Winter is in full swing, and although last year's New Year's holidays have already passed and have even managed to be forgotten a little, winter-themed crafts are still relevant, especially if there are snowdrifts outside the window. Snow... It’s so good to make an original snowman that you often even want to take it home. However, sparkling in the frosty sun snow craft in a matter of minutes will melt in the warmth, bringing grief and natural everyday problems. And if so, then let’s get down to business and learn how to make artificial snow, which will delight you and your loved ones, giving your masterpieces a truly fabulous winter flavor! In this article you will learn how to make artificial snow at home.
In fact, there is no one recipe for making artificial snow with your own hands: there are many known methods that differ from each other in the result - the resulting “snow” mass - sometimes quite strongly. However, each recipe has its adherents among craftsmen and can serve decorative purposes in its own style, for certain crafts. In this article we will look at several of the most successful, in our opinion, methods for making artificial snow and frost: we advise you to try each one, choosing for yourself best option(or variations).
For the sake of objectivity, it is worth mentioning that there are special aerosol cans With " artificial snow", the contents of which very realistically reproduce real snow, as well as corresponding powders and granules for dissolving in water. However, we will not follow this simple, but significantly more expensive path, but now we will begin to roll up our sleeves and get down to business. 
Any artificial snow recipe is multi-component in structure and consists of several ingredients, which, when mixed in certain proportions and under certain conditions, give the desired result. Almost all of the proposed options are easy to make in a regular kitchen or home workshop.
How to make artificial snow at home?
Method No. 1
You can get a great sparkling result by mixing cornstarch with shaving cream and glitter. You will have to experiment with proportions to achieve the result you want. If desired (and if available, of course), you can add mint extract when kneading. Instead of starch, corn flour is suitable, and glitter is often “replaced” with mica. In any case, the result of your efforts will definitely please you. 
Method No. 2
Shaving foam can also be mixed with regular baking soda (sodium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate or sodium bicarbonate - they are the same thing, do not be alarmed by the differences on packaging from different manufacturers). It is important to gradually add it to the foam squeezed out in advance into a suitable container; the resulting white mass, pleasant to the touch, can be “seasoned” with sparkles, achieving the charm of snow sparkling in the sun. Usually one and a half standard packs of soda are required per can of foam. 
Method No. 3
Pre-frozen toilet soap grated on a cheese grater looks incredibly believable as artificial snow. Any variety will do, as long as the color of the bar is as white as possible. Mint extract and glitter added to the resulting mass will also come in very handy for a greater decorative effect. 
Method No. 4
Not exactly cheap and not at all free way(although, depending on who) - gut a regular baby diaper: we only need its sodium polyacrylate filler, which then needs to be torn into small pieces. This is an absorbent material that crystallizes when exposed to moisture and retains it. Therefore, the material extracted from the diaper is placed in a container and gradually poured clean water, just make sure that there is not more than enough to form “snow”. If you have doubts about the harmlessness of sodium polyacrylate, take into account the fact that you took it out of the thing that is most loyal to the baby’s sensitive body - a diaper. 
Method No. 5
In nature, snow, as you know, can look somewhat different, while remaining the same snow. This method also offers a slightly unique artificial snow - it is best used to create “snow massifs”, “snow-covered expanses”. You will need ordinary starch, PVA glue and silver paint: just take one equal part at a time (usually it is calculated in the volume of 2 tablespoons, but this is not important) and mix and grind thoroughly until you get the “snowy” mass you need. 
Method number 6
This is not really snow, or rather, not snow at all, but “frost”, which may be required to create believable compositions. Sprigs of pine needles, ordinary twigs and grass are covered for this purpose with a very cool salt solution, which, when dried, crystallizes on their surface and shines, just like real frost! And achieving this effect is very simple: gradually pour coarse table salt into a container with hot water on the stove over low heat, and when the salt stops dissolving, turn off the heat and lower the pre-prepared plants into the solution. The twigs with future “frost” are infused until the water cools, then taken out and dried under normal conditions for about 4-5 hours - you will see the result for yourself! 
Method No. 7
Often, to design a “winter” craft, you may need the so-called. "snow paint" To prepare it, let's take the shaving cream we already know (the brand doesn't matter - the main thing is that it is white), PVA glue, as well as the ubiquitous glitter - where would we be without them, and mint extract. Well-mixed ingredients form a characteristic mass, which is applied with a brush or sponge and can be used to either tint a craft or fully draw on a plane, for example, snowmen. 
You can bring real snow from outside, put it in a basin and pamper your children. But this magic will not last long as it will melt in a matter of minutes. To decorate the Christmas tree, window sills, candles and other details, you can use artificial snow, which is easily made at home. In some cases, you can even make snowballs from it. We have put together for you the best collection of methods for preparing artificial paraphernalia. Let's look at all the options in more detail.
Candles and talc
To make dry snow, prepare glitter (preferably gold, silver, blue or pearlescent). Also place a kitchen grater, unscented baby talcum powder (powder), and several white paraffin candles nearby.
Place the candle in the refrigerator for half an hour or in the freezer for 10-15 minutes until it hardens well. After the time has passed, grate it on a medium-sized grater. To create a shimmering effect, add small glitter to the shavings (color of your choice).
The resulting composition leaves no traces, does not dissolve in water and does not change shape upon contact with it. Typically, this kind of artificial snow is used for decoration. New Year's balls and Christmas trees, painting windows and window sills.
Styrofoam
The easiest and most common way to make artificial snow at home. To do this, get a piece of foam from an appliance or electronics box (they have smaller granules). Place the layer on flat surface, take the fork and start moving it intensively back and forth. As a result, the “grains” will fall off; you need to collect them as they accumulate.In most cases, foam-based artificial snow looks unnatural. It is used for decoration spruce branches, directly to the spruce/tree itself, window sills, painting balls and filling them, creating small hail and firecrackers.
Paper towels (toilet paper)
Take the white ones paper towels or toilet paper, tear into small pieces. Grind white into crumbs in a convenient way natural soap, place the composition at the bottom of a ceramic or glass container. Place pieces of paper/towels on top.
Place the bowl in the microwave for 30-45 seconds, monitoring the condition of the paper fibers. They should become fluffier and raised. The soap, in turn, will acquire a softer and more pliable consistency.
After the expiration date, take out the mixture, pour in some filtered water and mix everything with a fork. Place in the refrigerator for 3 minutes, then grind again.
It is from this kind of snow that you can sculpt mini-snowmen, play snowballs, and decorate any surfaces and objects.
Eggshell
Boil several eggs with white (not red) shells. Clean them, remove the films. Place in a tight plastic bag, place on a hard surface and grind into powder with a rolling pin. Once the shell is ready, you can mix it with glitter and then start decorating. Artificial snow is attached to spruce/Christmas tree branches using PVA glue and used to decorate windows, creating various designs. The composition is used to stuff transparent New Year's balls.
Baby diapers
No matter how strange it may sound, artificial snow can be made from disposable diapers or white diapers. The thing is that such attributes absorb moisture due to the sodium polyacrylate contained in the composition. In its swollen state, the drug looks like real snow.
To perform the procedure correctly, remove the cotton-like stuffing from the diaper/diapers. Tear it into very small particles, then place it in a deep bowl. Begin to slowly pour in cold purified water and at the same time knead the resulting mixture with your hands. In the end, you will get a decoration that is difficult to distinguish from real snow. The attribute is used to create snowballs, snowmen, and holiday decorations that involve the presence of peculiar snowdrifts.
Baking soda and shaving foam
Pour the soda into a small bottle so that it is convenient to mix it with other ingredients. Squeeze a bottle of foam into a deep container and at the same time add baking soda, then immediately stir. Proceed intermittently: pour in, mix, pour in again. For 1 can of foam there is one and a half packs of soda. When mixing is complete, place the mixture in the refrigerator for 5 minutes. Then take it out and add glitter for decoration. The peculiarity of this method is that the finished snow smells of frosty freshness if you choose foam with the appropriate aroma.
Polyethylene
Very often, housewives use bubble polyethylene, which is used to wrap household appliances during transportation to better protect the cargo. Take 1 sq. m. of material, twist it into a tight tube, then grate it with fine divisions. Combine the resulting air mass with pearlescent glitter, add 3-5 packets of potato starch and a little filtered water. Stir until the mixture becomes homogeneous.
After this, dry it on a radiator or under direct sun rays. Shred a little with a fork, then start decorating. The composition looks very beautiful and natural on fluffy artificial Christmas trees and natural spruce trees. To properly attach artificial snow, coat the area to be treated with PVA and then sprinkle it with the compound.
Toothpaste
The method is more suitable for spraying on windows, mirrors, balls, and a Christmas tree. As a rule, a stencil soaked in water is applied to the surface for better adhesion. After this, the voids are filled with snow inclusions. It is necessary to spray very carefully, because the drops fly in different directions. Buy the cheapest white toothpaste without colored granules. Squeeze half the tube into the container, add a little filtered water to make the composition more liquid and creamy. Dip your toothbrush into it and point it at the object you want to treat. Run your finger upward along the bristles and release to create specks of splatter on the item.
Starch and soap
Grate a bar of white soap on a fine grater and mix it with 3 packets of potato or corn starch. Boil 200-250 ml. water, pour boiling water into the mixture, then beat the mixture with a whisk, forks or mixer until a thick foam forms.To make snowballs, take a foam ball, dip it in the mixture and dry it on the radiator. If you want to decorate windows or Christmas tree branches with the composition, just dip a toothbrush in the snow and cover the surface with blotting movements. You can dry the mixture and then knead it if you need the snow in powder form.
Salt
Very popular in Lately became New Year's wreaths decorated with artificial snow. Also, many people do not put up a spruce tree, but decorate the room with its individual branches. As a result, you get a kind of frost. To start the procedure, take an enamel pan, pour 5 liters of water into it and add 2 packs of table salt. Place the pan on the fire, stir and heat until the mixture dissolves. When this happens, turn off the stove, put the branches in the container and wait 4-6 hours. During this time, the salt will be absorbed into the needles and form an original snow crust. At the end of the period, remove the branches and leave them to dry for half an hour.
Edible artificial snow
Experienced housewives pamper their children with artificial edible snow. They can be used to decorate festive table, in particular, New Year's, you just need to show imagination and perseverance. To add magic to baked goods, fruit salads or other desserts, simply pour some fluffy cream over them and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Boiled is suitable for second courses chicken protein, grated.
It’s easy to make artificial snow at home if you have some various ways. Use polyethylene, foam, eggshell, toothpaste, shaving foam mixture and baking soda, paraffin candles and talc. Treat your kids to some edible magic with powdered sugar and cream.
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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 they all have a direct connection 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 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.
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 into a bowl not a large number 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 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 have good taste, 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 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!
Hand-made lovers use the most different materials, achieving an exclusive “sound” of the craft. In this regard, artificial snow is in great demand, as it can give any man-made masterpiece a naturalistic, fresh and festive look. It goes out in large volumes, naturally, around Christmas and on New Year, however, it does not go unnoticed for other reasons. Thus, artificial snow in cans is in great demand when decorating wedding interiors and celebrating the birth of a baby. And in other situations it can be very appropriate.
Artificial snow for decoration
This element is used in cases where the creator wants to achieve maximum realism and verisimilitude by introducing coolness and volume into a painting or craft. More or less wealthy people buy artificial snow in cans equipped with convenient sprayers. If the material is needed in larger quantities, it is purchased dry, and after pouring water it turns into a real snowdrift. Moreover, you can achieve different consistencies: to increase fluffiness, use a reduced volume of water, to gain density, use the volume specified in the instructions. From the latter you can easily sculpt snowballs or snowmen, which will not melt and will remain in your interior even until the summer. 
If the designer’s goal is flat designs (for example, on windows), an artificial snow spray similar to graffiti paints is purchased. All of these factory offers are convenient not only to use, but also to clean later. Drawings from glass can be washed off with a damp cloth without difficulty or streaks; you don’t even need to detergents. And artificial snow for decoration, packaged in bags or cans, can be easily removed with a vacuum cleaner, since it is dielectric and does not stick to anything. So bringing the apartment to pre-holiday condition is no different from regular weekly cleaning.
The only thing that artificial snow can upset a handmaker is the price, which is quite high. If you need a little of it for your ideas, you can, of course, pay 600 rubles for a 100-gram bag. But not everyone will agree to spend more money. It is even more impractical to purchase an artificial snow spray: you will have to pay more than 400 rubles for a can, and the total output mass turns out to be much less than from dry snow. Therefore, folk craftsmen have developed a lot of ways to make it from scrap materials available for purchase.
Homemade snow: method 1. Use polystyrene foam
One of the simplest “recipes” for making artificial snow is to use foamed polyethylene or regular foam. The latter is familiar to everyone. The first term refers to a material for packaging glass items, office equipment, and shoe inserts are made from it. To get artificial snow, just grate the foam. You can mash it with a fork or chop it with a knife, but in this case the flakes will be coarser and more uneven. You need to wear gloves when working with polystyrene foam/polyethylene - the particles stick to your hands. You can powder anything with the resulting snow; you just need to coat the previously decorated surface with regular PVA.
Homemade snow: method 2. Stock up on clay
Those who often do a lot of handicrafts often end up with pieces of dried polymer clay. They must first be crumbled by hand and then ground in a coffee grinder. If the plastic has been painted, you will end up with multi-colored artificial snow, which provides even more interesting possibilities for its use. In addition, it will be as light as that obtained by the previous method, so it will be suitable for application to a wide variety of objects, including cardboard cards.
Homemade snow: method 3. Making frost
In cases where the design requires frost, there is a very simple option for creating it. All you need is coarse salt and very little water. The bowl with the liquid is placed over low heat, and salt is gradually poured into it. You need to do this until it stops blooming even when heated - this is how you get brine, a supersaturated salt solution. You need to use it hot: pine paws, cones, intricately curved branches are dropped there - everything that you need to “silver” it. In a day there will be a sparkling layer of frost on them. And if you add dyes, brilliant green, and ink to the brine, then your artificial snow will not only shine, but also take on different shades.
Homemade snow: method 4. Easy as pie
The only tool you will need is a grater, as in the very first technique. And the starting material is a white stearic candle. Finely grated, it is mixed with the cheapest baby powder - the same talcum powder, for example. Instead of a candle, you can use baby white soap, it will turn out no worse. Only if you rubbed a candle, keep the craft away from heating devices, and if there is soap, it should not be placed in a damp place or handled with wet hands.
Homemade snow: method 5. Use semolina
For drawings and postcards, ordinary semolina will work perfectly as snow. The only task is to find cereals without a yellowish tint. The places in the image where the snowball should be are coated with glue and generously sprinkled with semolina. After drying, the excess is simply shaken off. In the same way, artificial snow can be obtained from coarse, preferably sea (it has a bluish tint) salt. You just need to use less liquid glue and, again, protect the product from water.
Homemade snow: method 6. We stock up on different materials
If you need a not very voluminous snow cover in the picture, you can mix shaving foam with PVA glue taken in the same volume. Once it dries, you will get a convex and elegant picture.
But if you need volume, it is better to make artificial snow from soda with the same foam. You will need a bottle of it, and a standard pack of soda. The entire contents of the bottle are released onto something flat, into which the powder is poured little by little, with constant stirring. If you plan to sculpt something out of snow, the foam is replaced with hair conditioner (a quarter of a can for a pack of soda).
You can make artificial snow from soda by mixing it with PVA. Experienced handmakers advise adding white acrylic to the composition, believing that without it the mixture will give some yellowness after drying. The snow will become even more natural if crushed glass is added to the composition - the sparkles will be pronounced. You just need to take something thin, for example, from pharmacy ampoules or light bulbs.
Homemade snow: method 7. Interesting solution
Very interesting technology How to make artificial snow was probably developed by young mothers. It only requires a clean baby diaper of any manufacturer. The absorbent substance in it is sodium polyacrylate, which will become the basis for the snow. On the diaper, you need to cut the outer shell and remove the filling. It looks like dense cotton wool.
Polyacrylate needs to be torn into small pieces that can be placed in any vessel. Water is added to it a little at a time until the contents look like lush snow. Your task is not to overfill the liquid, as too much liquid will make the snowball wet and untidy. To enhance believability, the vessel can be placed in the cold, but not in the freezer. If desired, this artificial snow can be painted. Food coloring is especially suitable for this purpose.
Frost patterns
On New Year's Eve, almost every family paints their windows. Windows with natural frosty streaks look especially aesthetically pleasing and elegant. You don't have to wait to get them. subzero temperature. You need to go to the pharmacy and buy 50 grams of magnesia. It dissolves in half a glass of light beer. Glass intended for decoration is washed and dried. Using a brush, sponge or sponge, curls and feathers are applied to the window, imitating natural frosty patterns. As soon as they dry, they will look like real ones.
And artificial snow made from toothpaste is very suitable for depicting wonderful snowflakes on the windows. First you need to cut out a template from thin paper and stick it in the right place. No glue required, just wet the surface with tap water. In a small glass toothpaste diluted a little thinner than its natural consistency (like very thick sour cream). An old toothbrush is lowered into the container, toothpaste is collected on it and sprayed both on the snowflake itself and a little around it. When the installation dries, the paper template carefully peels off - and you have an elegant snow-covered window.
Homemade snow for decorating dishes
For the holiday, not only the room should be elegant. The dishes served are prepared by the housewives by definition, but the dishes must also correspond to the moment. Artificial snow will also be very useful here, only edible. Several options can be offered in this direction.
- Decoration of glasses. Granulated sugar is poured onto a saucer, the wine glass is lowered into water (you can use juice or syrup), and after the excess liquid has drained, it is placed on the saucer. We turn it over and have a beautiful snow rim. For tequila lovers, the same process for shots is done using lemon juice and salt.
- To decorate sweets, beat egg whites and sugar tightly. On any culinary masterpiece, protruding elements are coated or a winter pattern is painted. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and have snow-covered treats.
- Original decoration for meat dishes: egg whites beat into a tight foam with a mixer along with a small amount of salt, the mass is laid out on a baked slice and placed in the oven. Suitable for chicken, pork and beef, and fish. Don’t be afraid to oversalt: the “snowdrift” will not have such a high concentration of salt.
You can come up with your own snow decorations that will add not only beauty to the dish, but also taste. The only important thing here is to try to use ingredients that will give the decoration the whiteness and structure of real snow.
You can make snow with your own hands from objects whose properties you may not have even thought about.
However, you can make artificial snow using modern technologies, but this does not mean that creating it will be expensive.
Scrap materials are an ideal and environmentally friendly option for creating snow.
Winter is a beautiful time, so it should be as beautiful at home as it is outside.
DIY snow from diapers
Who would have thought that in the production of diapers, products are used that could resemble real snow?
So, if you no longer have small children and, in fact, you don’t need diapers, you can buy a small pack exclusively for artificial snow.
Pharmacies also offer piece diapers, which can be purchased at least in a single version.
To create snow with your own hands you will need the following materials:
- diapers in any quantity;
- water (plain, not purified);
- knife or scissors;
- container where snow will be created (possibly a basin).
Artificial snow is easy to make; just cut the diapers and gut their contents.
We consider content to be something that is designed to absorb moisture. All this needs to be mixed well with water, but it is important not to overdo it with its addition.
If you doubt that enough water has been added, you can wait.
See if the “snow” is too thick. If it is hard and doesn't look like a real snowball, you can add more water and stir again.
Water can be poured several times - there are no restrictions on this.
You can use the resulting snow with your own hands for decoration, as well as for games. For example, if you buy a lot of diapers, you can even make a snowdrift, which will be suitable not only on the eve of the New Year holidays, but even in the summer. Of course, artificial snow made from diapers will not melt.
Do-it-yourself artificial snow from cotton wool
You can use artificial snow to decorate your home, crafts for children, and your Christmas tree.
You can’t bring real snow home, but an artificial piece of winter in the house will pleasantly please the children.
To create snow from cotton wool we need:
- cotton wool;
- threads;
- PVA glue.
Take and roll a large number of small balls from cotton wool. We take a needle and thread, which we moisten with glue, and begin to string cotton balls onto it.
We distribute the snow evenly along the entire length of the thread and let it dry for several hours.
An interesting option would be to decorate windows, walls and doorways with such a garland.
DIY snow made from salt
An excellent option for decorating a decorative Christmas tree with your own hands. Beautiful and shiny snow crystals will shimmer and create the effect of real snow.
If you want the artificial snow to be colored, you can add dyes, brilliant green or ink to the salt.
To use dyes or other coloring materials, you need to add 1 kilogram of salt to 2 liters of water.
Dip snowflakes or other crafts into the resulting solution and leave for several hours.
This way you can decorate your yard and other decorative elements.
DIY artificial snow from glue
If you have wood glue, you can wet it slightly. However, it should be done like this:
- take dry glue, put it in a bag;
- tie the bag tightly;
- Wet the contents of the bag with water, but so that the water does not flow from it in a stream. It is important not to skimp on water - it should be in moderation;
- after the bag becomes denser, when you realize that its contents have dried, you can tear the product, and inside there will be something similar to snow.
Of course, you can’t eat it, but other than that, such a snowball won’t harm anyone - it’s an absolutely environmentally friendly material, which is suitable if you need to decorate a New Year’s tree installed at home or on the street.
DIY snow made from foam plastic
A snowball can also be made from polystyrene foam. How much snow you have, the amount of snow you will get, but even a large amount of it will not harm your health - polystyrene foam does not emit harmful substances, environmentally friendly and safe.
However, simply breaking the foam is not enough. It is recommended to grate it so that the chips are as fine as possible.
This artificial snow is pleasant to the touch, looks beautiful and gentle, and most importantly, it will look natural on the surface of the Christmas tree.
But how to make the snow stick to the branches?
Simply coat them with glue and sprinkle with white shavings. Of course, a lot of shavings will not stick to the glue, so repeating the procedure may still be necessary.
The top layers should be done especially carefully for a more natural look. appearance Christmas trees
By the way, you can also make Christmas tree decorations from foam plastic shavings.
To do this, take a ball, possibly paper or plastic, smear it with glue and cover it with shavings. First, to get a shiny toy, you can add dry nail glitter to small foam.
Artificial snow made from soap and toilet paper
It's easy to make snow with your own hands from soap and paper. Why exactly toilet paper? It is softer and thinner. Perfect option- purchase of a white roll, but most are produced in gray.
Get a saucer that you can put in the microwave. Place white soap on it and layered toilet paper on top.
All this needs to be put in a microwave oven and heated at 100 degrees for one minute.
After you remove the saucer from the device, grind all its contents to obtain a homogeneous mass. In this case, during the grinding process you need to add one glass warm water, and later, if this was not enough, you can add a little more water (about half a glass).
It’s easy to decorate your yard with this snow, make original snowmen and other crafts out of it.
You can also make your own artificial snow from sugar. Children will like such a tasty and edible decoration, but it is important to explain that you cannot do this with all the snow by eating it.
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