Turn Your Windows Into A Snowy, Festive Scene With An Easy DIY

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Adding a bit of frosted spray paint to your home's windows during the winter holidays creates magic. The nostalgia and warmth this evokes in the heart are equivalent to being kissed on the forehead by Rudolph and catching Santa as he takes the first bite from the cookies you left for him. But you don't have to wait for Santa to bring magic to your home to amp up your Christmas spirit. You just need a bit of special spray paint and a few items to help you mark the windows with Christmas delights. 

Santa Bremor spray snow, and other products like it, create the impression of frost or snow on glass. Although they're technically spray paint, in that they come in an aerosol can, you can easily remove them at the end of the season. Usually, it's a matter of scraping the dried snow off with a scraping tool and then washing the window afterwards. Additionally, this spray is compatible with stencils. However, anything that'll leave behind a silhouette can be used to good effect with this clever decorating technique. As such, evergreen and holly boughs, snowflake cutouts that you hang on a string, removable EACILLES window cling decals, and even your hand will work as stencils. Since you'll be using stenciling to create your holiday window silhouettes and just some simple spray paint, you don't need to feel intimidated by this project. This simple holiday decor idea is easy to implement (and clean up), even if you don't have a lot of time and even if you don't consider yourself an artist. 

This window art project works with positive and negative space. In art, positive and negative spaces signify the subject of a painting or drawing – or window, in this case – and the area behind the subject, respectively. The stencils you'll use for this block out the silhouetted shapes to represent the subject of the window painting, while the sprayed-on snow is the negative space around the silhouettes. Once the stencil is removed, the silhouetted shape of the object remains.

You can use festive stencils like Coogam Christmas stencil templates to write holiday messages on the window, as well as use them to draw shapes like Christmas trees and Santa with his reindeer. However, even a simple cardboard cutout of a snowflake that you attach to a string can also become a stencil. So, too, does your hand. All you need to do is hold your hand and the snowflake ornament up against the glass and spray paint over both of them. Don't worry. The paint will wash off your hand easily. However, you may want to wear an old shirt or sleeve protectors to make it easier to clean the frost off your clothes once you're done painting this.

Decorative branches that you've taken from your yard also work well as silhouette-makers. Do the same thing with them as you did with the snowflake. Hold the branch up next to the window and spray paint over it and your hand. Easy peasy. When you're decorating for Christmas on a budget, DIY activities like this can be an easy and inexpensive way to dress up your home for the holidays.