Category: Winter Crafts

These pretty little snowflakes are lovely for all sorts of winter crafts. Turn them into ornaments for your tree, makes dozens to hang in your windows from fishing line or decorate gifts, wreaths and swags with them. Choose a heavy, but not overly thick cardstock in whatever color fits your color scheme. Be sure to cut as close to the middle of the snowflake as possible for the best finished look.

Difficulty level: Easy
Time required: Less than five minutes per snowflake

Things you’ll need:
Cardstock
Snowflake punch
Scissors

Things to do:
1. Using your punch, cut two snowflakes for each finished 3D snowflake you want.

2. Cut down through one branch of the snowflake, right through the center, to the middle point of the snowflake. Repeat on the other snowflake.

3. Slip the two snowflakes together by sliding one slit into the other and pulling gently until the snowflakes line up. Pull the edges out until the snowflake pieces form an X before using in your decor or crafts.

This cinnamon stick tree ornament is all about the holiday season. Smelling of the spicy scent of winter, cinnamon, and decorated to look like a tiny tree, it’s a perfect ornament and so easy that it would make a fabulous afternoon craft for the kids and a great gift for teachers, grandparents or friends.

Difficulty level: Easy
Time required: 10 minutes

Things you’ll need:
Clippings of fake or real evergreen garland
Cinnamon sticks
Buttons
Kitchen shears or wire cutters
Hot glue gun and glue stick
Twine

Things to do:
1. Glue three lengths of evergreen down one cinnamon stick and trim the edges to create a tree shape.


2. Add buttons on the branches” for ornaments, choosing a sparkly or gold one for the top star”.
3. Glue a loop of twine along the backside of the cinnamon stick for hanging.