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Watercolor Snowflakes

Watercolour Snowflakes

Age: 5-12 years old 
Duration: 1-1.5 hours
Theme: Snowflakes, Winter, Cold Colours, Symmetry 

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Prototypes by Sinthia Cousineau

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Materials 

  • Masking Tape
  • Salt
  • Jar of water
  • Large paint brush
  • White Oil Pastel
  • Watercolor Paints
  • Black Sharpie
  • Scissors (to help young ones cut masking tape)
  • Medium to large watercolor paper
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Project Steps

Step 1: Design a Snowflake (10-15 minutes)

  • Use an old yogurt container top to trace 2 circles on a white sheet of paper.
  • Put a dot in the center of the circles.
  • Use a ruler to create a symmetrical snowflake design inside the circle.
  • Create a different design for each circle. 
  • Then pick the design you like best.
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Step 2 (Optional): Tape the Boarders 
(2 minutes)

  • Use masking tape to help create a frame and stick the paper to the table as you work.
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 Step 3: Create Snowflake
​(20-30 minutes)

  • Use the masking tape to create a design of your snowflake, you can rip the tape for smaller parts of the snowflake.
  • Note: For younger children, thicker tape is easier to manipulate. 
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Step 4: Draw smaller snowflakes

  • Using white oil pastel, draw smaller snowflakes in the background.
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Step 5: Wet & Add Watercolor

  • Add water all over the watercolor paper and then add cold colors that represents winter, such as blue, pink, and purple and light green, and mix the colors on the sheet. Make sure the entire paper is filled with colors.

Step 6: Sprinkle Salt

  • Before the watercolor dies, sprinkle salt all over the paper. Then let everything dry. 
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Step 7: Remove Tape & Outline the Snowflake

  • Once dry, carefully remove the Masking Tape. Then use a black sharpie to outline and add details to the snowflake. This step is optional, if you prefer not having any drawing the snowflake looks good without as well. 
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Prototype by Sinthia Cousineau

Students Painting their Snowflakes

2021-2013

Students Finished Artwork

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Age 5
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Age 5
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Age 5
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Age 11
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  • Sinthia Cousineau
    • My Resume
    • Biographie, philosophy et methods
    • My Philosophy of Education
    • Artists that Inspire Me >
      • Claude Monet
      • Leonardo da Vinci
      • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
      • Georgia O’Keeffe
      • Vincent van Gogh
      • Michelangelo
      • Sandro Botticelli
      • Antoni Gaudí
  • Drawings
    • Illustrations >
      • Roman Ruins
    • Ships
    • Self-Portraits
    • Animal Drawings
    • Drawing from Observation
    • Cross Drawings
    • Skulls & Skeleton
    • Fictional Characters
    • Flowers
  • Ceramic Art
    • Functional Ceramics >
      • Bowls
      • Boxes
      • Mugs
      • Vases
      • Containers
    • Molds
    • Animals
    • Figures
    • Decals
    • Violins
    • Abstract & other
  • Paintings
    • Self-Portraits
    • Models
    • Imaginative Worlds
    • Saint-Joseph's Oratory
    • Still Lives & Nature
    • Ruins & Architecture
    • Painters that Inspire Me
  • Photography
    • Cyanotypes
    • Photograms
    • Pin-Hole Photography >
      • Collage & other art Activities >
        • Origami Collage Drawing
        • Lesson: Warm & Cold Motion Figures
        • Lesson: Roman Mosaics >
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        • Art & Adolescence >
          • Mural Project >
            • Door Mural Project
          • Ceramic Mosaic
          • Videos
          • Lesson: Eco Art
          • Lesson: Decorating Fabric
          • Lesson: Zentangles & Patterns
          • Lesson: Social Media, consumerism & war
          • Lesson: Bag Sculptures & Positive Body Image
          • Lesson: Caricatures & political activism
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          • Photoshop Lesson
          • Lesson: Value Scales
          • Lesson Plan: Video Art
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          • Lesson: Landscape
          • Lesson: GIF Project
          • Lesson: Mashup Videos
        • Lesson: Reconstructing Scenery
        • Holiday Art
        • Lesson: Shibori
        • Reptile Zentangle Drawing
        • Lesson: Drawing Lines
        • Other Lesson Ideas
    • Photoshop >
      • Photoshop Lesson: Recreation of Famous Artwork
      • Lesson: Double Exposure
    • Digital Photography >
      • Butterflies
      • Architecture & Cities
      • Ruins
      • Flowers >
        • Dandelion
        • Roses
        • Water Lily
      • Nature
      • Churches & Sanctuaries
      • Objects, Patterns, and other
      • Travel
    • Other Light-based Media Stuff >
      • Lesson: Scanner Self-Portrait
  • Art Education
    • Art Education & Seniors >
      • Lesson: Mandalas
      • Lesson Plan: Zentangle Cards
      • Lesson: Analogous Still Lives
      • Lesson: Eco Collage
      • Lesson: Clay Decorations
      • Other Lesson Ideas
    • Art & Children >
      • Drawing Activities with Kids >
        • Introductory Lesson
        • Symmetrical Name Creatures
        • Tim Burton Portraits
        • Drawing from Autumn Still-lives
        • Aurora Borealis (Acrylic/ soft pastels)
        • Grid Drawing Technique
        • Lesson: Alliteration Drawing
        • Leaf Drawing Collage
        • Collaborative Doodle
        • Drawing: 3D Hands
        • Oil Pastel Dinosaur Landscape
        • Oil Pastel Night Sky
        • Scratch Art Drawing
        • Ancient Egypt Art
        • Lesson Unit: Fables & Stories
        • Lesson: Optical Illusions
        • Lesson Plan: Renaissance Invention Scroll
        • Lesson: La Bande Dessinée
        • Types of Art >
          • Eco Art
          • Symmetrical Name Creatures
          • Kinetic Art
          • Street Art
        • Drawing : Word Art
        • Lesson: Northwest Aboriginal Art
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        • Drawing: Hidden Emotions Behind the Mask
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        • Australian Dot Painting
        • Blow Paint Technique
        • Bubble Wrap Painting: Bee
        • Coffee Art
        • Pointillism Painting
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        • Lesson: The Color Wheel
        • Painting: Birch Tree
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