Lauren Stringer

Illustrator

         Author

Create your own snowflakes any time of year!

If you would like to make your own snowflake, download this snowflake diagram and follow along with the photos. Remember no two snowflakes are exactly alike, just like us! See how many unique snowflakes you can make!

About Snowflakes:

Most snowflakes have six sides. Some have twelve, but you will never find an eight-sided snowflake!

A snowflake is not a frozen rain-drop. A snowflake is an ice crystal that forms out of water vapor in the air. It takes about fifteen minutes for the snowflake to form as it falls to earth. There are many different shapes of snowflakes. The painted snowflakes in Snow are mostly Stellar snowflakes which look like trees, and Plate snowflakes which are flat like plates.

1. Square sheet of paper

2. Fold in half diagonally

3. Fold in half diagonally again

4. Fold into thirds, beginning with    left side

5. Fold right side over

6. Cut two points off...

7. With scissors and the folded triangle of paper...

8. Cut shapes out of the triangle to create your own design, then unfold...

9. A snowflake!