Artificial snow with own hands
Not so long ago, our parents, decorating the dwellingbefore the New Year, laid out cotton wool on the spruce branches, to create a kind of snow. Now there is no need to resort to such a tool. In the sale there are many compositions with which you can achieve the effect of frosted needles on the tree, draw frosty patterns on the windows, etc. But for those who want to save money, there are several ways to make artificial snow with your own hands. In this article, we will describe how to implement this.
Artificial snow from diapers
As you know, in most of these means of personalHygiene contains a special filler, which is a solid granule. Especially a lot of it is present in the diapers of Pampers, so we recommend using them.
Let's describe step by step the whole process of creating artificial snow:
Take a few diapers and cut them so that you get hold of the filler.
Remove the contents and place them in a suitable container.
What you got from the diaper, at first glance, resembles cotton wool.
Now pour in a bowl of sufficient water and wait until it is absorbed into the gel.
After a few hours you will get artificial snow.
We add that to achieve a more realistic effectYou can, if you put a container with a swollen gel for a while in the refrigerator. Then the snow will turn out not only beautiful, but also cold. From it you can make whole snowdrifts under the windows, on furniture and in any other suitable places.
We use improvised means
You can create beautiful artificial snow with your own hands without much expense. There are several ways for this:
Take a piece of white laundry soap and talcum powder. Rub the soap on a grater and mix it in a bowl with enough powders.
Another way to get snowflakes is to grind the foam polyethylene. Such a snow you can sprinkle a Christmas tree.
To make a table for the New Year, create an imitation of frost on the glasses. To do this, lightly moisten their edges and dip into sugar.
Snow from starch own hands
Here is another simple way:
Prepare the following: 200 g of starch, shaving foam and any sparkles.
Put all the ingredients in a suitable dish and mix.
Blind from the resulting mass of lumps and sprinkle them with sequins.
Such snowballs can decorate an apartment, spreading them near a Christmas tree, under windows, on shelves, etc.
Snow from paper and soap
We present to your attention one more interesting way of creating artificial snow by our own hands:
Buy a few rolls of white toilet paper and a slice of white soap.
Crush the paper and fold it into a suitable container, do not use metal utensils.
Add a piece of soap to the bowl and put it all in the microwave. Set the timer for 1 minute, but in the process still check the mass.
The contents of the bowl should increase in volume and become brittle.
Pour a glass of water into the container.
Gradually pouring liquid, form a mixture of snowballs.
Of these balls you can make a snowman. Bring young children to work - they will definitely like this game.
Hoarfrost of salt
If you plan to decorate the house with twigs of a Christmas tree, they can be covered with artificial frost. The process will be interesting, and the effect is remarkable. Let's consider the sequence of actions:
Take a large table salt.
Pour 2 liters of water into the pan, boil it and pour 1 kg of salt into the pan. If desired, the solution can be made colored by adding a dye.
When the crystals completely dissolve in water, remove the pan from the fire and put there the dry fir branches.
After cooling the solution, remove the branches and put them until completely dry.
Having done all the above actions, you will get beautiful frosted branches, which you can decorate the house at your discretion.
One way to create artificial snow, you can see the video:
As you can see, making artificial snow is not difficult. Such a process does not require much time and money, and the effect is remarkable.
