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Paper Bag Snowflakes

Learn how to make large snowflakes out of paper bags! These are easy, inexpensive, and can be used for holiday or seasonal decor.
Course Winter Crafts
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 2 snowflakes
Cost $1

Equipment

Ingredients

  • Paper lunch bags 9-10 per snowflake
  • Ribbon(s)

Instructions

  • Make two stacks of lunch bags, with 4-5 in each stack. Make sure all the ends are together.
    Two stacks of brown paper lunch sacks
  • Starting with one stack, glue two of the lunch bags together using hot glue. You will use the hot glue along the bottom of the bags, then a line of hot glue up the middle. Smooth the bags together, making sure the bottoms of the bags are together.
    adding hot glue to the paper bags and smoothing them down together
  • Repeat step two until you have glued both stack of lunch bags separately. One stack should have 4-5 bags and the other should have 5 bags.
    Two stacks of brown paper lunch bags glued together
  • Draw a design using a pencil on one stack of bags. Keep the design above the bottom flaps.
    Hand drawing a design with a pencil on a stack of glued paper bags
  • Use the scissors to cut the design out of the paper bags.
    cutting the design out of the paper bags using scissors
  • Place the cut stack of paper bags onto the second stack and trace the design with the pencil.
    Tracing the design on the second stack of bags
  • Cut the design out from the second stack of paper bags. Your stacks should look identical.
    cutting the design out of the second stack paper bags using scissors
  • Place a line of hot glue up the center of one of the stack and glue them together.
    glue one stack of paper bags onto the other
  • Bring one end of the paper bags around to the other and glue together, forming the circular snowflake. Hold until secure.
    adding hot glue to one side of the paper bags and forming a snowflake
  • Punch a hole in the top with scissors or the pencil. Cut a length of ribbon and string, then tie a knot to hang.
    punching a hole in the top of the snowflake and adding ribbon

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Notes

The reason you are working with two stacks of paper bags is so that you can cut the design more easily with regular scissors.