Educational and methodological material on the topic: Artificial snow from shaving foam and soda. Making artificial snow using baking soda and shaving foam

Almost all kids love to play with snow outside - making snowmen, shoveling snow, throwing snowballs at dad, catching snowflakes in the palm of their hand, looking at their intricate patterns and brushing fresh snow off benches with mittens. What a shame that you can’t play with snow at home... No, with real snow, but there are many recipes for making homemade snow for a fun game.

Any of these recipes provides a bunch of exciting stories for home games. Imagine being at the North Pole and observing the life of a family of polar bears. Or maybe a cute snowman will appear on the table? Or construction equipment clears the site of snow in order to lay the foundation of a future home. How about penguins having fun burying themselves in the snow? Have you heard anything about the treasure at the South Pole? Then bury it in the snow yourself and send an expedition there in search of winter gold.

WITHneg made from starch and shaving foam

200 grams of corn or potato starch, a can of shaving foam and glitter if desired. Mix the ingredients in a large bowl and enjoy making almost real snowballs. The mass is soft, pleasant and generally safe, with a light fresh aroma.

Snow made from soda and shaving foam

Calculate the composition based on the proportion of 1 can of foam to 1 pack of soda (of course, you can make half as much snow). Snow with this composition turns out wet, cold and fragrant, almost like real snow. It will be great for making snowmen.

Snow made from flour and baby oil

Mix ¼ cup baby oil and 2 cups wheat flour. You need to mix the mixture very carefully; an egg whisk is perfect for this purpose; you can even try kitchen mixer. This recipe makes the most delicate homemade snow with pleasant aroma. Suitable for children with very sensitive skin. You can make snowballs and figures from it, just like the real thing. But, we must take into account that the oil in the snow complicates the cleaning process after the game.

Styrofoam snow

This material is quite simple: a small piece of polystyrene foam needs to be chopped with a fork, knife or grated. You won’t be able to make anything out of it, but it’s easy to arrange a sensory game: if you pour a bunch of foam balls onto a tray, you’ll get a great snowy expanse where tractors can drive around, Lego men can live, or northern animals – penguins, polar bears, wolves, and so on – can stroll.

Snow made of salt

There are two options with salt: the first is to use it unchanged, like foam, pouring it into a special flat dish or on a tray to make it more convenient to play. Salt perfectly creates the impression of snow falling in the forest. You can place animal figurines there and arrange snow removal special equipment and include it in any other winter game. Another option will be of interest to older children. You can grow real salt crystals, and here's how:

1. Take coarse salt, from which the crystals are more spectacular.
2. Salt is poured into boiling water in the proportion of 1 kg of salt per 2 liters of water, and time is given for it to completely dissolve.
3. Dry, clean branches are lowered into the hot salt solution and left there to cool. Then they are carefully removed and given time to dry.
4. We can assume that the frost is already ready. Watch the crystals appear on the branches.

Snow made from soap and baby powder

Grate white on a fine grater laundry soap(or a paraffin candle), and then mix these flakes with baby powder.

Snow plasticine

Ingredients:
2 cups baking soda
1 cup cornstarch
1 and 1/2 cups cold water
A few drops of mint extract
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Snow made from toilet paper and soap

Prepare 2 rolls of white toilet paper and a bar of white soap. Tear the paper into small pieces and place the dish with them in the microwave, placing them in the middle whole piece soap for 1 minute. It's better to check every 15 seconds what's going on inside. IN microwave oven The mass should fluff up and the soap should become soft and crumble right in your hands. The resulting mixture should be filled with 1 glass of water. At the end you should have a mass from which you can sculpt snowballs, snowmen and other figures.

Winter is in full swing, and although last year's new year holidays have already passed and have even managed to forget 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 the proposed options are easy to do in conditions ordinary cuisine 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 are the same thing, do not be alarmed by the differences on the packaging from different manufacturers). It is important to gradually add it to the pre-squeezed 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 more 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. That's this method 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: table salt coarsely ground gradually pour 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.

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“Use of health-saving technologies

in working with young children"

"Snowy courtyard" for kids

We are all familiar with white, fluffy, sparkling, sticky snow. I especially like watching it in the background street lamp when it comes in flakes, or looking at every snowflake on a mitten... It seems to us absolutely simple and understandable. Understandable for us adults, and for children - preschoolers. And for the kids...

In our modern times, young children see snow only during a walk in kindergarten, because in the morning, when their parents accompany them to the nursery, the children are still sleeping in their sleds, and in the evening it is simply dark.

And here are the teachers kindergarten“artificial snow” was invented for young children. To do this, the baby will only need a little: borrow shaving foam from dad, and borrow a pack of baking soda from mom.

In fact, it turns out amazing and mysterious material. Both children and adults can spend hours playing around in the “artificial snow”, building snow castles, towers, making cakes and snowmen. The snow turns out to be heavy and wet, it can easily take any shape. These wonderful properties of “artificial snow” provide wide scope for creativity and imagination, and, as it turns out, it can be successfully used as one of the health-saving technologies when working with children.

Often Small child cannot express in words his experiences and fears, especially during the adaptation period. And then games with sand, water, and... “artificial snow” come to his aid. Playing out the situations that excited him with the help of toy figures, creating from snow own world, the child is relieved of tension. The positive emotions that the baby experiences while playing with “artificial snow” affect the degree of adaptation. And most importantly, the child gains his own invaluable experience in the symbolic resolution of many life situations. Children who actively played in the sandbox are more likely to grow up confident and successful. Observations by psychologists and teachers also show that it is precisely the first joint games of children in the sandbox that can clearly show parents the characteristics of the behavior and development of their children. Parents see that their child is becoming overly aggressive or timid when communicating with peers - this may be a reason to think about their own system of raising the child and seek help from specialists. In fact, games with “artificial snow” are the same sandbox, the same “sand yard”, only a “snow sandbox” or “snow yard”.

In a kindergarten, the transfer of traditional OOD (organized educational activities) in the “snow courtyard” gives a greater educational effect than standard forms training:

firstly, the child’s desire to learn something new, experiment and work independently increases significantly;

secondly, in the “snow courtyard” “tactile” sensitivity powerfully develops, as the basis for the development of “manual intelligence”;

thirdly, in playing with snow, all higher mental processes develop more harmoniously and intensively: memory, thinking, perception, attention, as well as speech and motor skills;

fourthly, the development of object-representative skills is improved play activity kids, which further contributes to the development of plot in preschoolers - role-playing game, directing play, and the child’s communication skills;

fifthly, “artificial snow,” like sand and water, is capable of “grounding” negative energy. This property is especially in demand when working with “special” children: children with speech disorders, aggressive children, anxious children, etc.

Games used in the “snow courtyard”: (read slowly, as there will be a lot of pictures)

“Draw a blizzard” - slide your palms along the surface of the snow, performing zigzag and circular movements;

“Perform the movement” - place your palm on the edge, place your palm on the snow;

“On the path” - run your palms along the laid paths, leaving your traces on them;

“Mysterious footprints” - leave prints of palms, fists, and the edges of the palms in all sorts of bizarre patterns on the surface of the snow;

“Build a snowman”, “Find a toy”, etc.

Such games with “artificial snow” evoke positive emotions (joy, surprise), reduce negative manifestations (fear, anxiety) and reduce the manifestation of negative emotions(anger, anger, resentment). Children with great pleasure they draw, build, depict animals, nursery rhyme plots, songs, fairy tales in the “snowy courtyard”, and at the same time accompany their actions with speech. Playing with “artificial snow” is a natural and accessible form of interaction and transformation of the world for every child.

Conclusion: Thus, interaction with “artificial snow” stabilizes emotional condition: excited children calm down, become calmer, thereby achieving children's team background of emotional well-being, trusting relationship between the child and the teacher. Along with the development of tactile-kinesthetic sensitivity and fine motor skills You can teach children to listen to themselves and voice their feelings. And this in turn contributes speech development, development of voluntary attention, memory, thinking, cognitive processes and creativity children, and also the humane feelings of children are improved, the kids become kinder.

I would like a special snow decoration for the New Year holidays, but real snow, alas, is only outside. How to make artificial snow with your own hands? What is the best way to decorate a Christmas tree, windows, candles, twigs and other interior items with artificial snow? On the pages of our website we have collected best ideas for the production of artificial snow. Let's consider each method separately.

Artificial snow made from candles and talcum powder

To prepare artificial snow, you can use regular talc (baby powder) and paraffin (candles). Grate the pre-cooled candles on a fine grater, mix the resulting crumbs with talc and sparkles (glitters). This snow is suitable for decoration Christmas tree decorations, painting windows and decorating New Year's crafts.

Styrofoam snow

A simple option to get artificial snow is to ruffle the foam. The foam is white and consists of small balls. If you take the foam packaging from household appliances and crumble the foam with a fork, you will get quite a lot of light and sticky snow.

Please note foam balls have bad habit become magnetized to all things and are not easy to remove.

Foam snow looks interesting when decorating branches - you can do it.

DIY snow made from paper and soap

To make artificial snow you can use paper towels or toilet paper. 2-3 rolls of paper need to be torn into small pieces. Next, take white soap and place it in a ceramic or plastic container. Place pieces of paper on the soap. Place the bowl in the microwave for 30-40 seconds. The mass should become airy and crumble.

Remove from microwave snow mass and pour some water into it so that the snow becomes plastic. Now you can sculpt such snow and roll snowballs out of it. You can make little snowmen or other funny figures from soap and paper snow to decorate your room for the holiday.

Artificial snow from diapers

Interesting artificial snow can be made from diapers or disposable diapers. The absorbent substance included in the diapers, sodium polyacrylate, looks like snow when it interacts with water. This property can be used to make snow with your own hands.

Take out the stuffing that looks like cotton wool from the diapers, chop it up and put it in a deep bowl. Gradually add to the substance clean water and stir the mixture. It will look like real snow. This snow can be used to decorate crafts, create snowmen and make snowballs.

Eggshell snow

Crushed egg shells look like snow. To make this artificial snow, take the shells of several white eggs, dry them, remove the films from inside shells. Then place the shells in a tight bag and crush them with a hard object by tapping the bag.

Mix the resulting snow with glitter. Now they can decorate New Year's toys, spruce branches, windows.

Artificial snow made from soda and shaving foam

An interesting version of artificial snow can be made from shaving foam and soda. You will need to take 1 can of foam and 1.5 packs of soda.

Squeeze shaving foam into a deep bowl in parts and mix it with baking soda. You will have to mix gradually, adding foam and soda and stirring everything well. You can add glitter to the mixture. Then put the bowl of snow in the refrigerator.

Snow made of polyethylene and starch

Snow mass can be made from polyethylene. Grate the packaging polyethylene or insulation based on it on a medium-sized grater. Add glitter and potato starch to the resulting shavings and mix everything with a little water. Then the resulting snow needs to be dried.

Such snow can be glued (using PVA glue) to artificial Christmas tree branches.

Snow drawings on the windows

Snow patterns on the glass windows look charming. Making this artificial snow is very easy. Using a prepared stencil (), stencils with the symbols of the year and just letters) and toothbrush Spray snow dust onto the glass. The mass for such spraying can be made from toothpaste and starch.

Mix 1 tube of toothpaste with potato starch and a cup of boiling water. Whisk the mixture until foamy enough. This snow composition is suitable for decorating spruce branches and Christmas tree decorations.

Do you want to decorate thin branches with frost? Then try using for this purpose regular salt. Take 1 kg of salt and dissolve it in 1.5 liters hot water. Do not turn off the heat until all the salt crystals have dissolved. Place clean and dry twigs into the cooled solution. They need to be kept in salt water for at least 4-5 hours. Salt crystals will form on the branches gradually. The longer they remain in the solution, the larger the artificial frost will be.

It's not difficult to make artificial snow with your own hands. Choose for yourself the right option make snow and create with your children. It's not only beautiful, but also fun. May your holiday be bright!

We associate winter with the New Year, gifts and, of course, snow. New Year It will definitely come, we will buy gifts ourselves, but what to do with the snow? After all, it doesn’t go as ordered, and even if it falls out, it happens that it immediately melts. Don’t be sad, because there is always a way out of any situation. It may seem strange, but you can make your own fake snow and it only requires two ingredients. If you want to please yourself and your loved ones with white and fluffy snow, then don’t miss this easiest way to make artificial snow!

This simple method will help you make fluffy, not cold, snow-white artificial snow, which also will not melt. The only caveat is to not taste it, as you probably won't like it!

How to make artificial snow

To make artificial snow you only need 2 ingredients:

• Baking soda;
• Hair conditioner

Step #1.

Pour three glasses of soda into a deep container. This is a “trial” option. The resulting snow will be enough to decorate a Christmas tree or sculpt a miniature snowman. But what large quantity baking soda (and conditioner accordingly) you use, the higher your snowy mountains will be.

Step #2.

Any hair conditioner will work for artificial snow. But your ideal candidate is one with an organic composition and a pleasant smell. For three glasses of soda you will need half a glass of the product.

Step #3.

Now comes the fun part of this easy way to make fake snow: beat the mixture with your hands until flakes form. Don't be alarmed: they are very pleasant to the touch and do not stick to your hands at all, like fresh morning snow. And if the mixture gets sticky, just add more baking soda.

Step #4.

Your artificial snow is ready! Pour it onto a convenient surface and start getting creative or just carefree fooling around.

As you can see, thanks to this very simple way, you can make wonderful artificial snow with your own hands and please yourself and your loved ones!

Watch also the video on how to make artificial snow!