16 Chic and Sparkly Snowflake Crafts to Decorate Your Home This Winter
Make garlands, ornaments, gift toppers and more with the timeless seasonal motif.
Let it snow! This holiday season, get to decking the halls with a flurry of snowflake crafts guaranteed to make your home sparkle and shine. From a chic white palette to colors that pop, these blogger projects include whimsical ideas for ornaments, garlands, gift toppers and other decor and party decorations. While some are a bit more advanced, others among these crafts are super simple, kid friendly and cost almost nothing to make. Get creative, and customize them with details that are all your own to match your taste and home decor — but we say, the more glitter the merrier!
Popsicle Stick Snowflake Ornaments
To make, paint popsicle sticks white and let dry.A rrange matching sizes into a X-shape and glue together in the middle. Arrange 2 X’s diagonally on top of each other to create a snowflake shape and glue in the middle. Let dry completely. Weave colored embroidery thread around the popsicle sticks to create an X or grid pattern. Tie the thread at the back of the snowflake and trim any excess. Glue a ribbon loop to the back of the snowflake to hang.
Clay Snowflake Ornaments
Roll out polymer clay and cut it out with snowflake-shaped cookie cutters to create these ornaments. Get creative with the details, drawing in designs with toothpicks or pressing on textures with various fabrics. Make sure to poke a hole before baking to run a wire or string through later for hanging.
Vinyl Snowflake Ornaments
Dress up ordinary plastic ornaments with colorful vinyl snowflakes. Use a craft punch to create the shapes, and easily transfer them on to the ornaments to add a pop of color to your tree.
Sparkly Snowflake Garland
These DIY snowflake garlands look ultra-posh, but they’re actually super easy and affordable to make. Use a pack of wooden snowflakes from the dollar store, top with paint and adhesive rhinestones, then string together with twine.
Fold-and-Cut Snowflakes
There’s no more iconic winter craft project than fold-and-cut paper snowflakes — and nothing could be easier. Get design inspiration and take your flakes to the next level with templates from Omiyage Blogs.
Snowflake Tassels
Cut snowflake shapes from glitter card stock, and pair them with handmade yarn tassels for a gift-wrapping topper that packs a seriously festive punch.
Snowflake Glass Ball Ornaments
Spray a little hairspray inside a clear ornament, then fill it with glitter and shake so all the glitter adheres to the inside. Add a bold white snowflake to the outside for a look that pops. Further customize it with the year, monogram, or anything else you like.
Snowflake Mason Jars
Give ordinary mason jars a cheerful wintertime twist with a coat of blue paint and white snowflakes stamped on top. Cluster a few of these jars for festive decor on a mantle or tabletop.
Clothespin Snowflakes
You've never seen clothespins look so pretty as they do when you turn them into this charming project, dressed up with crystal course glitter. Nest them in your tree or use them to adorn presents.
Lighted Snowflake Wreath
Dollar store snowflake ornaments affixed to a styrofoam wreath form the basis for this deceptively easy and affordable project. A string of lights woven through makes for the coziest glow.
Paper Party Decorations
Use ordinary white office paper to create the most dreamy decor for your holiday gathering. Fold and cut each sheet of paper into a unique, symmetrical snowflake. Hang alongside copious paper chains and lanterns to complete the look.
Popsicle Stick Snowflake Ornaments
Even the littlest crafters can whip up a flurry of popsicle stick snowflakes — each just as unique as the real deal. Jazz them up with accouterments like glitter and tinsel pom-poms, and hang them with twine.
Snowflake Jar Toppers
These snowflake-style jar toppers make the perfect finishing touch if you’re giving homemade candies or condiments as seasonal gifts.
Snowflake Mobile
Attach felt snowflakes to an embroidery hoop using yarn for a whimsical winter mobile, in chic and seasonal white.
Snowflake Glass Ball Ornaments
Shiny snowflake sequins hang inside glass ball ornaments for such a dainty wintry look. Use them to trim your tree, or hang them from ribbons to dress up wrapped presents.
Vintage Snowflake Sign
Glue strips of newspaper to pieces of scrap wood. Cover with Mod Podge and use a stencil to paint on snowflakes for a shabby and chic vintage-looking wintertime decor piece.
Alesandra is a digital travel and lifestyle journalist based in Los Angeles whose work has appeared in Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day, Prevention, Insider, Glamour, Shondaland, AFAR, Parents, TODAY and countless other online and print outlets. Alesandra has a masters degree in journalism with an emphasis on cultural reporting and criticism from NYU, and a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley. An avid traveler, she trots the globe with her husband and their twins.
