How to Make Snow Art

Making snow art is a good project for kids or adults with a lot of snowy time on their hands. An unexpected snow day can be the perfect chance to explore these activities. Gather some supplies, make some hot chocolate and head out to a backyard or park with a lot of fresh snow. Since the materials are so readily available, your ability to make snow art is limited only by your creativity and the number of sweaters you have on.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Design the overall size and shape of your creation. For example, you could make a giant mural covering half the backyard, or you could make a zoo full of snow animal sculptures.

2. Create building blocks by packing snow into containers or molds. For example, snow molded in loaf pans makes excellent bricks. You can also make pillars using glasses. You can make domes using bowls. Any fancy Jello molds, cake pans or ice cube trays can also be used for snow art molds.

3. Construct the basic framework. Outline a picture by drawing with sticks or making trails of footprints. Alternately, build up the overall shape of your sculptures by using your molded building blocks, snowman-style snowballs and packed heaps of snow.

4. Add details, molded from snow or using other materials. You can also decorate your snow art with shiny ice accents made by leaving water outside in containers to freeze or with evergreen needles.

5. Mix a little food coloring into spray bottles of water. Use this coloring to mist parts of your art. This gives the snow a bit of a tint, a slightly shiny finish and a stronger outer layer as the water hardens into ice.

Tips & Warnings

• If you want your snow art to last as long as possible, make sure everything is firmly packed down, especially before you add any water.
• Be careful with water when it's freezing cold outside, or your art project may be suddenly cut short by the need to go inside and change out of wet clothing. For this reason, it can be convenient to finish everything except for the water first.