer petals of adjacent plastic cups should be bent outward and aligned with the holes made earlier. The sprockets are used as nuts, and the fastening screw has a plastic rivet. Although it took quite a long time to cut stars for such a transparent plastic bottle, it turned out to be a rather amusing lush star brotherhood (), which I personally like the most.

The next version of a voluminous snowflake (), although not from plastic bottles, is assembled using a similar technology for connecting parts into a dodecahedron from white kinder containers, it turns out that there are such containers (I saw it only this year).

After forming such peculiar rings from plastic bottles with rays (similar to a cactus ball -), we insert one blank into another (neatly) at a right angle. Then we level (bend in different directions) the rays and fluff the fringe. At the intersection of the rings, for reliability, I installed a plastic rivet (2pcs), but you can do without them. It remains only to attach a thread to the “Two Rings” snowflake and hang it on a Christmas tree or under a light bulb ().

If you are not tired of cutting the rings, then you are welcome to make “Catfish” (). Here, internal (corrugated) parts from kefir (milk) plastic bottles are used. The corrugated rings of the bottle are not completely cut and bent along the generatrix of the bottle. Around the circumference, each ring is cut into cloves. An annular insert from the same kefir plastic bottles is inserted inside the rings, only the ring is cut. Catfish rings can also be fringed and attached to the inlay with plastic rivets.

Notes

1. All plastic bottle snowflakes are designed for both indoor and outdoor use. The rigidity is sufficient to resist wind, snow, rain, the bottle does not get wet and the color loses slightly over time.

Snow is white, which means it is better to create snowflakes from white plastic bottles, most often from dairy products in such plastic packaging. It is better to form a three-dimensional structure in the form of a very aesthetic (spectacular) regular polyhedron - a dodecahedron, which has 12 faces and 30 edges. Polyhedrons with fewer edges do not create such a positive aesthetic effect, and with a large number they are difficult to manufacture. The manufacturing and assembly technology of the presented snowflakes is similar to a super voluminous snowflake.

Materials and tools

1. Milky plastic bottles with a volume of 0.5 liters or more (depending on the size of the required snowflake). The more bottles there are, the more voluminous a snowflake you can create from them. For a dodecahedral structure, the number of bottles is greater than or equal to the number of faces.

2. Plastic rivets and the technology of their installation.

3. Scissors, tweezers.

Work

Historically, the first among such three-dimensional snowflakes was the “Langolier” snowflake (Fig. 1), on which the technology of connecting conical parts into a dodecahedron was worked out.

For the manufacture of Langolier (Fig. 1), a part of a 1-liter bottle is used adjacent to the neck (conical part). All parts must be of the same shape (the height and diameters of the bases of the cones are identical), so you need to cut it carefully, using the first cut blank as a template, after cutting it is better to immediately cut sharp rays.

The main difficulty in this voluminous snowflake is to mark the points for installing plastic rivets. For an assembly scheme in the form of a dodecahedron, each workpiece must be carefully marked using a template, for example, from 13 necks. Five points on the surface of the workpiece for connection into a dodecahedron must be located on a circle at the vertices of a regular inscribed pentagon (at equal distances from each other) along the smaller neck of the workpiece cone at a distance of about 1 cm from the edge. melted plastic is removed with a shoe knife.

The connection of 12 parts of the dodecahedron into a single structure of this and similar snowflakes is carried out using plastic rivets, the installation technology of which is currently well developed. Thus, all parts of the snowflake are plastic. If such a snowflake has become dusty since last year, then it is easy to rinse it in soapy water.

The next snowflake “Sea Urchin” (Fig. 2) was an attempt to enhance the effect of volume and variety in the shape of the rays by increasing the number of bottles involved. In addition, I wanted to cover the rivet installation points by collecting the cut rays into a bundle and securing them with a rivet with an asterisk. The choice of the shape of the rays can be varied, I used wedge-shaped ones, but you can also make them rounded or even in the form of crosses, you can also cut a fringe into the rays. However, such a snowflake turned out to be too complex and, so to speak, too voluminous, which is why it was made in the singular.

After the rather unsuccessful (in my opinion) first two options (Fig. 1, 2) of super voluminous snowflakes from plastic bottles, the third option turned out to be successful (Fig. 3b). In this case, to create the “Transparent Star” snowflake (Fig. 3a), we used transparent plastic half-liter bottles (bottoms) of a bluish color and milky-white stub stars. White stars on a transparent background sharply increased the three-dimensional effect, and this, in turn, led to the creation of the next version of the super-voluminous “Starry Night” snowflake (Fig. 5a).

The technology for creating “Starry Night” (Fig. 4) is based on the use of half-liter plastic bottles of “Coca-Cola” (or similar), you will also need a dozen conical parts of milk bottles to cut stars. In some versions of a super voluminous snowflake, the conical parts are waste, but here they are the most to the point. The manufacturing and assembly technology of the “Starry Night” is similar to a super voluminous snowflake, a glass with a bottom is also cut out and installed (Fig. 4a), 10 petals are formed along the generatrices of the glass, which can be conditionally called internal and external (Fig. 4b). On the inner petals, you can cut a fringe, or you can provide a hole for installing an asterisk, as in the prototype. At the edges of the outer petals, a 3mm hole is melted with a burner for installing stars (Fig. 4c).

After assembling the structure of 12 glasses, as many as 60 stars should be prepared by cutting them out of the curvilinear conical parts of milk plastic bottles - waste products from the production of other super voluminous snowflakes. So many stars are needed because the stars are not installed on the faces of the dodecahedron, but on the edges (the main feature of the Starry Night). Asterisks are installed in pairs (Fig. 5b), to two petals of adjacent bottoms from plastic bottles. In this case, the outer petals of adjacent plastic cups should be bent outward and aligned with the holes made earlier. The sprockets are used as nuts, and the fastening screw has a plastic rivet. Although it took quite a long time to cut stars for such a super voluminous snowflake from transparent plastic bottles, it turned out to be a rather amusing lush star brotherhood (Fig. 5a), which I personally like the most.

The next version of a three-dimensional snowflake (Fig. 6), although not made of plastic bottles, is assembled using a similar technology for connecting parts into a dodecahedron from white kinder containers, it turns out that there are such containers (I only saw this year).

Kindersnowflake (Fig. 6) turned out to be small in size and more like a snowball, since the fringe in the hard plastic of the container has to be cut with effort. If the previous snowflakes are of considerable size (20 ... 40 cm in diameter) and can decorate either a room or a large Christmas tree, then a kinder snowflake can be quite honored by a home Christmas tree. When dodecahedrons based on plastic rivets are already melting across the throat, it is worth simplifying the technology for making volumetric snowflakes from plastic bottles.

For simpler voluminous snowflakes, you need 2 milk (or kefir) PBs, although if you manage to cut out two more or less cylindrical parts from one PB (Fig. 7a), then you can limit yourself to one plastic milk bottle, creating from it two cylindrical blanks with a height of about 7-10cm. Then painstaking work begins on the formation of rays and fringes of each workpiece separately (Fig. 7b), but this is already implemented to the taste of each master and there is no need to give a full scan. I liked such a rhombic combination with a fringe bent in different directions (Fig. 7c).

After the formation of such peculiar rings from plastic bottles with rays, we insert one blank into another (neatly) at a right angle. Then we level (bend in different directions) the rays and fluff the fringe. At the intersection of the rings, for reliability, I installed a plastic rivet (2pcs), but you can do without them. It remains only to attach a thread to the “Two Rings” snowflake and hang it on a Christmas tree or under a light bulb (Fig. 8).

If you are not tired of cutting the rings, then you are welcome to the manufacture of “Catfish” (Fig. 9). Here, internal (corrugated) parts from kefir (milk) plastic bottles are used. The corrugated rings of the bottle are not completely cut and bent along the generatrix of the bottle. Around the circumference, each ring is cut into cloves. An annular insert from the same kefir plastic bottles is inserted inside the rings, only the ring is cut. Catfish rings can also be fringed and attached to the inlay with plastic rivets.

Ekaterina Shpanka

In this master-class, we will consider one of the ways to create snowflakes from plastic bottles.

To work we need the following materials: white plastic bottle, scissors, paper template snowflakes, marker, cotton pad, nail polish remover, awl or darning needle, narrow ribbon or rain.

Cut out from paper template snowflakes one segment.

Place the cut piece on bottle this way to bottom bottles formed the center of the snowflake, and all subsequent elements were located at approximately the same distance from each other.

Draw the contours of the parts with a marker (best to use a CD marker).

Cut off the neck bottles.

Cut out beams with scissors snowflakes along the contour, not forgetting that the bottom must remain intact. Additional rays can be added between the circled elements so that there is not too much distance between them. We erase the remains of the contour with a cotton pad dipped in nail polish remover.

They get like this snowflakes. Make a small hole in one of the beams and thread a ribbon or rain through it.

If desired, they can be additionally painted with acrylic paints, decorated with sparkles. You can also connect multiple snowflakes in a garland.

Such snowflakes very well suited for decorating the kindergarten area.

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Good afternoon, today I am uploading the largest article on in a variety of ways make a snowflake with your own hands. You will see snowflakes made today in different techniques from those cut out of paper to those molded from liquid caramel. You will see beautiful craft snowflakes - woven from beads, molded from dough. Will many interesting MASTER CLASSES on snowflakes(glue, bead, paper). You will definitely find here an idea for your homemade snow art. Making snowflakes with your own hands is easy and pleasant at home - feasible ideas for snowflake crafts with kids and smart ideas for adult creativity.
So let's see what we're going to do today.

• Cooking snowflakes (from dough, from caramel, from corn balls)
• Snowflakes from recycled material ( toilet paper, from threads and glue)
• Snowflakes in a twist quilling technique(with elegant decor
• Snowflakes made of plastic bottoms of bottles and children's thermo-mosaic)
• Snowflakes from natural material(from ice, wood)
• Snowflakes from felt, crocheted and woven from beads.

That is, there will be a lot of interesting things. So...let's get started.

PAPER SNOWFLAKES for interior decor.
how to do it yourself.

Let's start with paper ideas to create snowflake crafts. And it's not just cut out of thin paper ... now I'll show you 3D snowflakes, in the technique of origami, in the technique of twisting-quilling and cardboard rolled snowflakes.

FLAT SNOWFLAKES FROM PAPER.

(openwork beauties and crafts from them).

Snowflakes can be ordinary FLAT ... when made of paper roll-triangle... a pattern is cut out on it ... a triangular fold is unfolded and an openwork snowflake and paper are obtained, in which the circular symmetry of the pattern.

Lots of ideas and carving patterns of openwork paper snowflakes I will describe in a separate article (so as not to clutter up this page). And then there will be a link to it.
Because paper snowflakes can be made NOT ONLY using the OPENWORK CUTTING technique. And you will see for yourself now.

As you can see in the photo above, paper snowflakes can not only be glued to windows (as in childhood), they can be used to decorate gift packages, postcards, trees by the porch, ribbons hanging from the curtain rod.

And from paper snowflakes you can do Christmas wreaths on the wall. A wreath of simply white snowflakes looks very gentle and beautiful ... and it’s very good if you choose another color (red or blue) in a pair of white.

It is these delicate snowflakes that I teach to cut in a special article.

Others can be made from paper snowflakes silhouette wall hangings- for example christmas tree silhouette. And with the light hand of an unknown author, I learned the idea of ​​​​how to create snow-white figurines of ballerinas in a paper snowflake skirt. Dancer silhouette also cut out of white paper ... and make a larger central hole on the snowflake - so that it fits.

And you can also add such a Christmas wreath of paper snowflakes LED Christmas garland.

The photo below shows that this requires a wire frame - but this is optional. You can simply cut out a ring of their cardboard, wrap this ring with a garland - and then with tape (with double-sided Velcro) glue the carthorn ring with openwork snowflakes from thin paper.

And snowflakes are cut out of thicker cardboard or felt. and hang them on trees. Naturally, you don’t need to fold the cardboard into a triangular wrapper - we just transfer the outlines of a thin paper snowflake onto the cardboard, circle it with a pencil and cut it out. And then you can decorate a paper snowflake with a pattern.

SNOWFLAKE WITH GLUE PATTERN- to make the pattern convex-contour, you can simply take a jar of PVC glue, which has a thin nose and squeeze the pattern onto the plane of the snowflake (as in the left photo below).

SNOWFLAKE WITH A PATTERN FROM COTTON STICKS. You just need to take cotton buds and cut off the cotton tops from them (slightly smooth them with the same glue) and attach them in the form of a pattern on a cardboard cut (as in the right photo below).

VOLUME 3D- SNOWFLAKES from paper.
(multilayer, fan and origami crafts)

And here are some more ideas for layered snowflakes . The principle of the craft is simple- cut out snowflakes of different sizes from thin paper. We translate their contours onto thick cardboard - cut out the silhouettes of cardboard snowflakes.

We take a piece of foam (the one that insulates the cracks on the windows is suitable, you always have the remnants of such material at home) and cut a few small pieces. These plump little squares foam we use as spacer between cardboard layers snowflakes.

And you can in our paper snow creativity add some ORIGAMI principles. I.e cut paper modules - bend them in such a way that you get FIGURED RAYS and lay out the rays in the form of a snowflake on a round base (attaching them to the base with glue).

Or collect cardboard 3D- a snowflake of two stars cut out on thick cardboard. Each star has vertical incision - between the legs. And cardboard stars put on each other this incision (see the photo of the snowflake above) is very easy to do with your own hands.

Schemes and master classes for creating these snowflakes (pictured above) - in the article

Also you can do snowflake crafts like a paper fan. They just look complicated, but are made very simply. I even found a tutorial. Very simple.

Below I give a scheme for assembling such a voluminous paper snowflake. You can see for yourself what simple steps this has master class on assembling a fan paper snowflake. A simple craft that is easy to make at home with the kids.

Moreover, the edges of such a snowflake accordion can be pre-curly(as in the photo below).

You see, when we were drawing our accordion model, we came up with make some of the teeth on the paper harmonica higher than the rest- in the form of a three-leaf peak.

Such a FAN SNOWFLAKE can be made from MUSIC PAPER ... and additionally decorate with Christmas tree branches, pieces of shiny tulle rags and pictures cut out from a postcard. Like in the photo below. It turns out whole piece of art with your own hands - you can stick it on a gift bag. Or hang it from a loop on a Christmas tree.

Snowflake from ROLLS of toilet paper

THREE CRAFTS with your own hands.

And you can also make a beautiful snowflake from toilet paper rolls. Here's how to do it yourself. toilet paper roll squeeze a little and cut it into rings. Each crushed ring lay symmetrically in a circle in the shape of a snowflake.

Such a paper snowflake can be painted red and sprinkle with glitter for nails.

And pay attention to the photo below, that inside the rays-rolls there are more a few smaller paper rolls.

Toilet paper rings can be cut very thin and tie them up bundle in a circle(stretch the thread and pull it into a bun). It will turn out such an air miracle as in the photo below. Paint everything with white paint and sprinkle with silver sparkles.

And even if you don't have toilet paper rolls, you can make a snowflake. from ordinary white sheets of office paper(cut into strips and twist them into rings different sizes ... And then from these rings collect rays of snowflakes... and then collect and glue all the rays together - and you get a paper snowflake as in the photo.

Paper snowflakes - using the QWILLING technique.

(photo of the best options)

You can also make paper snowflakes with your own hands - IN THE QUILLING TECHNIQUE. For this you need from thin strips of paper wind the FIGURED flagella.

It's easy. I just wrap the strip around a toothpick (or a special pin for quilling), and then remove the twist (weaken it to the size we need, smooth it with my hands, giving it the desired shape ... and fix the tip of the twist with glue).

Make many twist modules of different shapes and assemble them quilling snowflake. You can practice at home with your children to make such a paper snowflake craft. Children will be happy to twist the modules and fold the snowflake pattern.

Such a paper snowflake-craft using the Quilling technique can be made from colored paper. This is even more beautiful. Air lines and clear color spots. And opportunity decorate the anchor points of the pattern bright rhinestones. Here we get such multi-colored snowflakes crafts.

A snowflake made of red and white paper looks beautiful. If you plan to meet and decide to dress up the Christmas tree in white and red colors, then such paper snowflakes will help you save on the purchase of Christmas decorations. They can be made in the same color scheme but different in shape and size.

Snowflake caramel craft.

Take candy canes white (milk) and red (for example, barberries). We put them in different saucepans, pour water on the bottom (so that the caramel does not burn) - and put on fire. Our task melt caramel until liquid. When the caramel becomes liquid, we will make snowflakes out of it. We take a sheet of foil for baking(smooth, not crumpled) - put it on the board. And on this metal sheet we draw snowflakes with liquid caramel - pour in a thick stream(it is more convenient to pour from a hot gravy boat with a spout). We cool and get caramel-glass snowflakes - such crafts can be hung on ribbons by the window and let them play, the rays of the winter sun sparkle.

And you can also just string pieces of marmalade on the wire and also get an interesting snowflake. Or glue a snowflake out of corn balls. Kids will love this Christmas craft. It is more interesting and tastier than paper crafts.

Do-it-yourself snowflakes - from pasta and glue.

And the children will also like these New Year's pasta crafts ... When we take pasta of different shapes, we put them in a snowflake pattern on paper - and then neatly one after another glue them with barrels. This pasta snowflake can be painted with gold paint

Also, pasta can be glued to round pieces made of cardboard or canvas paper so that they have a solid base for gluing.

How to make a snowflake craft FROM THE DOUGH.

And here is a master class on how to make a snowflake out of dough. We make dough for cookies and squeeze out a symmetrical circular pattern with ordinary molds.

You can cut a snowflake salt dough. Squeeze out with foam. And if there is no such snowflake mold, then you can do it in an artisanal way - put it on the dough cardboard figurine snowflakes and circle it with a knife along the contour.

SNOWFLAKES FROM PLASTIC.

(beautiful DIY crafts)

I found several examples of New Year's crafts made of plastic with the image of snowflakes. Let's take a look at them now - for sure you will choose a method for yourself.

Model 1 - snowflakes from the bottoms of a plastic bottle.

We take a plastic bottle from mineral water - it is just made of bluish plastic - that is, it has a beautiful snowy tint. What we need.

Cut off the bottom with scissors or a file. On it we draw the outlines of a fluffy snowflake with white or blue paint. And we drill a hole - through which we pass the ribbon-hanger. A good craft to work with the children is that you saw bottles (a regular knife works well), and the children draw a snowflake pattern.

Snowflakes with their own hands from transparent plates.

And you can thick transparent plastic sheet cut out neat stars and decorate them in the center with a snowflake pattern. You can take plastic from old packing boxes with transparent display side. Another sheet of plastic can serve transparent kitchen table mat. Or a thick clerical folder is also suitable for business. We get a beautiful New Year's craft with our own hands.

Snowflakes made from caps.

Even plastic bottle caps can serve as a great New Year's decoration for your apartment. They can be glued to a piece of cardboard or plywood, and then cut along the contour. Or attach the lids to each other with glue from a glue gun.

Snowflakes-crafts from thermo-mosaic.

And you can also take an ordinary children's thermo-constructor - with such bubbly - you string them on pins, making a pattern, and then bake them in a microwave or oven - and you get a whole craft thing. In our case, we lay out the snowflake pattern and get the author's patterned beauty made of plastic, made with our skillful hands.

Snowflakes from GLUE and THREADS

Three easy crafts for kids.

And in this chapter of our article, I have collected THREE IDEAS on how to make a snowflake WITH GLUE, where it is the glue itself that will be the main material snowflakes. Let's take a look at these methods - they are all simple and easy to do with your own hands in normal home conditions.

MASTER CLASS No. 1 - a snowflake from a GLUE GUN.

The method is simple on a sheet of polyethylene with a glue gun we apply a pattern of a snowflake. Let dry and cover with glitter.

MASTER CLASS No. 1 - a snowflake made of glue on a thread frame.

Very beautiful snowflakes translucent and delicate. Now you will learn step by step how to make such a craft with your own hands.

STEP 1 Draw a snowflake on a piece of paper - the pattern of a snowflake can be anything - but with one obligatory condition - the drawing must be FRAME - so that there are closed cells (for which, you will now understand).

We cover the sheet with the pattern with a thick film (or simply put this sheet inside a plastic office file).

STEP 2. And now, according to this pattern, we lay a thick thread (from any suitable yarn for knitting). To make the thread easy to fit into the shape, it needs to be moistened - but not in water, but in PVA GLUE. Wet thread will easily take the shape we need. And it will harden-harden in it due to the drying of the glue.

STEP 3. Now (without even waiting for our thread frame to dry) we will fill the snowflake cells with glue. Directly from a tube pour inside- do this puddle, the sides of which are thread.

And so that the filling of the glue was not white, but colored - it can be mixed with paint. We take a drop of gouache on the brush and knead it in our glue puddle, right in the snowflake cell.

We do this - with each cell - leaving empty cells between them. And we carefully place our sheet dry out of the reach of children. Let it lie there for a couple of days - so that everything dries well.

When the snowflake dries, it will be already easy to separate from polyethylene and hang it by a string on a window or on a Christmas tree. But better on the window - as the light will beautifully penetrate through the blue glue cells of the rays of the craft snowflake.

And here is another good way to make a snowflake out of glue and thread with your own hands.

MASTER CLASS No. 3 - a snowflake made of sewing threads and glue.

We need a sheet of polyethylene - glue and white bobbin threads.
On a sheet of paper - make a round puddle of glue- the size of the puddle should match the size of the silhouette of the future snowflake. That is, first we cut out our cardboard snowflake template and then we make a puddle of glue, which is commensurate with this snowflake silhouette.

Further, on this puddle of glue, we RANDOMLY LAY the thread - we put it and put it, as it fits - in several layers - in different directions. And dry the whole puddle. And then when everything is dry - we take this round thread adhesive plate... we apply a snowflake stencil template to it - and cut it out along the contour. We get a beautiful elegant snowflake craft made by ourselves.

DIY snowflakes

From NATURAL MATERIAL.

You can make a snowflake from the material that nature gave us. It can be knots from chopped tree branches.

You can make a snowflake from the remnants of lumber brought from the country.

You can make snowflakes from straw and thread - as shown in the photo below. If you look at the photo, you can see how to do it all

Better yet, I’ll draw and write you step by step how to make one such snowflake. And it will become more clear.

Also you can do snowflakes-crafts from ICE. Take a few glasses and freeze ice in them (pour water and put them in the cold. Take the ice out of the glasses and draw a snowflake on each with paints and melt a hole with a hot carnation. Work is best done in a cold room on the street - so that the ice does not melt. And then they can beautifully hang windows along the eaves - from the opposite side of the street, or on a tree near the gate ... or under a canopy over the porch.Let them hang and tinkle in the wind.

How to make snowflakes out of felt.

I have . Very large, and there are many ideas of what decorations can be made for the Christmas tree from bright felt.
And of course you can cut snowflakes out of it. Made from thick felt just cut out the contours and the snowflake will keep its shape. From thin felt the snowflake must be glued to the base-base.

But PETAL snowflakes - they are made very easily with your own hands. Now you will learn how...

Round piece of felt cut DIAGONALLY in a circle- like pizza in pieces - we get something like flower petals. Each petal loading sharpening along the edge(any pattern - a scar or pipette).
And then at the very root, each petal is SEALED-CONNECTED - that is, we press the blades of the petal against each other and sew them together with threads. Getting a Petal Snowflake from felt - we decorate it with oval beads or long glass beads.

And here is a model of a snowflake, which at first was flat - and then it was made three-dimensional by carving and bending. And decorated with large rhinestones and a small textile decorative flower.

From felt snowflakes, you can make beautiful Christmas craft wreaths.

SNOWFLAKES made of beads.

MASTER CLASSES of weaving and SCHEMES.

Well, finally, the turn came to snowflakes from beads. Very pretty things. And most importantly, they are created very quickly - it takes a beginner 30 minutes to create such a snowflake. I checked myself - last week I wove just such a BLUE SNOWFLAKE - weaved without a pattern from this photo(made of gold and white beads with bronze glass beads - it turned out gorgeous). For the first time in my life. And everything got. Weaving not on a fishing line, but on wire- large snowflakes should be woven exactly like this - with wire - so that the rays keep exactly to the sides.

The alternations of large long beads and small granular beads look beautiful - in ONE COLOR. Especially beautiful are homemade snowflakes made of beads and beads, made in a snowy dazzling white color.

Beads look nice their clear crystals. It turns out a crystal icy snowflake - just like a real one, made with your own hands.

And here is a MASTER CLASS on weaving snowflakes from beads. In the detailed photo instructions, we see each step of the lesson on assembling a snowflake from blue beads. And it immediately becomes clear that making such a snowflake with your own hands is quite simple and easy. Try it and everything will work out. Only six large beads are needed - the rest are ordinary beads.

And here's another master class of weaving a figured snowflake from beads of different colors. Red sterlets show the movement of the beads through the beads - either through passages through the previous row, or new layers of bead rows and stov passages through the first tier of the pattern.

And here are some more diagrams ... IN THE FIRST SNOWFLAKE, the rows are shown in different colors - so that the sequence of weaving is clear. And IN THE SECOND, you have to look closely and figure out for yourself what follows what.

And here are examples of snowflakes in which the START OF WEAVING IS THE SAME - that is, you see that the central part of three snowflakes is the same. We start weaving according to one pattern for all, and only then add different patterned rays, as you like.

Here are examples of snowflakes in the assembly of which more are involved and long tubes of glass beads. The pattern of weaving such a snowflake-star is understandable even from a photograph. But if not, write in the comments, I will draw a step-by-step picture and post it here.

Such beaded snowflakes can become designer earrings.

Or wicker snowflakes can be a decor for a New Year's ball. Also, as you can see, original and beautiful.

Here are some DIY ideas. I poured a SEA OF SNOWFLAKES for you today - whole drifts of snowy ideas. Choose any for your home New Year's joy.

Happy crafts.

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By the New Year, hands simply do not find a place for themselves, they just want to make something New Year's, unusual in anticipation of the holiday. Including decorations for the Christmas tree or for the home. And plastic bottles are the material that is easy to transform into any decor items. Take at least snowflakes. Create plastic bottle snowflakes not difficult. And besides, the desire to make those that do not exist in nature is wonderful. By trial and error, you can make various options and types, bring to life some ideas of your imagination, creating those holidays around you.

Because the snow is snow-white, it is better to make crafts from bottles for kids from snow-white or transparent plastic material, so that in the future they can be painted, and an unnecessary background would not show through the paint layer. In the latter case, blue bottles are suitable.

"Snowflakes from plastic bottles" master class

The more unnecessary plastic bottles you have, the wider the field for creative work and the more snowflakes you end up with. From all bottles with scissors or a clerical knife, the bottoms are cut as low as possible to the base, leaving only the corrugated part. Well, then you need to wake up the artist inside yourself and come up with intricate patterns and shapes of snowflakes. All curls and ornaments that can be applied to the bottom of the bottles are best sketched in pencil on a piece of paper in advance.

Plastic blanks for snowflakes can be covered in advance with a plain background of snow-white or blue (blue) color. And already on a dry background, apply patterns with a narrow brush, painting snowflakes slowly and carefully. For painting, blue, gold or silver paint is suitable. Snowflakes can be painted with anything: dashes, dots, squiggles, hearts and other geometric and invented shapes.

Plastic rivets or wire rings are attached to the finished snowflakes with pliers, for which they can be hung on a Christmas tree, on a chandelier or on clothespins of curtains.

Like napkin or paper snowflakes, plastic bottle snowflakes can be made in other ways. For example, from a plastic snow-white bottle of yogurt. The neck is cut off on the bottle, and the side surface is cut into long narrow strips right down to the bottom. After that, on these stripes, the contours of the rays and curls of the future crafts are drawn with a pencil. A snowflake is cut out along these contours with scissors.

There are many more methods How to make snowflakes from plastic bottles". Snowflakes made of such material can be both flat and large. Large crafts are much more difficult to make. And first, because of the number of constituent components and the number of points of contact. You can quickly make the same type of composite parts for a large snowflake, but you need to try to combine them into one design. To do this, plastic is connected with brackets using a stapler, plastic rivets, superglue and other materials.