How to make beautiful wire snowflakes?

To create a festive mood in preparation for the New Year or another winter holiday, it is important to decorate the house appropriately so that everything around it sparkles and shines. Snowflakes created chenille wire, will decorate the Christmas tree and the room for the celebration.

Chenille wire looks like a fluffy caterpillar. These are two wires, twisted together and wrapped in a multi-colored fluffy thread. The wire is flexible, easy to bend - an ideal material for handicrafts, suitable for children and adults.

Wire lengths 15-30 cm are sold in sets of different colors. The length of the pile is 4–15 mm. The original, pleasant to the touch wire is popular in various types of needlework.

For making snowflakes, wire covered with shiny tinsel of bright colors is suitable. Crafts in the form of tinsel snowflakes are a traditional decoration for Christmas trees in kindergartens and schools. The added value of these jewelry is that they are handmade.

There are many options for making snowflakes from fluffy flexible tinsel. The set of tools for manufacturing depends on which option the needlewoman uses. But they will always come in handy:

• chenille wire - set;
• scissors;
• PVA glue or silicone;
• ruler;
• decorations for snowflakes: rhinestones, beads;
• lace or thread for the buttonhole.

In addition to chenille wire covered with tinsel, wire wrapped with colored synthetic thread is also suitable for making snowflakes.

Pour hot water into a 0.5 liter jar and dissolve 18 teaspoons of table salt in it. Dip a snowflake on a string into a jar.When the solution settles on the threads and dries, crystals of salt will appear on the workpiece, similar to real frost. For the salt to crystallize, you need to keep the snowflake in the solution for 24 hours.

Snowflakes created from chenille wire are categorized by difficulty. For small children in kindergarten, wire sets with a length of 15 cm are suitable. First, you need to choose a color. For a snowflake, silver, blue or white are suitable. To make the simplest version of a snowflake, you need:

• take three wires and connect them in the center by twisting - you get a workpiece with six rays;
• to decorate the rays of the snowflake, prepare 12 segments of 3 cm each;
• screw two additional parts from prepared short segments to each ray;
• glue rhinestones in the center of the snowflake and at the ends of the rays on both sides;
• sew on or glue a loop of lace or narrow tape in order to hang on the tree.

When making snowflakes, it is convenient to use a glue heat gun to fix rhinestones or beads. But such a tool is not suitable for children because of the risk of getting burned.

An interesting way to make a snowflake is to use a ruler no more than 3 cm wide as a working tool. To make the product more expressive, you need to take two wires of contrasting colors 30 cm long. The process consists of the following steps:

• twist the segments by the two upper ends;
• place the ruler as a template between the wires close to the upper twisted ends and twist the wire around the ruler alternately - you get 8 holes 3 cm each;
• connect the workpiece in a circle shape by closing and twisting the upper and lower ends;
• spread out 8 parts on a flat surface, giving them the intricate shape of the rays of a snowflake, while you need to make sure that the color of the contrasting wire alternates;
• tie a loop and hang a snowflake.

Spectacular large snowflakes are obtained from 10 wires 30 cm long. They are more complex in execution, but for lovers of manual labor, complexity is not an obstacle. So:

• take 10 wires of one or two colors;
• tie tightly in the center or lay them on top of each other and connect by twisting - 20 beams are obtained with a length of about 15 cm;
• retreat 4 cm from the center and twist the beams in pairs, you can connect nearby wires, for complexity and beauty, twist the wires that are from each other through one beam;
• the second row of holes is done in the same way, but you need to step back from the first 3 cm;
• on a flat surface, straighten the elements of the first and second row so that the holes are the same size;
• sharp ends remain, they need to be bent into rings.

Any handmade snowflake will be brighter if you decorate it with rhinestones and beads. It is advisable to do this from both sides, so that everywhere it looks equally beautiful.

Actually, Chenille wire is a creative material, and you can create a masterpiece with your own hands without repeating the products of other craftswomen.

To decorate the space between the rays of the snowflake, you can insert and fix rings made of contrasting tinsel, connect the rays with a wire of a different color, and screw several additional elements onto the ray. The fantasy when making chenille snowflakes can be limitless.

During operation, the wire bends easily, but it also breaks easily. That's why it is not recommended to bend and unbend the wire many times in one place. It is better for children to glue the rays, and not bend them.

The ends of the wire become sharp after cutting, so it is traumatic for adults and children. The ends need to be bent so as not to get hurt, and decorate with beads or rhinestones.

To learn how to make a snowflake from chenille wire with your own hands, see the video.