Winter Art for Kids: 5 Projects Using Ice and Snow

In many areas of the country, snow and ice visit often during the winter months. As children enjoy the outdoors, they can bring this experience indoors through art activities. Here are five winter art activities for the children to explore.

Painting on Ice

Cover pieces of cardboard (cereal box panels work well too) with aluminum foil. Secure the foil with tape on the back. Provide small paintbrushes or cotton swabs and containers of blue, purple, and white tempera paints. Invite the children to use these materials and pretend to skate, glide, or slide across the foil as if they were skating on the ice outdoors. Talk about how this form of painting feels.

Ice Cube Painting

Prepare paints in advance by freezing water in ice cube trays where food coloring or tempera paints have been added to the water. Craft sticks can be added in the freezing process for handles if you wish. The children will enjoy sliding the ice over the paper and watching colors blend together.

Ice Pictures

Place an aluminum pie pan on the table and fill it halfway with water. Invite the kids to place bits of art materials, such as small scraps of construction paper, bits of foil, sequins, faux jewels, or pieces of ribbon in the water. Insert a large paper clip in one end to serve as a hanger. Place the pie pan in the freezer or even outdoors on a freezing day. Let this pan freeze until solid. Take the ice picture out of the pan and hang it outside the window of your home. Enjoy the pretty art form and see how long the picture lasts before melting.

Snow Dot Pictures

Invite the children to use an unsharpened pencil and dip the eraser into white paint. Press this onto dark construction paper to make snow dots. Encourage the kids to continue making white dots on the dark paper for a drawing or patterned design. If the paper is almost covered with dots, a negative picture will often result with the dark areas as the figure or design. This is a fun art technique!

Snow Spray Paint

This art activity is to be done outdoors when there is snow on the ground. Before the activity, fill several spray bottles with water and food coloring. Make several bottles with various colors. Use the snow covered ground as a canvas. Invite the kids to spray paint the snowy surface to make snow paintings. Admire the pictures together. As the day passes, watch the snow melt and the pictures will disappear. This paint will not hurt the environment and is an earth-friendly painting activity!

Enjoy the white and the cold stuff with these winter art activities for kids. Even if you live in an area without the winter snow and ice outdoors, most of these projects can be replicated indoors.

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