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 spruce branches, window sills, shelves and other objects in the house with this snow; 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

We separate the inner films from the eggshells, then put all the shells in a transparent, tight bag, and rub them with a rolling pin 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

An elementary method for creating very impressive snow: squeeze shaving foam into a deep bowl, stirring constantly, add baking soda. Such snow will not only smell pleasant, but will also feel cool to the touch.

Artificial snow made of sodium polyacrylate

5 different ways to make snow (video)

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Don't know how to make artificial snow? We have prepared the top 15 fastest and easiest recipes. Artificial snow is almost indistinguishable from real snow!

For crafts with children, interior decoration, or decorating holiday dishes, you often need to create a snow effect. Artificial snow is sold in cylinders and in bulk, but its prices are almost the same as oil. So that the financial side of the issue does not limit the creative side, we suggest making snow yourself.

Recipe No. 1

Ingredients:
— foamed polyethylene (used as packaging material for equipment, glass, shoe inserts) or polystyrene foam;
- fine grater.

Wear gloves to prevent snow from sticking to your hands. Grind polyethylene or polystyrene foam using a grater (with a stick or fork). Voila! Fluffy flakes are now all over the house. To make the snow sparkle, add sparkles.

If you want to dust specific objects with this snowball, lubricate the surface with liquid PVA glue. Kids love to crumble the foam with their hands and watch how it sticks to their fingers. Don’t deprive them of this joy, especially since such an activity wonderfully develops fine motor skills. If the foam consists of large solid balls, it does not have to be grated; it can be manually broken into small crumbs.

Recipe No. 2

Ingredients:
— remains of dried polymer clay (plastic).

Handicrafts often have leftover polymer clay, which is a pity to throw away. If you grind it with your hands and then with a coffee grinder, you will get a light and multi-colored (when using colored clay) snowball. This artificial snow can be used to decorate cards and other hand-made products.

Recipe No. 3

Ingredients:
- coarse salt;
- water.

Fill a saucepan with a small amount of water and place over low heat. Add salt until it stops dissolving. Dip plants (beautifully curved tree branches, spruce or pine legs with cones) into the hot solution and leave for a day. Sparkling frost is guaranteed! If you add brilliant green, food coloring or ink to a salty solution, the frost will turn out colored! Plants treated in this way look beautiful in winter bouquets and do not lose their attractiveness for a long time.

Recipe No. 4

Ingredients:
- white baby soap or candle.

Grate the soap (candle) on a fine grater. If you mix such snow with talcum powder (baby powder), then it is quite possible to decorate a child’s craft or drawing. Another option is to use such snow to make toys “a la snow globe”, when glycerin and artificial snow are added to the water (you can also use sparkles or finely chopped rain). The container is hermetically sealed and when shaken, the snowball smoothly sinks to the bottom.

Recipe No. 5

Ingredients:
- semolina.

Semolina can perfectly imitate snow on postcards or children's drawings. Apply glue to the area to be covered with snow and sprinkle with semolina. Shake off any remaining residue after drying. Instead of semolina, you can glue sea salt crystals.

Recipe No. 6

Ingredients:
- PVA glue;
- shaving foam.

Mix PVA glue and shaving foam in equal proportions. You will get wonderful airy snow paint. You can add glitter to the paint. With this paint you can paint snowflakes, snowmen, polar bears and winter landscapes. After some time, the paint will harden, and you will get a voluminous winter picture.

Recipe No. 7

For crafts with kids, you can use torn white paper. This exercise is very useful for motor skills.

Recipe No. 8

You can use cotton pads, padding polyester, or foam balls as snow.

Recipe No. 9

Ingredients:
- sugar.

Dip the edges of the glass (glass) into water or syrup and then into sugar.

Recipe No. 10

Ingredients:
- gum arabic;
- egg white.

Using these components, non-poisonous and non-bitter plants can be candied. For example, flowers of pear, apple, cherry, rose, violet, primrose, lemon, begonia, chrysanthemums, gladioli, pansies. 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 pastries.

Recipe No. 11

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!

Recipe No. 12

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! Surprise your guests with chicken in a snowdrift! Never-fading frosty patterns on the windows

Recipe No. 13

Ingredients:
- beer;
- magnesia or urea.

Real frosty patterns can be made on glass by applying a solution of beer and magnesia (sold at the pharmacy). Wash and dry the glass. Dissolve 50 g of magnesia or urea in 1/2 glass of light beer and apply to glass. You can use a brush, sponge or cotton swab. When applying, imitate frosty “feathers” and curls. When the liquid begins to dry, crystals will begin to appear on the glass, similar to real frosty patterns. You can use a hairdryer to speed up the drying of the glass. This solution is easily washed off from window glass. You can decorate glass in interior doors or on the landing in a very beautiful way.

Recipe No. 14

Ingredients:
- PVA glue;
- powdered sugar.

To write congratulations or draw pictures on glass, you can use regular glue and powdered sugar. Apply the design with a brush or stencil and sprinkle with powder. The only negative is that the pattern may “float” if condensation accumulates on the glass. When decorating the glass with frosty streaks, don’t forget about the window sill.

Recipe No. 15

Ingredients:
- water;
- sodium hyposulfite.

Don't be intimidated by sodium hyposulfite; you can find it in photography stores or chemical stores. It is also called sodium thiosulfate pentahydrate (this is a photographic fixer). Dissolve 30–40 g of sodium hyposulfite in half a glass of water and apply the mixture to the glass. Wait for it to dry. The crystals are dense, white, and opaque.

Which recipe to use is up to you to decide. It all depends on what you need snow for and what effect you want to achieve. Sometimes it is enough to simply scatter (or glue) pieces of padding polyester, cotton pads, or paper confetti. Sometimes you need a texture paste or fluffy small granules. No one has canceled the old proven method of painting on glass with white gouache and toothpaste. In fact, there are plenty of options to create a truly winter mood! Don’t wait for “manna from heaven”, create yourself a “snowy” mood right now!

Dear readers! What snow recipes do you know? Have you tried making snow with your children yourself? Share your tips in the comments.

DIY snow-covered branches...

When the New Year is just around the corner and the mood is already festive, we strive to decorate the entire apartment, every corner of it. However, you can’t put Christmas trees in every room, but you want to feel the holiday everywhere. In this case, bouquets made from snow-covered branches are a great help. Of course, the snow and frost on them are not real, but it looks impressive. There are several ways to create such a bouquet. By spending a little time and using your imagination, you will create a unique New Year's design for your apartment.

Frost from salt.

Any twigs are suitable to create such a bouquet. These can be spruce or pine branches, willow twigs, willow or any shrub. Deciduous branches can be taken fresh or dry. To prepare the solution, take 2 parts salt and 1 part water. The water must be hot, otherwise the salt will not dissolve. The collected branches should be immersed in the prepared solution for at least 24 hours. It is advisable that the branches in the solution do not touch. Within a day, the salt crystallizes, and by carefully removing the twigs, you will get beautiful snow compositions. Be sure to add a few simple branches (without salt) or dried physalis shoots with lanterns to this bouquet. This puts more emphasis on the frost. In the same way you can create frost on the pine cones.

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!

Styrofoam snow.

Grate the foam on a coarse grater. It is advisable to work in a 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.

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!

Snow from a 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!

The wonderful winter season has been dear to each of us since school. Who doesn’t have wonderful memories when, as children, they played fun winter games and enjoyed the airy snowflakes flying from the sky! However, as the climate changes, winter does not please us so often, but the soul still requires a holiday! How to create a festive snowy atmosphere for yourself? How to make snow with your own hands?

There is a surefire way to prepare snow by simply using a kettle of boiling water. However, this will require a “real” severe winter outside the window. At least 25 degrees below zero. Then you can go outside with a kettle of boiling water and turn it into a pile of snow in a matter of seconds. To do this, you need to carefully throw out all the water from the kettle and, lo and behold, water no longer pours out of it, but snowflakes fly out!

This method is good when it's really cold outside. But how to prepare snow if it’s warm there or just slightly frosty?

In fact, making artificial snowflakes at home is not that difficult. There are several methods that are suitable for this matter. You can make snowflakes from seven different materials:

• baby diapers;
• salt;
• Styrofoam;
• soap and toilet paper;
• soap and water;
• cotton wool;
• sugar and water.

Now in more detail about each method of making snow mass.

Making snow out of diapers

You can prepare snow happiness in three stages:

1. We buy this same diaper in the store. As a rule, its main component is special granules made of sodium polyacrylate. This element is not sold in its pure form. But from one large diaper you can get several handfuls of snow;
2. Now you need to gut the diaper, carefully cutting along the seam. Powder will spill out from under the outer soft coating, which must be carefully collected in a large bowl. There should be at least half as much powder as there is free space in the bowl;
3. Now you can add water to the container. The quantity should be slightly larger than the powder itself. Now the amazing part begins. The wet powder will begin to quickly increase in size! The picture is reminiscent of a fairy tale about a magic porridge that crawled out of a pot.

Our snow is almost ready! If you need multi-colored material, then any dye can be added to the water. Thus, you will get a multi-colored snowball, from which you can make any compositions or gifts.

This method takes a little time, and the result is almost real crumbly dry snowflakes that do not stick to your hands and do not freeze your fingers. It turns out that making snow at home is actually quick and easy.

However, if there are children in the house, then it is important to ensure that the child does not eat such a “snowflake”. No matter how hypoallergenic diapers may seem, sodium polyacrylate is a chemical element. If used incorrectly, it can cause serious harm to the body.

Making snow from salt

With the help of salt, you can make not so much a handful of snow, but a delicate cover of frost. It is interesting to do this activity with your child. For him, this will be both an exciting activity and at the same time there will be a chance to gain some basic knowledge in the field of natural sciences.

You can make frost from salt in five steps:

1. buy rock salt at the store;
2. prepare a solution. One kilogram of salt will require two liters of water. Stir until completely dissolved. This will not be easy, but it is an important step in the entire process;
3. to obtain frost with any color tint, you need to add dye or ink to the solution;
4. Now comes the fun part. Take a twig (spruce, flower, string of beads) and dip it in the saline solution. Leave in this container until the solution cools completely;
5. Now you can remove your object from the saline solution and leave it to dry.

After final drying, the immersed object will acquire a white coating, which in appearance will very much resemble winter frost. Now you can use this twig to make bouquets or compositions.

Preparing snow mass from polystyrene foam

To prepare such snow, you just need a piece of polystyrene foam left over from purchasing household appliances or insulating a house. You need to take a fine grater and rub a piece of foam on it. The result is a pile of snow suitable for use in crafts or decorations.

The advantage of polystyrene foam is its harmlessness. This environmentally friendly product does not emit any odors or fumes. Therefore, even allergy sufferers can make snow from polystyrene foam. In addition, this is one of the most budget options, as it does not require any additional costs.

Using this snow you can make snow-covered branches. To do this, it will be enough to grease the twig with glue and then sprinkle it with prepared snowflakes.

How to make snow from soap and toilet paper?

The process of making snow from soap and toilet paper is somewhat unusual, but you can easily make crafts from such a snow mass. For example, you can make snowballs or even a whole snowman.

To prepare snow, you need to prepare several rolls of toilet paper and a bar of white soap. The paper needs to be torn into small pieces. Place a piece of soap at the bottom of a large glass dish and cover it with torn paper. This dish needs to be placed in the microwave at one hundred degrees.

The mixture should “bake” for about a minute, but every fifteen seconds it should be stirred, as if fluffing it. Do not allow the soap to completely dissolve. It should just become soft.

The resulting mixture should be poured with a glass of water, stir well and add another half glass. Our snow is ready. From the resulting mass you can sculpt any figures that your imagination can handle.

How to make snow from soap and water?

Such snow will not last long, but it will turn out to be an interesting activity for both the parent and the baby. To prepare it, it is enough:

1. grate one piece of white baby soap on a coarse grater;
2. add a quarter cup of boiling water;
3. Using a mixer, beat the solution until it becomes thick sour cream.

Knowing how to make snow using this method, you can prepare it in advance before bathing your child. This will give him a lot of pleasure, and will allow his parents to bathe him calmly.

Making snow from cotton wool

The advantage of this method of making snow is that after using it, the house does not require general cleaning. All ready-made snowflakes will be easy to place anywhere in the house, and also easy to remove. Here's the preparation itself:

1. roll a large number of rolls from cotton wool;
2. dip an ordinary thread in PVA glue;
3. string cotton balls onto a thread dampened by glue;
4. the thicker we string it, the more impressive the snow garland will be;
5. let it dry;
6. We decorate our home with the resulting snow garlands.

Preparing a sweet snowball

An unforgettable event for the whole family will be the preparation of sweet snow that can be eaten. For him, made in the shape of snowflakes and stars.

A pinch of sugar and an egg yolk are whipped with a mixer until very thick foam. The resulting foam can be used to decorate all the cookies and sprinkle with powdered sugar on top. Everything should be baked in the oven over low heat. As a result, you will be able to make a lot of snow, which will be fabulously tasty and beautiful!

You can also use sugar to frame the edges of glasses. After pre-wetting the glasses, you can dip them in sugar and let them dry. The sugar will securely attach to the glasses, creating an unusually beautiful decor.

Can artificial snow be used on ski slopes?

Interestingly, at the moment, some world-famous ski resorts use artificial snow for their slopes. Snow for the ski slope, of course, is not prepared by any of the above methods. For this purpose, special pumps or snow cannons are installed, which dispense snow quickly and automatically. Although in nature snow forms only at temperatures below zero, artificial snow is produced at higher temperatures under the influence of special proteins.

However, some experts believe that although this can replace real snow, harm to the environment cannot be completely avoided. The movement of large volumes of water from one place to another often leads to a sharp decrease in the water level in fresh rivers, and they, in turn, play a key role in supplying local residents with drinking water.

In any case, making artificial snow at home is a fun activity. It will bring happiness to children and adults, and will be remembered for a long time as a colorful and memorable event!

) you can use artificial snow for decorations:

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. Snow made of paper.

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 a 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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