Make your own Tinkatolli Xmas Snowflakes!

Making it feel extra christmassy, there is a whole lot of snow falling outside Tinkatolli HQ’s windows at the moment. We got inspired by it, and thought we would show you a cool and easy way to make some snowflakes from newspaper and/or old printer paper.

Tinkatolli snowflakes – they are made from newspaper of course!

Snow flakes are awesome because no two are the same. If you do a little image search on the Net for snowflakes, you will be amazed at what you see and might even get some great ideas for shapes too. Once you have the hang of it, you will find that you can really experiment and have a lot of fun making them. Smooth or jagged patterns, solid or delicate shapes – they all just look great when they are done!

1. Cut circles from paper – with newspaper you can cut lots at a time because it is so thin. 2. Fold it in half 4 times and cut out any pattern. 3. Open your snowflake. 4. Finished and ready to use!

The way you make them is first by finding something you can use as a template for the circle. Plates work really well, you can make a nice big snowflake from a dinner plate, and a saucer makes a good size for a medium one. In the instructions here we used the masking tape roll to make a small flake. You could use a glass too, but remember, the smaller you go, the more fiddly it is to cut out the patterns. Then just follow the steps above – watching out for your fingers when cutting.

Snowflakes in use – here is one hanging in the special Tinkatolli christmas tree (which you can read about here soon), and another being used for a gift card.

They are really quick and easy to make and you can use them for all sorts of things – they look really cool hanging from the ceiling, and you can hang them from the tree. You could even decorate gifts by sticking them on, or using them as “To/From” gift cards, if you make them from old printer paper, and leave some space in the middle for writing on.

The thing about real snow flakes is that actually they only ever have 6 sides. Here ours have 8 because it is a little easier to make, but it is all about how many times you fold the circle. So if you are feeling extra clever, you can work out for yourself how to make “correct” snowflakes with 6 sides. 

Have a fun Time Tinkering!

-Herodude