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How to Make Tissue Paper Snowflakes with Toddlers

January 9, 2017 by Sheryl Cooper

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Inside: Build fine motor skills while making these tissue paper snowflakes. Squeeze sparkling watercolors from pipettes for beautiful results!

It’s a tradition to make some sort of snowflakes each winter to adorn our classroom walls.

We might tweak the way we make them, but they are always done on either coffee filters or tissue paper. Both are delicate and allow the colors to mix.

Using pipettes and other types of droppers not only strengthen fine motor development, but they are also fun to use! Once preschoolers learn how to use them, they want to keep going, such as with our pine cone art and our colorful waterfalls.

This type of activity is definitely is part of my top 10 ways to get fingers ready for writing.

How to Make Tissue Paper Snowflakes with Preschoolers

How to Make Tissue Paper Snowflakes 

 

What you will need for this activity:

 

  • White tissue snowflakes
  • Blue liquid watercolors
  • Purple liquid watercolors
  • Gold metallic watercolors
  • White metallic watercolors
  • Pipettes

 

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Preparing the activity:

Pour the liquid watercolors into containers and thin with water to desired strength. I suggest placing the snowflakes on some sort of tray that can contain the watercolors, because preschoolers love this activity so much that excess watercolors will flow off the snowflake.

Easy Watercolor Snowflakes - Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds

 Easy Watercolor Snowflakes - Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds

 

Invite the children to squeeze the watercolors onto the snowflakes.

You  might need to show them how to squeeze the paint into the pipette and then release it onto the snowflake. You will know when they get it – their faces will light up!

 Easy Watercolor Snowflakes - Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds

 

 If you don’t have access to the pre-cut tissue shapes, you can cut your own out of coffee filters. We’ve done this in the past and they work well.

 

Easy Watercolor Snowflakes - Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds 

 

Easy Watercolor Snowflakes - Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds

 

When they are finished, let the snowflakes dry completely.

 

Easy Watercolor Snowflakes - Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds
Winter Watercolor Snowflakes - Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds

Displaying the watercolor snowflakes:

 

We’ve primarily displayed our watercolor snowflakes on bulletin boards, as shown below, often mixed with other artwork. They also look lovely as window displays and can also be turned into festive garland. You could also hang them from the ceiling, as we did with our watercolor doily art.

Easy Watercolor Snowflakes - Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds

 

Easy Watercolor Snowflakes - Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds

 

 

 Head on over to my winter Pinterest board to find more fun activities like this!

 


How to Make Tissue Paper Snowflakes with Preschoolers

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Filed Under: Art, preschool, Winter Activities Tagged With: art, fine motor, preschoolers, winter

About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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  1. Ema (My Little 3 and Me)

    January 15, 2014 at 9:44 am

    These are just beautiful aren’t they, and look such fun to make.

  2. Sheryl Cooper

    January 15, 2014 at 10:44 pm

    Hi Ema – seriously, our 3s could do this for weeks at a time, they love it so much! We use our pipettes often for that reason. That, and the salad spinner!

  3. Stephanie Schuler

    January 17, 2014 at 5:10 pm

    Excellent! Love these! What a great winter-time activity!

    • Sheryl Cooper

      January 21, 2014 at 3:50 pm

      Thank you, Stephanie! Yes, we had a lot of fun with them, and they look so pretty hanging in our room!

  4. Kate Lloyd

    January 21, 2014 at 9:20 pm

    I can’t believe I’ve never used coffee filters. Thanks for teaching me how!

    • Sheryl Cooper

      January 27, 2014 at 7:19 am

      Coffee filters absorb watercolors beautifully!

  5. Nicole V

    January 21, 2014 at 11:52 pm

    SO cute!

    • Sheryl Cooper

      January 27, 2014 at 7:20 am

      Thanks, Nicole!

  6. Danya atDanyaBanya

    January 24, 2014 at 1:04 pm

    Wow, aren’t they effective!

    • Sheryl Cooper

      January 27, 2014 at 7:20 am

      I love that they had so much fun making them, and they are all so different!

  7. Bernadette Hutton

    January 22, 2015 at 1:40 pm

    Hi there,
    Can I just say how much I love these ideas. It’s great to see activities that are quick and easy. I try them out before taking them into our 2/3year olds. I would love to claim them as my ideas but I rave about this site. Keep it up

    • Sheryl

      January 22, 2015 at 5:13 pm

      Thank you, Bernadette! Stick around because I will be adding more!

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