Artificial snow can help you have fun with your child and is also useful for winter 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 all of them are directly related to snow and will definitely appeal to children. And if you need “adult” options for use in needlework, then go straight to.
For children, the most interesting options are those proposed by Crystal Andrewood
How to make artificial snow at home
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.
Artificial snow recipes
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. Pour 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 goes 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, food coloring or ink to a salty solution, 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!!!
Recipes for edible “snow”.
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. salty “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. Good luck! We'll be glad to see your work!
Artificial snow can help you have fun with your child and is also useful for a variety of crafts/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 all of them are directly related to snow and will definitely appeal to children. And if you need “adult” options for use in needlework, then immediately proceed to the second part (point 9 and further)
For children, the most interesting options are those proposed by Crystal Andrewood
How to make artificial snow at home
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.
Artificial snow recipes
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. Pour 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 goes 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, food coloring or ink to a salty solution, 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!!!
Recipes for edible "snow".
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.
In recent years, snow has not always pleased us with its abundance and consistency in winter. Whether this is due to global warming or other causes of climate change, in any case, we always, especially during the winter holidays, so want to enjoy the sight of this white fluffy miracle.
Artificial snow created right at your home can help with this desire. Although it is relevant even with snowdrifts outside the window, with its help an atmosphere of celebration and magic will be in the house if you decorate various crafts and a Christmas tree with it. In addition, such an activity with your child will be a fun alternative to other games.
How to make artificial snow at home?
Of course, you can buy ready-made artificial snow, but if this option seems unsuitable to you, you can always replace it with something. There are many options for how to make artificial snow. At the same time, it will be fluffy, soft, crispy, just like the real thing. And in addition – very fragrant. So it will definitely appeal not only to children, but also to adults.
The first recipe for artificial snow
We will need:
- 2 boxes of corn flour (starch);
- shaving cream;
- glitter (mica);
- mint extract.
This snow will turn out shiny, cold, fluffy and incredibly soft, like clouds. First, mix shaving cream and starch in a container. This process will take some time, but it will be incredibly fun. Your kids will definitely love the feeling of “snow” on their hands as they mix.
Finally, add a few drops of mint extract to the mixture. In principle, you don’t need to add this ingredient, it will just add another entertaining element to the process of exploration and play, and the snowball will smell simply amazing. For beauty and shine, add a little mica or glitter. From the resulting snow you can make snowballs or make any figures, for example, a funny snowman.
The second recipe for artificial snow at home
For this silky feeling and appearance of snow we will need:
- several bars of frozen soap;
- grater;
- glitter;
- peppermint extract.
First, put the soap in the freezer overnight. In the morning, we first take out one piece and grate it, then the next one, and so on until we have grated all the prepared cubes.
The result will be a very fluffy snowball, to which you can add mint extract and glitter if desired. This kind of snow molds perfectly, so you and your child can make any figure.
How to make artificial snow - recipe three
For this option you will need the following ingredients:
- a can of shaving foam;
- 1.5 packs of soda;
- sparkles.
Squeeze the entire can of foam into the container, gradually add baking soda and mix. The result is a mass very similar to real snow, from which it is pleasant to sculpt. For beauty, add glitter. This snow feels very soft, cool, smells of frost and freshness.
Snow in hot summer? Impossible, you say. And we will answer that knowing chemistry everything is possible. Moreover, getting this indispensable winter attribute is as easy as shelling pears. Today we will tell you how to make artificial snow from diapers. The resulting snow can be used as a holiday decoration, replacing ordinary cotton wool.
How to make artificial snow from diapers
We dare to assume that if you are interested in chemical experiments for children, then you already have children, and, therefore, diapers in your family. Therefore, the only thing left to do is to make artificial snow from diapers.
Carefully cut the diaper and remove the stuffing, which looks like regular cotton wool. Then try to grind it as best as possible. After this, we place our small pieces of stuffing in a deep bowl, or better yet, take a basin, and begin to slowly add cold water. During this process, knead the mixture vigorously. Before your eyes, a wet lump of “cotton wool” will turn into a snowball! Knead until the artificial snow from the diaper becomes indistinguishable from the real thing. But unlike him, our snow will not melt. It is important not to overdo it with the amount of water - otherwise there is a risk of getting an unsightly gray mass, so it is very important to pour in the water very slowly. When visually the artificial snow from the diaper satisfies you, then you can then put it in the refrigerator for a while (not in the freezer!). This will make it even more believable.
Important addition. Under no circumstances allow children to taste the resulting snow, much less swallow it! Polyacrylate is not safe enough to eat. And when preparing artificial snow, it is also better to use rubber gloves in order to protect the skin of your hands. Well, it would probably be superfluous to add that only a new and unused diaper should be used for production. 🙂
What happened
The thing is that modern diapers are filled not with cotton wool, but with a special absorbent - sodium polyacrylate. An absorbent is any substance that can absorb other substances, such as water. The same sodium polyacrylate can absorb moisture 30 times its weight!
When water is added, the filler fibers swell and visually become like snow crystals. By the way, you can grow a crystal with your own hands.
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 of 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
