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Paper snowflake craft

Craft settings

Cutting level

The fold is the same at every level. Only the number and size of the cuts change.

Snowflake size

How wide the snowflake is once unfolded, and the smallest square of paper to fold it from. The template prints at true size.

Templates

Colour ideas adds finished snowflakes to copy, beside one template.

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FOLD · CUT · UNFOLDPaper snowflakeFold a square, cut a pattern, unfold a snowflake1Take a squareStart with a square of thin paper at leastas wide as your snowflake.2Fold a triangleFold the square in half, corner to corner.3Fold a coneFold it in half again, then into three fromthe corner.4Trace the patternCut out the template and its holes. Putthe point on the folded corner and traceit all.5CutCut along every line you traced, theholes too.6UnfoldOpen it out slowly to see your snowflake.Adult help with scissors: folded paper is thick to cut.Well done! You made a snowflake!Unfolds to a snowflake about 13 cm across, from a square at least 13 cm wide.Created with Print Joey — printjoey.com
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Snowflake templateCut this out, and the shaded holes inside it too. Put its point on the folded corner, then trace around the outside and insideevery hole.Unfolds to a snowflake about 13 cm across, from a square at least 13 cm wide.Folded edgeCut lineCut awayTip: fold the paper first, then cut along the solid lines.Created with Print Joey — printjoey.com
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Quick guide

How it works

Fold a square of paper into a narrow cone, trace a pattern on it, cut, and open it out into a six-pointed snowflake. The guide shows every fold as a picture, and the template prints the folded cone at true size with the parts to cut away shaded — so the snowflake on the sheet is the one the scissors will actually make.

Choose how much there is to cut, the size, and one design, three or colour ideas, then download.

  1. Choose easy, medium or detailed cuts.

  2. Choose how wide the unfolded snowflake will be.

  3. Choose one design, three designs or colour ideas.

  4. Download and print on A4 or US Letter paper.

Teaching tip

Using these worksheets in teaching

A snowflake is a lesson in symmetry a child can hold: one cut becomes twelve, and the pattern that appears on unfolding shows rotation and reflection at once. Predicting the unfolded shape before opening it — and being surprised — is the start of spatial reasoning, and counting the layers explains why the snowflake has six points.

Frequently asked questions

  • Why does it have six points and not eight?

    Real snowflakes have six. Folding a square in half twice gives eight layers and an eight-pointed shape; folding the last triangle into three instead gives twelve layers and six points. The steps and the template both follow the six-point fold.

  • What paper works best?

    Thin paper — printer paper or origami paper. The square must be at least as wide as the snowflake, so a 15 cm origami square makes the small or medium one, and the large needs a 17 cm square cut from A4 or Letter. Card is too thick to cut once it is folded into twelve layers.

  • Which cutting level should we choose?

    Start with easy: large shapes and few cuts. The fold never changes, so a child who has made the easy snowflake only needs steadier scissors for the detailed one.

  • Do we have to use the template?

    No. It shows where to cut for a snowflake like the picture, but any cut into the folded edges makes a snowflake. Most children carry on freehand once they have made one.

  • Is it safe for young children?

    The cutting needs an adult nearby. Twelve layers of folded paper are thick, and children push harder on scissors when the paper resists — which is why the sheet says so.

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Last reviewed: July 2026. Worksheet content is generated by deterministic algorithms and covered by automated correctness tests — no AI-generated answers.