) you can use artificial snow for decorations:
1. Making snow from soap
2. Making snow from foam plastic
6. Snow made from shaving foam
You can make a beautiful snow bouquet using cut paper. You will need white or pale blue paper (for example, paper napkins), thin foil (Christmas tree tinsel). This entire paper “collection” needs to be crumbled into pieces of the chosen shape. You can cut out circles using a hole punch, or make small cuts, thin strips or any arbitrary shapes. Mix the paper in a dry and sufficiently large container. Carefully dip the collected branches into glue (clerical or PVA) and sprinkle with prepared frost. Leave the frost to dry and your snow bouquet is ready!
8. Snow made of foam.Grate the foam on a coarse grater. It is advisable to work in small room, because the foam tends to scatter everywhere and terribly clings (magnetizes) to your hands and nearby things. Place the grated balls into the box. Dip the prepared beautiful branches into glue and immediately sprinkle with foam crumbles. This kind of snow stays on the branches very well.
9. Frost from powdered sugar.
Frost can be made not only on branches, but also on fruits. Why not a New Year's bouquet with a frosty apple or a tangerine in the snow? Apply fresh egg white to well-washed and dried fruits and, without wasting time, sprinkle the fruits with sugar or powdered sugar. Add a couple of spruce branches, dry maple or holly leaves to the fruit and your bouquet is ready!
10. Spray snow .
The simplest and easiest way is to decorate with artificial frost or snow from a spray can. Matte, shiny, crumbly, large or smaller - you can choose what you like best. Just spray this miracle from a can onto the prepared bouquet, and it will sparkle, bringing that frosty mood into your home!
11. made of soap and paper
How to make snow with your own hands? There is an option made from soap and toilet paper.
Prepare 2-3 rolls of white toilet paper and a bar of white soap.Tear into small pieces.Microwave the dish with the paper mixture and the whole bar of soap for 1 minute. Check the contents every 15 seconds. In the oven the mass should fluff up.Now the soap has become soft and crumbles right in your hands.Fill the mixture with water. First add 1 cup, then add another half cup. NowYou can form a snowball.
12. From semolina. Spread the surface with glue and sprinkle with semolina. :)
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Today there are many ways to make artificial snow at home.
1. Making snow from soap
Grate white soap (or a white candle) and mix with baby powder.
2. Making snow from foam plastic
You need to grate the foam and sprinkle it on the branches, which must first be coated with glue. For this, branches can be taken from any tree, and if you add a little sparkle to the foam, the snow on the branches will sparkle beautifully. This method can be used to decorate spreading and large branches. Snow-covered branches can be decorated with anything, for example, a garland, bows, balls, etc.
3. Diaper snow
Having taken a sufficient number of diapers, you will have to carefully cut them with scissors and pour the contents - that same sodium polyacrylate - into a previously prepared container. For these purposes, you can take a bucket or basin, or get by with a smaller container - everything will depend on how much snow you want to get in the end. After the contents of the diapers are poured into the container, you should pour a little water into it, mix, and wait some time until the sodium polyacrylate absorbs the liquid. If the “snow” looks dry, add a little more water and stir again. And so on until the contents of the container look like real snow. For artificial snow to look like real snow not only in appearance, but also to the touch, just place it in the refrigerator. If the container is too large, go to the cold. The main thing is that the temperature is not below zero - in this case the water will freeze and our artificial snow will simply turn into ice.
4. Snow from packaging bags (the photo shows a comparison with real snow)
You will need:
- foamed polyethylene; (material that is used as packaging material for breakable items, and is also inserted into the toe box of new shoes to maintain shape.)
- fine grater
- scissors. 
It is advisable to work with gloves. With a little effort, we get the following result. But if you are not satisfied with this result, you can experiment further. Let's take scissors and finely cut our snow flakes.
5. Frost from salt
We will imitate frost using salt crystals. The result will be a real chemical experience, and for the baby - a magical transformation. It is better to take coarse salt, then the crystals will be more impressive. Salt crystals can be made colored by tinting the salt solution with ink, brilliant green, or food coloring.
So. Pour salt into boiling water and let it dissolve completely (proportion: 1 kg of salt per 1.5-2 liters of water). Dip clean and dry twigs into the hot saline solution (this is important). Leave to cool. Then carefully remove the branches and let them dry. The frost is ready. The method is convenient for small twigs, dried herbs, dill umbrellas, etc. You can also grow salt crystals on Christmas tree decorations. “Frozen” branches look good not only solo, as an independent winter bouquet, but also in New Year’s compositions made from coniferous branches.
6. Snow made from shaving foam
You need to mix about a pack of baking soda with about a can of shaving foam. By kneading a mass of these ingredients, you will get a cool, snow-like substance, from which snowballs and snowballs are indeed molded.
7. Shining Snow
It turns out cold, fluffy and very soft.
Ingredients:
Two boxes of cornstarch/cornmeal
Shaving cream
Peppermint extract (optional)
Glitter or mica
8. Snow plasticine
Ingredients:
2 cups baking soda
1 cup cornstarch
1 and 1/2 cups cold water
A few drops of mint extract
Sequins
9. Snow slime
Ingredients:
2 cups PVA glue
1.5 cups hot water
Sequins
Optional: a few drops of mint extract to give the slime a frosty aroma
Mix in a small bowl
Mix in a second bowl
3/4 teaspoon borax
1.3 cups hot water
Combine the contents of both bowls and mix with your hands for several minutes until the mixture begins to stretch.
10. Snow paint
Ingredients:
Shaving cream
School PVA glue
Peppermint extract
Glitter
11. “Silk” snow
Ingredients:
Frozen white bars of soap (any brand)
Cheese grater
Sequins
Peppermint extract
Method of preparation: place the soap in the freezer overnight. In the morning you can take it out one piece at a time (Crystal used 6 bars) and grate it. It will work out fluffy snow, to which you can add glitter and mint extract. It molds perfectly, and you can make a snowman or any other figure.
12. Snow dough
Ingredients:
Cornstarch (freeze overnight to keep snow dough cold)
Lotion (refrigerate overnight to keep dough cold)
Sequins
13. “Liquid” snow.
Ingredients:
Frozen Corn Starch
Ice water
Peppermint extract
Sequins
To the starch that you took out of the freezer, you need to add ice water until the desired consistency is obtained. It is recommended to add a little at a time so that the “snow” does not turn out too liquid.
Also, if you've never made non-Newtonian fluids before, you might be in for a surprise. Because with active interaction, the mass becomes harder and more viscous, and at rest it spreads.
14.Snow from polymer clay
Ingredients:
remnants of dried polymer clay (plastic).
Craftswomen often have leftover polymer clay that they hate to throw away. It is very convenient to grind it by hand and then using a coffee grinder. The result is a light and multi-colored (when using colored clay) snowball, which can be used to decorate cards and other hand-made products.
15.Snow made of polyethylene foam
Ingredients:
foamed polyethylene (used as packaging material for equipment, glass, shoe inserts) or polystyrene foam;
fine grater.
We wear gloves. Grind polyethylene or polystyrene foam and... Voila! Fluffy cereal all over your house!!! If you add sparkles, the snow will also sparkle. You can powder anything with this snow if you first lubricate the surface with liquid (diluted with water) PVA glue.
16.Artificial snow for the "snow globe"
Ingredients:
Paraffin candle
It must be grated on a fine grater. This “snow” is great for making toys “a la snowball"when glycerin and artificial snow flakes are added to the water. The container is hermetically sealed and when shaken, the snowball smoothly sinks to the bottom.
You can actually take a simpler route - and add regular sparkles to such a ball. It will turn out no less impressive.
17. Snow made of PVA and flock
Flock is a very finely chopped pile. And if you're lucky enough to find a package of white flock on sale, rejoice. After all, now you will have “snow” for any craft in a matter of minutes. It is enough to generously coat the surface with glue and sprinkle flock on top (you can use a strainer).
18. Snow made from PVA and starch
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons starch
2 tablespoons PVA
2 tablespoons silver paint
Mix (grind) the ingredients thoroughly.
This kind of snow is suitable when you need to decorate the surface of a product with a voluminous white mass.
19. Mass imitating snow
Ingredients:
fine quartz sand or semolina or foam chips
white acrylic
thick PVA
glitter
1. Pour into a bowl a small amount of the material you have chosen. Approximately 1 faceted glass.
2. Currently bulk material start adding white little by little acrylic paint. Based on experience, it is better to buy it in hardware store For facade works. We add until such a state that our loose particles stick together, but do not float in the liquid.
3. Then add PVA, preferably thick. We also add very little so that the mixture is elastic and viscous.
4. Well, and some silver sparkles. Mix everything and... that's it!!!
Recipes for "edible snow".
1. Sugar snow
Ingredients:
sugar.
Dip the edges of the glass (glass) into water or syrup and then into sugar.
2. “Snow-covered” plants
Ingredients:
gum arabic;
egg white.
Using these components, you can sugar plants (non-poisonous and non-bitter). Flowers of pear, apple, cherry, rose, violet, primrose, lemon, begonia, chrysanthemum, gladioli, and pansy have good taste. Candied leaves of mint, lemon balm, and geranium turn out beautiful and very fragrant. Dissolve 12 g of gum arabic in ¼ cup of hot water (in a water bath) with constant stirring. Cool the solution. Prepare sugar syrup: 100g sugar per ¼ glass of water. Cool too. Apply gum arabic solution first to the plants with a brush, and then sugar syrup. Sprinkle with fine granulated sugar(but not powder). Dry on parchment or tracing paper. Such “snow-covered” beauty will not deteriorate for several months. These flowers can be used to decorate a birthday cake or your favorite small sweet pastries.
3. “Snow-covered” plants - option 2
Ingredients:
egg white;
sugar.
Beat egg white and sugar until foamy. Apply with a brush to the petals of the plant and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Place the plants prepared in this way on parchment and place in the oven over low heat. In two hours you can admire the beauty!
4. salted “snow” for meat
Ingredients:
a pinch of salt;
egg white.
Beat the egg white and a pinch of salt into a stiff foam using a mixer. Place this improvised snow on the meat and send it to the oven! Miracles: a chicken in a snowdrift!
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We continue the winter New Year's theme. Today you will find out, how to make artificial snow from:
Both adults and children love the New Year's fairy-tale atmosphere. But the festive mood is made up of little things: home decorations, Christmas and other New Year's, large quantity in colorful packaging, spicy, citrus or “Christmas tree” aroma, etc. Do you have Christmas mood? Are there any snowdrifts outside the window? Sometimes for authenticity New Year's fairy tale There's really not enough snow.
I suggest making artificial snow from improvised materials for DIY decoration and “homemade” frost for interior decoration or children’s play.
There are many easy-to-use and inexpensive ways get artificial snow. The choice of method depends on what you ultimately want to get and where you will use this snow later. When working with children, choose the simplest and most safe ways. For example, the process of “frosting” twigs with salt crystals will interest a child, and there will be nothing terrible if he licks this twig. But the stage of dissolving salt in hot water must be carried out under the careful supervision of an adult.
If you want to get a frosted twig to decorate your interior, use salt crystals.This process is simple, interesting and educational for the child. A real magical “action”: salt crystals form right before the child’s eyes.
To simulate frost on the branches, dissolve 1 kg of coarse salt in 1.5-2 liters of boiling water. Dip dry and clean twigs into the resulting hot salt solution. We wait for the solution to cool, carefully remove the branches and let them dry, observing the formation of crystals. Instead of twigs, you can “frost” dill umbrellas, rowan bunches, Christmas tree decorations, etc. 
Don't want to do such painstaking work? Use “Grass” knitting yarn
This material is widely used when transporting goods, it is used to cushion breakable objects, and it is also inserted into new shoes to maintain the shape of the product. To obtain artificial snow, it is enough to grate a piece of such polyethylene on a fine grater. It turns out quite plausible.
If you want to decorate your home with snow-covered branches, use artificial foam snow.Break the foam into balls using a fork. Cover a large spreading twig with glue, and while it is still wet, sprinkle it with foam balls.
To obtain artificial snow, you will need ordinary diapers, in particular, sodium polyarylate - their internal contents. Pour this substance into a convenient container, add a small amount of water, mix and wait until the filler absorbs the water. As a result, you form a gel. Next, we divide this gel into pieces by hand until snow flakes form.
How to make snow from starch
I invite you to look at an interesting selection about snow for decoration New Year's interior, games and winter activities with children:
- artificial snow recipes,
- home experiments - growing crystals from sugar and salt,
- how to make a snow globe,
- and ideas for sensory snow and Christmas boxes!
Enjoy watching and inspiration!
Several recipes for use in decorating, crafts, winter games with children, for developing motor and sensory skills and for home experiments!
IDEA No. 1 SNOW FROM FOAM
How to do it. You need to grate the foam on a grater.
Where to use. You can decorate branches with it, which must first be smeared with glue (add a little glitter to the foam, the snow on the branches will sparkle beautifully).
IDEA No. 2 SNOW FROM SALT (large, small and growing crystals from salt)
You can use coarse and fine salt for games and sensory boxes. You can also make frost from salt.
How to grow a snowflake from salt watch the master class.
How to make frost. You need to pour regular salt into boiling water over a fire and let it completely dissolve (1 kg of salt is taken per 1 liter clean water). After this, put only dry and clean branches there and leave to cool. Carefully remove the branches from the cooled saline solution and dry thoroughly.
Preference should be given to coarse grinding so that the resulting crystals look as natural as possible. And to get the effect of colored frost, salt can be colored with ordinary food coloring, ink or brilliant green.
This method is convenient for covering small twigs, dill umbrellas and other dried herbs with frost.
IDEA #3 SNOW FROM DIAPERS sodium polycarbonate
Compound:
Sodium polycarbonate (found in diapers, similar to cotton);
Regular tap water;
Container for making artificial snow.
After cutting the diaper, we take out the sodium polycarbonate. Then pour it into a container and add a little water. Mix thoroughly. Water must be added until our diaper filling, that is, sodium polycarbonate, looks like real snow. The most important thing is not to overdo it with water. In order for our artificial snow to be cold, you just need to place it in the refrigerator. Here you should pay attention to the temperature, which should not be below zero, otherwise it will not be snow, but ice. If these conditions are met, everything should work out! Using this method, you can also make multi-colored snow with your own hands by adding food coloring to the container.
IDEA No. 4 SNOW FROM WAX CANDLE
You can grate white soap or a candle. The resulting shavings must be mixed with baby powder or starch so that the “snow” does not cake or stick together.
IDEA No. 5 SNOW FROM RICE, OATMEAL, SEMONA
It can be made from rice (it is better to take round and white), oatmeal, semolina
IDEA No. 6 SNOW FROM COTTON COTTON BALLS
IDEA No. 7 SNOW FROM WHITE POMPOMS
IDEA No. 8 SNOW FROM STARCH
You can also make white crumbs from corn or potato starch with the addition of vegetable oil or hair balm. Interesting ideas, is in my favorite book “Iceberg on the carpet or what to play with a child” by Asya Vanyakina (pm me, I’ll share).
IDEA No. 9 SNOW FROM SUGAR (sand and pieces)
How to grow a crystal from sugar watch the master class.
IDEA No. 10 SNOW FROM A SPRAY CAN
The simplest and easiest way is to decorate with artificial frost or snow from a spray can. Matte, shiny, crumbly, coarse or finer - you can choose what you like best. Just spray this miracle from a can onto the prepared bouquet, and it will sparkle, bringing that frosty mood into your home!
IDEA #11 FLOUR
IDEA #12 SHAVING FOAM SNOW
You can use just white foam, or you can make crumbly snow from which you can make snowballs.
You need to mix about a pack of baking soda with about a can of shaving foam. By kneading a mass of these ingredients, you will get a cool, snow-like substance, from which snowballs and snowballs are indeed molded.
IDEA No. 13 SNOW FROM PACKING BAGS
You will need:
- foamed polyethylene; (material that is used as packaging material for breakable items, and is also inserted into the toe box of new shoes to maintain shape.)
- fine grater
- scissors.
It is advisable to work with gloves. With a little effort, we get the following result. But if you are not satisfied with this result, you can experiment further. Let's take scissors and finely cut our snow flakes.
IDEA No. 14 PAPER SNOW
You can make a beautiful snow bouquet using cut paper. You will need white or pale blue paper (for example, paper napkins), thin foil (Christmas tree tinsel). This entire paper “collection” needs to be crumbled into pieces of the chosen shape. You can cut out circles using a hole punch, or make small cuts, thin strips or any arbitrary shapes. Mix the paper in a dry and sufficiently large container. Carefully dip the collected branches into glue (clerical or PVA) and sprinkle with prepared frost. Leave the frost to dry and your snow bouquet is ready!
IDEA No. 15 SNOW FROM POWDERED SUGAR
Frost can be made not only on branches, but also on fruits. Why not a New Year's bouquet with a frosty apple or a tangerine in the snow? Apply fresh egg white to well-washed and dried fruits and, without wasting time, sprinkle the fruits with sugar or powdered sugar. Add a couple of spruce branches, dry maple or holly leaves to the fruit and your bouquet is ready!
IDEA No. 16 SOAP SNOW
Option #1. From soap and toilet paper.
Prepare 2-3 rolls of white toilet paper and a bar of white soap. Tear into small pieces. Microwave the dish with the paper mixture and the whole bar of soap for 1 minute. Check the contents every 15 seconds. In the oven, the mass should fluff up. Now the soap has become soft and crumbles right in your hands. Fill the mixture with water. First add 1 cup, then add another half cup. Now you can form a snowball.
Option number 2. From grated soap and powder.
Grate white soap and mix with baby powder.
You can see how to make a night light house
SNOW BALLS
Artificial snow can help you have fun with your child and is also useful for a variety of crafts. How to make it so that it is quite affordable and simple? We have collected 20 artificial snow recipes for you - try them and share your impressions. Not all of them will completely imitate snow - fluffy, soft, cold and smelling fresh. There is “snow” paint for painting, “snow” slime, “snow” plasticine, and other interesting substances. But they all have a direct connection to snow and will definitely appeal to children.
For children, the most interesting options are those proposed by Crystal Andrewood
1. Shining Snow
It turns out cold, fluffy and very soft.
Ingredients:
Two boxes of cornstarch/cornmeal
Shaving cream
Peppermint extract (optional)
2. Snow plasticine
Ingredients:
2 cups baking soda
1 cup cornstarch
1 and 1/2 cups cold water
A few drops of mint extract
3. Snow slime
Ingredients:
2 cups PVA glue
1.5 cups hot water
Optional: a few drops of mint extract to give the slime a frosty aroma
Mix in a small bowl
Mix in a second bowl
3/4 teaspoon borax
1.3 cups hot water
Combine the contents of both bowls and mix with your hands for several minutes until the mixture begins to stretch.
4. Snow paint
Ingredients:
Shaving cream
School PVA glue
Peppermint extract
5. “Silk” snow
Ingredients:
Frozen white bars of soap (any brand)
Cheese grater
Peppermint extract
Preparation method: Place the soap in the freezer overnight. In the morning you can take it out one piece at a time (Crystal used 6 bars) and grate it. You will get fluffy snow, to which you can add glitter and mint extract. It molds perfectly, and you can make a snowman or any other figure.
6. Snow dough
Ingredients:
Cornstarch (freeze overnight to keep snow dough cold)
Lotion (refrigerate overnight to keep dough cold)
7. “Liquid” snow.
Ingredients:
Frozen Corn Starch
Ice water
Peppermint extract
Add ice water to the starch you took out of the freezer until you get the desired consistency. It is recommended to add a little at a time so that the “snow” does not turn out too liquid.
Also, if you've never made non-Newtonian fluids before, you might be in for a surprise. Because with active interaction, the mass becomes harder and more viscous, and at rest it spreads.
8. Snow made from shaving foam
Ingredients:
1 can of shaving foam
1.5 packs of soda
glitter (optional)
Squeeze the contents of the foam can into a bowl and gradually add soda. You will have a very nice mass of snow from which to sculpt figures.
Now let's move on to the adult part.
9. Snow made of polyethylene foam
Ingredients:
foamed polyethylene (used as packaging material for equipment, glass, shoe inserts) or polystyrene foam;
fine grater.
We wear gloves. Grind polyethylene or polystyrene foam and... Voila! Fluffy cereal all over your house!!! If you add sparkles, the snow will also sparkle. You can powder anything with this snow if you first lubricate the surface with liquid (diluted with water) PVA glue.
10. Snow made of polymer clay
Ingredients:
remnants of dried polymer clay (plastic).
Craftswomen often have leftover polymer clay that they hate to throw away. It is very convenient to grind it by hand and then using a coffee grinder. The result is a light and multi-colored (when using colored clay) snowball, which can be used to decorate cards and other hand-made products.
11. Snow from a baby diaper
Ingredients:
baby diaper.
To get snow you need:
1. cut the diaper and remove the sodium polyacrylate from it, and then tear it into small pieces.
2. Place the resulting mass in a container and fill it with water. Fill gradually in small portions until the pieces of polyacrylate begin to resemble snow. Just don't overdo it or it will end up too wet;
3. To make the snow look more realistic, place the container in the refrigerator, but not in the freezer.
12. Frost from salt
Ingredients:
salt (preferably coarsely ground);
water.
Prepare a concentrated salt solution. To do this, fill the pan with a small amount of water and place it on low heat. Add salt until it stops dissolving. Dip the branches of spruce, pine or any other plant into the hot solution and leave for a while. The process of crystal formation is much faster in warm water! Let the water drain and leave the plants to dry for 4-5 hours. Sparkling frost is guaranteed! If you add brilliant green to the salt solution, food colorings or ink, the frost will turn out colored!
13. Artificial snow for a “snow globe”
Ingredients:
Paraffin candle
It must be grated on a fine grater. This “snow” is great for making toys “a la snow globe”, when glycerin and artificial snow flakes are added to the water. The container is hermetically sealed and when shaken, the snowball smoothly sinks to the bottom.
You can actually take a simpler route - and add regular sparkles to such a ball. It will turn out no less impressive.
14. Snow made of PVA and flock
Flock is a very finely chopped pile. And if you're lucky enough to find a package of white flock on sale, rejoice. After all, now you will have “snow” for any craft in a matter of minutes. It is enough to generously coat the surface with glue and sprinkle flock on top (you can use a strainer).
15. Snow made from PVA and starch
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons starch
2 tablespoons PVA
2 tablespoons silver paint
Mix (grind) the ingredients thoroughly.
This kind of snow is suitable when you need to decorate the surface of a product with a voluminous white mass.
16. Mass imitating snow
Ingredients:
fine quartz sand or semolina or foam chips
white acrylic
thick PVA
1. Pour a small amount of your chosen material into a bowl. Approximately 1 faceted glass.
2. We begin to gradually add white acrylic paint to this bulk material. Based on experience, it is better to buy it at a hardware store for facade work. We add until such a state that our loose particles stick together, but do not float in the liquid.
3. Then add PVA, preferably thick. We also add very little so that the mixture is elastic and viscous.
4. Well, and some silver sparkles. Mix everything and... that's it!!!
17. Sugar snow
Ingredients:
sugar.
Dip the edges of the glass (glass) into water or syrup and then into sugar.
18. “Snow-covered” plants
Ingredients:
gum arabic;
egg white.
Using these components, you can sugar plants (non-poisonous and non-bitter). Flowers of pear, apple, cherry, rose, violet, primrose, lemon, begonia, chrysanthemum, gladioli, and pansy have good taste. Candied leaves of mint, lemon balm, and geranium turn out beautiful and very fragrant. Dissolve 12 g of gum arabic in ¼ cup of hot water (in a water bath) with constant stirring. Cool the solution. Prepare sugar syrup: 100g sugar per ¼ glass of water. Cool too. Apply gum arabic solution first to the plants with a brush, and then sugar syrup. Sprinkle with fine granulated sugar (not powdered sugar). Dry on parchment or tracing paper. Such “snow-covered” beauty will not deteriorate for several months. These flowers can be used to decorate a birthday cake or your favorite small sweet pastries.
19. “Snow-covered” plants - option 2
Ingredients:
egg white;
sugar.
Beat egg white and sugar until foamy. Apply with a brush to the petals of the plant and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Place the plants prepared in this way on parchment and place in the oven over low heat. In two hours you can admire the beauty!
20. salted “snow” for meat
Ingredients:
a pinch of salt;
egg white.
Beat the egg white and a pinch of salt into a stiff foam using a mixer. Place this improvised snow on the meat and send it to the oven! Miracles: a chicken in a snowdrift!
I really hope that from these 20 artificial snow recipes you were able to choose the one that suits you.
