Cute and Colourful Winter Craft: Rainbow Snowflake Suncatchers

Who says snowflake crafts have to be white? Especially when all winter long we will be surrounded by piles of white snow. I decided to spice things up a bit and encourage the kids to make some rainbow snowflake suncatchers to decorate our windows. And they turned out so pretty! They're certainly a nice punch of colour.

So if you are looking for a unique spin on the classic paper snowflake, then you'll want to try making this cute snowflake craft for kids!

Here's what you'll need to make these pretty rainbow snowflake suncatchers:

• coloured transparencies — I use coloured index dividers from Dollarama
• scissors
• paper trimmer

Use the paper trimmer to make the coloured transparencies square-shaped. Our squares were 7 x 7 inches.

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Fold the transparencies as many times as you can, just like you would while making a paper snowflake. Then it's time to cut! Keep in mind that transparencies are thicker than paper and slip easier than paper, so your kids will have to hold onto their folded transparencies as tight as they can while cutting. Encourage them to experiment with a variety of shapes and sizes of cuts. Depending on the age of your kids, you might need to help them hold the folded transparencies so that the snowflakes don't unfold while they cut.

The kids will love unfolding their colourful snowflakes! I know that I always enjoy the unfolding process to see what the final design of the snowflake will look like.

Repeat as many times as your kids want or in as many colours as your kids want! We went for an entire rainbow of snowflakes. They are certainly a nice change from the typical white paper snowflakes.

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Be sure to hang them up in the windows to enjoy all winter long!