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How to Make Snowflakes with Your Kids

Jan 20, 2025

There’s nothing more magical than making snowflakes with kids. And if you are a parent who likes to connect art to science, today I'm sharing a great book/art combo that makes learning fun and effortless during the cold winter months! Simply read this story and do an art project-it’s that simple! 

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Snowflake Bentley, by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and Mary Azarian, is a Caldecott Award winning picture book that tells the story of Wilson Bentley. Wilson was a child fascinated by snow who grew up to study the little miracles we call snowflakes. It is his research that gives us what we know about snowflakes today. 
After reading this picture book together, try this art project with your kids:

Cut a flurry of paper snowflakes. Fold, fold, fold, and cut. Unfold your papers and witness the magic and wonder-making snowflakes never fails to delight kids of all ages! 




Want to extend the snowflake art fun? Try these art ideas:

  • Hang your snowflakes on a window with tape.
  •  Put snowflakes in a pie pan of water with a rubber band at the top. Set outside overnight on a night when the temperature drops to below freezing. Gently run warm water on the back of your pie pan, and lift the ice disk with the enclosed paper snowflake out. Hang up on a tree branch outside.


  •  Draw snowflakes different ways with grey, blue, white and purple crayons. For extra art and science wonder, wash watercolor over your picture.

I hope you enjoyed these snowflake art projects with your kids! Make those cold winter afternoons full of excitement as you build confidence and learning with books and art.

 

PS. Looking for more ways to add art and reading to your everyday life? Check out online art lessons here-ready when you are with easy supplies and art your kids will enjoy doing!

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