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Paper Bag Snowflakes

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Materials

  • paper bags, lunch sack size or smaller
  • hot glue gun, plus extra glue sticks
  • clear fishing wire
  • dot sized sticky velcro
  • sewing pins
  • heavy duty scissors

Instructions

  • Glue 6-8 paper bags, the folded side up, placing the glue in a capital 'T' and then placing the next paper bag over top making a stack.
  • Cut out the design of the snowflake you'd like. I cut about 1-2 inches off of the bottom where the opening of the paper bags were to make the snowflakes various sizes.
  • When the design is finished, apply the dot sized velcro on both sides of the bag. Attach one side of the velco on the front side of the stack of paper bags; and apply the other side of the velcro to the back side of the stack in the same spot.
  • Spead open and attach the velcro together. If you'd like to hang the snowflakes from the ceiling, hot glue some fishing wire to the top of the snowflake and then using sewing pins attach the other end of the fishing wire to the pin and push the pin into the ceiling. Using sewing pins will keep from creating noticable holes in the ceiling.

Notes

  • Adding more bags causes the snowflake to be fuller, but depending on the design of the cutouts could make it difficult to see the design. I prefer the snowflakes that only had 6 bags. If I had to do it over again, I would've made all of the snowflakes with only 6 bag bundles.
  • Velcro is not needed to fasten the snowflakes, you could staple them together or hot glue the back and front together, but I decided on small pieces of velcro so I could disassemble them and store them in our holiday totes to use again for next year.
  • You could also decorate the paper bags if you'd like, splatter paint, or sprinkle glitter over the snowflakes.  I preferred the plain paper bags because our holiday decor is more of a rustic farm type.