Easy Snowman Art For Kids (Resist Art Craft Using Free Template)

I love sharing easy snowman craft for kids and this idea is one of my favorites! Using our free snowman template children can create this fun snowman art by using an easy resist painting technique.

It’s perfect as a simple winter or Christmas craft and can be easily adapted depending on what materials you have at home.

The finished craft looks great displayed at home or on classroom walls and it’s a really fun way to get creative during the colder months.

Snowman Art for Kids

This art project is a lovely activity for a cold winter day and it’s so simple to make that as long as they have some help I think it is totally doable for toddlers and preschoolers to make.

Older kids can do more of the scissors and detailed drawing for the scarf and features so it’s a good snowman craft for all ages. The painting itself is so much fun plus of course it looks cute! Always an important factor here.

As well as the DIY itself I’ll also be sharing a few ides for how you can adapt it for different ages as well as details of our snowman template that I’ve used to create this craft.

As well as the full instructions below I’ve also shared a little video to this page of how this craft was made to help give you a more visual idea of how it works.

What Is Resist Art

Resist art is basically where you use a material to stop paint colouring a certain area.

Common materials used to make the resist are tape, paper, wax and glue.

In this case the paper is partially covered with a paper template to stop the paint going on a certain area so that the picture is created once it’s removed.

You can check out our watercolor resist art flowers to see how you can use this technique in a different way!

What Materials Can Kids Use To Make Resist Snowman Art?

To make this simple snowman craft you’ll obviously need some essential materials, white paper or card, paint and our snowman template.

What you choose to do the painting with though is up to you.

I’ve used tin foil as I think it’s a bit of an unusual painting material but it’s one that a lot of us have in a cupboard somewhere.

Not got any foil? How about using a sponge, cotton balls, pom poms, a toothbrush or a shower puff?

Snowman Painting Materials:

• White paper or cardstock
• Blue paint
• Foil
• Black, red and orange markers
• Scissors
• Washi Tape
• Glue (glue stick or school glue / PVA glue)
• Reusable plate or tray

Free Snowman Template

Our snowman template is available as a free PDF for you. You can print as many copies as you like so it’s perfect if you’re thinking of doing doing a few activities over the holiday season, if you have more than one child or if you are doing this activity in a classroom.

How To Make Your Snowman Art

Start by printing out your snowman template onto paper, normal printer paper is absolutely fine for this.

For my craft you can see that I’ve colored in the snowman’s hat using a black marker but if you’d rather not you could just make a hat using construction paper or card stock.

Cut out the snowman outline and hat separately and then attach your snowman shape to another piece of paper using washi tape.

To do this I make a small loop out of washi tape as this tends to tear the paper less than normal tape, put the tape loops onto the back of your snowman to stick it to the paper.

Pour some blue and white paint into a plate or tray. You don’t have to use white paint but it helps to give different shades to your painting.

Scrunch up your foil and dab this into your paint before dabbing round all of the snowman’s body making sure all of the edges are covered. The great thing about resist art is it really doesn’t matter where you paint as long as you get the edges covered.

Carefully remove the paper snowman template and then once the paint is dry draw on the eyes, nose, mouth, buttons and scarf using markers and glue on the snowman’s hat.

Ways to Adapt This Snowman Craft:

Instead of drawing on the snowman’s buttons why not glue on some real ones?

You could hunt for sticks in your backyard to glue on for your snowman’s arms.

Swap your drawn on carrot nose for one cut out of orange paper or cardstock.

Instead of drawing on a scarf you could glue on some yarn for a more 3D effect.

I’ve used black cardstock for the snowman’s hat but you could cut one out of white card instead and decorate it, or not have a hat at all if you’d prefer, for an alternative why not draw on some earmuffs?

Instead of using foil for all of your resist art you could try out different textures on your own snowmen using one of the alternative materials suggested above, why not use a few of them on your craft to see what it looks like.

I’ve dabbed the paint on using different materials but if you prefer you could of course use a paintbrush.

More Snowman Art and Craft Ideas

This pom pom printed snowman is really easy for kids to make.

I love that any paint that goes a bit amiss can just be part of a snow flurry or snowfall and while I’ve done this on a plain piece of paper I think it would work really well painted inside our snow globes templates.

This bubble wrap snowman craft was one I made with my kids and was a great way to get another use out of a material.

This paper plate snowman craft is great for some simple winter fun as well as being an excuse to practice scissor skills. You can also use it as a decoration.