How to make a snowflake from foam?

The new year is not far off, so you need to prepare well for this holiday - buy gifts, install the Christmas tree, decorate it, decorate the room for meeting the New Year. Of course, if you all buy all this, there is a lot of money, so there is an option to save and make decorations on the Christmas tree and to decorate the room with your own hands. Let's consider the process of creating snowflakes from foam, find out which options for its manufacture.

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Material for homemade snowflakes

An excellent option for needlework is a foam, it is from it that can do anything. The main thing is that there is a desire and fantasy, and if there is no such, then in order to undergo a detailed instruction on the manufacture of a particular craft from foam.

Polyfoam has a number of features that everyone needs to know who decides to use it for the manufacture of snowflakes:

To work with him, you will not need any additional knowledge, as well as skills, so work with foam will be very simple.
No complex tools are needed to make a snowflake from the foam.
The size of the snowflake will depend on the size of the raw material (in this case, the foam). The size also depends on the thickness of the material under consideration.
Do not forget that the material under consideration is flammable, so it is necessary that foam products are as far as possible from the fire and the pickeels.

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Making snowflakes

To begin with, it is necessary to purchase a foam, because it is precisely this raw material for our future snowflakes for the process under consideration. There is also an option to take a foam from under household appliances (it is in this material that the technique is usually packaged). If you do not have a house of such a material, you can buy it in any construction store. Most often, manufacturers enable the consumer to purchase raw materials:

1 per 1 m
0.5 per 1 m
1 on 2 m

Most often, the sheet of foam has a thickness of 2 to 10 cm.

If someone near recently insulated the walls of the house or windows, then you should ask the remnants of the material to create snowflakes (construction foam is excellent raw materials for this).

When the material is already at your hand, arm yourself with a felt-tip pen (marker) and a pencil.

Production process:

To begin with, it will be necessary for four equal parts to divide a piece of foam, which you have chosen for the manufacture of snowflakes. To do this, you need to draw a pencil in the center of the cross, which and divide your piece on equal parts.

In this case, the cross should be wide enough so that the snowflake is massive. Now in each sector, you need to draw a strip of the same width as the cress (from the center of the form, so that it divides each of the four sectors to two equal triangles).
Thus, we have prepared a future drawing of the crafts, it is clear that everything turned out exactly and symmetrically, without a ruler in this case just can not do. Now it's time to draw the ends of the snowflake to be more beautiful and more lure.
It all depends on your imagination, the form of the ends of the future snowflake can be any, but the easiest way to make them smooth and sharp (cutting such a form is easier).
In order for the conceived embodied in reality, it is necessary to use enough thin and what is important, a sharp knife for making snowflakes. In this case, the stationery is also suitable.
Before you start cutting out the details of the snowflakes, it is necessary as much space around you to be caulated with a glued or film, because the foam plastic is very lighted and the garbage from this process will be very much. If it is possible to make a snowflake on the street - it will be the most practical and convenient option, because after creating snowflakes from foam, at home will have to make general cleaning.
If you want the snowflake to be original, you can decorate her tinsel, some fabric, rhinestones, etc.
A desire will appear, you can make beautiful small pompons from the quiet, which can then be attached to the snowflake with glue or bilateral scotch, so you get not just a big, and also a bulk snowflake.

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Cut the snowflake from foam

In order to make a small snowflake from the foam you will need no more than 30 seconds, but only if you are already ready for a special billet, which will make the cutting process by the operational.

The technology under consideration is not new. Just for incomprehensible reasons, everyone is forgotten about it, and the material is very cheap, so make a lot of small snowflakes will not be much difficult. The manufacturing process is as follows:

First, cut out of foam slices quite thin plates, up to 4 mm width.
Now we choose on the Internet from the proposed "layout" options for snowflakes and print it on ordinary paper.
After that, cut out the snowflake and make a similar layout of thin, but at the same time, rigid wire. In this case, you need to make the contour.
When the contour of the snowflake from the top is ready, takes a thin small piece of foam and extrify the wire blank the shape of the snowflake. It is done very simple, pressing the wire into the foam, thereby separating extra parts from it.

If you want a snowflake inside with a hollow part, that is, a hole, you need to make a blank from the wire for the size of which should be equal to the opening you need, which you are going to do in the snowflake.

The considered snowflake methods are the simplest from the existing, and besides, crafts that are ultimately beautiful and original.