| Materials:
- Two 10 ½" x 13 ½" pieces of white felt
- 2 Large safety pins
- Yarn needle
- 3/16" Hole punch
- One 3/8" x ½" cork stopper
- Orange craft paint
- Fleece 6" x 9" piece and 20" x 1 3/4"
piece
- Small clear hair elastic or piece of
string
- 5 circles punched from black craft foam
using a standard size hole punch
- White Yarn
- 3 Buttons
- Blush
- Polyester Fiberfil (stuffing)
- Paint Brush
- Two 10mm eyes
1) Paint the cork orange and set aside to
dry. It may be helpful to stick a toothpick in
the wide end of the cork to hold the cork while
you paint it. The other end of the toothpick can
then be put into a piece of Styrofoam or poked
into a box while the cork dries.
2) Trace and cut out 2 snowman shapes from the
felt. Due to the size of the pattern it
will print on two pages. Simply line up
the edges and tape together to form the complete
pattern.
3) Being careful to line up both felt snowmen
evenly, pin them together with the two large
safety pins*.
4) Using the 3/16" hole punch, make holes around
the outside edge of the snowman thru both layers
approximately 1/4" in from the edge and ½"
apart.
5) Thread the yarn needle with white yarn and
knot one end. To start so the knot won't pull
thru, from between the 2 layers of the snowman
come up between 2 sets of the punched holes.
6) Using the holes, hand sew with an over edge
stitch (Come up from the bottom into one of the
holes then bring your needle up from the bottom
again into the very next hole.)
7) Stop sewing when you have about 2 ½" left
to sew. I find it helpful to take the needle off
the yarn while stuffing your snowman so it doesn't fall off and get lost.
8) Lightly stuff your snowman being sure to
spread the stuffing into the head, arms and
bottom evenly.
9) Re-thread your needle and resume sewing.
10) When you finish sewing, knot the yarn and
take a couple more stitches before cutting the
yarn. (This helps hide the end of the yarn.)
11) Put a little blush on your snowman where the
checks will be.
12) With right sides together, match up the two
6" ends of your 6" x 9" piece of fleece and sew
a seam 1/4" from edge.
13) Right side out. At one of the open ends,
gather the fabric in your hand and wrap the
small hair elastic around it. (If you don’t
have a small clear hair elastic, use a piece of
string, crochet thread or heavy weight thread
and tie it tightly around the gathered fleece.)
14) Cuff the other end - this is your
snowman's hat. Place it on his head.
15) Tie the 20" x 1 3/4" fleece around the
snowman's neck as his scarf. (Optional - cut
slits in the ends of the scarf as fringe)
16) To make the face, glue on the eyes, cork
nose (be sure it's dry) and the five craft
foam dots as the mouth.
17) Glue the buttons down the front of your
snowman.
*When teaching children to hand sew - I find it
helpful to use safety pins and place them all on
the same side. This way as you instruct the kids
in sewing, if they always keep the pins facing
the ceiling, the piece won't get all twisted
and the thread won't get knotted as often.
Printable
instructions & pattern.
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