Today I’m sharing four easy snowflake crafts for kids that you can make using our free snowflake template including our mosaic snowflake craft you can see below.
These are one of our most popular winter crafts for kids and they’re great for preschoolers as you can use them as a way to support scissor skills and fine motor skills.
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Easy Snowflake Crafts for Kids
As well as being suitable for preschoolers these snowflake crafts are also suitable for kids of all ages as they’re easily adaptable for toddlers, children in kindergarten or school age kids – this is really helpful if you’re looking at weather crafts and activities with a group or if you have more than one kid at home.
You’ll also find that once you start trying out these activities using our snowflake template you’ll start thinking of lots of other ways to use it too depending on what you already have at home.
It’s really easy to adapt and often the best ideas are the most simple ones too so have a hunt in your craft box and see what you can find to use – buttons, popsicle sticks and pasta would all work well!
All of the snowflake crafts for kids that I’ve shared in this post use our printable snowflake template and where possible I’ve printed the template onto white card stock or blue card stock rather than paper.
As you’ll be using a fair bit of glue using cardstock tends to stop it getting too saturate and sloppy or even worse tearing, go with what works best for you and the snowflake craft you are making though.
I’ve also used PVA glue (school glue) for the snowflake crafts that involve sticking as it’s generally better than a glue stick for holding different textures.
If you like the snowflake crafts for kids that I’m sharing today make sure that you bookmark this post or pin an image so that you can return to it later, especially if you want to grab the snowflake template another time!
I’ve also shared a quick video of one of these snowflake crafts in action to this page so give it a watch if you’d like to see how the crafts can work.
Plus keep reading for some ideas for snow books for kids, some of our favourite fun winter crafts and of course the snowflake crafts themselves.
Free Snowflake Template
All of the snowflake art and craft ideas that I’ve shared in the post have been made using our snowflake template which is free to download.
The PDF file contains two pages, one with a large simple snowflake outline which is the one that I’ve used here and another with smaller snowflake designs on it.
Of course you only need to print out the one that you would like to use although if you want to print out the other page too then go for it, they’d make great snowflake ornaments to hang on a Christmas tree if you print them onto cardstock and then decorate them!
Snow Books For Kids
As a mom and ex-bookseller I can’t help but keep an eye out for themed books that I think would be great to read alongside some of our activities.
These books about snow all look great and would be perfect for sharing while you keep snugly and warm inside during the winter months.
- Let It Snow by Maryann Cocca-Leffler
- The Mitten by Jan Brett
- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Mosaic Snowflake Craft for Kids
This paper mosaic snowflake is a great way to practice scissor skills and is a good fine motor activity too.
Cut some colored scrap paper into pieces and then glue it into place on your snowflake – older kids will be able to do this more neatly – can they do it without overlapping?
You could use colored paper for this, construction paper or look through old magazines and comics for wintery colors that you can cut out if you want to make this super thrifty too.
With younger kids you could discuss the different colors you’re using or any different shapes, are there squares, triangles or rectangles?
Older kids can do the gluing themselves where as if you want the colored paper to actually be on the snowflake then you might want to help younger kids with that part.
Of course if you don’t mind where the paper gets stuck then just let them go for it!
Scrunched Paper Snowflake Craft
I really love tissue paper in kids crafts because it’s such a nice sensory material to use – while you craft you can chat about what noises it makes as it tears and as you screw it into shapes to glue down, how does it feel?
Try making different sizes and shapes with the tissue paper too with small screwed up balls of the paper and longer sausage shapes to go along the snowflake.
I’ve used blue tissue paper for this as that’s what we had at home but white tissue paper would be great too, especially if you print this onto blue paper or cardstock.
Pom Pom Printed Snowflake Craft
Pom poms are one of those things that we always seem to get in craft packs but are never quite sure what to do with them (yes, us too.)
We love using pom poms as a fun alternative to paint brushes or finger painting – you can hold on to them with fingers or if you’d rather try not to get messy hands then using a clothes peg is a great alternative.
It’s fun to try using different sized pom poms for this too, making big and small sized paint blobs.
Put your colored paint onto a reusable plate for an easy way to access it, dab your pom pom into the paint and then dab it onto your snowflake to color it in.
If you make a lot of these why not cut them out and hang them up? We think they’d make cute snowflake garlands.
Rice ‘Painted’ Snowflake Craft
Rice is a great alternative to glitter when you’re crafting with kids and easy to dye if you fancy adding some colour to it – I like this tutorial for DIY coloured rice from Paging Fun Mums.
Covering the snowflake shape with glue first means that even very young children can get involved in this activity as they sprinkle rice over their snowflake and gently shake off any excess.
I find that PVA / school glue works a lot better for this craft thank using a glue stick due to the shape of the rice.
More Winter Crafts and Activities for Kids
This snowman art is one of our most popular winter craft ideas and as well as a free template also has step by step instructions for making it along with a video tutorial. Don’t fancy getting the paints out? Why not try this one using markers or crayons?
I love this Northern Lights craft and it’s surprisingly easy to make as well as using a really fun technique.
Finally this simple polar bear craft has been really popular (and is another cute make!)
Snowflake Crafts for Kids
Equipment
- Scissors
- Glue
- Pom poms
- Coloured Paint
- Plate
Materials
- Blue and White Card
- Coloured Scrap Paper
- White Rice
- Tissue Paper
Instructions
- Print off as many copies of the snowflake template as you need.
- For a mosaic snowflake cut your scrap paper into shapes, put glue on the inside of your snowflake and glue on the scrap paper pieces.
- For a scrunched paper snowflake put glue on the snowflake and then tear and scrunch your tissue paper to decorate it.
- For a pom pom printed snowflake put blue and white paint onto a plate and then dip your pom pom into it, dabbing the paint onto the snowflake template to decorate it.
- For a rice decorated snowflake put glue onto your template and then sprinkle rice onto it.