Make your own snow paint at home with the kids. Such a fun winter activity for toddlers and preschoolers that you can do inside when it's wet and cold. An easy paint recipe you can adapt for all sorts of snow and winter creations.
Make your own snow paint at home with the kids.
Such a fun winter activity for toddlers and preschoolers that you can do inside when it's wet and cold.
An easy paint recipe you can adapt for all sorts of snow and winter creations.
Make your own snow paint
Ingredients for your snow paint recipe
White glue
Shaving cream
Thick paper
Paint brush
How to make your snow paint
1. Measure out equal parts of the white glue and shaving cream and mix until very thick and fluffy. It’s that easy!
2. Get your toddler or preschooler to use generous amounts of the mixture on their paint brush and start painting straight away onto the paper.
3. They’ll be able to make some great wintery scenes with snowmen, snowflakes and snowballs.
4. Once they’ve finished, wait for the snow paint to dry and harden. They’ll then love touching their 3-dimensional piece of art.
More snow paint ideas
Use the basic snow paint recipe and add other ingredients to the mixture such as kids paints, food colouring, glitter etc for some super cool creations.
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Have a go at making your own glue sponge for the kids to use. Homemade glue sponges are super cheap to make and really easy to put together at home. They also last a surprisingly long time and stop you from having sticky glue everywhere! Glue sponges are great to use for your kids arts and crafts projects and can be sealed up ready for use next time.
Such a fun winter activity for toddlers and preschoolers that you can do inside when it's wet and cold.
An easy paint recipe you can adapt for all sorts of snow and winter creations.
Make your own snow paint
Ingredients for your snow paint recipe
How to make your snow paint
1. Measure out equal parts of the white glue and shaving cream and mix until very thick and fluffy. It’s that easy!
2. Get your toddler or preschooler to use generous amounts of the mixture on their paint brush and start painting straight away onto the paper.
3. They’ll be able to make some great wintery scenes with snowmen, snowflakes and snowballs.
4. Once they’ve finished, wait for the snow paint to dry and harden. They’ll then love touching their 3-dimensional piece of art.
More snow paint ideas
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