We finally got snow! It’s been a couple of years since we have gotten anything that amounted to much. Since we don’t know how long it will last and when we will be getting more, we took full advantage of it. We did all of our favorite snow activities: painting the snow, making snow angels, sledding, eating snow, and making snowballs.
First up on our list was painting the snow with this DIY snow paint.
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A lot of recipes for snow paint call for food coloring. My kids like to use the food coloring in the bath and our food coloring supplies are low right now. I also wanted the colors to be bright and vibrant, so we used Powder Tempera Paints.
Supplies
This snow paint is so easy to mix up. It takes just three items!
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Directions
Remove the top of the bottle and add powdered paint to each bottle, fill with water, replace the lid, and shake to mix. I measured the first couple and used 2-3 heaping tablespoons of powdered paint and then just eyeballed it on the rest. I did add a little more to the yellow, since it is lighter.
Note: If you don’t have powdered tempera paints and want to substitute food coloring, I would suggest using Gel Food Coloring to get a brighter color.
The kids managed to paint the snow without getting any paint on them. I was not so lucky, but the powered tempera paint we used is washable.
As people passed by our house to best sledding hill in town, many stopped to admire our snow art. Our front yard is definitely the most colorful in the neighbor.
This was a fun outdoor family activity. We ran out of time to make a snowman, but we have the perfect snowman making snow. Hopefully we can get back out there before it melts.
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Beautiful colors! Looks like a fun activity.
Thanks Heather!
We did this a couple years ago and my boys loved it! We used food coloring. I like the colors from the powdered tempera paint! We save ketchup bottles, hydrogen peroxide bottles (I use it for cleaning), and dish soap bottles so all the neighborhood kids can have some fun too when we do snow paint and spray sidewalk chalk in the summer.
Great idea to used recycled bottles Karen!
What a fun activity! I now wish we had snow in Sydney! 🙂
Thanks Tina! I was beginning to wonder if we were going to get any.
So cool! Wish I woulda thought of this when my kids where younger. Looks like SO much fun. Who knows, maybe I’ll still try it if we ever get any snow again. We haven’t had much snow at all the past 5-10 years. We used to have snow all winter when I was growing up. You didn’t see the grass from Dec until March. Always had snow for Christmas.
Wish you woulda showed some pictures of your yard of all the artwork you did. Woulda loved to see that. I know there’s some close ups. But woulda liked to see the whole yard. Bet it looked cool! & colorful. 🙂
Thanks for sharing!!!
Thank you Candi! My kids would love more snow. We have not had very much this winter. Thanks for the suggestion on the pictures. I will keep that in mind next time 🙂
It’s such a fun activity for young ones. My kid will love it. I’m looking forward to doing this with my kid in the snow days. Thanks for your great idea.