Paper Snowflakes (6- and 12-Sided)

Fold and cut paper into beautiful paper snowflakes. Our tutorial includes instructions for making your own 4-, 6-, 8- and 12-sided snowflakes.	Safety Tips Kids 8 years and younger should use child-safe scissors.
More Paper Snowflake Instructions: 4- and 8-Sided Snowflakes 6- and 12-Sided Snowflakes with Printable Patterns Materials Paper Scissors Protractor (optional)

Steps

	1.	Turn any rectangular piece of paper (e.g. A4 or Letter size copy paper) into a square by folding the top right corner diagonally down to meet the paper's left edge.
	2.	Fold the excess paper up over the edge of the triangle. Unfold then cut along the crease.
	3.	Fold the resulting triangle along the middle to come up with a smaller triangle.
	4.	The most crucial and perhaps the trickiest step in making a 6-sided snowflake is dividing the triangle into three equal sections. The most accurate way to do this is to use a protractor to divide the angle at the triangle's apex (the tip opposite the longest side) into three sections, each with a 30 degree angle. If you don't have a protractor, you can estimate the size of the sections as you do Steps 5 and 6.
	5.	Once you've marked out the three equal sections, fold the left section upwards.
	6.	Similarly fold the right section upwards.
	7.	Flip the entire shape over so that the side with the horizontal edge is facing up.
	8.	Cut along the horizontal edge so that you come up with an inverted triangle.
	9.	While keeping the triangle folded, cut out random shapes out of the edges. *In case you're looking for ready-to-cut snowflake patterns, you can find them here.
	10.	Gently open up the paper to reveal your unique 6-sided snowflake.
	11.	To make your snowflake look like a 12-sided one, make sure that the top right and left corners of the triangle in Step 9 are cut at almost the same height.
	12.	Check out how it looks when unfolded. Try out different ways of cutting out the shapes and discover a gazillion possibilites for your six- and twelve-sided snowflakes. More paper snowflake instructions: 4- and 8-Sided Snowflakes 6- and 12-Sided Snowflakes with Printable Patterns