This lunch sack to snowflake craft is the perfect way to add some holiday cheer – on a shoestring budget! I seriously love these so much! I used the brown paper lunch sacks, but WHITE lunch sacks would be beautiful, too – especially if you needed to decorate for a winter wedding! It takes ten bags per snowflake. I purchased a pack of thirty-five bags for about one dollar at a discount store. So, snag up as many bags as snowflakes you want to make!
You’ll need:
Scissors
Hot glue gun
Glue sticks
Paper lunch sacks (ten per snowflake)
Cardboard or vinyl tablecloth to work on
DIRECTIONS
Open your package and Stack 10 bags
Flap Side UP
I made these at my kitchen table, but I used a heavy piece of cardboard. You’ll want something to protect your surface.
MAKE sure the flap side is facing up on every bag.
Use your glue gun to make a T over the flap and down the sack
Layer another bag directly over the glued one, and repeat with nine more bags, pressing each bag in line with the previous one, firmly in place.
You should have a stack of ten glued together bags.
Get the scissors, there’s only six cuts to make. Start with cutting the corner off of each side so that it is rounded. Simply flip the stack of bags to do the other side in your preferred hand.
TIP: what you do to one side do to the other side.
Next you’ll make a ‘V’ cutout on each side.
You don’t have to worry about lining up the cuts on either side exactly. I purposefully got the cuts slightly out of line so you can see it doesn’t matter.
What does matter is that you DO NOT TEAR the cutout part. Make sure you have a clean cut. You can lift out five sacks from the glued stack to cut, if you need to. Use the top five cut as a template for the bottom five on each side.
TIP: If I were making a few dozen of these, I’d use an Exacto knife for the cuts.
Simply fan out the bags and voilà! You’ve got a snowflake!
I attached the sacks with a paperclip so that I could collapse them and store easily, but you could glue the bags together for permanent assembly.
This craft looks great in your home or is perfect to do for an office or business decoration. It’s Christmas-sy but it’s also a good winter in general decoration. It’s affordable and really easy to make!
LOOKS GREAT IN ANY SPACE
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Love this idea!