Simple Foil Icicle Winter Craft for Preschool

Ready for a super cute, not-at-all-chilly icicle craft for toddler, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade children. Not only was this winter craft for preschool fun, it was SO EASY, and frankly inexpensive too. This tinfoil craft is perfect for kids of all ages, I even enjoyed making them!!

Icicle Craft

Icicles are so fascinating. Growing up in Seattle, we didn’t have many of them. So when I moved to the midwest, I was attracted to them. How they form and how big they can actually get. My daughter has the same fascination. So of course, making an icicle crafts was a must as winter months of December, January, and February approach! We made these tinfoil icicles this time and it was so much fun!

Preschool Winter Crafts

Most people think of making snowman crafts, snowflake, crafts, penguin and polar bear crafts to celebrate winter. But if you live where it is cold and gets to freezing – you know icicles are a common winter sight during the chilly winter months. Kids of all ages from toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 2 students will love making these fun winter crafts for kids.

Supplies Needed:

• Tin foil
• Scissors
• White Glue
• Glitter
• Paper Plate
• Yarn
• Hot Glue (optional)

The first thing we did was rip off a piece of tinfoil. We didn’t measure, but I would guess it was probably about 12×12 inches. Now make this piece into a triangle. This will help make the tapering look of a true icicle.

Now literally crinkle the tinfoil up into an icicle shape. It was loosely crinkled up.

Easy winter crafts for preschoolers

Next we put a strip of white glue and a separate strip of glitter onto a paper plate. This way we could just dip the icicle into the white glue and then dip it in the glitter. We lightly put the icicle in the white glue. I didn’t want it to be completely covered in glitter, just lightly touched with it. Then when we dipped the icicle in the glitter we pushed a little harder to make sure all of the white glue was covered.

When the white glue dried, we added a loop to the icicle so we could hang it. For the loop we used yarn, but any string or thread would work. This isn’t a heavy icicle.

Winter art activities for preschoolers

I used hot glue to attach it because, well honestly, I am inpatient and wanted it to dry quickly. Waiting for white glue to dry between the tin foil and yarn would have allowed the yarn to slip down the tinfoil, and I didn’t want to mess with it. BUT that doesn’t mean that white glue wouldn’t work.

Kids can get creative with how they crinkle it up to create different looks or use smaller pieces of tin foil to make smaller icicles. The possibilities are endless and there is no right way to make them!

Tin Foil Crafts

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Snowman Printables

Looking for snowman worksheets and educational snowman activity ideas? You will love these resources!

Winter Printables

• Build-a-Snowman Winter CVC Words Activity
• Snowman Parts of Speech Winter Worksheets
• Arctic Animals Kindergarten Sight Words Game
• Hot Chocolate Game or Mitten Beginning Sounds Game
• Hot Cocoa Winter Rhyming Words Puzzles, winter rhyming words activity, or  these hat winter themed rhyming words puzzles
• Snowflake Winter Compound Words Printables and Activities
• Self-Correcting Winter Boots Alphabet Game
• Mitten Blend Puzzles – Winter Activities for Kindergarten
• Winter Syllables Printable Activity
• Penguin Sight Word Worksheets

Snowman Math

• Winter Math Telling Time Worksheets and Activities
• Snowman Addition Clip Cards
• Multiplication Snowman Activity
• Winter Snowballs Odd and Even Games Printable
• Snowman Counting Task Cards Activity
• Snowman Math Craft or this build a snowman math for practicing addition and subtraction
• Snowman Activities for Preschool – Count to 10
• Super cute Winter Counting Worksheets for preschoolers
• Hands-on Snowman Counting Activity for young learners
• Snowman Mulitiplication Puzzles
• Free Printable Snowman Counting Book

 

Winter Math

• Cute Snowman Shape Puzzles
• Winter Math Activity with Snap Cube Pattern Cards
• Hot Chocolate Math – Addition and Subtraction Fact Families
• Addition Mitten Math Matching game for Kindergartners
• Fraction Snowflakes Activity
• Winter Colors  – Penguin Matching Game or this Mitten Match Game
• Mitten Winter Playdough Mats
• Penguin Printable Math Clip Cards for counting to 20
• Winter Math – Skip counting puzzles
• Hundreds Chart Winter Color by Number or these more simple winter color by number worksheets
• Snowman Worksheets working on place value
• Polar Animals Skip Counting Workshsets

 

• Snowman Worksheet pack with lots of pages of math, literacy, and more for 3-8 years-olds.
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• Simple Winter Coloring Pages
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• Don’t miss these fantastic Winter Read Alouds, fun Winter Picture Books,  or these Winter Books for Preschoolers
• Roll and Dab Winter Activity Sheets or these winter printables to learn color words with bingo markers
• Winter Worksheets for Kindergarten and Preschoolers
• Arctic Animals Worksheets -huge pack with math and literacy skills for toddler, pre-k, kindergarten, and first graders
• Winter Birds Worksheet for working on letters, counting, addition, and more! (huge pack!)
• Penguin Life Cycle WOrksheet Pages
• Sequencing How to Build a Snowman Worksheets