Paper Snowflakes

The Christmas decorations that you can buy in the shops can be lovely, but expensive or tacky and cheap. I find that I can never afford to deck out my tree with the nice stuff, but I want decorations that are going to last more than year or two. A solution to this is making your own decorations. A lot of the possibilities can be made from recyclable materials, so they can be put in the recycling bin after they've been taken down for the year.

You Will Need
Paper or Card
Scissors
Ribbon
Selotape or Glue

Fold the paper back and forth like a concertina, in the same fashion you would if you were making a simple paper fan or paper doilies. Then in the centre cut two small triangles, making sure that you leave enough in the middle that the structure of the snowflake isn't damaged (i.e. don't cut through the paper). Now cut shapes along the two sides.
Glue the top two sides together and do the same for the bottom two, this will have given you the snowflake shape.
Tie a ribbon around it and hang it on your tree.