Curbly Video Podcast: How To Make Picture Perfect Paper Snowflakes.
By Chrisjob
A piece of paper. A scissors. A scant five minutes. The results?
Holiday magic!
The paper snowflake is nearly everyone's first Christmastide craft, and its elegant aesthetic keeps folks creating 'em, year after year. But my elementary-school snowflakes never really captured nature's precise geometry and symmetry...they really looked more like crude doilies than lilting crystalline water.
As it turns out, the magic doesn't lie in obsessive, intricate scissorwork...but rather in starting in the right place: folding technique.
Click play above, or watch the video here.
Here's a collection of patterns to inspire and capture the technique:
YarnOwl's Paper Snowflake Templates
Noel Noel Noel's Cutout Snowflakes
Dave's Paper Snowflake Patterns
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Chrisjob
Ah...The Cabinet of Natural Curiousities. Biggest and heaviest I've got... :)
ModHomeEcTeacher
The book you used to press the snowflake.
Chrisjob
What book? That video was in April...
bruno
Agreed: the book was a great bonus.
ModHomeEcTeacher
That was the most adorable, easy to follow video tutorial I've EVER seen. Are you a graphic designer/architect/engineer/video producer/crafter/seamstress/music producer, etc? I Loved that. I've never had any luck with snowflakes. Plus the cool book was a nice touch.
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