Q-Tip Painted Snowflakes

Snowflakes are a great winter theme and so much fun for kids to explore. You can learn about their shapes and have fun making snowflakes as well.

This is a simple snowflake painting with q-tips that makes a great winter painting and a great fine motor craft as well.

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This is a great addition to the winter crafts on the site.

What is q-tip or cotton swab painting?

Q-Tip or cotton swab painting is using them instead of a paintbrush. It is a great way to add in fine motor while doing a fun painting activity.

You are going to have fun making snowflakes with q-tips. Kids can have fun tracing the lines and watching the snowflake appear on the page.

Snow by Uri Shulevitz is one of our favorite books to read about snow. It is fun to read and watch the picture change as it snows.

It is also a great gook to read with this snowflake painting.

What you need to make your Q-Tip Painted Snowflakes

• blue construction paper snowflake pattern drawn on it
• paint tray or paper plate to hold paint
• q-tip
• white paint
• ruler

You can use a ruler to make the lines of the snowflake. It is simple to trace on the paper.

How we made the Q-Tip Painted Snowflakes

You can see all the steps that we used to make the q-tip painted snowflakes.

Trace the Snowflake with Your finger

For younger kids, you can have them trace the snowflake with their fingers before they start. This is a great way to work on the extra fun fine motor before painting.

Dip the Q-tip in Paint

You can start with having an area with paint for kids to put their q-tip in. You can see we used a paper plate but you can use any plan container to put the paint in.

Trace the Snowflake Lines with the Q-Tip

Then you trace the lines of the snowflake lines with the q-tip. You can see the white shows up nicely with the blue.

You can remember that younger kids might not trace all the lines but they can still make a fun q-tip painting.

Decorate Around the Snowflake

If you happen to have lots of dots on the paper you can make more to decorate around the snowflake. This is a fun way to add more painting to the paper.

And remember that all snowflakes will be different even if they have the same pattern. Each person will trace their in their own way.

And remember that younger kids might not want to trace all the lines but they can still have fun doing the painting project.

Final look at our Q-Tip Painted Snowflakes

Check out these other Snowflake Crafts & Printables

You can make a fun Snowflake Paper Plate Wreath. It is simple and easy to use. And then you have great wreath for the winter!

Make hands on and stem base Plank Board Snowflakes. A great hands-on building activity for kids.

Snowflake Number Find is a great number identification printable to work on tracing and finding number with number digits and number words. You have numbers from 0 to 20.

Fun to Make Watercolor Snowflakes is a great activity using cookie cutters.

Snowflake Ten Frame Set has ten frame activities that work on numbers 1 to 20. You have a mix of easy reader books, clip cards, ten frame cards, worksheets, and more.

Counting Snowflake Number Easy Reader Book is a fun book to work on numbers 1 to 10. You have different snowflakes on each page to count. This is great kindergarten and prek easy reader book.

Check out all the fun Winter & Snow Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.

Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com