How to make a big snowflake?

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A big snowflake made of paper is very commonIt is used as an independent decoration of the house, office, assembly hall in schools and kindergartens. Its advantage is in volume volume, well, and, of course, in openwork. How to make snowflakes from paper will tell you about making various snowflakes from paper. And here's how to make a big and stylish snowflake, read on.

A similar variant of a snowflake consists of six identical parts connected by means of a stapler. The main thing is to make every detail correctly, and then put the finished ones together.

For work you will need:

cardboard color double-sided,
scissors,
simple pencil,
ruler,
stapler,
adhesive stationery or double-sided scotch tape.

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Take a sheet of colored double-sided cardboardformat A4 or a cardboard for scrapbooking of square size. Rectangular sheet so that the triangle is formed. At a rectangular sheet at folding the superfluous strip cut off - it to us it is not useful. The square sheet just fold in half diagonally.
The resulting triangle is placed on the tableso that it lies like an equilateral triangle, a larger side down. Now take a ruler and a simple pencil and mark 3 lines along both sides of the triangle so that they are parallel to these sides, are at the same distance (about 1.5-2 cm) and do not converge at the apex of the triangle, 2 cm of clean cloth.
Next, you need to make a slit at the triangle bythe planned lines. Moving from the bottom of the triangle to its top, you will get six notches. How to cut snowflakes from paper correctly, is told in the material How to cut snowflakes.
Now unfold the sheet, as if revealing it. The result was an openwork square. In the middle of it formed a small square with two free corners. They need to be joined together by glue or double-sided adhesive tape.
The next stage is the combination of two oppositeangles at the cut strips, only on the other side of the part, then repeat this way two more times, each time turning the figure by the other side. It turned out a detail, which like to do just 6 pieces.
When you have all six parts readyfuture volumetric snowflakes, you need to properly and firmly connect them together. To do this, arrange all the parts in front of you vertically and connect the side parts and simultaneously one edge of the part with a stapler.

That's how it turns out a big snowflake made of paper. And if you want to make a snowflake from another material, read the article How to make snowflakes not from paper.