DIY snowdrops step by step
To create a snowdrop you will need glue, a wooden skewer, white and green paper, and plastic grass for floristry. It is necessary to prepare green and white flowers, which are usually found in the form of snowdrops.
To create one such snowdrop you will need one green part and two white parts. The technique involves twisting paper elements onto a skewer. When several flowers are ready, they must be collected together with floral grass and decorated as desired.
Instructions for making snowdrops
The materials to create a snowdrop will require thin wire, corrugated paper in green, white and yellow, a glue stick, twine, a plastic container and a heat gun.
First of all, you need to cut a piece of wire 15 cm long. You need to cut a strip of 2x6 cm from yellow paper, and then wind it on the wire, cut it into a fringe and glue it in a twisted state to the wire.
Next, you need to cut a strip out of white paper and give it the shape of a flower; it is important to bend the paper with your fingers until it takes the required shape.
When the petals are ready, they can be glued at the base to the stem. You need to wrap a green strip of paper around the stem so that you get cups.
Next, the plastic container must be wrapped with twine or braided to obtain a pattern in the form of a basket, and then cotton wool must be placed inside and the flowers distributed.
Snowdrop made of paper using origami technique. Master Class
Hello, dear friends! Just recently, a wonderful, beautiful article was published on the blog about the joy of spring, about snowdrop flowers. And she gave us the idea: shouldn’t we make such beautiful flowers with our own hands from paper? We thought and decided: “There will be a craft!” And they made an origami snowdrop, not just one, but a whole bouquet.
For those who don’t know, we inform you that origami is a technique of folding various paper figures. A very interesting activity for both children and adults. Almost anything can be folded. But today the blog presents a master class on the first spring flowers.
We have prepared step-by-step photos for you, as well as a video. So see what suits you best and repeat after us.
Let's get started!
To begin, as usual, let’s prepare all the necessary materials:
- three square sheets of white paper measuring 6x6 cm;
- one square green leaf measuring 7x7 cm;
- wooden skewer;
- green felt-tip pen;
- PVA glue;
- glue brush.
Let's start with snowdrop petals. We will make them from little white squares. For convenience, we took a large white square to make it easier to see what needs to be done. Well, take the small ones right away.
So, we bend the square in half with a scarf.
And bend it back. We get the average diagonal fold line, which we will focus on in our work.
Now we make a shape from the square that resembles a kite. We bend the opposite corners and lay them along the middle line.
We lower the upper corner of our figure down. Do not forget to carefully iron all folds.
We hide the folded top corner under the side ones. We get this triangle.
Let's continue. The upper corners must also be folded and aligned along the midline.
We did all these folds and bends in order to get the lines we needed so much. Well, now we need to turn it all back. Everything except the top folded corner.
Now we focus on the lines that are marked in green in the photo. We will fold the paper along them towards each other.
We will get a corner sticking up on one side and the same on the other. The figurine resembles a star.
We lower these protruding corners down and smooth them.
We turn the resulting figure over and see that we have a snowdrop petal. And for one flower you need to make three such modules.
Now they are ready. These are already made from small squares. We will connect them. Take a brush and glue and lubricate the first petal in this place.
Place the second petal on top of the smeared area.
Lubricate the second petal and place the third one on it. The result is such a beautiful half-star.
From this half-star we form a bud. Glue the two outer petals together. Ready.
To make the bud more tender, bend each petal outward. And for now we put the bud aside.
Now we'll show you how to make a leaf. Take the green square.
We fold it into a scarf. We bend it back. We get the center line.
As with the petals, we make a shape that resembles a kite.
And now we repeat the same procedure only in the upper part of the resulting figure.
All that remains is to fold the leaf in half. And he's ready.
All that remains is to fasten our flower parts with a stem. We made the stem from a wooden skewer, which we first broke in half and painted green with an ordinary felt-tip pen.
Using the tip of a skewer, we carefully pierce our bud at the very bottom.
Let's take it further. Inside the bud there should be a tail of the skewer, about 1 cm long. To be secure, you can drop some glue into the bud to fix the skewer-stem.
Then we grease the lower part of our stem with glue and glue it to the leaf. That's all! And the snowdrop is ready!
Look how great a bouquet of five of these flowers looks! An excellent spring gift for the closest and dearest people.
If it was difficult for you to understand the process of making a snowdrop from a photo, then watch the video with the same master class.
And that's all for today!
We advise you to watch our other “paper” master classes, for example:
- original bookmarks;
- beautiful cardboard balls;
- my favorite letter is "C".
Once again, the creative team of the ShkolaLa blog congratulates you on spring!
Be healthy! See you again!
