We have all been there—the first big snow of the season comes and the kids want to make a snowman/woman/creation. There you are digging though your refrigerator crisper wondering if this snow-person is worth of using up your organic carrots and edamame. “Would arugula make nice snow hair?” you think out loud. “How about a semi-ripe banana for a nose?” Next you start to dig through the hats and gloves wondering if you might have a top hat. Then you remember it’s not 1912, so of course you don’t. The kids are buggin’ to get rollin’ and you break down and shout, “IF ONLY I HAD A PRE-MADE SNOWMAN KIT!”
One pre-made Snowman Kit coming up!
The best part of this Snowman Kit kit is that all of the pieces are on sticks, which not only helps them stay in place on the snowman, but helps keep them in place after Frosty starts to melt. I recommend staying away from using any kind of nail or screw in this kind of project. If the snowman melts and the bits get lost on the ground, the last thing you need is a barefoot child getting a rusty nail through the foot come spring.
Here is what you will need for your Snowman Kit:
- One bag of assorted pom poms or click here to make your own
- Large colored buttons
- Wooden skewers
- A wooden chopstick
- Orange and any colored felt you would like for the scarf and hat sash
- A black rubber hat
- 1/2 yard of fleece
- Scissors
- White glue or hot glue
- 18 gauge wire
- A small spray bottle
- Red or pink food coloring.
For the Mouth:
Take about five black 1″ pom poms and cut five 4″ lengths from your skewers. Now pinch the fuzz from the pom pom back to expose the middle. Place a wad of glue in the middle of the pom pom and glue the blunt end to the middle. When the skewer is in the middle of the pom pom push the fuzz back around the skewer to glue it in well. Do this 4 more times.
For the Eyes: Glue wooden skewer in the middle of two 1 1/2″ pom poms (I used green). Now glue a smaller 1/2″ pom pom in the middle of your eye to create the iris.
For the Buttons: If using pom poms glue skewers to larger 2″ pom poms. If using buttons cut a 9″ piece of wire and loop it through the back of the button and then through the front on a diagonal. Twist the wire together at the back.
For the Nose: Using orange felt cut out a triangle that is about 4 1/2″ on the bottom 9-10″ on the 90 degree side and your angled side should come out to be about 10″. Glue a wooden chopstick on the non-angled side of the triangle and let dry. Glue the tip of your carrot holding it together while it dries. Glue up the angled side of your carrot and roll the chopstick over to meet the glue. Let dry. Using stuffing or cotton balls take a wooden skewer and lightly stuff the carrot. When your carrot is full, glue the inner edges of the bottom and fold them inward toward the middle to finish.
For the Scarf: Cut a strip of felt or fleece about 5′x 7″ long. Cut strips at each end of the scarf about 7″ long and 1″ wide. Pull the strips a bit and then the scarf to stretch it out.
For the Hat: Measure the around the base of your hat. Cut a strip of felt as long as the base and about 2 1/2″ wide. Either make a felt flower (click here for instructions) or make a flower using pom poms gluing onto the felt strip. Glue strip around hat. TIP: If you don’t have a strip of felt long enough to go around the hat, cut two strips and cover up the one seam with the flower.
For the Cheeks: Use a clean spray bottle, like the size for travel hairsprays, and fill it with a few drops of red or pink food coloring and water. Use it to spray on your snowman’s cheeks.
These would make great gifts or prizes for a winter party!
Crafting questions? Just Ask Holly in comments.
Fleece and large pieces of felt available at I’ve Got a Notion or Joann Fabric and Crafts
All other supplies available at A.C. Moore or Michaels (hats are with the foam craft supplies)
What do you make your snowman faces with?
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What a brilliant idea! I love anything that can be prepped ahead of time. Holly rocks!
Great kit, great idea. As usual.
I think I’d add a peplum to mine. and maybe a lorgnette.
I love the idea of giving this as a gift. You could package it with some hot cocoa mix and homemade marshmallows from Raymond’s!
I would like it to be known that I wanted to call this a “Snow-Person Kit” this was changed by my EIC.
I believe that all snow creatures are created equal. So for the record if we have a really horrible winter she pissed off the female snow-goddesses and it is all her fault.
That would be me. Do we really have to be PC about a snowman and call it a snow- “person?”?
Have you never watched the 1976 movie Frosty’s Winter Wonderland? Crystal aka Mrs. Frosty, played by the wonderful Shelly Winters, is very specific when she refers to all things made of snow as SNOWPEOPLE and SNOW PERSONS.
Hope you like to shovel GG. I feel a bad bad winter coming on.
power to the snow people!