Little Island Art Department

HOLIDAY CRAFTS ~ EASY AND FUN

GREAT PROJECTS FOR GROUPS AND CLASSES, ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG KIDS.

SNOWMAN ~

Basic Snowman is made out of cardboard discs (called baking drums and circles) used for baked goods. Discs can be purchased at a craft store but if you are needing a large quantity, they are much less expensive when purchased from a paper supply company like Paper Mart (online and Amazon shop). They are sold in packs of 50 and come in different sizes, from 6" to 14". For this project I used 6" and 9".
Once you have your basic snowmen you can decide if kids will be doing the very basics (sticking on pre-cut pieces) of they will be creating features with paper and or fabric and glue, markers or paint. If I am working with a large group of kids in limited space I go for the basics and have everything organized and ready for kids to peel and stick. For this group I had snowmen pre-glued together with hot glue gun and also cut and glued on the hats but kids can also do this part themselves and hats can be any type of hat such as snow hats etc.
Instructions and materials listed here will be more for the large group but if you are working with just a few kids or want to give kids more room for creativity, just give them the basic snow man along with a variety of materials such as markers, paint, fabric or colored paper for scarf, hat and mittens. You can get more creative by adding stars, snow, a little tree, some lights, candy canes, stickers or whatever works.

MATERIALS ~
White bakery circles, 2 sizes, amount you need.
Hot glue gun
Black railroad board or heavy poster board for hats.
Black peel and stick felt sheets for eyes, mouth and buttons. (sticky back foam sheets can also work)
Orange peel and stick felt for nose. (foam sheets also work).
Assorted colors of construction paper for mittens or white if kids are going to be creating their own designs on the mittens with markers. If you want to make it super easy and not use glue at all, cut mittens out of sticky back felt or foam in assorted colors. For mittens it is less expensive to use colored paper but both work.
Red fabric (fleece) for scarf or any fabric you like. Mittens can be cut from this fabric if you choose as well.
DIRECTIONS ~
With hot glue gun, glue discs together overlapping just an inch or so.
Cut a piece for hat ( mine is 6.5" high by 6" wide and is for the 6" disc) any size you like, and a strip for the rim. Glue rim to hat and glue hat to snow man.
Cut out little squares (appx 1/2") from the black felt for the face and buttons (as many as needed). It is easiest to cut 1/2" strips first, then squares, as many layers as you can do at a time.
Cut noses out of orange felt, mitten shapes, and scarves (mine are about 30"x2".
If kids will be using glue for their mittens, you can put some in a few paper plates with some sticks as this works a lot easier than bottles and glue sticks don;t always work.