6 Snowflake Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas)

Start here: three snowflake crafts that always work

Fork painted snowflakeA fork, white paint, a three can do itCoffee filter snowflakeFold, snip, open, the classicCotton swab snowflakeCotton swabs in a cross, no paint

6 snowflake crafts for preschoolers, with pictures

1. Coffee filter snowflake

The child folds a coffee filter, snips notches from the edges and opens it up, optionally colouring it blue first.

You need: 1 round coffee filter, blue marker, water in a small cup, spoon or dropper

How to make it

1. Your child scribbles on the coffee filter with the blue marker.
2. Drip water on it so the ink spreads into soft blotches. Let it dry.
3. You fold the dry filter into a wedge.
4. Snip small triangles from the folded edges.
5. Open it up flat.

2. Craft stick button snowflake

The child paints craft sticks, crosses them into a star and glues buttons or sequins along the arms.

You need: 3 craft sticks, light blue poster paint, 7 white buttons, glue

How to make it

1. Your child paints the 3 craft sticks light blue. Let them dry.
2. Cross the sticks over each other at their middles and glue them to make a star with 6 arms.
3. Glue 1 white button flat on the center.
4. Glue 1 white button on the end of each arm.

3. Beaded pipe cleaner snowflake

The child threads pony beads onto pipe cleaner arms that have been twisted into a star.

You need: 3 white pipe cleaners, blue and clear pony beads, a small bowl for the beads

How to make it

1. You twist the 3 pipe cleaners together at their middles to make a star with 6 arms.
2. Your child threads beads onto each arm.
3. Bend the tip of each arm over so the beads stay on.

4. Fork painted snowflake

The child presses a fork dipped in white paint outward from a centre point to print a snowflake.

You need: dark blue paper, white poster paint, 1 small plastic fork, paper plate for the paint

How to make it

1. Pour a little white paint on a plate.
2. Your child dips the tips of the fork tines in the paint.
3. Press the tines on the blue paper pointing outward from a center point.
4. Repeat 6 times around the same center like the spokes of a wheel.

5. Cotton swab snowflake

The child glues whole and cut cotton swabs in a crossed pattern on dark paper to build a snowflake.

You need: cotton swabs, 1 sheet of dark blue paper, white glue

How to make it

1. You cut 16 of the swabs in half.
2. Your child glues the 8 whole swabs on the dark blue paper, forming the frame for a snowflake.
3. Glue the half swabs in pairs near the ends of the spokes, angled outward, 4 on each spoke.

6. Salt painted snowflake

The child traces a snowflake in glue, covers it in salt and touches watercolour to the salt so the colour runs along the lines.

You need: 1 sheet of black cardstock, white school glue, table salt, blue and purple liquid watercolor, 1 paintbrush

How to make it

1. Your child traces a snowflake on the cardstock with a line of glue: 6 arms, as wobbly and uneven as they come.
2. Sprinkle salt generously over the wet glue, then tip off the extra.
3. Your child touches a brush loaded with watercolor to the salt and watches the color creep along the lines.
4. Let it dry flat.

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Snowflake crafts for 3 year olds

One of these a young three can do almost alone: Fork painted snowflake. No exact cutting, no small pieces, and the glue stick does the rest.

Snowflake crafts with a 3 or 4 year old: white on dark

White shows up on dark blue or black paper, so buy a pad of dark paper before you start. White on white disappears and the child loses interest.

A three can do the fork painted snowflake and glue cotton swabs in a cross alone. Folding and snipping the coffee filter needs an adult to fold. The beads need a five's fingers.

Count to six as you lay out the arms, since snowflakes have six. Then count the beads on each pipe cleaner arm, same number on each one.

Hang the coffee filter and pipe cleaner snowflakes on thread in a window. The painted ones go on a wall in a row, and the craft stick one makes a tree ornament.

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