Easy, lacy DIY paper doily snowflakes

Take a paper doily and fold the entire doily in half. If you use an oval one, then fold it in half so the longer, further apart ends meet.

Open the paper doily up again. Then fold in both sides of the lace evenly. It doesn’t matter how far. You can even make them meet in the middle to create different looks. I folded the lace in right where it ends and the solid paper starts.

Step 2: Glue the doily edges to create pockets

For the next step, run a thin line of hot glue along the edge of the lace down on both sides to the center of the folded piece of paper doily. You can see in the photo below and in my video where I started applying the hot glue.

TIP: I usually like using craft glue (or glue stick) for projects like this but in this case, it works out better to use the hot glue when you make sure that the inside of the folded pockets don’t glue together. The hot glue dries fast and doesn’t run which is perfect.

Fold the paper doily in half so the lace glues to the opposite side.

Open the folded and glued doily pocket to make sure that it didn’t glue to the solid inside of the paper doily. Be careful not to burn yourself though.

Repeat those steps until you have enough folded and glued doily pockets to create a doily snowflake. You can do anywhere from 5 to 9 pockets (to create 5 to 9 snowflake points), depending on what look you want. I think that 5 represents more of a star shape, though.

Step 3: Glue the doily pockets together

Now apply a T-shaped line of glue to the front of a doily pocket as pictured.

And then lay another doily pocket onto the one that has the hot glue applied. Repeat that same step with the number of doily pockets that you are using.

Try to open the pockets again to make sure the glue isn’t leaking through the lace and gluing together the wrong areas.

Here you can see my glued stack of doilies.

Step 4: Glue the last pocket of the fan to the first one

Now you can open the stack of glued-together doilies into a fan and then apply another T-shaped line of hot glue to one of the ends so you can glue them together and form a finished doily snowflake.

Then all that’s left to do is to fluff and shape it a bit and figure out how you want to hang it. These types of paper doily snowflakes are three-dimensional and perfect for hanging in a window.

Bonus instructions: Flat back paper doily snowflake method

Since the three-dimensional doily snowflakes are a bit on the fat side, I wanted to come up with a way to make flatter, less deep snowflakes by cutting the paper doilies in half. These types of paper doily snowflakes have a flat back and are perfect for hanging on a flat surface like a wall, and in my case, the fireplace mantel.

Let me show you in the next image collage what steps you need to take for this bonus version.

Finished paper doily snowflakes

Aren’t they super pretty? Which color is your favorite? They definitely have a flower-type quality to them.

I used my favorite battery-operated candles again on my fireplace mantel. And the clip-on candle version on my tree below.

Check out the rest of the boho living room and Christmas decor.

Decorating ideas for your paper doily snowflakes: They look beautiful hanging from curtain rods, around the fireplace, hanging from the ceiling, in a Christmas tree as ornaments, or as gift toppers.