Snowdrops made of paper with their own hands: master class (photo)

And in winter, and in the autumn, and just when it's sad, I want spring and spring to wake up in the house and in my soul. Make it very easy! It is enough to make snowdrops out of paper with your own hands. The master class will help to fulfill this beautiful souvenir. All materials are inexpensive and affordable, and the ways to create a cute bouquet can master even a beginner.

What will be required

How to make snowdrops from paper with your own hands? The master class and useful tips will be presented below, and now look at the list of necessary materials and devices. The kit may differ depending on the method that you choose. So, prepare the following:

• Plain or corrugated paper of white and green color ;
• Sticks, tubes, wire, toothpicks, skewers for making stalk;
• scissors;
• glue;
• Yellow paint or rump (millet);
• Cotton wool;
• Floristic grass;
• Tape or vase to decorate the bouquet.

In each case, you may need something extra, for example, if you are going to make a flat postcard, you will need a base in the form of a cardboard, and to perform work in the quilling technique, special tools will be useful, although you can do with a usual skewer or toothpick.

Methods that can be applied

You can make snowdrops from paper with your own hands (the master-class of the two variants is presented below) in several ways. Bunches can be bulk or flat, made in the form of an applique, which also includes relief elements. The first way is to make a souvenir to decorate the interior, for example, a table, and the second - a gift for the holiday (postcard).

Choose one of the following methods how to make snowdrops out of paper with your own hands:

• origami;
• From plain paper;
• From corrugated;
• In the quilling technique;
• Application.

So you get flat or three-dimensional details, which you can make out on a sheet or turn into a full bouquet. It is easy to put in a bowl or attach to the wall.

Snowdrops made of paper with their own hands: master class (photos are attached)

As with any other method, you first need to prepare all the materials. If you are going to make many flowers, it is better to cut out from the cardboard templates in the form of a figurine with three petals: one larger for the snowdrop itself, and the second for the sepals. By the way, you can initially cut out of a square billet a round flower with nine petals, which is then cut into three elements. One of them is printed on the cardboard as a stencil, along which all the other parts are already made in the right amount. Once the templates are created, get to work. The sequence will be as follows:

1. For each flower, cut two pieces out of white paper on a large template and one on a small piece of green leaf.
2. Take the first white billet and wind its petals (each in turn) onto the skewer. This will add volume. Do the same with the green part.
3. The edges of the second white part should be rounded with scissors, and then twist the obtained elements with the same tool, first applying yellow paint to the edges. The middle of the flower is made from this blank.
4. Collect the basis of the snowdrop: glue the yellow part white, and the top green.
5. Obtained in the previous step, the design is installed on a green stick or toothpick, which can be wrapped with a strip of green paper with sizing in several places.
6. Do the right amount of flowers, collect them in a bouquet, decorate with floral grass and put it in the vase.

Your decoration for the interior is ready.

Use corrugated paper

This kind of material gives more realism to the composition. So, you will make very gentle, almost like real, snowdrops from paper with your own hands. For beginners, the first method from the previous section, and this one, will do. Use any combination of materials and technologies. If it's easier for you to follow the method below, but you do not have special paper, you can do it in the same way and from the usual one.

The sequence of work will be as follows:

1. Cut out the paper (white and green) of the blanks of petals, sepals and leaves. To each instance of its kind was identical, it is enough to fold a rectangular blank into several layers and cut out the desired shape with scissors. It is clear that on each layer will be the same detail.
2. On a skewer, wire or toothpick, glue a ball of cotton wool. Dip it in a container with millet.
3. Cut out a small rectangle of white corrugated paper and make a carved edge with rounded details that are colored yellow. After drying, wrap this element around the cotton pestle made in the previous step.
4. Glue the petals and sepals;
5. Wrap the stick (wire) with a strip of green paper. Decorate the leaves with a stem.
6. Complete the desired number of colors and combine them into the composition.

This decoration is suitable for interior decoration, as well as for decorating a gift box, package or, for example, a casket.

Snowdrops made of paper with their own hands for children: a master class

If you are going to make such an article with a child, for example, as a gift to a grandmother by March 8, then it is better to choose a simpler way. Perfect fit for applique. It is easy to decorate the postcard or the surface of the gift box.

Such decor is performed as follows:

1. The easiest way is to cut the blanks of flowers of the desired shape from the paper at a time, using one shape, but you can also make individual petals that glue together.
2. Prepare thin strips of green paper for a stalk or a wire (already the right shade) or use a colored ribbon.
3. Cut out the leaves.
4. Stick all the details on a flat base (postcard, box).
5. Decorate with additional decor (sequins, beads, bows).

We lay flowers for a bouquet or applique

Children will also be interested in making voluminous snowdrops from paper with their own hands. Origami will make it possible to perform such a souvenir, and the kiddies will take up work with pleasure. To do this, it is enough to fold the shape of a flower according to the scheme of white sheet and attach a wire wrapped with a strip of green corrugated paper to it. From the same material, cut out the leaves and paste to the stalk.

Postcard in quilling technique

In this way you can make any flowers, including snowdrops, from paper (with your own hands!). The application of twisted details turns out to be openwork, like lace, and very effective, although everything is quite simple. You will need strips (about five millimeters thick) of white and green paper. Suitable office, but it's even better to buy a designer one, for example, metallized. The details of the flower are twisted with a special tool or a regular knitting needle, a skewer or a toothpick. Complete the desired number of blanks of the desired shape, connect them with glue in a single composition. The elements are glued both on a plane and in the form of a relief with a volume. Many create 3D floral compositions.

So, you saw how you can make snowdrops from paper with your own hands in different ways. A master class and useful recommendations will help you to make such a souvenir or decor of a gift yourself or entertain children.