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    DIY Crystal Snowflake Ornaments

    Greetings friends! This is my favorite season. I looove winter and Massachusetts is the most beautiful place on the PLANET this time of year. This project was created by the queen of crafts, my hero…Martha Stewart. I wanted to share it with you so you could make these with the kids. It’s an easy craft and very inexpensive. Here’s what you will need:

    SUPPLIES

    Pipe cleaners

    Water

    Borax

    Scissors

    Pot

    Kabob Skewers or a long kitchen ladle/spatula/spoon

    Craft wire or thread

    Clear coat spray sealer

    OPTIONAL: Glitter

    RECIPE

    3 Cups water

    1/2 Cup Borax

    INSTRUCTIONS

    Heat the water until it’s almost boiling. Remove the pot from the heat. Add the borax and stir until it’s dissolved. Then you can add the snowflake as shown below.

    Cut 3 long pieces and 6 short pieces.
    Twist in the center.
    It should look like this.
    Add the short piece to the end and twist.
    It should look like this.
    For an ornament bail, add another short piece and twist.
    Add the short piece to match the others.
    Make a loop at the top and twist.
    Add wire or thread at the top.
    Wrap around a skewer or long kitchen ladle.
    Submerge into the hot borax and water solution. Allow it the sit overnight.
    Remove the snowflake and allow it to dry on a towel for a 30 minutes.
    For more crystals, heat up the solution again and re-submerge it overnight.
    Take all the snowflakes and put them on a plastic bag. Spray them with clear coat.
    Sprinkle on glitter if you like. Then spray again with clear coat. The snowflake on the bottom left is made from a coffee filter.
    Finished snowflake with gold glitter.
    Finished snowflake with silver glitter.
    Finished snowflake without glitter.

    For the more ornate designs, just keep adding more pipe cleaners, twisting as you go. You can make some really cool designs. The spray sealer will keep the borax from oxidizing so you can use these year after year. I would store them in a plastic bag for safe keeping.

    ADDITIONAL IDEAS

    You can also crystalize silk flowers, pine cones, real pine branches, holly leaves, cotton balls, coffee filter snowflakes, plastic ornaments, wood bark…almost anything! If you crystalize glass, you need to use sand paper on the surface to make the borax stick. I made a moon and a star pendant using this method. I also made a faux geode and a faux crystal cluster. *You can add food coloring to make the crystals pastel colors!

    Here is an instruction sheet to make the coffee filter snowflakes. You just cut the coffee filter as shown and pour the borax solution into a plate and allow it to crystalize over night. The fuller designs work best. The skinny, more detailed designs are too fragile. These won’t be sturdy like the pipe cleaners but you can hang them in the window or on the tree for one season.

    ADDITIONAL PATTERNS

    snowflake_cutfold_patternDownload
    57210a6a98036a111268ae4c04858bd0-snowflake-template-snowflake-designsDownload
    snowflake_cutfold_pattern2Download

    LINKS

    MORE Snowflake Patterns

    https://diy-enthusiasts.com/decorating-ideas/christmas/paper-snowflakes-free-patterns-instructions

    20 Printable Snowflake Patterns (Free PDF)

    I hope you enjoyed this craft. Have a wonderful holiday season everyone. I will be here in the Berks eating cookies and selling jewelry, as always!

    Big hugs!

    Love,

    Malena

     

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