Snowmen are another one of my favorite things to display
during the Christmas holiday,
Salt
Dough Snowmen
Materials: 1/2 cup salt, 1 cup all-purpose
flour, 1/2 cup water, acrylic paint in black, white, pink, green, orange, and
red, paintbrush, two orange toothpicks, 6 small twigs. Felt scraps, 2 mini pom
poms, 1 small gold glitter pom pom, and pink and gold ribbon
Directions:
Preheat oven to 250 F. Mix together, salt, flour, and water
until a dough is formed. Knead the dough on a floured surface until the mixture
is elastic and smooth. If dough is too sticky, sprinkle with flour, continue to
do so until stickiness is gone. Just be careful not to add too much flour, this
will dry out the dough and will cause it to crack before you get a chance to
bake it.
Salt dough is not edible; it just won't taste very good!
Roll dough in your hands to form different sized balls. Make
three snowmen from the balls, then line them up on the cookie sheet. Make sure
they are touching each other so that they will be one piece after baking.
Break or cut orange toothpicks in half. Insert toothpick
halves, point size out, into the each snowman head for the nose. Insert twigs
for arms into each snowman. Be sure to both of these steps BEFORE baking.
Bake for approximately 2 - 2.5 hours. Remove from oven and
allow cooling completely. For best results, allow to cool and dry overnight, or
for at least 4 hours.
Paint snowmen with white paint. Use the wrong end of the paint
brush to dot on colored buttons (Use green on one, red on another, and orange
on the third).
Use a smaller paintbrush to repeat this method for adding eyes
and mouths with black paint. Alternatively, you can use a black Sharpie marker
if you prefer.
Embellish your snow family by fashioning scarves and hats out
of scrap pieces of felt and adding a pom pom to the top of the hat. Add on
ribbon and make ear muffs out of a small piece of gold ribbon and tiny pom
poms. Use photo as a guide. Let dry completely and display.
Cardboard
Cutout Snowman Ornaments
Materials: Americana acrylics: Sand
(snowman faces), Honey Brown (noses), Deep Burgundy (Santa hat, black hat band,
holly berries), Hauser Dark Green (holly leaves), Baby Pink (cheeks), Lamp
Black (Top hat, eyes, mouths), Sand + White (Santa cap’s pom pom and brim), and
White (splatter); You could
have used hot glue to make these, or a box of Aleene’s Dry Adhesives large dots
and the small dots; corrugated cardboard mailer; scissors, the holly leaves
from an old silk plant;
Directions:
Draw the shapes for the ornaments and cut out the pieces as
shown below:
Paint the cardboard brown.
Let dry.
Cut the holly leaves from an old silk plant.
Paint the hat with the black paint and let dry.
Put the snowman together with glue or the stocky dots as seen
below:
Add the holly berries using the handle end of a paintbrush.
Use the handle end of the paintbrush dipped in black paint to
dot on the eyes.
For the hangers use the floral wire.
Glue the small pom pom of the red hat.
Scrap
Wood Snowman
Materials: three pieces of wood with two being between
two and three inches long and about an inch and a half wide and maybe a quarter
to a half inch thick, same width and depth, pieces of Popsicle craft sticks, string,
ribbon, or wire, drill, Paint colors white, green orange, blue, red
Directions:
Paint the snowmen before putting them together. Give them an allover
good coat of white and let that dry.
Then paint your hats in the desired colors. Once all the paint
is dry then glue the hat brims on the snowmen.
Now paint happy snowman faces on the wood. Let those dry.
Once all the paint is dry you can glue your snowmen together
with wood glue, hot glue or any other adhesive you have on hand that will work
on wood.
The two taller snowmen should be behind the small one. The
outer edges of the lower corners of the small snowman should be glued to the
bottom inner edges of the larger snowmen. So you have a staggered effect with
the small snowman in front of the larger ones. And make sure your large snowmen
with the holes on the edges are on the correct sides.
You want the drilled holes on the outer corners.
Once the glue dries you can run ribbon, string (something
heavy like jute) or wire through the holes and hang up your snowmen. They make
cute Christmas tree ornaments or can be hung on the wall.
Painted
Snowman Cork Ornament
Materials: Champagne cork, wine cork, White acrylic
paint, Black acrylic paint, Paint
brush or foam brush, Eyes: 2 google eyes or 2 small buttons, Scarf: fabric or
felt scrap, Top Hat: black felt scrap, Nose: 3 small orange beads & 1
headpin OR orange felt-tipped marker, Black sharpie marker, Buttons: 2 small
buttons or 2 small pom poms, Arms: brown pipe cleaner, Screw eye, String or
ribbon, Scissors, Glue gun and glue
sticks
Directions:
Attach wine cork to the rounded end of the champagne cork with
hot glue.
Paint round part of the champagne cork and entire wine cork
with white acrylic paint. Allow to dry completely.
Cut black felt into a doughnut shape with the inside circle
the same size as the narrow part of the champagne cork and the outside circle
approximately 1/2” wider.
Slide black felt donut onto the champagne cork to resemble the
brim of a top hat.
Paint champagne cork area above the felt with black acrylic
paint. Allow to dry completely.
Shape 2 arms using the brown pipe cleaner. Cut off excess pipe
cleaner.
Use a dab of hot glue to secure in place.
To make the nose, thread 3 orange beads onto a headpin. Cut
headpin leaving 1/2” excess wire. Push excess wire into cork until only 3
orange beads are visible. Secure in place with a dab of hot glue. OR Draw
carrot nose using orange sharpie marker.
Using your hot glue gun, attach 2 google eyes, scarf, and
button or pom pom.
Optional: Draw smile using black sharpie marker.
Attach screw eye to the top of the snowman.
Thread string through screw eye and tie to form an ornament
hanger.
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