Paper Snowflake Trees
If you’re working on holiday crafts for your home, here’s a fun one to add to your list! We love these paper snowflake trees so much that we’ve already hung a few in our studio and added them onto a mantel with our crepe paper cones and embroidered felt holiday trees.
Made from different-sized snowflakes, these paper snowflake trees are such a simple project. Though we do recommend using a cutting machine because of all the tiny, narrow cuts, you can always cut them by hand too.
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You can make these paper snowflake trees using any color of cardstock. We made ours in snowy white, pine green, dusty pink, and silver. We even added a snow-white top onto a green base. You can use these same colors or select your cardstock paper to coordinate with your holiday color palette.
If you prefer, you can use several wires inside one tree to strengthen and thicken the trunk. You can also make a variety of sizes and heights of trees as you add the snowflakes from small to large. The more snowflakes, the taller your tree!
If you are hanging your paper snowflake trees, add a strand of floss from the top hole and cut base wire. If your trees are potted, secure the base to the pot with hot glue or by adding a small foam ball into your pot. We also found that turning the pot upside down made a balanced base for these mini trees.
Crafting tips: Slide your beads onto one of your wires to hold them as you add the paint around each bead. Once dry, you can reuse the wire, as any paint will be covered once the tree is assembled.
How to Make Paper Snowflake Trees
- Gather your craft tools and materials. Then download the pattern below.
- Cut paper according to template notes using a cutting machine or scissors.
- Slide a bead onto the wire about 2 inches from the tip. Glue the bead into place.
- Slide the largest snowflake onto the wire so it sits on the first bead; add two more beads to the wire.
- Continue adding the snowflakes in order from large to small; place two beads between each snowflake.
- Place some foam into a pot and press the tree to the foam. Cover the foam with faux moss or stuffie puff.
Make More Holiday Décor
If you use these paper snowflake trees as mantel décor over the winter, we think our holiday felt letters would look really cute with them. You can also explore our site for more Christmas crafts.
Tools
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- Cutting Machine (recommended)
- Detail Scissors (if cutting by hand)
- Hot Glue Gun
- Needle Nose Pliers/Wire Cutters
- Paint Brush
Materials
- Cardstock Paper — any colors
- Craft Paint — match cardstock colors
- Floral Wire – 18-Gauge Paper Covered Green
- Wood Beads — 12mm
- Embroidery Floss (for hanging trees)
- 2-inch Pot (for potted trees)
- Lia Griffith Stuffie Puff (optional for potted trees)
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Leave a CommentI just finished my snowflake tree and it turned out so cute! I used metallic gold paper and gold beads in-between the layers. I made the tree taller by adding three more layers to the bottom. My mantle will be white and gold this Christmas, and I plan to also add some of the white paper buildings featured in the Christmas projects section.
This sounds beautiful! Share photos on our community page!!
Would your beautiful frosted paper (used for the succulent projects) work on this or is it too thin?
That would work beautifully for these trees! That extra frost on the branches. . . oh yes!
Hi. I am trying to download the svg for the snowflake trees but it doesn’t give the complete pattern. It is only showing 2 1/2 snowflakes. How can I get the whole pattern?
That’s just the preview of the SVG. Once you upload it to Design Space, you’ll see the full pattern 🙂
Do you have the pattern for the svg file for the paper Christmas trees? It is not on your site.
Hi! Correct, the project was sponsored by Paper Papers so our post directs you to their site for the downloads. https://www.paperpapers.com/news/paper-holiday-trees/
The SVG file will not unzip.
Hi Teri! Can you email us at hello@liagriffith.com with more details? You may need to install Zip/Unzip software depending on your computer.
Do you have a downloadable pattern for a Silhouette. The PDF and SVG files don’t work.Thanks
Hi Shelley! You’ll need the Designer edition of Silhouette’s software in order to convert our SVG files to a .Studio file. (Or if you do a quick google search there are suggestions for other ways to do it without upgrading!)
How did you cut yours out?
Hi Marilyn,
We cut these snowflakes on a cricut cutting machine.
Love these! Cannot wait to pick up some wooden beads and make a few this weekend! Thank you.
Loved the look of these trees and I thought they’d be perfect for my mantel, so I got started. I do have questions, how much did you enlarge the pattern for the snowflakes? How did you keep the fabric on wire from raveling after putting on the beads and the snowflakes. Thanks for the help, and love your work.
Hi Ann,
The pattern is the size that we made our snowflakes! We did not have any problems with unraveling, you could wrap the end with a piece of tape to prevent unraveling.
Help, I can’t get my Cricut Explore one to up load the sgv file so I can cut the snowflakes.
Hi! Can you email us at hello@liagriffith.com with more details and a screenshot with the problem you’re having?
What paint did you use for the wooden balls? 🙂
We actually mixed a variety of acrylic paints we had in the studio to match the paper!
I am having trouble opening after downloading the paper snowflake cut file. I would love to make this with my grandson, but I cannot get the file. Please help.
Hi Dottie, can you email us at hello@liagriffith.com with more details about the trouble you’re having?
I was able to compete the project with no problem. Loved making them with my children. They love crafting.
So glad to hear it!!
Beautiful holiday trees, great project for my Cricut.
Thank you!
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