How to Easily Make a Snowflake Christmas Ornament
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This Christmas you can add to the sparkle on your Christmas tree by making some pretty beaded snowflake Christmas ornaments. You will be so surprised how quick and easy they are. You only need a few supplies and you don’t need any jewellery making experience.
You can also make them to attach to those special parcels that go under the tree. Then your gift recipients also get a Christmas tree ornament.
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You will need:
- Wire Snowflakes
- Beads ( I use plastic ones but these would look amazing with glass beads)
- Seed Beads
- Paperclip
- Pliers
- Piece of fabric or similar to work on
Video Tutorial for a Snowflake Ornament
This video is also available on my YouTube channel.
Create your Snowflake Ornaments
Place your fabric (or similar) onto your table and tip some of your beads out. You will need some seed beads to spread out your main beads and you will need to sort your main beads ready for your pattern. Think about your pattern and then you can try it out on one ‘spoke’ of your snowflake.
I like either getting smaller towards the centre or getting larger towards the centre but you can choose your own design. I also tend to stick to one colour but you can include as many different colours as you like.
Once you have chosen your design, thread the beads onto one spoke. It is much easier to leave the beads on the table and poke the snowflake through them than try to pick the beads up and feed them onto the spoke. You will quickly get into a rhythm with this.
Leave approximately 3/8″ at the end of the spoke with no beads on it.
If you have round-nosed pliers they are the best tool to use next. If not, slim pliers will also work. You need to turn the end of the spoke over to form a circle. This will hold the beads in place.
I usually use round nosed pliers to form the circle and then ordinary pliers to close the circle up fully.
Repeat for all the spokes. You can do the same pattern on them all or you could vary it. I really do recommend experimenting!
Add your Hanger
The easiest way to hang these decoration on your tree is using a paperclip. Simply open up the paperclip to form an S-shape.
Then, thread it through the loop on one end of a spoke. Use your pliers to close up the end of the paperclip that is through the loop to stop it coming off again.
Congratulations, you have made your first beaded snowflake Christmas ornament. I am sure it will not be the last!
And next …
If you are looking for lots of Christmas crafting ideas then I recommend checking out my Christmas section.
If you are going to use these to add to your present wrapping then how about also creating some cute gift tags using old book pages.
Whatever you are crafting this festive season enjoy it and take time to relax with loved ones.
