"Design loving winter decorations together"

A bright blue sky. The snow cover is still completely untouched. A winter morning as he is in the book. Such sunny days are rare in the cold season and should therefore be used to get stuck a little in the fresh air. After that, there is still enough time to deal with your own children in the warm.

Suitable decoration for winter

Every season is ideal for making your own decoration. In winter, the snowman is simply part of it. Frosty, The Snowman is finally the symbol for the cold months and can be made in very different variants.

Here you will find out some nice handicraft ideas for the winter that you can implement with your children.

Tinking a winter decoration always gives the home a personal touch and making something together with the children is a great, common experience.

You can't just build a snowman with the children in the garden

Children like to work with their hands for their lives. You always have a lot of fun with it and learn many important things by the way. Patience, skill, concentration and creativity are encouraged. As a parents, you should only make sure that age -appropriate projects always start or are helpful for more difficult elements. Today we give you three craft ideas to make a snowman from very different materials. Be creative and always incorporate your own ideas. This makes the time together with children a lot of fun.

Snowman with gifts

Snowman tinker out of a sock

Disused socks are a small treasure trove when it comes to tinkering. If you have white socks on hand, it gets a little easier. If not, then that's not a problem. Just use a few nice ones White Nuschelito give the snowman the right color.

For a stocking snowman we need the following handicraft material:

• a sock
• White Nuscheli (if no white socks on hand)
• Red Nuscheli
• a piece of thin rope or string
• Rice (handicraft sand goes too)
• Black wooden beads
• Colorful lens pearls

1. Fill the body

We start with the body. To do this, cut the sock behind the heel into two parts. Take the foot end and turn it on the left. Now knot the opening and turn back to the right. Now fill the whole thing with rice. Now close the sock with a firm knot.

2. Form the head and body

This succeeds in a few seconds. First take the red Nuscheli and cut a red strip. Share the snowman in the head and fuselage by gently pressing. First, tie the whole thing a little with the thread. Then put the red strip as a scarf to the ornament.

3. Decoration

As eyes, use the black wooden beads. You are welcome to attach these with the help of hot glue or with a simple stitch. At the fuselage, the icy man adorns colorful lentils.

Transform ceramic pots into a snowman

It is not uncommon for disused and no longer need ceramic pots. Perfect to make a pretty winter decoration from them.

For the next variant you need, among other things:

• White Nuscheli
• Residue
• Wood pearls and lens pearls in different colors
• Fabric

1. Cover ceramic pot with fabric

At the beginning, the pot is wrapped with the white Nuscheli. Several layers can be laid. Alternatively, you are welcome to spread the pot with white color. Depending on what you have at hand.

2. Design

You simply paint the face of the snowman with a pen on the fabric. So that the cold man gets a little fancier, now take the wooden beads and lentil beads on hand and thread some beautiful, small chains. Then put them around the "belly". Fabric residues serve as headgear. Pretty, small hats can be made from this. Simply roll up, knot together at the end and put it on.

Tip: This variant is ideal for creating different sizes, so that in the end an entire snowman family is available as a winter decoration.

Snowmen from natural materials

You can find in nature even in winter Many, beautiful handicrafts, which can be wonderfully supplemented with pearls and towels. Collect a few thin branches, moss with the children and see if you have a few acorns or chestnuts from the autumn crafts. You can form the body of the natural snowema with socks as described above or use ready -made balls made of styrofoam.

1. Natural decoration

If you have made the body, you are now using the natural materials. Take branches and put them into the sides as arms. You can use chestnuts to hollow out chestnuts or use acorns. The moss is a wonderful surface on which the snowmen can be placed.

Snowman in a snowy forest

2. Complete colored accents

As a supplement, you are welcome to attach a few pretty wooden beads. These give the whole thing a little more liveliness.

If there is little time and you quickly want to inspire the children for a winter decoration, then just use cotton wool. Everything you need for this rather simple but still beautiful variant are the following materials:

• Cotton balls
• Wooden stick
• Pearl
• Nuscheli in the desired color

1. Tinker a body in no time

Simply take the cotton balls and put them on the wooden stick one after the other.

2. Design

Now just put black pearls as eyes with the help of hot glue and a few colorful pearls to decorate on the stomach. A small rest of the fabric serves as a scarf and the snowmen are ready for hurry.

More craft ideas for winter

Crafting with children gives a lot of fun in every season. In addition to the snowmen described here, snowy stars and snowflakes are also very popular craft ideas for winter. A wintry landscape, adorned by chestnuts and a feed crib made of sticks, creates a lot of freedom to create a unique decoration. Feel free to leave your imagination a little freedom and add the craft ideas with your own ideas. And: Above all, ask your children!

 

 

Winter decoration: from snowman to winter landscape

You have many ways to beautify your home with a pretty winter decoration. In addition to the craft ideas mentioned, there are other nice additions. Window panes can be really designed when they are sprayed with a snow spray. Wool also ensures a beautiful snow landscape on the window sill or on the chest of drawers.

However, make sure that babies and toddlers live in the household that small decorative pieces and cotton wool are out of reach of the little ones.

Winter attracts with its white splendor and not only children love to get and romp in the snow. The long afternoons, on the other hand, are simply ideal for being creative. Crafting a snowman with children at cocoa and cookies is part of winter, like the real snowman in the garden!