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 with these white flakes falling from the sky. So you sometimes want to bring a fluffy mass to your home and decorate rooms with it. But, unfortunately, admiring the natural snow will end after a few minutes, it will simply melt.
That is why there are many ways to find homemade snow on the net. It will effectively decorate windows, window sills, a Christmas tree, a fireplace and other surfaces in the apartment, in some cases you can even dazzle a snowman out of it.
What and how can one be made?
Today, craftsmen have come up with quite a few ways to make artificial snow with their own hands from inexpensive and affordable materials. The recipes are very simple and will appeal to even small children.
For cooking, it is proposed to use:
- salt;
- wax candles and talcum powder;
- paper towels or toilet paper;
- eggshell;
- toothpaste;
- baby disposable diapers and other materials.
IMPORTANT! Even from improvised means it is possible to make artificial snow. For example, regular cotton wool, which is available in every home, can come in handy.
1 way
Using paper napkins or toilet paper, you can make homemade snow, which will be a great decoration for the New Year holiday and fits perfectly on the Christmas tree. Paper needs to be torn into small pieces. Then the usual white soap is crushed into crumbs and laid out on the bottom of ceramic dishes. Shredded paper is stacked on top. The bowl is set in the microwave for 30-45 seconds.
Important! In the process of preparation, 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 supple.
After warming up, add a little filtered water to the bowl and stir with a fork. Then set the dishes in the refrigerator for just a couple of minutes. Then the resulting mass is again mixed. It is such a substance that is intended not only for decorating a house, but also for sculpting mini-snowmen to decorate it with an empty place near a Christmas tree or a fireplace shelf.
2 way
To make a very popular method, you need a bar of white soap and a few packs of starch. Soap is rubbed on a fine grater into crumbs, and then 3 packs of starch from potatoes or corn are added to it. Then, boiling water in a volume of 200-250 ml is added to the container with ingredients. After that, the resulting mixture is whipped with a mixer or whisk until a dense foam is formed.
To prepare artificial snow, you need to take small foam balls and dip them into the resulting mass. They will only have to dry on a battery, after which you can decorate the room with the resulting snowballs of different sizes. To apply decoration to the surface of window glasses, mirrors and other surfaces, you need to take a toothbrush or washcloth and, dipping the brush into the mass, apply it to the surface with wetting movements. Loose snow can be easily made if the mass is frozen and then crushed into small fractions.
3 way
For the preparation of friable artificial snow, you can simply boil chicken eggs in a white shell. Once ready, the product is cleaned and films removed. Then the shell is folded into a plastic bag and crushed with a rolling pin into a fine powder.
IMPORTANT! The main thing is to take eggs with a white shell, not a brown one. It is advisable to rinse the product under running water before cooking.
Ground shells are often mixed with sparkles or tinsel. They are decorated with transparent Christmas balls, attached to PVA glue to spruce branches or windows. The decorative finish is beautiful and spectacular.
Recommendations
Making snow at home is a very interesting and fun activity. It is best to spend this way with children. They will be passionate about the process and surprised at the result.
To obtain snow-white sparkling snow, you can add to the cooked mass of sparkles or tinsel, as well as various dyes that will help to color the snow in bright colors. Depending on the recipe chosen, the snow can be made plastic to make beautiful snowmen out of it.
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