Winter Break Boredom Busters: Paper Snowflakes

Have some down time with the kids coming up in December? Making paper snowflakes is a fun activity that doubles as a decoration and triples as fine motor practice! We started with the book Paper Snowflakes Made Easy (which seems to be out of print but looks eerily similar to this one [affiliate link]).

I didn't want to cut up the book, but quickly discovered that construction paper is way too thick to cut through nicely after folding (even for me). Thankfully, tissue paper worked great, and I suspect most leftover wrapping papers would as well! I did the tracing for my 6- and 4-year-olds to minimize frustration, they did the cutting. The 4-year-old found it a bit too tricky, but here is one my 6-year-old completed:

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