Beaded Snowflake Craft

Snowflake Crafts for Adults

Beaded snowflake crafts provide a unique way to use your jewelry making skills to decorate your home for the holidays. For example:

• Soft Flex has instructions for a beaded snowflake ornament that’s easy for beginning beaders to make in one short afternoon.
• My Lifetime shows you how to make a dainty seed bead snowflake.
• Kay Ray encourages crafters to add a bit of color to their beaded snowflake ornaments.
• Better Homes and Gardens has instructions for making elegant snowflake ornaments from crystal beads and corsage pins.
• Karp Styles has a pattern that lets you incorporate pretty beads into a beautiful crocheted snowflake.
• HGTV shows you how to make a snowflake ornament from beads and polymer clay.

Of course, you can still make snowflake jewelry as well. Consider the following project ideas:

• Bead Jewelry Making has instructions to help you make a tiny snowflake pendant for your favorite necklace.
• Leen’s Tatting Page has instructions for unique snowflake earrings.
• All Info About Jewelry Making has instructions for making a beaded snowflake bracelet using a bead weaving or square stitch pattern. If you wish, you can extend the length to make a matching beaded choker.

Beaded Snowflake Crafts for Kids

If you’re looking for a beaded snowflake craft you can enjoy with your children, check out these links for ideas and inspiration:

• Kaboose has directions for a simple pipe cleaner snowflake kids can make. However, adult supervision is needed when working with the hot glue gun.
• Danielle’s Place has an easy snowflake ornament made from clear pony beads.
• Christmas Projects offers a slightly more sophisticated looking snowflake ornament that’s appropriate for older children.
• Making Friends has instructions for a snowflake pin that would be a great gift for kids to give their teachers or daycare providers.

Snowflake Trivia

When making beaded snowflake crafts, it’s only natural to find yourself wondering how snowflakes are formed in nature.

A snowflake is a type of ice crystal that is formed while falling in and below a cloud. A well formed snowflake is relatively flat and has approximately six identical arms. This gives a snowflake the same six fold dihedral symmetry as a hexagon or hexagram.

A snowflake is made up of between two and 200 separate snow crystals that are made when tiny dirt particles are covered with bits of ice. The shape that these snow crystals take is dependent upon the temperature at which they are formed. When the temperature in the clouds is 3° to 10°F, a star shaped crystal forms. From 10° to 18°F, plate shaped crystals form. At temperatures from 18° to 23°F, columns form. From 23° to 27°F, needles form. Plate shaped crystals reappear at temperatures from 27° to 32°F.

When snow crystals grow, they become heavy and start to fall towards the Earth. Crystals that spin like tops become symmetrical snowflakes, while those that fall in a sideways fashion look slightly lopsided.

Although it is commonly believed that no two snowflakes are alike, there is no scientific law or principle that definitively proves this statement. It is simply unlikely that two macroscopic objects would have the same molecular structure.

Additional LoveToKnow Resources

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