How to make artificial snow at home

Artificial snow is an opportunity to have fun with children, creating various New Year's crafts or just sculpting a snowman in a warm room. There are different ways to make artificial snow, depending on how you will use it. This article contains the most interesting and proven recipes for games and crafts.

Choose a method:

  • From diapers
  • Shaving foam and baking soda
  • Kinetic option
  • From soap
  • From starch
  • From soap and toilet paper
  • Styrofoam
  • Foamed polyethylene
  • From a candle
  • From polymer clay or airy plasticine
  • Snow slime
  • From soap and starch
  • From PVA glue and starch
  • Spruce branches in hoarfrost
  • Sweet snow

1. Artificial snow from diapers

In modern diapers, sodium polyacrylate is used as an absorbent. This substance is capable of absorbing moisture 30 times its own weight. From the water, its fibers swell and become like snow crystals.

To make snow from diapers, you will need:

  • 1 baby diaper;
  • large pelvis;
  • latex gloves;
  • water.

Priority of actions:

  1. Remove the inner padding from the diaper, which will look like ordinary cotton wool, and grind it into the smallest pieces possible.
  2. After that, transfer the filler into a basin, into which you need to gradually add water and knead everything with your hands. In order not to get a chemical burn, it is imperative to wear gloves on your hands.
  3. Gradually, the filler fibers will become like real snow crystals. It is important not to overdo it with water, so as not to get an ugly gray mass instead of snow.

To make it look like a real thing, the snow from the diaper can be placed in the refrigerator for a while, but not in the freezer.

2. From shaving foam and baking soda

This snow recipe is perfect for children's traditional winter games. You can easily make snowballs or a whole snowman from it, and you can also play with it using sandbox molds. To create such snow you will need:

  • shaving foam;
  • baking soda;
  • deep container for mixing ingredients.

Progress:

  1. Squeeze out the shaving foam into a deep bowl.
  2. Then, gradually adding soda, mix everything well to get a crumbly, but well-collected mass.

This artificial snow is not only similar in appearance to the real one, but also in tactile sensations. Thanks to the menthol scent, the mass is cool to the touch.

3. DIY kinetic snow

This snow is slightly fluid to the touch, reminiscent of kinetic sand. To make it at home, you will need:

  • 1 part baking soda;
  • ½ part corn flour;
  • ½ part cornstarch;
  • ¾ parts of water.

Sequence of work:

  1. First you need to sift flour and soda into a suitable container.
  2. Pour water into the resulting dry mixture and stir well.
  3. Finish the preparation of artificial snow by mixing the starch into the mass. It is he who will make the mixture crispy and fluid.

If you don't have cornstarch in your kitchen, you can easily replace it with potato starch. This will not negatively affect the final result.

4. Artificial soap snow

This snow is very pleasant and silky to the touch. The main ingredient in this recipe is solid soap, but only white bars will do, because snow is never green or pink. The list of all the required ingredients will be as follows:

  • white soap;
  • peppermint essential oil;
  • sparkles or glitter;
  • fine grater (for example, for cheese or zest).

How to do:

  1. The soap bars should be sent to the freezer overnight to freeze well.
  2. Then grate them on the finest grater, add a little glitter and a couple of drops of essential oil, which will make the mass cool to the touch.

This artificial snow is also easy to mold and can be used to make a snowman.

5. Homemade crispy starch snow

This white mass also resembles kinetic sand. All the ingredients needed for cooking are inexpensive and can be found in any kitchen. The crunchy artificial snow contains:

  • 3 parts cornstarch
  • ½ part refined vegetable oil.

Preparation:

  1. To mix the ingredients, prepare a deep bowl and whisk. Then, taking a glass or a cup, measure out the required amount of starch and oil.
  2. Combine all ingredients in a bowl and stir thoroughly with a whisk. When the oil and starch are combined, the snow is ready to play.

This recipe has a big plus: all its ingredients are edible, so nothing terrible will happen if the kid accidentally swallows it. However, oil can make it difficult to clean up after play.

6. From soap and toilet paper

To sculpt snowmen or other winter crafts, you can make a mass of white toilet paper or paper towels and soap. To create it you will need:

  • white toilet paper;
  • a bar of white solid soap;
  • some warm water.

Cooking master class:

  1. First, grate the soap on the bottom of the plate and distribute it in an even layer.
  2. Then tear the white toilet paper or paper kitchen towels into small flakes. Put the resulting scraps of paper on the soap.
  3. After that, send the plate to the microwave for 60 seconds. There, the paper will rise and the soap flakes will become soft and pliable.
  4. After removing the plate from the microwave, you need to pour a little warm water into it, stir everything thoroughly and the snow is ready.

7. Dry snow foam

Often, for various crafts, imitation of snow is needed, which will not melt and will retain its shape for a long time, for example, to make snow-covered twigs. There is an easy and affordable way to make artificial snow that meets these requirements. For this you will need:

  • Styrofoam;
  • table fork.

How to get and where to apply snowflakes:

  1. First you need to find a piece of styrofoam. The one in which household appliances are packed will do.
  2. Next, use a fork to scrape off small foam balls using light pressure.
  3. The resulting snow looks like a small hail, but it will look spectacular on the bare branches of a winter composition, imitating snow.

8. Foamed polyethylene

Polyethylene foam is a material widely used in various fields. Due to the elasticity and elasticity of the canvas, fragile household appliances are often packed into it. And if there is a piece of such material in the house, then snow can be made from it for the New Year, which will not melt, no matter how hot it is in the apartment or house.

For work you will need:

  • a piece of foamed polyethylene;
  • fine grater.

Stages of work:

  1. Cut off a piece of polyethylene foam and grate it gently on a very fine grater.
  2. Collect the resulting flakes and use to create a New Year's decor.

You can add some glitter to this snow for a sparkling shine. To cover any surface with the resulting flakes, it must be greased with PVA glue, and then sprinkled with flakes.

9. Artificial snow from a candle

For New Year 2022, you can make a themed craft with your child - a snow globe. A round glass jar with a tightly screwed lid is suitable as a flask. Inside it, you can place New Year's characters or a symbol of the coming year. And to make the ball snowy, you will need:

  • paraffin candle;
  • fine grater.

Sequencing:

  1. Grate a white paraffin candle on a fine grater.
  2. Pour the resulting flakes into a mixture of water and glycerin, which then fill a snow globe.

10. From polymer clay or air plasticine

If the child has made something with his own hands and has not removed the white airy plasticine or polymer clay, then there is no need to get upset and throw away the spoiled materials. These dried residues can be used to create artificial snow. In work you will need:

  • the remains of white airy plasticine or polymer clay;
  • fine grater and / or coffee grinder.

Steps in the cooking process:

  1. Break dried pieces of clay or plasticine into small pieces with your hands.
  2. Then grind them into small flakes in a coffee grinder or grind them on a grater.

Since this snow will turn out to be a little, it will be possible to use it for small light crafts, for example, to make voluminous snow on handmade New Year's greeting cards.

11. Snow slime

Slime is a popular anti-stress toy among children, made of a sticky substance that is so pleasant to stretch and squeeze in your hands. They are of different types and composition. For children on the eve of the New Year, you can make a snow slime or cloud slime (cloud slime). To create it you will need:

  • PVA glue;
  • washing gel, preferably blue or transparent;
  • finely ground coconut.

You need to act as follows:

  1. Pour the glue into a suitable container, add washing gel to it and knead the mass carefully until it stops sticking from your hands.
  2. Then add the coconut flakes to the slime and mix well. It is not necessary to add too much shavings so that the mass does not harden and remains airy.

Since snow for slime is coconut, then the finished anti-stress will not only have an airy texture, but also a pleasant coconut aroma.

12. Artificial snow from soap and starch

To give a snow-covered look to your DIY Christmas wreath, you can prepare a snow-white mass with the following ingredients:

  • white soap;
  • potato starch;
  • hot water.

Cooking sequence:

  1. Grate white solid soap on a fine grater into a deep beating container.
  2. Pour starch into it and pour in a little hot water.
  3. Beat all the ingredients into a fluffy white mass.
  4. Apply the resulting snow to the craft and leave to dry.

13. From PVA glue and starch

If you need a white bulk that imitates snow to decorate a winter craft, then you can use the following recipe:

  • 2 parts starch;
  • 2 pieces of PVA glue;
  • 2 parts of silver paint.

We do as follows:

  1. Take a container of a suitable size, measure out and combine all the ingredients in it.
  2. Next, the contents of the container should be very thoroughly grind until smooth.

14. Spruce branches in hoarfrost

A very interesting experiment can be carried out with children, which will result in beautiful spruce branches covered in hoarfrost. For him you will need:

  • warm water;
  • coarse salt.

Progress:

  1. Heat a small amount of water over low heat.
  2. Then prepare a concentrated saline solution in it, adding salt to the water until it stops dissolving in it.
  3. Dip the spruce branches into the solution and leave for a while. Then take them out and let them dry.

At the end of all the manipulations done, beautiful branches of a New Year's tree will be obtained, which can be used for decoration.

Or you can simply dip a wet spruce branch in salt.

15. Sweet snow

You can make artificial snow edible. Pastry bakers have known about this for a long time, who decorate them with Christmas gingerbread. Sweet snow can be used not only for baking decor, but also for various crafts. To prepare it, you need to take:

  • 1 chicken egg white;
  • 150-200 g icing sugar.

Preparation:

  1. Beat the protein until light foam with a mixer on medium speed.
  2. Then add powdered sugar in small portions, continuing to beat everything with a mixer until strong peaks.

Apply the resulting mass to the craft with a brush and then dry it in the oven at 50 degrees with the door ajar.After 2-3 hours you can admire the snowy beauty.

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