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Ten Shiny Paper Snowflakes

How to make Paper SnowflakesChristmas Crafting with your Toddler is a fun way to connect over the holiday season and we’ve made some Paper Snowflakes together like I used to make when I a child with my mum and then later on my own.

One of our Christmas Books this year is Ten Shiny Snowflakesthis is a counting board book for toddlers and preschoolers. Counting backwards from 10 with a little rhyme for each featuring winter animals it’s fun to read and J and T both enjoy counting. Having moulded snowflakes we count the snowflakes on each page and with J have talked about the different animals and what they do in Winter as we read. With T it’s a lot of counting the snowflakes and naming the animals on each page.

As T loves the book so much we revisited an activity from my childhood and created some snowflakes during our Mummy and T time whilst J was at preschool.

T is 21 months old and doesn’t use scissors so I did the cutting, however she was able to help me with the folding of the paper – used plain white printer paper and folded into a square and then into triangles until it was a smallish triangle.

Christmas craft for toddlers

I then randomly cut shapes out of the triangle for T and unfolded it and T set about adding glitter to the snowflakes.

Paper Snowflakes

We use glitter glue at the moment and have found the easiest set for her to use is from Baker Ross, unlike a lot of glitter glue she can squeeze it out and uses the nib of the glue to spread it around. We choose blue as the snowflakes on the cover of the book were blue as well.

Christmas Craft for kids

We then left them to dry and have added them to our dinning room window which is one of the areas where we display craft in our house.

If you are looking for something a little more difficult that would be ideal to craft with an older child at the same time then how about trying some 3D snowflakes like these from Red Ted Art

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Cerys Parker

Cerys is a marine biologist, environmental educator, teacher, mum, and home educator from the UK. She loves getting creative, whether it is with simple and easy crafts and ideas, activities to make learning fun, or delicious recipes that you and your kids can cook together you'll find them all shared here on Rainy Day Mum.

3 Comments

  1. Paper snowflakes are such a wonderful classic. Love the addition of glitter.

    Thank you for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!

    Maggy

  2. I love your glittery snowflake crafts. I will have to keep an eye out for the book.

  3. I had forgotten about these snow flakes- we made them too as kids. Will have to have a go with the Fairy (as soon as the rush of pre school parties and Nativity plays has finished!)

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