How to make snow on a Christmas tree

The appearance of snow on the street is always accompanied by joyful excitement and a feeling of an upcoming miracle. Children and adults are always delighted by these white flakes falling from the sky. Sometimes you want to bring a fluffy mass to your home and decorate your rooms with it. But, unfortunately, admiring the natural snow will end after a few minutes; it will simply melt.

That is why you can find many ways on the Internet on how to make homemade snow. It will effectively decorate windows, window sills, a Christmas tree, a fireplace and other surfaces in the apartment, in some cases you can even make a snowman from it.

What can it be made from and how?

Today, craftsmen have come up with quite a lot of ways to make artificial snow with your own hands from inexpensive and accessible materials. The recipes are very simple and even small children will like them.

For preparation it is suggested to use:

• salt;
• wax candles and talc;
• paper towels or toilet paper;
• eggshells;
• toothpaste;
• children's disposable diapers and other materials.

IMPORTANT! You can even make artificial snow from improvised materials. For example, ordinary cotton wool, which is available in every home, may be useful.

1 way

Using paper napkins or toilet paper, you can make homemade snow, which will be an excellent decoration for the New Year's holiday and will fit perfectly on the Christmas tree. The paper needs to be torn into small pieces.Then ordinary white soap is crushed into crumbs and placed on the bottom of a ceramic dish. Shredded paper is placed on top. Place the bowl in the microwave for 30-45 seconds.

Important! During the cooking process, it is necessary to monitor the condition of the paper pieces; they should become more fluffy and raised, and the soap should become soft and pliable.

After heating is complete, add some filtered water to the bowl and stir with a fork. Then place the vessel in the refrigerator for just a couple of minutes. Then the resulting mass is mixed again. It is this substance that is intended not only for decorating the house, but also for sculpting mini snowmen to decorate an empty space near the Christmas tree or a fireplace shelf.

Method 2

To prepare this very popular method, you will need a bar of white soap and several packets of starch. The soap is finely grated into crumbs, and then 3 packs of potato or corn starch are added to it. Then boiling water in a volume of 200-250 ml is added to the container with the ingredients. After this, the resulting mixture is whipped with a mixer or whisk until a dense foam forms.

To prepare artificial snow, you need to take small foam balls and dip them into the resulting mass. All you have to do is dry them on the radiator, after which you can decorate the room with the resulting snowballs of different sizes. To apply decoration to the surface of window glass, mirrors and other surfaces, you need to take a toothbrush or washcloth and, dipping the brush into the mixture, apply it to the surface with blotting movements. Powdered snow can be easily made by letting the mass harden and then crumbling it into small fractions.

3 way

To prepare crumbly artificial snow, you can simply boil chicken eggs in a white shell. Once ready, the product is cleaned and the films are removed. Then the shells are placed in a plastic bag and crushed into a fine powder with a rolling pin.

IMPORTANT! The main thing is to take eggs with white shells, not brown ones. It is advisable to rinse the product under running water before cooking.

Crushed shells are often mixed with glitter or tinsel. They decorate transparent Christmas tree balls and attach them to spruce branches or windows using PVA glue. The decorative finish is beautiful and effective.

Recommendations

Making snow at home is a very interesting and fun activity. It is best to spend your leisure time with children in this way. They will be captivated by the process and surprised by the results.

To obtain snow-white sparkling snow, you can add sparkles or tinsel to the prepared mass, as well as various dyes that will help color the snow in bright colors. Depending on the chosen recipe, the snow can be made plastic in order to make beautiful snowmen from it.