Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts

Sunday, December 15, 2013

2 Ingredient Puff Paint

 This week everyone at my son’s school came home with a gingerbread house to decorate.  My son colored it with colored pencil, decorated it with glitter glue and then we whipped up some 3-D paint for snow.  It’s super easy and only takes two ingredients!  Simply mix equal parts of original shaving cream and white craft glue.  Stir and apply with a popsicle stick.  Allow this fluffy white stuff to dry overnight.  The results are so cool!  Great for winter pictures of snowmen on colored paper too.


2 Ingredient Puff Paint:
Original Shaving Cream 
White Craft Glue


Monday, December 9, 2013

Snow Painting

The first snow of the season fell yesterday.  The snow was good for sledding yesterday, but overnight the weather changed and freezing rain coated the fluff transforming the surface into a slippery crust.  My first grader had a school delay and as he pressed his nose to the sliding glass door sighed, “Ice is no fun.”  That is, until I broke out the food coloring!





Materials:
small containers, a plastic egg carton or a foil lined paper egg carton
water
food coloring
brushes
drinking straw or eye dropper
fresh water for cleaning brushes between colors


Drop food coloring into the small containers and add drops of water to dilute.  Then find a nice patch of icey snow and make your masterpiece! This is a fun project for practicing color mixing too.

Food coloring isn’t washable so I sent my son out in an old coat just in case;)

If the snow cracks as you walk on it, it's the perfect consistency for snow painting,
anything thats too fluffy will simply stick to your brushes.