Easy Pipe Cleaner Snowflakes: Cute Ornaments!

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Want to make some fun pipe cleaner snowflakes? It’s surprisingly easy to turn a pipe cleaner into a cute DIY Christmas tree ornament.

These pipe cleaner snowflakes are a fun winter craft to make with the kids. And while they look a little complicated, they really aren’t. In fact they’re one of our easiest craft ideas.

We love all sorts of Christmas crafts, but especially ones that are quick and simple, with great results.

Much like our printable Christmas crafts.

They’re great for turning into snowflake ornaments for to use to decorate Christmas gifts with. Just tie on to your package with a pretty ribbon!

If you’re looking for more snowflake ideas, we also have some fun printable snowflake templates.

Materials Needed

For these snowflakes, all you need is:

• Pipe cleaners
• Scissors
• A ruler

That’s it! You can pick pipe cleaners in any color. We made a white one and a yellow-orange one. But silver pipe cleaners would be fun too, or glittery ones.

For each snowflake, you’ll need 2 or 3 pipe cleaners.

How to Make Pipe Cleaner Snowflakes

To make these snowflakes, grab your pipe cleaners. Then measure and cut 3 pieces about 5 inches long.

Then 6 pieces about 3cm long, and 6 pieces 5cm long.

Grab the 3 longest pieces of pipe cleaner pieces together like shown below.

Twist the 3 pieces together in the middle, twisting tightly 3-4 times.

Now you have a very basic pipe cleaner snowflake shape. But for this craft, this is just our snowflake base.

Make sure to spread out all the points to evenly space them into a star shape.

Then grab one of the 3 cm long pieces of pipe cleaner and place it under one of the arms of the snowflake base near the end.

Now, twist the left side of the small piece to the right side around the snowflake’s arm.

Then twist and coil the right side to the left side to attach it to the snowflake.

Repeat this with all the arms of the snowflake.

Next, grab one of the 5cm long pieces of pipe cleaner and place it on one of the arms of the snowflake, slightly under the piece you just created.

Attach it by twisting it just like you did with the other pieces.

Then repeat the process with the rest of the snowflake arms.

And that’s it. Whip up a few of these and you’ll have a bunch of super cute pipe cleaner snowflake ornaments!

Or decorations, or whatever you want to use them for. If you want, you could also add some cute pony beads for a fun burst of color.

These would be super cute to hang on the Christmas tree.

You can attach a pretty ribbon by tieing it or by using some hot glue and attaching the ribbon and hanging it that way.