- Jar of water
- Crayons
- Watercolor paints
- Wide and thin paint brushes
- Basic sketching pencil
- Napkins
- Watercolor paper (or another thick paper)
Snowy art projects for elementary students
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25 “Celebrate Winter” Art Projects For Kids
Kids love to create! Giving kids the tools to build their creative side is easy: kids can create with just about anything. But teaching them basic techniques will help them grow as artists and creators. These 25 “celebrate winter” art projects for kids will help them grow their art skills, explore winter, and have fun while getting messy! Enjoy!
25 “Celebrate Winter” Art Projects For Kids
This torn tree forest will let them explore negative space and 3D art.
Tape resist art is a fun way for kids to see a picture within a picture.
Your littles will have fun making button snowflake ornaments that can be hung all over the house.
Here’s another fun negative space project: winter lights!
These framable trees are easy enough for kids of all ages and pretty enough to hang in the house.
Your kids will have fun making these penguins out of construction paper and paint.
Want to warm up? These hot cocoa cups are a cool way to explore abstract realism.
A bejeweled snowflake can be as unique as the child who makes it.
Use glue to make snowflakes that glitter and shine.
Or use black glue to make incredibly beautiful abstract winterscapes.
Imagine the night sky in winter. Exploring the color gradient will give kids a chance to design their own nighttime painting.
These beautiful northern lights flow over mountains, and from the imaginations of your littles.
Rainy winter days can be just as beautiful as the snow, if you look for the beauty within.
Tape resist trees with watercolors make gorgeous art that kids can ‘gift’ to those they love.
Explore shading with this fun snowman project!
Who knew a black and white picture of a snowy field could have so many shades?
This fun tree project will invite your littles to finger-dab their way into the art world.
Beautiful snow owls are easier to make than you can imagine, and your kids will definitely be proud of the results.
Splatter snowy trees looks just like a super snowy day, and the splatter mimics an incredibly vivid windy effect.
Salt and watercolor will make a snowy landscape that glitters in the sunlight.
Let your kids imagine a tree-filled field while creating a beautiful color gradient collage.
This beautiful project uses watercolors and snowflakes to imagine that first winter’s snow.
Here’s another unique way to imagine northern lights, this time using negative space to show beautiful trees.
Let it snow with this fun resist art snowflake.
There’s nothing that says winter quite like Frosty standing outside a window in this inviting image.
Winter Art Project Ideas For Kids
Now that we’re smack in the middle of winter, I’m sure you’re looking for a few exciting winter art projects to keep your students occupied on days they’re stuck inside. Well, I say, embrace the season and have your students participate in a few winter art projects.
Here are 3 art lessons I’m sure your students will be excited about. Plus, they’re easy to set up and fun to do!
Project 1. Snow Coloring: Color Theory
I love teaching young students color theory, and one of the funnest ways to do so during the winter is with snow! Living in California, seeing snow—let alone using it for art projects!—is very rare, but if you’re in the middle of a winter wonderland, bring it into the classroom and have some fun with this project.
- Food coloring or mixing paint in the primary colors: red, blue, and yellow; or this Primary Mixing Kit
- Empty dropper bottles
- Tap water
- Containers, tubs, or buckets (for the snow)
- Snow
- Towels
- You can do this part yourself, or you can have students go outside and fill up containers of clean snow. Each child should have their own container.
- Fill up dropper or squirt bottles with the food coloring or mixing paint plus tap water to dilute it.
- Have students squirt a little bit of each color onto different areas of the snow.
- Then, allow students to experiment with creating secondary colors. They can squirt one color on top of another to mix them and see what colors they can create on their own.
Project 2. Wrapping Paper Collage: Tear, Collage, & Glue
Do you still have scraps of wrapping paper laying around your home?
Bring them into the classroom and recycle it to give students the opportunity to create unique pieces of art.
This is one of the simplest Montessori activities to keep kids busy.
And while I put this into the winter art projects category, you can really do this any time of year, with any type of paper you have in your classroom.
(For more Montessori activities related to this project, download my Ultimate Winter Arts & Crafts Idea Guide and check out page 9.)
- Wrapping paper scraps
- Scissors
- Glue
- Paper
- (Optional) pencil and eraser
How to:
This project can be done two ways:
- Let students choose the paper designs they want to work with
- Cut or rip pieces into different shapes
- Using these pieces, they can aim to create a specific object/design or keep it abstract
- Have them move the pieces around their paper and experiment with the design
- Once they’re happy with their image, have them glue the pieces onto their paper
- Have students decide on an image they want to create (fish, butterfly, face, mountains, etc.)
- Lightly draw an outline of the design onto their paper
- Cut the wrapping paper into shapes that will fit within their image
- Once they’ve put the pieces together to their liking, glue them onto their paper drawing
Project 3. Winter Art – Northern Lights:
Wet-on-Wet Painting, Wax Resist
Seeing the Northern Lights is on a lot of people’s bucket lists. What you may not know is that they’re easier to see in the winter—especially after making this artwork! Watch the video below to see how to use just paints and crayons to create this Northern Lights landscape, complete with a colorful sky and mountain peaks.
Winter Art Supplies:
- Jar of water
- Crayons
- Watercolor paints
- Wide and thin paint brushes
- Basic sketching pencil
- Napkins
- Watercolor paper (or another thick paper)
Want more ideas for winter art projects? Download the Ultimate Winter Arts & Crafts Idea Guide! It’s packed with a more than 40 of fun and educational winter art projects that’ll get your students pumped and excited about art!
