How to cut snowflakes correctly

The development of creative thinking in children and adults can be helped by a simple exercise - making snowflakes. A variety of patterns can not be imagined - for us it did nature. Walking on a winter day, take a good look at the baby with a few snowflakes that fell on your clothes and remember the pattern. It will serve as a starting point in your work.

How correctly to cut out snowflakes? Everyone asks himself this question, which is engaged in such an exciting business for the first time. There is nothing difficult in this exercise. To begin with it is necessary to understand how to fold snowflakes correctly. From this stage the final result will depend. Let's remember a real snowflake. It has the correct geometric shapes and can be similar to a circle, a square or a rhombus. We will focus on only two options - a square and a circle.

Take a sheet of A4 paper. From it you can cut one big and two small snowflakes. For the basis take a square. Put the sheet on the table and, taking it in one corner, add it diagonally, leveling the edges. We got a folded square and a strip of free paper, which should be cut off. It will go to small snowflakes. Cutting the strip, we got a square, folded diagonally. Add it again and get an isosceles triangle. We fold the triangle again - now we have a blank for our snowflake.

Now we come to the most crucial moment in our exercise and we need to understand how to cut out snowflakes correctly. If you are engaged in cutting such an item for the first time, then it's worth drawing a pattern you like on the workpiece. Place the triangular preform in front of you so that the point is facing up. Draw a pattern that will be the edging of our snowflake, and trim the excess paper.

Now draw the inner patterns. They should be placed on the workpiece so that it is convenient for you to cut them, and they do not reach the opposite end of the triangle. Work with scissors is very accurate. After cutting the snowflake through, we will not get a beautiful pattern, but several pieces of paper. If you can not cut out the first time, then read again, as correct. Cut snowflakes is an exciting activity that will help to entertain a child and an adult.

After you cut out all the patterns, you need to carefully deploy the snowflake. Having spread it on a flat surface, iron it with an iron or put a book on top. This will help to completely break down the paper.

Having explained to the child how to cut out snowflakes correctly, give him the opportunity to dream up. Children's fiction on various patterns is boundless. In the end, you will receive a lot of different in the design and shape of paper snowflakes, which you can attach with the child on the window, curtains or furniture in the room.

If the child does not get a good cut, then the next lesson, you can show him how to draw snowflakes correctly. Remember together how you looked at the patterns of snowflakes on the street, and what they were beautiful. Draw a few snowflakes together with the toddler, drawing his attention to the correctness of the shapes and the clarity of the lines. After a while the child will get better. Cutting and drawing snowflakes will be your favorite joint activity.

While engaging with the child drawing or carving out snowflakes, tell him about the New Year holiday and various fairy-tale characters. Attach in his room a picture of Santa Claus and Snow Maiden, which will be visible to the Christmas tree and a lot of snowflakes. Decorating with you the rooms for the holiday, the baby will better start imagining. Such activities will help the development of the imagination, and carving and drawing will contribute to the development of fine motor skills of the hands.