How to make artificial snow. DIY snow

I want to new year holidays special snow decoration, but real snow, alas, is only outside. How to make artificial snow with your own hands? What is the best way to decorate a Christmas tree, windows, candles, twigs and other interior items with artificial snow? On the pages of our website we have collected best ideas for the production of artificial snow. Let's consider each method separately.

Artificial snow made from candles and talcum powder

To prepare artificial snow, you can use regular talc (baby powder) and paraffin (candles). Grate the pre-cooled candles on a fine grater, mix the resulting crumbs with talc and sparkles (glitters). This snow is suitable for decorating Christmas tree decorations, painting windows and decorating New Year's crafts.

Styrofoam snow

A simple option to get artificial snow is to ruffle the foam. The foam is white and consists of small balls. If you take a Styrofoam package from under household appliances and crumble the Styrofoam with a fork, you will get quite a lot of light and sticky snow.

Please note that foam balls have bad habit become magnetized to all things and are not easy to remove.

Foam snow looks interesting when decorating branches - you can do it.

DIY snow made from paper and soap

To make artificial snow, you can use paper towels or toilet paper. 2-3 rolls of paper need to be torn into small pieces. Next, take white soap and place it in a ceramic or plastic container. Place pieces of paper on the soap. Place the bowl in the microwave for 30-40 seconds. The mass should become airy and crumble.

Take the snow mass out of the microwave and pour a little water into it to make the snow plastic. Now you can sculpt such snow and roll snowballs out of it. You can make small snowmen or other funny figures from soap and paper snow to decorate your room for the holiday.

Artificial snow from diapers

Interesting artificial snow can be made from diapers or disposable diapers. The absorbent substance included in the diapers, sodium polyacrylate, looks like snow when it interacts with water. This property can be used to make snow with your own hands.

Take out the stuffing that looks like cotton wool from the diapers, chop it up and put it in a deep bowl. Gradually add to the substance clean water and stir the mixture. It will look like real snow. This snow can be used to decorate crafts, create snowmen and make snowballs.

Eggshell snow

Crushed egg shells look like snow. To make this artificial snow, take the shells of several white eggs, dry them, and remove the films from the inside of the shell. Then put the shells in a tight bag and crush them hard object, tapping the package.

Mix the resulting snow with glitter. Now they can decorate New Year's toys, spruce branches, windows.

Artificial snow made from soda and shaving foam

An interesting version of artificial snow can be made from shaving foam and soda. You will need to take 1 can of foam and 1.5 packs of soda.

Squeeze shaving foam into a deep bowl in parts and mix it with baking soda. You will have to mix gradually, adding foam and soda and stirring everything well. You can add glitter to the mixture. Then put the bowl of snow in the refrigerator.

Snow made of polyethylene and starch

Snow mass can be made from polyethylene. Grate the packaging polyethylene or insulation based on it on a medium-sized grater. Add glitter and potato starch to the resulting shavings and mix everything with a small amount water. Then the resulting snow needs to be dried.

Such snow can be glued (using PVA glue) to artificial Christmas tree branches.

Snow drawings on the windows

The snow patterns on the window glass look charming. Making this artificial snow is very easy. Using a prepared stencil (), stencils with the symbols of the year and just letters) and a toothbrush, spray snow dust onto the glass. The mass for such spraying can be made from toothpaste and starch.

Mix 1 tube of toothpaste with potato starch and a cup of boiling water. Whisk the mixture until foamy enough. This snow composition is suitable for decorating spruce branches and Christmas tree decorations.

Do you want to decorate thin branches with frost? Then try using regular salt for this purpose. Take 1 kg of salt and dissolve it in 1.5 liters of hot water. Do not turn off the heat until all the salt crystals have dissolved. Place clean and dry twigs into the cooled solution. They need to be kept in salt water for at least 4-5 hours. Salt crystals will form on the branches gradually. The longer they remain in the solution, the larger the artificial frost will be.

It's not difficult to make artificial snow with your own hands. Choose the desired snow making option for yourself and create with your children. It's not only beautiful, but also fun. May your holiday be bright!

Of course, you can bring real snow into your house, but there is just one significant problem: it will melt quickly, here factory production came to the rescue, giving the world dry artificial snow. It is customary to decorate with this snow spruce branches, window sills, shelves and other items in the house, it’s just a pity that you won’t be able to make snowballs from it. But this problem can be easily solved; below we will tell you about several ways to make snow yourself, and we will tell you not only about creating snow that can be sculpted, but also about methods for producing dry snow.

How to make artificial snow with your own hands - the best examples

1. Made from starch and shaving foam

Pour corn starch into a deep bowl (you can also use potato starch), squeeze shaving foam out of the bottle here, mix the mixture thoroughly with your hands. The snow is ready, you can sculpt snowmen or snowballs.

2. From diaper filler

Another great method for creating artificial snow is to take a baby diaper (sold individually in some pharmacies), rip open the bottom part, take out the soft filling, and place it in a deep bowl. Pour a little water into the container with the filler, wait for the mass to swell, mix it thoroughly with your hands. The result is very realistic wet snow.

3. Made from polystyrene foam

We take polystyrene foam (look in appliance boxes), use a fork to scrape out the small balls that will come away from the foam when pressed with a fork. A scattering of such balls looks more like small hail, but if such balls are glued to dry twigs, the feeling of “homemade” snow will be created.

4. Made from eggshells

From eggshells We separate the inner films, then we put all the shells into a transparent tight bag, and with a rolling pin we rub them to the required state.

5. From soap and paper towels

Take a roll of snow-white toilet paper or paper towels. We tear the paper into small flakes, put grated soap on the bottom of the plate and add pieces of paper. Place the plate in the microwave for one minute. Watch what is happening inside the oven; the paper should rise and fluff up. The soap will become soft and pliable, take out the plate, pour in a little water, mix the composition thoroughly. You can make snowmen or snowballs from this snow.

6. Made from polyethylene foam

An elementary way to create dry snow is to take a piece of foamed polyethylene (look in boxes with equipment) and grate it.

7. From soap and starch

We grate snow-white soap, pour it into a deep plate, add potato starch here, and pour in hot boiled water, beat the whole mixture into foam with a mixer. Apply the mixture to the surface of the prepared foam ball. Leave the product to dry. This snow looks great on spruce branches.

8. Snow made from soda and shaving foam

Elementary method To create a very impressive snow, squeeze shaving foam into a deep bowl, stirring constantly, add baking soda. Such snow will not only smell pleasant, but also feel cool to the touch.

Artificial snow made of sodium polyacrylate

5 different ways to make snow (video)

Kyiv decided that spring had begun. I even found fluffy cats on the willow, can you imagine! And Ksyusha has been yearning for snow since summer. She remembers it so much that the baby waits for new snow all year. Well, no, that means you need to do it yourself. In my search for the perfect homemade snow, I came across many interesting recipes, each of which promises to be super-duper. Okay, we'll try everything. During the day's walk, Seraphim and I visited all the necessary nearby shops and collected a bunch of ingredients.

Ingredients

From all this wealth, I prepared 4 types of artificial snow and recorded a short video review for you, which shows what each snow mixture looks like: does it mold, how free-flowing and smooth each of them is:

Recipe one: “Cold homemade snow”

Shaving foam snow

Ingredients:

• Shaving foam

I mixed the ingredients without adhering to any proportions, although the recipe says that you need to take 1 can of foam for 1 pack of soda. I decided to save the foam for two more experiments, so I didn’t make artificial snow from the entire can.

This snow turned out to be wet, cold and fragrant (we smell of menthol and something else). It's easy to make snowmen from it.

Recipe two: “Fragrant delicate snowball”

Snow made from baby oil

Ingredients:

• 2 cups flour
• 1/4 cup baby massage oil

Important:

The original recipe called for 1 cup baby oil per 8 cups flour. I thought this portion was too big, so I reduced it by 4 times. You need to knead it thoroughly; you can use an egg whisk for this purpose.

This recipe made the most delicate homemade snow with a pleasant aroma. Suitable for children with very sensitive skin. You can make snowballs and figures from it, just like the real thing.

Recipe three: “Very white and crispy snow”

Corn starch snow

Ingredients:

• 3 cups cornstarch
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil

Important: the presence of oil in the recipe makes it difficult to clean up after playing!

Mix the ingredients very thoroughly, you can also use a whisk. The result is super crispy, pleasant to the touch, living snow that is a bit like kinetic sand. By the way, this recipe is, surprisingly, the most economical :) And one more significant plus for mothers of one-year-olds: This snow can be eaten and it is safe!

Recipe four: “Do-it-yourself kinetic snow”

Snow made from soda, starch and flour

Ingredients:

• 1 cup soda
• 1/2 cup cornmeal
• 3/4 cup water
• 1/2 cup cornstarch

I prepared this snow like this: I mixed soda with cornmeal, added water, then added the required amount of starch (about 1/2 cup). The snow turned out to be very interesting to the touch, somewhat fluid. Corn starch adds this sensation to it.

How to play with homemade snow?

• You can add glitter, snowflakes, food coloring or other little things to each snow.
• For games, it is worth preparing different tools for (rolling pin, plastic knife, spoons, spatulas, molds, stamps, etc.), children's dishes or bottles with liquid paint and spray.
• You can also invite different characters to the game: animals, Santa Claus, and others.

Tools

It looks neater on a tray with sides

I don’t like to build a children’s game according to a certain scenario, so I don’t come up with any fairy tales in advance. I simply create conditions that promote exciting play. The only thing is that before each game I voice some rules, for example: “Don’t scatter snow around you, don’t walk around the house with a box, use tools in turns, and the like.” Of course, these rules often go unnoticed by my girls :) But I think they still need to be said...

Simochka pours snow into a mini ice cream bowl with a spoon

We have already done it ourselves. But for the first time it was intended to decorate our New Year's vase. The first experience ended quite comically, so this time I decided to go a different route. There are many different recipes for artificial snow on the Internet, but they would not have suited us, since we needed not just artificial snow, but one that “melts.” Or rather, with which my child could conduct an experiment.

This lesson was held within the framework, where every day the child receives a letter from Santa Claus with various tasks and a small souvenir. We have 7 days left until the New Year!

Hello grandson, what kind of food have I eaten at your place? Thank you, I respected the old man.

And I have prepared a new task for you. Make me some snowmen. I know, I know, no Dominican Republic snow! But you and your mom can make artificial snow with your own hands. And don’t worry if the snowmen melt, because under New Year miracles happen. The steam will carry them to me.

Did you like my gifts?

Making artificial snow with your own hands

We needed:

• Soda (454 g pack was enough for 4.5 snowmen)
• Glitter (any small ones to give a festive look)
• Water (we used about 30 ml)

At home, you can prepare artificial snow using different recipes. Since our snow was intended for an experiment, we chose a recipe suitable specifically for it.

They poured the baking soda into a bowl, touched it, and decided that it felt like sand. Dry soda definitely doesn’t look like snow.

I poured silver glitter into the baking soda and it began to shimmer beautifully. My glitter is small, so unfortunately it’s almost invisible in the photo. Now it was necessary to turn the “sand” into “snow”. To do this, I literally started adding water a few drops at a time.

All photos enlarge when clicked

As soon as the mass began to take shape, our artificial snow, which we made with our own hands, is ready.

For crafts made from artificial snow we needed:

• Artificial snow (which we made with our own hands);
• Beads (we use them to make eyes, we had blue ones);
• Foil (or any other material that does not get wet, for the nose);
• Confetti (small to give a festive look);
• Small disposable cups (it is important that the bottom is flat).

When the child had enough of playing with artificial snow, we took small fifty-milligram cups and began to decide what we should use to make the eyes and nose of the snowmen. Alexander suggested eyes made of beads, we only had blue ones, and a nose made of orange buttons.

But having put this combination in a glass, the child himself saw that the resulting face looked more like a pig. I looked through all my materials to find one that wouldn't get wet in water. My gaze fell on candy wrappers; they are made of foil on one side painted dark yellow.

I personally had the idea to cut out triangles and put them on the bottom of the cup. But my son said:

– Mom, I know how to make noses for snowmen easier and faster.

He took a candy wrapper and rolled it into a sausage with one end thinner than the other. All I had to do was cut a piece of the required length. I was very pleased with my boy's ingenuity and initiative

As I already wrote, my calculation with the amount of soda turned out to be incorrect. To fill all the prepared cups, I would need about 3 packs of soda, 454 grams each. But you can't run to the store in the middle of the process. Therefore, we filled as much as was enough.

While filling, you should try to keep the nose and eyes in place. Although Alexander is currently 5 years and 2 months old, he would hardly have succeeded. Therefore, I took on this mission. But she didn’t leave the child idle either. Putting some artificial snow on the bottom of the cup, I tried to compact it as they usually do when building castles on the beach. Then the child sprinkled some small waterproof confetti. I again added artificial snow and a pinch of confetti fell again. The idea here is that when our craft melts, the mass will look beautiful on New Year's Eve

While playing with artificial snow and forming snowballs from it, Alexander said the following phrase:

– Just like real snow, only not cold.

- What can be done to make it cold? – I supported the conversation.

– You can add ice to it.

“But then the ice will melt and our snow will turn into a puddle.”

“Then we can put it in the freezer!”

I thought it was a great idea and asked the child to put our cups in the freezer, where they spent 6 hours.

Logically, I understood that the water added to the soda would freeze, and our snowmen would become denser. But only after we started the experiment did I fully understand what this freezing had done. Now I will tell you everything in order.

For the experiment we needed:

• A large plastic box (so that all the ingredients remain inside and not on the festive tablecloth);
• Glass bowl (where the experiment itself will take place);
• Magnifying glass (we have a children's one);
• Pipette (also from a children's set);
• Vinegar (we use 5%);
• Food coloring (to illustrate the process).

During children's astronomy classes, we conducted a lesson that my child really remembered. Then we simulated craters on the Moon. The soda simply hissed, its reaction to vinegar was interesting to Alexander, which is why almost 2 years later I decided to repeat the experiment.

So, after I took the snowmen out of the freezer, I simply turned the cups over by lightly tapping the bottom, and the craft easily popped out. The time that our artificial snow was in the freezer is arbitrary; I admit that I don’t know how it would behave if it stayed there overnight, for example. But in any case, if the snowmen don’t come out very well, you can put the cups in hot water for 20-30 seconds and then they will definitely jump out.

I dropped a drop of blue food coloring into the flask with vinegar. You can take any color, but I associate snow with blue. First, we examined our hand-made artificial snow snowmen through a magnifying glass.

Now we put everything in the hands of the child. Alexander conducted his own experiment: he took vinegar into a pipette and slowly poured it onto the snowman. The child quickly realized that the slower he poured the vinegar, the longer it would take to monitor his reaction.

Then we watched together through a magnifying glass how our artificial snow was seething. This is very interesting for a preschooler; my son’s eyes sparkled!

What we noticed together was that frozen artificial snow is not so easy to melt. Even when soaked with vinegar from below, look carefully at the photo below, the snowmen did not collapse. The child carried out the experiment itself for about half an hour, which took 250 ml of vinegar. I didn’t expect this at all, thinking that a chain reaction would start and that one test tube of vinegar would be enough for us. But that was not the case!

In the end, all the snowmen went to the kingdom of Santa Claus, and we began to discuss our findings. My friend and reader of my blog, Maria Eliseeva, helped us make them:

The reaction of soda and vinegar has the following equation

NaHCO3 + CH3COOH → CH3COONa + CO2 + H2O

Soda and vinegar chemical reaction– as a result of the interaction, sodium salt, gas and water are obtained.

The child spent a long time sorting through the sodium salt mush; just in case, I touched it myself and made sure that there was no reaction to my hands. And this paste is really pleasant to the touch, so children are provided with a lot of tactile sensations during the experiment. Alexander then informed me that our artificial snow was no longer cold and asked to add ice.

After this, a new wave of play began, but it was no longer an experiment. My boy collected “snow” into snowdrifts and ice into icebergs. We added water so that an ocean formed and the child was occupied for another good 30 minutes.

This is where our experiment with artificial snow ended, my child was completely delighted. In addition to development fine motor skills, tactile sensations and simply interesting independent play, he discovered the characteristics of soda and drew conclusions. As you have seen, dear readers of my blog, artificial snow is quite easy to make with your own hands, maybe your imagination will tell you other crafts made from artificial snow. I will be very glad if you share your ideas with me.

Winter is in full swing, and although last year's New Year's holidays have already passed and have even managed to be forgotten a little, winter-themed crafts are still relevant, especially if there are snowdrifts outside the window. Snow... It’s so good to make an original snowman that you often even want to take it home. However, the snow craft sparkling in the frosty sun will melt in the warmth in a matter of minutes, bringing grief and natural consequences. everyday problems. And if so, then let’s get down to business and learn how to make artificial snow, which will delight you and your loved ones, giving your masterpieces a truly fabulous winter flavor! In this article you will learn how to make artificial snow at home.

In fact, there is no one recipe for making artificial snow with your own hands: there are many known methods that differ from each other in the result - the resulting “snow” mass - sometimes quite strongly. However, each recipe has its adherents among craftsmen and can serve decorative purposes in its own style, for certain crafts. In this article we will look at several of the most successful, in our opinion, methods for making artificial snow and frost: we advise you to try each one, choosing for yourself best option(or variations).

For the sake of objectivity, it is worth mentioning that there are special aerosol cans with “artificial snow” on sale, the contents of which very realistically reproduce real snow, as well as corresponding powders and granules for dissolving in water. However, we will not follow this simple, but significantly more expensive path, but now we will begin to roll up our sleeves and get down to business.

Any artificial snow recipe is multi-component in structure and consists of several ingredients, which, when mixed in certain proportions and under certain conditions, give the desired result. Almost all of the proposed options are easy to make in a regular kitchen or home workshop.

How to make artificial snow at home?

Method No. 1

For a great sparkling result, mix cornstarch with shaving cream and glitter. You will have to experiment with proportions to achieve the result you want. If desired (and if available, of course), you can add mint extract when kneading. Suitable instead of starch corn flour, and sparkles are often “replaced” with mica. In any case, the result of your efforts will definitely please you.

Method No. 2

Shaving foam can also be mixed with regular baking soda(sodium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate or sodium bicarbonate are the same thing, do not be alarmed by the differences on the packaging from different manufacturers). It is important to gradually add it to the foam squeezed out in advance into a suitable container; the resulting white mass, pleasant to the touch, can be “seasoned” with sparkles, achieving the charm of snow sparkling in the sun. Usually one and a half standard packs of soda are required per can of foam.

Method No. 3

Pre-frozen toilet soap grated on a cheese grater looks incredibly believable as artificial snow. Any variety will do, as long as the color of the bar is as white as possible. Mint extract and glitter added to the resulting mass will also come in very handy for a greater decorative effect.

Method No. 4

A not-so-cheap and not-at-all-free way (although it depends on who) is to gut an ordinary baby diaper: we only need its sodium polyacrylate filler, which then needs to be torn into small pieces. This is an absorbent material that crystallizes when exposed to moisture and retains it. Therefore, the material extracted from the diaper is placed in a container and gradually poured clean water, just make sure that there is not more than enough to form “snow”. If you have doubts about the harmlessness of sodium polyacrylate, take into account the fact that you took it out of the thing that is most loyal to the baby’s sensitive body - a diaper.

Method No. 5

In nature, snow, as you know, can look somewhat different, while remaining the same snow. Here we go this method offers a slightly unique artificial snow - it is best used to create “snow massifs”, “snow-covered expanses”. You will need ordinary starch, PVA glue and silver paint: just take one equal part at a time (usually it is calculated in the volume of 2 tablespoons, but this is not important) and mix and grind thoroughly until you get the “snowy” mass you need.

Method number 6

This is not really snow, or rather, not snow at all, but “frost”, which may be required to create believable compositions. Sprigs of pine needles, ordinary twigs and grass are covered with a very steep layer for this purpose. saline solution, which, when dry, crystallizes on their surface and shines, just like real frost! And achieving this effect is very simple: gradually pour coarse table salt into a container with hot water on the stove over low heat, and when the salt stops dissolving, turn off the heat and lower the pre-prepared plants into the solution. The twigs with future “frost” are infused until the water cools, then taken out and dried under normal conditions for about 4-5 hours - you will see the result for yourself!

Method No. 7

Often, to design a “winter” craft, you may need the so-called. "snow paint" To prepare it, let's take the shaving cream we already know (the brand doesn't matter - the main thing is that it is white), PVA glue, as well as the ubiquitous glitter - where would we be without them, and mint extract. Well-mixed ingredients form a characteristic mass, which is applied with a brush or sponge and can be used to either tint a craft or fully draw on a plane, for example, snowmen.

Well, that's it. “The Magic Seven” completes our selection of the most available ways making artificial snow to decorate crafts on a “winter” theme, giving them the necessary charm and appropriate color. In fact, there are almost three times as many such methods, however, those presented here will be quite enough to create real masterpieces!