PAPER SNOWFLAKES: For the Whole Family Paperback – Large Print, July 25, 2022

✂️❄️ This one-of-a-kind book has 108 templates with 12 progressive levels of paper folding and cutting for building confidence and success in students of all ages and skills, and produces beautiful seasonal decorations. Photocopy the templates again and again for years of use. A WORKBOOK is also available for $15.95. Simply remove a page, fold, and cut out! ✂️ Just add scissors! ❄️ Makes a GREAT GIFT!Paper Folding and Cutting is a FUN and ENGAGING ACTIVITY that helps build HAND-EYE COORDINATION and FINE MOTOR SKILLS. With the popularity of computers and smart phones, there has been a noticeable decline in these skills. Paper folding and cutting teaches the values of patience, precision, and practice. This EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY is so valuable for developing young minds (and hands) that it is taught in school in Japan as Kirigami. ✂️❄️PAPER SNOWFLAKES For the Whole Family is the first comprehensive guide to making paper snowflakes. Gleaned from classroom tested templates, there are 12 levels of progressive difficulty starting with simple designs for young beginners, and SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN, all the way to advanced designs for Teachers and us BIG KIDS who refuse to act our age.EVERY Template has a visual aid: a step-by-step folding diagram so that you can tell how to fold it just by looking at it, even if your English is not very good. The templates also have folding and cutting tips and suggestions right on them for the best paper types, weight and thickness recommendations for each folding pattern. The snowflakes become progressively more challenging, in a way that builds confidence, as the users skill improves. Included are ways to display and decorate with them. Tape them to the windows and hang from the ceiling in snow-mobile chains for a festive party or seasonal display. Get ready to cut up a snowstorm of paper fun! Create your very own winter wonderland!PAPER SNOWFLAKES For the Whole Family covers the history and cultural beginnings of the evolution of the modern paper snowflake from the first repeating motifs of Poland, the Circular Valentines of Germany, the Doilies of Great Britain, through the Kirigami flower designs of Japan. Some of Mr. Kelley’s templates have Birds, Angels, Boys and Girls, circular Valentines, Mandalas, and Doilies, in homage to these traditions.With the advent of microscopic photography in the late 1800’s, Kirigami as an art form in the late 1950’s, and the scientific classification system of Magono and Lee from Japan in 1966, the modern paper snowflake design has gradually come into focus beginning with my best selling 1990 book - Paper Snowflakes Made Easy. This was the first book to make paper snowflakes resemble real ice crystals. To this day Mr. Kelley’s designs remain the only ones that people of all ages can readily make … and be proud of. There is nothing else like them!PAPER SNOWFLAKES For the Whole Family is packed full of tips and suggestions for: folding, safe scissor use for beginners, proper scissor to hand size and type, the best cutting techniques for right-handed and left-handed people, for the more challenging designs, AND even suggestions for group lessons, like: keep a small waste basket close by for the little cut pieces or you might get snowed in!Starting in the late 1800’s Wilson A. Bentley photographed over 5,000 ice crystals in developing the first scientific catalog of snowflakes. He was so ahead of his time, and did such a thorough job of it that for nearly 100 years no one even tried to do better. PAPER SNOWFLAKES For the Whole Family is that kind of book … It is a scholarly work, a lifelong labor of love ♥️, that appears to be a craft book. ✂️❄️✂️❄️ Read more