There are several technologies for creating frost patterns on glass with your own hands. We will tell you about them.
DIY patterned frosts. Option 1
This option is the simplest. To create frost patterns on glass with your own hands using this technology, you will need white toothpaste and brushes, preferably hard ones. Our parents drew such patterns with tooth powder.
First, dissolve toothpaste in water and spray the glass with a spray bottle - this will create a haze. Then take toothpaste slightly diluted with water and start creating with light strokes. Apply strokes from the edge of the window glass to the center, creating shapes imitating frost patterns. For example, you can keep several photographs of real frosty patterns on hand and copy from them, or you can use similar strokes to create a stylized Christmas tree, snowman or other figures.
If you don't know how to draw, feel free to use stencils!
The advantage of this method is its simplicity and economy, and also the fact that after the New Year holidays you remove toothpaste easily from glass by simply washing it with a sponge and warm water.
DIY patterned frosts. Option 2
A more cunning and complex, but also more naturalistic method of creating frost patterns on glass with your own hands is method with beer and magnesia. Wash and dry the glass. Dissolve 50 g of magnesia or urea in half a glass of light beer and apply to the glass in any way: you can use a brush, a sponge or a cotton swab.
When applying, imitate frosty “feathers” and curls. When the liquid begins to dry, crystals will begin to appear on the glass, similar to real frosty patterns. You can use a hairdryer to speed up the drying of the glass. This solution also washes off window glass quite easily.
DIY patterned frosts. Option 3
Another way to imitate frosty patterns on window glass is to dissolve 30–40 g of sodium hyposulfite in half a glass of water (this photographic fixer, it is also called sodium thiosulfate pentahydrate, you can try to find it in stores for professional photographers or in chemical reagent stores). Using the method described above, apply the mixture to the glass and wait until it dries. In this case, the crystals are denser, white, and opaque.
DIY patterned frosts. Option 4
In order to write congratulations or draw some pictures on the glass, you can use regular glue and powdered sugar. To make the drawings more even, you can make a stencil: using a sponge, apply glue to the glass using a stencil and then apply powdered sugar to the glass using a powder puff or brush. Powdered sugar can be replaced leaves, baking soda, vanillin. The only negative is that your drawing may “float” if condensation accumulates on the glass, and this will be very noticeable (unlike previous methods).
When decorating the glass with frosty streaks, don’t forget about the window sill. Place white fabric or batting on it to imitate snowdrifts, sprinkle with glitter, arrange pine cones, toys, fruits (tangerines - of course!). On top of the window you can hang gold and silver stars cut out of shiny cardboard or glue them with small pieces of double-sided tape to the upper corner of the glass.
If you don't really want to clean the windows, decorate your house
Synopsis of the educational activity “Snow Patterns” for children of primary preschool age
Gorchakova Yulia Alekseevna, teacher of the Irdanovsky kindergarten "Kolosok", Nikolsky municipal district, Vologda region.Description of material: This methodological development is designed for children of preschool and primary school age. All teachers are faced with the problem of how to explain to kids where the snow patterns on the windows come from. I bring to your attention a summary of the educational activity itself, which will help expand children’s understanding of Frost’s drawings on glass.
Integration of educational areas: cognitive development, speech development, artistic and aesthetic development (music).
Target: acquaintance with the secret of the appearance of frosty patterns on windows.
Tasks:
- clarify and expand children’s knowledge about winter, tell where snow patterns on windows come from;
- develop creative imagination, fantasy, promote the development of speech and gross motor skills;
- cultivate a love for the beauty of our native nature, a desire to preserve the beauty of the surrounding world.
Preliminary work: reading poems about winter, about Frost’s drawings, looking at snow patterns on the window, watching the patterns change.
Equipment: box with illustrations depicting snow patterns and Vologda lace.
The progress of educational activities directly.
Organizing time.We reached out together,
They took the snowflake
Pressed to my heart
And they gave it to a friend. (Children perform actions according to the text)
Introductory conversation.
Let's remember what time of year it is now? That's right, winter. What is winter called in other words? (Zimushka, sorceress, sorceress). Winter is the most magical time of the year! Close your eyes and listen to the fairytale melody of Zimushka - winter. (The recording “Blizzard” is played).
What did you guys hear? (Reasonings of kids).
I also heard the cold wind blowing, and imagined the snow swirling, falling to the ground, the roofs of houses, and covering the windows.
Look at the window. What do you see on it? (Children's reasoning).
Invisible, carefully,
He comes to me
And he draws like an artist
He patterns on the window.
This is maple, and this is willow,
Here is the palm tree in front of me.
How beautifully he draws
Just white paint!
I look and can’t look away:
The branch lines are tender!
And the artist is happy to try,
You don't even need brushes.
Guys, who is this artist? Of course, Frost. What pictures did he draw on our window? What do these patterns look like? What are they? (Children's answers).
Looking at pictures depicting frosty patterns.
Without waiting for warmth,
In the middle of a winter day,
The flowers have bloomed
On my window.
I approached the flowers
My cheek became wet
Because the windows
I touched lightly.
I approached the flowers
But they didn't smell...
Why did they grow up?
On winter days? (J. Marcinkevičius “Ice Flowers”)
These patterns are very similar to Vologda lace, look at these photos.
Please tell me how you get such beautiful lace patterns on glass? (Children's answers). Frost draws patterns with transparent water vapor, which is always in the air and in the room. Let's breathe on the glass. What happens to the patterns? That's right, they disappear, they melt! Warm vapor turns into ice crystals, like snowflakes. There are many such ice crystals, they connect with each other, hold hands like this, and an ice garden gradually grows on the window with extraordinary flowers sparkling in the rays of the winter sun!
Let's pretend that we are snowflakes and dance with me.
Dance "Snowflake".
We are funny snowflakes
We are spinning in the air.
The wind blew and we flew,
We flew, we flew
And they sat down quietly on the ground.
The wind came again
And he raised all the snowflakes.
Spun, flew,
And they sat down on the ground again.
What new did you learn today? What did you like most? Guys, today you were real little explorers and learned a lot of interesting things! And if you want to learn even more about snowflakes, dress warmly and go for a walk!
Summary of the research and educational lesson in the 2nd junior group “Let's help the bear cub sew on
On frosty days, stunning ice patterns appear on the windows in the form of extraordinary stars, fancy curls, fabulous trees and flowers. In order for ice gardens to bloom on the windows, it is necessary that the air in the room be humid and the temperature outside the window be below zero.
Why do frosty patterns appear on the window?
Everyone remembers the parable that Santa Claus draws frosty patterns on the window. He quietly creeps up to the window at night and paints unique frosty pictures on it with a thin icy brush. In fact, everything is much more prosaic. If the air in the room is humid, and the temperature outside is zero degrees Celsius or lower, then excess moisture condenses on the cold surface of the glass. Here the water vapor cools and changes from a vapor to a solid state, forming thin crystals.How ice crystals form
Any glass that looks perfect has microscopic nicks and scratches. The moisture that settles on the surface of the glass crystallizes first of all on these tiny defects, and only then more and more cling to the first crystals, forming patterns. Sometimes, for the appearance of icy patterns, all it takes is dust particles that litter the surface of the glass, or stains that remain after washing the windows. Drafts and air currents also contribute to the appearance of patterns. According to the method of formation, frost patterns are divided into two types: dendrites - branchy patterns that resemble trees, and trichites, which are more like stars.Tree-like dendrites
Dendrites form at the bottom of the glass, where the water layer is thicker. Here wide trunks of frosty patterns appear, on which thinner branches gradually grow. The dendrites in the lower part of the glass are wide and thick, and in the upper part they are narrower and thinner. This frosty pattern resembles the thicket of an impenetrable fairytale forest.Trichite star patterns
If there are a lot of nicks, dust particles and scratches on the glass, then trichites appear on it - frosty patterns that look like stars. First, the epicenter of the pattern—a speck of dust or a notch—freezes, and then other crystals join it, like rays. As a result, frosty patterns look like a cluster of snowflakes or. When the temperature outside the window drops, trichites form dense ice fibers.When patterns don't appear on windows
If the air humidity in the room is low and the window has good thermal insulation, then condensation does not form on the glass and frosty patterns do not appear. That is why ice paintings, so familiar to residents of houses with old wooden windows, do not spoil residents of apartments with high-quality plastic windows.Dear friends! Frosty winter brings us many pleasant surprises. Grandfather Frost not only dresses the trees in crystal outfits, but also paints the windows with fancy patterns. Thin ice crystals sometimes present to our eyes fabulous pictures in which you can see figures of animals, fancy flowers, the depths of the sea, a scattering of stars in the sky, whatever your imagination reveals. In order for such frosty patterns on the window certain conditions are required: the air temperature outside is below 0 degrees and high humidity in the room. How do fairy tales appear?
How are frost patterns formed?
Who draws frosty patterns on the window? Grandfather Frost quietly makes his way to the window and paints magical pictures with an icy brush... They believe in this fairy tale. A wonderful story about patterns on windows "The Tale of the Frosty Window" you will find on Lyudmila's blog. Children really like such fairy tales, but Frost does not paint his pictures on all windows. Why? The reason for the appearance of patterns on windows is a certain combination of indoor air humidity and outdoor air temperature. The room should be quite humid, and outside the window - below 0 degrees. Moisture in the air condenses on the cold glass, it cools even more and turns into ice (freezes). A thin layer of ice forms. But freezing occurs gradually, so the crystals have different shapes.
There are always unnoticeable scratches and minor stains on the glass. More moisture always accumulates in such places, so patterns are formed first there. New crystals are added to the crystals that appear, covering an ever larger surface. Drafts, cold air currents, for example, from a slightly open window, contribute to more active frosty creativity.
Mysterious ones can be divided into two groups:
- branched ones that look like trees are called dendrites;
- similar to stars - trichites.
Dendrites form at the bottom of the window, where more water accumulates. First, thicker and wider crystals appear from below, then thinner and narrower branches grow, they diverge in different directions, forming a thicket of an icy forest.
Trichites cover windows in places where there is less moisture, but there are scratches, specks of dust, and stains. First, the central droplets of the pattern freeze, and then rays form, neighboring droplets join, turning into crystals. The result is fabulous stars of various shapes and sizes.
Why don't frost patterns appear on some windows?
Not everyone is lucky enough to see beautiful frosty paintings on the windows. Why? Doesn't Grandfather Frost come to them with his magic brush? Of course not! Everything is much simpler. Modern windows have good thermal insulation, that is, the inner surface of the glass does not cool so much that it becomes covered with ice. In addition, often the air humidity in an apartment in winter, when the heating is on, is low, that is, there are few water droplets in the air, they do not settle on the glass, and patterns do not form. Therefore, children are less and less likely to observe frosty patterns on the window. Not all apartments have old wooden windows with poor thermal insulation; high-quality modern double-glazed windows are becoming more and more common.
How to make patterns on windows with your own hands?
If Frost doesn’t paint his pictures on your windows, don’t be upset, it means you have high-quality windows. You can engage in frosty creativity with the whole family, and become wizards yourself for a while.
There are several ways to decorate windows with patterns:
1. Cut out snowflakes and glue them to the glass. On our website you can download various ones for creativity;
2. Make garlands from cut out snowflakes and decorate the windows with them;
3. Use to decorate windows, just cut out figures from white paper and glue them to the glass (we also have stencils);
4. Using toothpaste diluted with water and stencils, apply designs to the windows;
5. Simply draw patterns of diluted toothpaste with a brush;
6. Dissolve 50 g of magnesia or urea in 100 g of beer and, using a brush, sponge or cotton swab, apply patterns to the glass. Drawings obtained in this way look almost real.
Use the above methods and draw frosty patterns on the windows with your kids!
Now guess the riddles:
Everywhere turned white overnight
And there is a miracle in our apartment!
Outside the window the yard disappeared.
A magical forest grew there!
The wind blew and frost
Brought snow to us from the north.
Only since then
On my glass...
And now a little task for the kids. Put the puzzle together and you will see a cute New Year's picture!
If it’s difficult for your little one to navigate, then click on the magic buttons below. They will give you hints. If you look at the buttons from left to right, the first one will open a sample picture in the lower left corner of the screen, so putting the puzzle together will be very simple. The second button will show a transparent picture in the background. The third one will help simplify or complicate the task. The fourth - “settings” is intended to restart the game. Next, the numbers show what part of the task has already been completed and the time it took to complete it. In the lower right corner, the arrow button will open the puzzle in full screen. Click on parts of the picture and drag them to the desired location on the screen. Everything will work out!
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