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Snowflakes for Sandy Hook

After the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary I have been looking for ways to help the children who have been affected by the violence.  One very simple way I found was to make snowflakes for the children.  You see…the Connecticut PTSA is asking for snowflakes to decorate the children’s new school.  They want to give them a winter wonderland filled with love for when they return to school. 

Each snowflake will be made with love and I can’t help but imagine the thousands upon thousands of snowflakes surrounding the children as they return on that first day.  I know that they will be anxious, scared, and very nervous to go back to school and I hope that the snowflakes will be a visual reminder of how much they are loved.  Sandy Hook, Snowflakes, Holidays, Christmas, Winter

If you’d like to make a few snowflakes and send some love, click here for more info.

This was kind of a spur of the moment decision, so I didn’t go out to buy supplies and instead looked inside my craft closet for inspiration.  I found paper and glitter….and really what else do you need to make a snowflake?

I started out by cutting a circle out of regular white paper.  I then folded the circle in halves a few times. After that I cut notches out of the  folded sides.

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It looked like this when opened up. 

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I then decided to glitter them up some.  Here’s a little trick when working with glitter.  Do it on sticky contact paper, sticky side up.  The glitter will get stuck on the paper and it’s a cinch to clean up.  No glitter mess that gets everywhere.

I used Mod Podge glue and a foam brush to add the glitter.

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I love the way they turned out, but for me it’s all about just sending the love to those precious children.

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I did not include J in this activity, but I hope I can get my creative juices flowing and come up with a fun way for him to make snowflakes too.

Again, if you’re interested in sending snowflakes to the children at Sandy Hook, click here.

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  1. Sally Hammond

    December 21, 2012 at 2:32 pm

    Love this idea! Gonna do it too!

    Reply
  2. Jaime JJ

    December 21, 2012 at 2:39 pm

    These are so cute 🙂

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