Snowflakes!

Our church has a family fun night every month where they open up the gym for games, order pizza, and just hang out. Last month we also added a craft to the evening and made these beautiful Christmas ornaments. Somehow I was appointed to find a craft for our January fun night and this is what I found. I like this because 1) it is incredibly easy, 2) it is incredibly fast, 3) it looks incredibly complicated, 4) it has incredible potential for variations.

This is my original prototype: about 22" from point to point

Then I decided to make 4 miniature ones to put in my empty picture frames. And of course,  to be consistent, I had to make them out of Hamlet...

These turned out to be about 3.5" from point to point. 

This size was devilish to work with, the pieces were so tiny I couldn't hold on to them to keep everything together while the glue was drying.

I'm excited to imagine the possibilities for this idea. You could do this in summery colors for a more flower-like appearance or neutral colors for year-round use. At first I struggled to figure out how to make it because the tutorial I was following just did not make sense. I eventually made sense of it by comparing several different explanations and finally grasping the concept. When I make these next, I'll do a tutorial as well, so it will at least make sense to my crazy brain :)