Materials:
- Empty Kool-Aid Container (cleaned and
dried)
- 1 pair googly eyes - 10 or 12 mm
- Scrap of orange craft foam or felt
- Holes punched from black craft foam
- 14 ½ x 10 thin batting or sparkle-tex (snow blanket)
- Fleece 16 x 1 ½ for scarf; 6 x 14 for hat
- 2 or 3 buttons
- Small clear hair elastic or a strong piece of thread
1) Wrap batting around container and glue seam being sure
container is centered on the batting so there is an equal amount
of batting above and below the container.
2) Make 4 or 5 slits in the batting that extends over the top of
container. Glue each piece down one by one.
3) Repeat step 2 with the bottom of the container.
4) Tie the scarf around the neck of container and cut slits in
end to make fringe.
5) Fold the 6 x 14 piece of fleece in half - short ends
together - and sew or hot glue seam. Turn right side out. Wrap a small clear elastic around
one of the open ends or gather and
tie with thread. This forms the top of the hat. Cut slits in top
just to where the elastic is. (This
makes it look like a pompom.) Turn up bottom of hat to form the
cuff and place on
snowman.
6) Cut a carrot shape out of the orange craft foam and make
several small black lines on it. Glue eyes
and carrot nose onto snowman.
With circles that have been punched out of craft foam make a
mouth.
7) Glue small buttons on the front of the snowman under the
scarf or use more of the craft foam
circles as buttons.
Note: Our snowman was made from a standard size Kool-Aid
container. If you use the larger
container just cut a bigger piece of batting.
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