Snowflake with Two Branch Pairs on Each Arm

A single snowflake sits in the middle of the page, drawn with clean, rounded outlines. At its center is a small hexagon, and six long arms reach outward from it. Each arm has two pairs of shorter branches. One pair sits near the middle of the arm and the other near the tip, and they angle away like little feathers. The branches on the top and bottom arms are drawn on a slant, while the left and right arms have branches that point back toward the center. Everything is outlined, so the arms and branches are wide enough to fill in with crayons, markers, or colored pencils. Try coloring each of the six arms a different shade of blue, then use silver or white gel pen on the center hexagon. It also works well for talking about symmetry, since kids can count the six matching arms and check that every branch has a twin.