Need inspiration to entertain your child this winter holiday? Here are some examples of creative winter activities you can do together at home:
1. Homemade artificial snow
What if it hasn't snowed yet? With just two ingredients, you can make artificial snow that doesn't melt and that little ones can use safely at home.
The ingredients you need are: baking soda and hair conditioner (you can also use shaving foam instead of conditioner). The proportions vary depending on how much snow you want to make. You can start by combining small amounts of hair conditioner or shaving foam with the baking soda until the snow reaches the desired consistency. If the mixture is too stiff, add more conditioner or shaving foam. If it is too wet, add more baking soda. You can tell if the snow has the right consistency when you can easily shape a snowball in your hands.
From the resulting snow, you can make snowmen or creative decorations together using other elements from the house, such as buttons, peppercorns, thyme sprigs, ribbons, tinsel or glitter. The snow does not cause skin reactions and is not cold. Children can play with it for hours! At the end, you can easily sweep it up and throw it in the trash.
2. Paper snowflakes
If you want to decorate your windows in a fun and inventive way, try making paper snowflakes. Paper snowflakes can also be used to decorate Christmas wreaths or as decorations for the Christmas tree.
All you need is a pair of scissors, square sheets of paper and a rich imagination! The shaping of the snowflakes will be based on folding the paper into smaller and smaller triangles and cutting the edges into the desired shape. There is no exact formula for the design of snowflakes and it is ideal to be creative. Here are some tips on how you could get started:
- For A4 sheets – create square sheets by folding a corner until you form a large triangle, which you will cut out.
- Fold the large triangle in half, from the top corner to the bottom corner, to obtain a smaller triangle.
- Fold the smaller triangle into three, from left to right (as if you were trying to make a paper airplane), and cut off the excess paper at the base to obtain a new triangle.
- Now is the time to be creative! You can cut straight or wavy pieces into the edges of the paper triangle to obtain a pattern. These cutouts can be smaller or larger; the only important thing is not to cut too deep so as not to split the snowflake in two.
- The final step! Carefully unfold the packed snowflake to reveal the resulting pattern!
Snowflakes cut out in this way can be hung on colored string or tied to a set of Christmas lights for a wow effect! For even more creativity, the little ones can color the paper snowflakes in various colors or decorate them with drawings. Their imagination is limitless!
