How to Make a Halloween Snowflake
Bring some spooky charm to the fall holidays with this fun kirigami Halloween craft! You can make these super cute paper Halloween decorations with just a few simple folds and cuts.
Yield: 1 Halloween snowflake
Cost: $1
Equipment
Materials
- Free Printable Halloween Snowflake Pattern (optional; find more templates below the tutorial)
- Coloured printer paper (or construction paper)
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Fold the "snowflake" shape
- Start with an 8-1/2 by 11 inch piece of paper.Set it down with the short edge towards you.
- Fold the top right corner of the paper down so that the top edge meets the left side of the paper.
- Cut off the bottom rectangle part of the paper. This gives you a square piece of paper.
- Keeping the paper folded in half, turn the triangle so that the long, folded edge is at the bottom.
- Bring the right bottom corner over to meet the left.Mark the middle of the paper by making a small crease at the bottom, but don't fold the paper completely.
- Open the paper back up.There will be a small crease at the bottom center of the triangle.
- Fold the right point of the triangle up to the top point. Press this fold down.
- Unfold the triangle and see the angled fold mark.
- Fold the top corner and left edge of the triangle down to meet up with the fold line.
- Unfold again.Then fold the bottom right corner up as shown in the photo below. Make the fold starting at the bottom center crease mark, so that the bottom right edge meets the top right crease mark.
- Now fold the bottom left corner up and right so that the bottom edge lines up with the other bottom fold.
- Then bring both right layers over to the left, lining up the edges. Press down the fold.You should have a tall triangle shape with 3 pointed edges at the top.
Step 3: Draw the Halloween design
- Draw your Halloween design on the triangle.Follow the pumpkin pattern from this tutorial, or see the templates below for 4 other spooky-cute designs!For a jack-o-lantern snowflake, first draw half of a pumpkin outline. The right side of the triangle will be the center of the shape.
- Next, draw half of the mouth and nose up against the fold.Mark a little circle where you'd like the eye to be.
Step 4: Cut out your Halloween snowflake
- Cut out the pumpkin shape.
- Then cut out the nose and mouth.
- Next, use a one hole punch to "cut out" a circular eye.
- This is what the paper should look like after you finish the cutting and punching out the eye.
- Unfold the paper to reveal a super fun jack-o-lantern snowflake!
- Smooth out the folds and your Halloween snowflake is complete!
Video
Notes
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