Watercolor Snowflakes - how to, tips, and tools

Our watercolor leaves were probably my number one favorite thing about fall decor this year and I was a little sad to take them down when we were ready to transition to winter. So I decided we had to do something similar with snowflakes this year.

Usually we stick with the traditional white paper snowflakes for all of our windows - they are some of my favorite things to make with kids - always so pretty and surprising and fun - we make ours out of scrap paper and I even keep a bunch of them from year to year so we don't make too much waste, but that's a different post. This year we added watercolor snowflakes to our decor and I love them.

You can use coffee filters to make these - just cut out snowflakes like you usually would but use coffee filters instead of paper and then go right ahead and watercolor them, but I really wanted to replicate our watercolor leaves so I went on a little search for diffusing paper snowflake cut outs and landed on these. They're under $10, have 80 in a package, and the shapes are all true snowflakes with 6 sides.

For the watercolors I recommend this crayola set - it's been my ride or die since I was a classroom teacher many moons ago. We also have these and they are also good!

Tips for making these awesome:
- work on a tray to keep moisture contained
- use the wet on wet strategy for watercoloring (get the whole snowflake wet first, then watercolor to your heart's content)
- consider how colors will blend and use colors that will complement each other when that inevitably happens (or don't and enjoy the process of that too!)
- transfer to a newspaper (or other paper) covered surface to dry

Once they're totally dry, I hang our snowflakes on the windows with scotch tape - nothing fancy. Can you kind of see it? Yes, and that's okay by me.

Happy winter!

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