Do you love making festive winter crafts with your family? If so, you are going to jump for joy over these adorable projects!
You won’t believe how simple these cute creations are to make. All you need are a few common supplies and some imagination, and you’ll have these winter-themed crafts whipped up in no time at all.
1. Shiny Snow Slime
Image Source/Tutorial: No Time For Flashcards
- Materials required: Slime, bowl, jars, glitter powder, spatula.
- Difficulty level: Very Easy
- Suitable age: 7- 12 years
This one is SO simple and fun! Just grab some pre-made slime from the store and pour it right into a container. Now for the exciting part. Add in some glitter powder!
Use a spatula to mix it all together really well. When you love how it looks, transfer your sparkly new slime into an empty jar and close it up with the lid.
2. Paper Snowflakes
Image Source/Tutorial: Hands On As We Grow
- Materials required: Paper, pencil, scissors, yarn, glue.
- Difficulty level: Easy
- Suitable age: 8-14 years
Start with a white sheet of paper and cut out a circle. You’ll want to make a bunch of these circular paper shapes.
Next, fold each circle to make a cone-like shape. With a pencil, draw some lines on these cones, but make sure the lines only go up to the middle part, leaving the bottom of the cone intact.
Use your scissors to cut along the lines you marked. When you open the cone shapes up, you will see that circular snowflakes have been formed! So cool!
Now, use some glue to attach all these snowflakes onto a piece of yarn in a straight line. You can hang these pretty flakes on your windows.
3. Funny Snowman
Image Source/Tutorial: Kids Activities
- Materials required: Flour dough, beads, straw, paper, scissors, yarn strand.
- Difficulty level: Very easy
- Suitable age: 8-13 years
How cute is this little guy? First, get some flour dough and roll it between your hands to create a ball shape. Then you can mold it a little bit to get that perfect snowman form.
Press beads onto the bottom to make the snowman’s buttons. You can insert a straw from both sides to be the arms. For a muffler, just use a strand of yarn. Finish it off by making a little hat from paper.
4. Sledge ride
Image Source/Tutorial: How Wee Learn
- Material required: Shaving foam, toyboy, bottle caps, hill shaped container.
- Difficulty level: Easy
- Suitable age: 9-13 years
Take any container that is shaped like a hill and put it upside down. Then spray shaving foam all over it. This gives a great illusion of snow!
Grab some bottle caps and turn them so the inside part faces up. Put your toy boy on the inner side of the cap and it will look just like a boy on a sledge.
5. Yarn Snow Balls
Image Source/Tutorial: A Parenting Production
- Materials required: Cardboard, scissors, yarn.
- Difficulty level: Easy
- Suitable age: 9-14 years
I remember making these as a kid! You just need a piece of cardboard. Cut a notch into the center of it. Then take your yarn and wrap it all around the cardboard piece.
With another strand of yarn, tie it tightly in the center where you made the notch, and then slide the wrapped yarn off the cardboard.
Now, start cutting the looped yarn in a vertical line, but don’t cut the part in the center that you tied. Your snowballs are all ready for a fun indoor snow fight!
6. Snowman shooter
Image Source/Tutorial: Growing A Jeweled Rose
- Materials required: Balloons, disposable cups, craft foam, glue, scissors, cotton.
- Difficulty level: Easy
- Suitable age: 9-13 years
Take a few disposable cups and cut off their bottom portions. Next, grab some balloons and fix them onto the top of the cups. You can use craft foam to decorate the snowman’s face.
To play, stretch the balloon back a little bit and put a cotton ball inside. The stretching action will push the cotton ball out. This is a total blast to play with!
7. Window Snowman
Image Source/Tutorial: No Time For Flashcards
- Materials required: Earbuds, cotton, glue.
- Difficulty level: Very Easy
- Suitable age: 7-8 years
Get your little one set up near a window for this one. Just have them create snowflake shapes using earbuds and stick them right onto the window with some glue.
For making snowballs, all you need is some cotton. Shape it into a ball and paste it on the window with glue. Couldn’t be easier!
8. Puffy Snow Flakes
Image Source/Tutorial: The OT Toolbox
- Materials required: Coloured sheet, glue, white pom poms, pencil.
- Difficulty level: Very Easy
- Suitable age: 6-12 years
Grab a colored sheet of paper and use a pencil to draw the shape of a snowflake on it. Then, squeeze your glue bottle and let the glue trace over the marks you outlined on the paper.
Get your white pom pom balls and paste them onto the glue to create the final snowflake shape. They look so fluffy and cute!
9. Glittering Snow
Image Source/Tutorial: Paging Fun Mums
- Materials required: Bicarbonate soda powder, shaving cream, glitter powder, bowl.
- Difficulty level: Very Easy
- Suitable age: 7-13 years
Take an empty bowl and fill it up with 500g of bicarbonate soda. Next, add some shaving cream into the bowl and mix it together really well.
Get your glitter powder and add it into the bowl, then mix it vigorously. Let it freeze for a little bit. After a few minutes, your frozen glitter snow is all set!
10. Caged snowman
Image Source/Tutorial: Artful Parent
- Materials required: Glass jars, flour dough, beads.
- Difficulty level: Easy
- Suitable age: 9- 13 years.
For this sweet little project, get some flour dough and roll it in your palms to make a ball shape. You can mold it a little more to give it a perfect snowman look.
Then, press beads into the bottom to create buttons for your snowman. Now just place this snowman inside a glass jar that you’ve turned upside down.
11. Artificial Snow For Toys
Image Source/Tutorial: Growing A Jeweled Rose
- Materials required: Epsom salt, Container, glitter powder.
- Difficulty level: Very Easy
- Suitable age: 6-13 years
This is a great sensory activity! Get some Epsom salt from the market and let it freeze overnight. The next day, pour the frozen Epsom salt into an empty container and mix in some glitter powder.
After you mix it properly, your playing snow sand is ready. Let your kids put their toys in this DIY snow sand and have a great time.
12. Cotton Make Up Pad Snowman
Image Source/Tutorial: Happy Hooligans
- Materials required: Cotton makeup pads, buttons, fabric glue, ribbon, twigs, piece of cloth, beads.
- Difficulty level: Easy
- Suitable age: 7-12 years
Take a few makeup pads and paste them one on top of the other with fabric glue. Now get a piece of cloth, cut it into a hat shape, and paste it on top of the cotton pads you assembled.
To make the eyes, just paste on some black colored beads. Then stick the buttons on the snowman’s belly area. You can paste two twigs on for the snowman’s arms.
Finally, tie a ribbon around the snowman’s neck.
13. Fun with sugar cubes
Image Source/Tutorial: Adventures And Play
- Materials required: Sugar cubes.
- Difficulty level: Very easy
- Suitable age: 7-12 years
This one couldn’t get any more simple. Just take a packed box of sugar cubes and open it up. Take the sugar cubes out of the packet and try to build a tower that’s as high as you can make it.
You can even challenge your friends to see who can build a tower as tall as yours!
14. Snow Covered Tree
- Materials required: Pipe cleaners, gems, glass plate, glue, pom poms
- Difficulty level: Easy
- Suitable age: 8- 3 years
Take your glass plate and, using super glue, stick a pipe cleaner in the shape of a tree right onto the plate. Now, using more glue, paste pom poms onto the branches of the tree.
To give it an extra special look, you can fix some gems onto the glass plate too.
15. Snow lion
Image Source/Tutorial: Babble Dabble Do
- Materials required: Glass container, salt, pebbles, toy lion.
- Difficulty level: Very easy
- Suitable age: 7-13 years
Find an empty glass container and fill it up with salt. Collect a few small pebbles and color them with white paint, then place those in the jar or container too.
Grab a toy lion, paint it white, and put it right inside the jar. What a neat little winter scene!
16. Easy Snowman
Image Source/Tutorial: Kids Activities
- Materials required: Disposable glasses, foam strips, pom poms, markers, glue, yarn.
- Difficulty level: Easy
- Suitable age: 9-13 years
Take a few disposable glasses and set them upside down. Cut long, thin rectangular strips from foam sheets and wrap them around the glasses like little mufflers, using glue to hold them.
Grab some yarn strings, paste pom poms on both ends, and then stick them on top of the glasses to create headphones. So cute! Use a marker pen to draw the snowman’s eyes.
Finally, paste a nose made from a foam sheet right in the center of the face.
17. Finding Alphabet In Snow
Image Source/Tutorial: Coffee Cups And Crayons
- Materials required: Fresh snow, plastic alphabets, bucket, shovel.
- Difficulty level: Very Easy
- Suitable age: 6-11 years
This is a fantastic game for a snow day. Collect some fresh snow from outside your house and put it in a bucket. Now, get your plastic alphabets and hide them all in the snow.
You can tell your friends to find the first letter of their name in the snow. They can start searching for the alphabet with a shovel.
The person who finds their name’s first alphabet first is the winner of the game!
18. Snowman with a hat
Image Source/Tutorial: Mama PPapaBubba
- Materials required: Foam sheets, beads, glue, scissors.
- Difficulty level: Very Easy
- Suitable age: 9-13 years
Take a square shaped foam sheet and paste another foam sheet shaped like a hat on top of it with glue. Now, paste on some beads to show the snowman’s eyes and the snowman’s lips.
For the nose, just cut a triangular shape from foam and paste it on. Simple as that!
19. Foamy Snow
Image Source/Tutorial: Growing A Jeweled Rose
- Materials required: Shaving cream, frozen baking soda, container.
- Difficulty level: Very Easy
- Suitable age: 8-12 years
Grab an empty container and pour some frozen baking soda into it. Start adding shaving cream to this mixture until you get the foamy snow consistency that you want.
Once you’re satisfied, stop adding more shaving cream and your foamy snow is ready to play with.
20. Funny Snowman
Image Source/Tutorial: Best Toys 4 Toddlers
- Materials required: Coloured papers, salt, glue.
- Difficulty level: Easy
- Suitable age: 8-14 years
This is such a clever idea! Take a colored sheet of paper and apply glue to it. Next, take some salt and sprinkle it over the glue in a way that creates the snowman’s body.
Using scissors, cut out different shapes like a nose and eyes. Then just paste them onto the snowman’s face.
21. Ice cream stick snowman
Image Source/Tutorial: Kids Activities
- Materials required: Shaving foam, thick cardboard piece, pom poms, ice cream sticks, beads.
- Difficulty level: Very easy.
- Suitable age: 7-12 years
Take a thick piece of cardboard and spray some foam on it. Now, get your ice cream sticks and place them where the arms would go.
You can use pom poms to be the buttons and beads to show the snowman’s facial features.
22. Happy snowman bin
Image Source/Tutorial: Frogs, Snails, And Puppy Dog Tails
- Materials required: Bin or container, balls, markers.
- Difficulty level: Very easy
- Suitable age: 7-13 years.
This game is a ton of fun. Take a bin and some balls. Use markers to draw the snowman’s eyes, nose, and lips on the bin.
Then, keep this bin at a certain height and play by tossing the ball up so it lands inside the bin.
23. Snowman nail art
- Materials required: Nail paint, thin brushes.
- Difficulty level: Easy
- Suitable age: 9-14 years
Feeling festive? Apply nail paint to your hands. Then, using different colors, you can draw on more details with the help of brushes of the right sizes.
24. Diy Snow
Image Source/Tutorial: Simple Moments Stick
- Materials required: Baking soda, shaving cream, container.
- Difficulty level: Very Easy
- Suitable age: 6-12 years
This is super simple and fast. Get an empty bowl and fill it up with baking soda.
Slowly add shaving cream to this mixture, and that’s it. Your artificial snow is all ready.
25. Snow falling on the tree
Image Source/Tutorial: Easy Peasy And Fun
- Materials required:- Brush, colours, paper.
- Difficulty level: Easy
- Suitable age: 8-13 years
Get a sheet of paper and draw the structure of a tree on it with a paintbrush. Then, take some color on your fingertips and apply the impression onto the tree branches just like in the picture.
