So many snowflake patterns require a specialist craft knife and a cutting mat, these snowflakes require simply a pair of scissors.
I used A4 white paper for these examples, folded and cut into a square (with sides the same length as the short side of a normal piece of A4 paper, 21cm x21cm). The two snowflakes at the very bottom of this page of instructions, are made from roughly 20cm diameter circles (just find something circular in your house and which just fits onto an A4 piece of paper, to use as a template).
Before cutting the designs, I folded the squares and the circles into half, then again into quarters and then once more into eighths. So I made 3 folds in total.
Next I drew out my designs in a feint pencil and used scissors to cut away the parts shown in black in the 'how to cut' photos below.
Finally I opened the snowflakes up REALLY carefully so they didn't rip. Ta-da!
They look beautiful stuck to a window with blue-tac (choose a window which doesn't suffer from condensation and of course always reuse the blue tac). The snowflakes can be carefully folded up and used again year after year (and added to with new designs each year of course). At the end of their usable life they can be put into paper recycling bin (once all of the blue tac has been removed and saved).
To make this snowflake (trees and houses and drifts)...
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Fold a 21cm x 21cm square of white paper into 1/8s and draw the half-tree shape along the closed fold, opposite draw the half-house shape, down the long, open fold. Add some snowdrift wavy cut outs towards the pointy end = trees and houses and drifts snowflake.
To make this snowflake (bold jagged snowflake)...
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Fold a 21cm x 21cm square of white paper into 1/8s and draw a backwards chunky 'L' shape with its back along the closed fold = bold jagged snowflake.
To make this snowflake (trees and gingerbread men)...
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Fold a 21cm x 21cm square of white paper into 1/8s and draw the half tree shape along the opening long fold and the half gingerbread man shape along the closed fold. Make sure that the gingerbread man's leg sticks out and attaches to the tree = trees and gingerbread men snowflake.
To make this snowflake (central star)...
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Fold a 21cm x 21cm square of white paper into 1/8s and draw a big triangle with its base on the closed fold, draw a stumpy rectangle mid-way down the long open fold and a smaller triangle along the short open fold = central star snowflake.
To make this snowflake (wrapped presents)...
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Fold a 21cm x 21cm square of white paper into 1/8s and draw a horizontal sea monster with a long upcurved tail! The top of the sea monster's head, the top of its back and the tip of its tail are all along the closed fold. Most of the long open fold is cut away. This one may take some trial and error as it is hard to explain, but it is a strikingly simple design once unfolded (meaning you can easily refold it again and trim away at it a bit more to get it to look 'right') = wrapped presents snowflake.
To make this snowflake (trees and snowmen)...
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Fold a 21cm x 21cm square of white paper into 1/8s and draw the half fir tree shape along the closed fold and the half snowman shape backed up to the long open fold. ***The snowman arm is fiddly and will probably need adult help*** Add some cut out wiggly snowdrift lines towards the pointy end = trees and snowmen.
To make this snowflake (tall fir trees in a circle)...
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Fold a 20cm (approximately) diameter CIRCLE of white paper into 1/8s and draw the 4 half-triangles (one above the other) on the closed fold (cutting most of the closed fold away, just the top part remains). On the long open fold side add whichever small cuts you like (this one has a half tringle and a half diamond, but you could do some half house shapes to make a village of houses between the trees) = tall fir trees in a circle.
To make this snowflake...(circular snowflake)
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Fold a 20cm (approximately) diameter CIRCLE of white paper into 1/8s and draw three different half-triangles on each side of the segment. The largest half triangle is on the closed fold side, the more evenly spaced triangles are on the closed fold side = circular snowflake.
**thanks to my mini-me for designing and cutting the final two snowflakes on this page**