Snowflake cutting is a great craft idea for children or family fun, for teachers and their students, and other groups. The designs are rated beginner, easy, intermediate and challenging.

My work, for example, is inspired by the kirigami, a lesser-known cousin of the folding art of origami. You may even have done kirigami as a child, folding and cutting to make paper snowflakes.

Although kirigami is essentially of Japanese origin, it has long been familiar throughout the world in the form of the snowflake decoration made by folding and nicking a sheet (a method sadly apt ...