In art projects you can use many different items as snow (egg shells, flour, sugar, laundry soap, white sand, mashed potatoes, cotton, shaving crème, cool-whip, etc.)

• Glue
• Glitter
• Black Paper

• Have your children paint a winter scene on black paper using glue. Before the glue dries sprinkle glitter all over it. This makes a lovely winter scene.

Use ivory flakes mixed with water to create a wonderful winter scene.

• Kool-Aid or Jell-O (in powder form)
• Ice
• Paper

• Make ice in a Popsicle mold. Sprinkle Kool-Aid or Jell-O on the child's paper. Let them use the ice Popsicle to push the powder around and create a really neat design.

Note: This idea also works with powdered Tempera Paint For a snowflake print cut a bell pepper in half and dip it in white paint

• Balloon
• Glue
• Yarn
• Glitter

• Blow up a small balloon for each child. Have them dip yarn pieces into a mixture of glue and water. Then have them put the yarn over the balloon. Have them do this until the balloon is mostly covered. Finally, pour glitter over the balloon and let dry. When it is dry you can pop the balloon and remove it. These are fabulous snowballs for a winter theme.

For neat icicles, put a thick line of glue across black paper. Let the glue run down and then sprinkle glitter on it.

• Paint
• Markers/Crayons
• Papers

• Have your children create a summer scene. Then once they are done give them white paint and let them make it a winter one.

For realistic looking snowflakes paint precut snowflakes with a thick mixture of Epsom Salt and Water

• Paper Plates
• Pom-pom's or butons
• Orange craft foam or rolled up orange paper
• Cotton
• Glue

• Give each of your children three paper plates. Have them make a snowman smile and eyes with black Pom-pom's. Then have use the orange craft foam to make a carrot nose. Next fill in the spaces between the facial features with white cotton. Finally, glue the other plates to the bottom and add pom-pom buttons and small stick arms.
  For a smaller snowman use Cupcake liners, or small plates.

For quick and easy snow flakes paint over dollies

• Pastel colored chalk (pink, yellow, blue, green, and orange)
• Construction paper (white and blue)
• Glue

• On the blue construction have the children use the sides of the chalk to color on the paper. This will look like a sunset. After their done with this they can add white paper for snow and draw winter animals

• Paint
• Balloons
• Paper

• Give your children three balloons (one big, one medium, and one small) Have them roll the balloons in white paint and then place them on a piece of paper (to make a snowman). Then give them black paint in order to add the features of the snowman.

Use a mixture of shaving crème and glue to form a unique (puffy) winter art project (using cool-whip creates a similar result).

• Q-Tips (or craft sticks)
• Glue
• Wax Paper
• Glitter

• Give each of your children small circles cut from wax paper. Have them glue on Q-tips in the rough shape of a snowflake with all touching in a middle puddle of glue. Sprinkle glitter onto the snowflake, and then let it dry for a couple of days. When it is dry you can peel it from the paper and you have a wonderful snowflake

Note: You can also use colored paper and let them leave it on the paper

Note: Add string before it dries to make the snowflake an ornament. Star prints make great snowflakes.

• Pasta
• Bag
• Paper

• Send the ingredients home with your students with an explanation that they need to build a snowflake with their parents. They can use anything that they want to at their house. Remind them that all snowflakes are unique so they need to make theirs very unique. These all ways turn out really cute.

Empty thread spools make great snowflake prints

• Contact Paper
• Cotton or marshmallows
• Pom-poms or chocolate chips

• Give your children contact paper cut out as a snowman. Let them put cotton and other pom-poms and anything else they want to in order to make a unique special snowman.

For a snowflake pattern cut several slits up from the end of a toilet paper roll and then bend them out. Dip in paint and press on paper. Note: If you use shape scissors you get even more unique snowflakes.

• Paper Plate
• Cotton
• Markers/Crayons
• Paper

• Have your children draw and color their face on a paper plate. Next cut two edges off a piece of paper to form a coat (have your children add buttons, pockets, etc) Finally glue the coat to the plate and put cotton around the edge of the plate to look like a hood.

For a great winter paint mix white tempera paint and glitter, it has the consistency of snow paint sold in stores but is much, much cheaper. Freeze colored water and let your children paint with it.

• Contact Paper
• Ivory Snow
• Paper

• Have your children cut out a nose, eyes, buttons, etc from construction paper. Then put these along with ivory snow into contact paper. Fold over and weal and you have a melted snowman.

Provide your children with different sizes of round corks in order to make snowmen.

• Butcher Paper
• Construction Paper

• Cut out the shape of a mitten from butcher paper. Have them glue on small squares of construction paper to form a collage type look.

To add snowflakes to your classroom try coating mini pretzels with white paint and then gluing four together in a circle

• Tag Board
• Paper
• Paint
• Rollers

• Precut a snowman template out of tagboard. Then have your children roller paint on a piece of paper over the tagboard. This makes really neat designs.

bring snow into the classroom, put it in the water table and let your children squirt colored water on it. The colors will mix into neat patterns.

• Marbles
• Paint
• Paper

• Have your children cut out mittens from the paper. Then give them a small covered container have them put their mitten in the container, dip marbles into paint and put them into the container. Close the container and let your children shake it. These really do make neat designs.

Dip small, medium, and large balloons into white paint and have your children use them to make snowmen on paper.

• Paint
• Paper

• Cut large mittens out of paper. Give each of your children a large mitten and have them make handprints all over the mitten. This makes a cute bulletin boar or gift for your parents.

Let your children paint with old mittens! They will love it!

• Paper
• Paint
• Glitter and any other supplies.

• Cut a large mitten out of paper. Next cut the mitten into many small pieces. Give each of your children a piece. Tell them to design it as uniquely as they can. Put all of the pieces together and you have a unique mitten.
  Note: If you have a big class make two mittens, and connect them with yarn.

Let your children paint with marshmallows, they can dip them in paint and use them as a stamp for snowmen

• Paper Bag (Two per child)
• Pipe Cleaners (Red, Orange, Brown)
• Newspaper
• Felt

• Have your children stuff one of the bags with newspaper. Next, have them put the second bag (opened) on top of the other in order to prevent the newspaper from spilling out. Tie off the top third of the bags in order to make it form a snowman's head (use red pipe cleaner to form scarf also). Add felt for facial features and clothing. Use the orange pipe cleaner for the carrot nose, and the brown pipe cleaner as stick arms.

For a great snowflake print use a strawberry basket turned inside out.

• Marshmallows
• Paper

• Give your children a piece of paper with a snowman outlined on it. Have them lick marshmallows and then press them onto the paper to make a snowman, the marshmallows actually stick very well

• Construction Paper/Cardboard
• Shredded Paper
• Glue
• Pom-poms or Buttons
• Pipe Cleaners

• Have your children cut out a snowman from the construction paper. Then give them shredded paper and have them glue it on the cutout. Next have them make a top hat from black construction paper. Finally let them add the facial features with Pom-pom (or button) mouth, pipe cleaner arms, and a Candy Corn Nose.

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