Make a Winter Wonderland for Pennies! Free Snowflake Patterns

If you’ve seen the movie Elf you no doubt saw the winter wonderland Buddy made using only white paper and scissors. Well, now you can make your own using our free snowflake patterns! It literally costs pennies and is beautiful! We added white twinkle lights to our wonderland. For more inexpensive DIY Christmas decorations and ideas check out our Christmas category. It’s full of unique things such as our Easy DIY Hanging Wall Christmas Tree and How To Make Poinsettia Lights Using Twinkle Lights & Tissue Paper.

Watch Elf here

Supplies

White paper
Regular or Detail Scissors (detail scissors work best for this type of craft)
Icicle twinkle lights We suggest yellow tinted bulbs but use whatever color bulb and wire you like. (Remote control battery style)
Staple gun (We used this to hang the twinkle lights and chain.)
Tape (to hang the snowflakes )
Small Stapler for paper chain. This is the exact one I used. It needs to be smaller to fit inside the loops. You could also tape them.
Thin white string

Dismantling Your Wonderland

This is how I saved the snowflakes until next year. The chain was just tossed. We’ll make a new one next time!

Free Snowflake Patterns

You can use these or make your own as they are super easy. These patterns make smaller snowflakes due too the border allowance on printers. If you make your own you can use the full sheet for larger snowflakes.

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Make a Winter Wonderland for Pennies using only white paper, scissors and a stapler! Twinkle lights optional. Free Snowflake Patterns included!

Instructions

For this project you will make two things. A white paper chain… yep. Just like in grade school! And paper snowflakes… also from grade school.

To make the chain cut white paper into strips. I cut a normal piece into 7 strips. I didnt even measure, just roughly guessed.

Start stapling your chain, making loops. You can make it as long as you want! Do it while watching TV and it goes faster. You could also tape these together but stapling goes much faster.

Next is the snowflakes! You will notice that I did not use the printed patterns you can download. I just grabbed paper, folded and cut in a variety of ways.

Fold as shown.

Iron on a towel if desired to make them flatter. Press quickly.

Time to hang! We used a manual stapler to attach the lights to the ceiling. BE CAREFUL not to staple into the wire!

Next we hung the paper chain, also using the stapler.

Last we hung the snowflakes using tape. Some we stuck directly to the ceiling and others we hung on string.

4 Comments

Cheryl

August 1, 2023 at 7:16 pm · Edit

I’m having Winter Wonderland themed cookie exchange this year. I started thinking about some ceiling decorations . Liked your ideas and things I can make.
Do glad I found your posts
Sofia

November 9, 2021 at 10:22 am · Edit

Thanks for sharing this wonderful idea. It really helps me a lot. i would love to try this in christmas keep posting such amazing ideas
susan fenton

December 13, 2019 at 6:40 am · Edit

your Snowflake Patterns Idea is awesome. I am in love with your pictures. Can I share these pictures on my social accounts? I will give you the credit
1. Nancy Author
  
  December 13, 2019 at 2:45 pm · Edit
  
  Hi Susan!
  
  You are always welcome to share a photo or two from any post as long as there is a link to the full tutorial on my site. The photos with the titles on them are my preference but share whichever one you like with the link. (I just don’t want tutorials copied with all the photos.)
  
  Thank you for asking.
  Have a wonderful holiday season!
  Nancy Ü

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