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November 25, 2020

Paper Doily Snowflakes {fun Christmas craft}

In today’s post: Learn how to cut snowflakes from paper doilies from the dollar store. They’re easy enough for kids to make and they turn out beautiful!

Cutting paper snowflakes has been one of my favorite Christmas traditions since I was a kid. I grew up near Seattle, where it doesn’t snow much – winter is often a near constant drizzle. So my mom taught us how to cut snowflakes and then we’d tape them all over our windows to make it feel a little more Christmas like.

I’ve already shared a post that teaches you how to cut snowflakes from paper and includes some printable snowflake templates. But this year we’ve put a new twist on our paper snowflakes: we are using paper doilies from the dollar store.

Snowflake cut from paper doily in front of a Christmas tree

Paper doilies work great for making snowflakes!

  • They’re the perfect weight for folding and cutting because they are lighter than normal printer paper, which makes them even easier to use.
  • The scalloped edge makes it super easy to fold in 12ths to make a six (or 12) sided snowflake.
  • And the laser cut design around the outside makes the snowflakes look extra fancy.

Multiple paper doily snowflakes

Paper Doily Snowflake Supplies

All you need to make doily snowflakes are some paper doilies and a pair of scissors. I found these multipacks of doilies at my local dollar store:

Package of paper doilies

The largest and second largest size doilies have 12 arches or “scallops” around the outside, which makes them perfect for folding into snowflakes. The two smaller sizes only have 10 arches, so they won’t work. That means you’ll be able to fold and cut 16 snowflakes from one pack of dollar store doilies.

You can leave the outer edge of the doily alone, like this one:

Paper doily cut into a snowflake

I think that looks really pretty, but my teenagers think that doesn’t look enough like a snowflake. They prefer to cut along the edge so you end up with six points or sides, like this one:

Snowflake cut from paper doily in front of a Christmas tree

FUNNY SIDE NOTE: In my original paper snowflakes post, the method I show creates an 8-sided snowflake, simply because it’s much easier for kids to learn how to fold paper in 8ths instead of 6ths. But BOY DID THAT MAKE PEOPLE MAD! I can’t tell you how many comments and messages I got telling me that I had no right to call those snowflakes! and that I apparently don’t know how to count. It appears that paper snowflakes are a serious business, so it’s a good thing the doily version will give you six sides instead of eight 😉

How to Cut Paper Doily Snowflakes

You can watch this quick video to see how to fold and cut a doily snowflake. Written instructions follow.

 

Snowflake cut from paper doily in front of a Christmas tree
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Paper Doily Snowflakes

Learn how to cut snowflakes from paper doilies. They're easy enough for kids to make and they turn out beautiful!
Prep Time 10 minutes

Ingredients

  • Paper Doilies with 12 scallops around the edge

Instructions

  • Separate a single paper doily from the bunch. (They are thin, so be sure you just have one.) Fold it in half, matching the scalloped edges, and crease. None of the "arches" on the scalloped edge should be folded in half.
  • Fold the doily in half again and crease.
    Paper doily folded in quarters
  • You now have a triangle of paper that has 3 arches (or scallops) along the edge. Fold over the right third of the triangle, matching the arches on the edge.
    Paper doily quarter with one third folded over
  • Then flip the doily over and fold over the right third again, creating a narrow triangle with an arched edge. (The doily has been folded in 12ths at this point.)
    Paper doily folded in 12ths
  • Begin cutting your snowflake. Cut out shapes or designs from one straight side OR the other straight side of the snowflake. DO NOT cut all the way across from one side to the other, unless you are cutting very close to the point to create a circle or star shape in the center of the snowflake. You can leave the arched outside alone to keep the scalloped doily shape, or you may cut along the outside edge to change the shape.
    Paper doily triangle being cut from one straight side
  • Unfold the doily to see your finished snowflake. Carefully iron the snowflake on medium heat to flatten out the creases.
    Finished paper doily snowflake

Snowflakes cut from paper doilies

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  1. Kristi Andres says

    November 25, 2020 at 1:26 pm

    This is a great idea! 🙂 I am north of Seattle (closer to the Canadian border) so I totally know what you mean about not a lot of snow! I like putting my snowflakes on the window with a little tape and then spraying the white “snow” over/around them and then taking it off and you have the shape of the snowflake on your window with the snow around it.

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  2. gmail email login says

    November 30, 2020 at 5:30 am

    I love the idea using paper doilies to make snowflakes <3 Thank you for sharing!

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