On New Year I want to decorate my Christmas tree, home or office with unusual decorations.
Here are some interesting New Year's crafts that can decorate any Christmas tree, home or workplace:
DIY crafts for the New Year (photo): large felt Christmas tree
You can attach to such a Christmas tree Christmas decorations, also made from felt, is a great game for children who will love decorating such an unusual and original Christmas tree.
You will need:
Temporary adhesive
Scissors.
*Temporary adhesive can be purchased at office supply stores, craft stores and online. If you do not find such glue, you can use double-sided tape (for attaching to the wall) or pins (buttons) for attaching to wallpaper.
1. From several sheets of felt, cut out certain parts of the Christmas tree, which will then need to be combined into one Christmas tree.
2. Cut out all kinds of decorations from sheets of felt of various colors.
3. Attach the Christmas tree to the wall using temporary glue, double-sided tape or pins.
* You can make several layers of the tree to make it appear more voluminous.
3. Use temporary glue or double-sided tape to attach the cut out Christmas decorations to the tree.
* You can also sew loops on felt toys and sew buttons on the Christmas tree - this way you can attach the toys to the Christmas tree.
What crafts to make for the New Year: a wreath of multi-colored balls
You will need:
Newspaper or foam balls
Thread (several colors possible)
PVA glue
Large foam ring (will act as the base of the wreath)
* The base of the wreath can also be made from cardboard and thread. Cut a ring out of cardboard and wrap it with thread.
Hot glue gun.
To find out how you can make various New Year's balls with your own hands, go to our articles: DIY New Year's balls and DIY New Year's balls.
1. Prepare the wreath base. It needs to be wrapped with thread.
2. Now you need to make Christmas balls from thread. To do this, you can use foam balls, which are wrapped with thread, and PVA glue is used to attach it to the balls.
*You can use newspaper instead of foam balls. Crumple a piece of newspaper into a ball and wrap it with thread.
* Make several balls of different colors. In this example, 3 colors were used - white, red and brown.
3. Using PVA glue, glue the New Year's balls to the base of the wreath.
Simple DIY New Year crafts: poinsettia flower
You will need:
Colored paper or colored cardboard
Red acrylic paint and brush or sponge brush
Cardboard sleeve from toilet paper or paper towels
PVA glue
Scissors
Simple pencil or pen
Thread or ribbon (to hang the decoration on the tree).
1. Prepare the sleeve and paint it red using acrylic paint. Wait for the paint to dry.
2. Press the cardboard tube onto the table so that it flattens a little so that it can be easily cut into several rings (petals) of the same width. One flower requires 6 rings, but you can cut up to 8 rings from one sleeve.
3. Place all the petals on the red paper, trace them and cut out the walls for the petals from the red paper.
4. Glue the walls to the petals, then glue 6 petals together to make beautiful flower. You can use clothespins to hold the petals together better.
5. Thread the red thread through the flower and tie the ends together to hang the ornament on the tree. If you decide to use ribbon, you can glue or sew it to the flower.
* Try making flowers in several shades.
How to make a beautiful craft for the New Year: decorate simple glass balls
Here are some ideas for filling the inside of a glass ball (available at office supply or craft stores) to create a beautiful Christmas decoration:
How to make a snow ball
You will need:
Small Christmas tree (toy)
Hot glue gun
Artificial snow or salt
Pliers or tweezers (to remove the top of the ball)
Ribbon.
1. First remove the fasteners from the ball.
2. Using hot glue, glue a small Christmas tree inside the ball. First, apply a little glue inside the ball and then attach the Christmas tree to a drop of glue.
* Instead of a Christmas tree, you can use any other suitable small toys.
3. Sprinkle some salt inside the ball.
4. Reattach the ball cap, thread a ribbon through it and hang it on the tree.
How to make a confetti balloon
You will need:
Colored or corrugated paper
Scissors
Pliers
Decorate the ball with tinsel
You will need:
Nippers or scissors
Pliers.
Using wire cutters or scissors, cut the tinsel into several small pieces and place them inside the balls.
Crafts from socks for the New Year: a beautiful snowman
You will need:
A pair of long white and short colored socks
Scissors
Thread and needle
Rubber ring
Thread or twine
Several buttons
Toothpick or paint (to make the snowman's nose)
Glue gun and hot glue.
1. Cut the socks as shown in the image. The top part of the white sock will serve as the snowman's body, and the half of the colored sock will serve as his clothes (vest and hat).
2. Using a thread and needle, sew one end of the top of the white sock. Secure the same part with an elastic band.
3. Turn inside out white sock inside out, pour rice into it and secure the end with an elastic band and/or thread.
4. Place one part of the colored sock on the snowman’s body to make a vest, and put the other part on the snowman as a hat. Tie the string around the vest and the top of the hat and tie it in a knot.
5. Use hot glue to attach buttons to the snowman to create eyes or a nicer vest.
6. Cut off the tip of a toothpick and paint it red or orange, then use hot glue to attach the resulting nose to the snowman.
*If you wish, you can add some other decorations to your snowman.
New Year's crafts for school: fashionable snowmen
These creative snowmen with colorful scarves and buttons are easy to make and look very interesting.
For one snowman you will need:
1 white sock
Rubber rings or needle and thread
Strips of fabric, felt or just ribbon (for a scarf)
Toy eyes or black buttons.
Red and orange acrylic paint (for the nose).
1. Cut off the bottom of the sock.
2. Use a rubber ring to secure one end of the top of the sock. Turn the sock inside out.
3. Place rice in the sock and secure the end of the sock with another rubber band. If necessary, you can use thread and a needle to better secure the ends of the sock.
4. Now you need to make the eyes. To do this, you can glue buttons or toy eyes. And to make the snowman's nose you will need to glue either a small red button or a small red (orange) bead.
5. All that remains is to tie a felt or fabric scarf, glue colorful buttons and make a hat for the snowman.
For the hat, you can use the top part of the sock (after rubber band) or the second part of the sock (cut off).
Excellent New Year's decoration On the Christmas tree is a three-dimensional snowman made of paper. It is beautiful, funny, the child will love making it, and then playing and proudly showing it to all the guests.
The work itself is very easy, especially if you have a special composter with which you can quickly cut out many circles. But even without it there is nothing complicated, since this craft is made of paper, not cardboard, it can be folded in several layers and many circles can be cut out at once.
What will you need to create a snowman?
- White paper.
- Just a little orange for the nose and blue for the scarf.
- Glue stick, scissors, black felt-tip pen, pencil.
- A compass or any object with a round part. For example, a glass.
How to make a snowman out of paper?
First you need to draw a snowman on a sheet of white paper. That is, one lower circle is larger, and the circle on top is smaller. To do this, you can use a glass: its top and bottom.
Fold the paper in half and cut out two snowmen according to your own design. Glue a thin strip of paper bent into a loop onto one of them. More the best option– white ribbon, braid, thick thread or decorative shiny one.
Glue two snowmen into one. Cut out 18 circles from white paper, exactly the same size as the bottom of the snowman you drew.
Fold each circle in half, count and set aside half of the circles, that is 9.
Glue 9 circles together, half to half.
And then separately glue 9 more. You will get two rounded resemblances of an accordion.
Glue to the bottom of the snowman. One “accordion” on the front of the circle, and the second on the back. Draw the eyes, cut out a circle from orange paper and glue on the nose. It turns out funny if you replace the paper spout with a round piece of foam rubber or a small orange pompom.
Cut a thin strip of blue paper to serve as a scarf. Tie it around the snowman's neck.
Alternatively, the scarf can be made of thick thread or suitable fabric. I found my daughter's hair tie, cut it and made a scarf. It seemed more natural and more stable to me.
The voluminous paper snowman is completely ready; it can be used to decorate not only a Christmas tree, but also your home, for example, hang it on a cabinet door or a large flower in the house. And if you do not add a loop, then all horizontal surfaces, since the snowman holds perfectly in a vertical position.
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Everyone good day, we continue to make snowmen with our own hands and today I will show you WHAT SIMPLE CRAFTS FOR CHILDREN you can make in the shape of a snowman. These will be children's works - appliqués, 3D paper construction, modeling from paper dough, soap felting from felt and other snowman crafts. Teachers can take any of these ideas for classes in kindergarten, for creativity and technology lessons at school. The crafts will also be useful for the leaders of the “Skillful Hands” children’s clubs. You will learn how to make very beautiful crafts in the form of snowmen with your own hands. I didn’t just throw photos into piles, I gave each idea detailed instructions, which will make the whole process of making such a snowman clear and simple for you. And you will understand that all these snowmen are easy and quick to make yourself at home. Without fear, but with ease and pleasure.
So, it's time to start our parade of crafts.
Crafts for children
SNOWMAN WITH CANDY.
From paper or cardboard you can make these cute snowmen that hide a candy gift inside and a folded note with New Year wishes. This craft can be easily done by children in kindergarten or elementary school students during a labor lesson at school.
The design of candy packaging in the shape of a snowman can be very different. For example, the snowman in the photo below has a hole on his tummy, thanks to which everyone can see the pot-bellied chocolate candy.
These candy snowmen can be made not only from thick paper, but also from a fashionable craft material - FORMIAMA (colored thick sheets similar to rubber - sold individually or in a set).
CRAFTS-GARLAND
from snowmen.
You can make an elegant garland from a chain of snowmen. The paper is folded into wide strips - like an accordion. On the folded accordion we draw the silhouette of a snowman (so that the edge of the paw extends beyond the edge of the accordion), then we cut it all out, unfold it and paint it. From one A4 sheet you get 3-4 snowmen, then we glue these chains of snowmen into one long strip and hang them on a wall or window.
You can cut out all the snowmen separately from white paper, come up with colorful decorations for them (hats, brooms of different styles and sizes) and then collect all the snowmen on a long string. The rope is stretched in two places of the snowman - on the left and right we pierce the snowman in the neck area and stretch the twine.
In order for the snowmen to hang on the twine at intervals (not to move the beads into one pile), you need to make a STOP at the point where the rope extends - this can be a paper clip from a stapler, click directly on the rope and the snowman will not slide along the twine, or it can be a lump of plasticine on rope, or a piece of tape. This way, each snowman will take its place on the rope and will not run into its neighbor.
If you do not want the rope to be visible, you can stretch it behind the backs of the snowmen (put the snowmen on the table in a row - lay the rope on top of them - secure the rope with tape in two places on the snowman.
You can make a garland of white plastic plates and stick a nose and eyes on them. Or draw with gouache (to make gouache paint on slippery plastic, add liquid soap or dishwashing detergent to it).
Craft Snowman
VERTICAL.
Kids love making these snowman crafts that can be placed upright like a postcard.
Here is a postcard craft, which is pasted over the façade with scraps of white paper napkin. The result is a relief texture - very pleasant to the touch. On top of this relief roughness we make an applique of a scarf and a hat from thick colored paper. Beautiful craft, which is within the capabilities of children in the middle group kindergarten.
But here is a craft where the child needs to do it himself - cut a sheet of A4 paper diagonally - and then fold this sheet three times - we get this zigzag hill, similar to snowy hills - on such a hilly slope you can place snowmen, Christmas trees and other New Year paraphernalia. After this, we attach our paper fold to the back background sheet of cardboard, and then the craft can be placed vertically.
A sheet of cardboard can be designed as a stand for paper silhouettes of snowmen (photo below).
To do this, fold a sheet of cardboard in half - make a cut not reaching the edge (this cut will separate the high area of the stand from the accordion area.
We do not touch the high zone (it remains sticking up). But we bend the second zone several times, forming an accordion.
I have attached a diagram of such a postcard-stand with snowmen below. I specifically figured out what was what and drew a template so that everyone could make such a beautiful craft with their own hands.
And here is a snowman craft, where we fold a sheet of paper into a small accordion, then we unfold it, draw an oval snowman’s tummy on it, cut it out and fold the accordion again along the same fold lines. In the folded accordion we make a hole with an awl, insert a cocktail tube or wooden putty into it, glue on a head, hat, scarf or bow tie, we get a snowman craft as in the photo below. 
Craft SNOWMAN
from large pieces of cardboard.
If you have access to large pieces of cardboard, you can make large snowman crafts.
Here's the first idea for a great snowman craft - which can be turned into an accuracy game. We will throw balls in order to get into the round hole on the snowman. 
Or this craft-lamp in the shape of a snowman. We cut out the silhouette of a snowman from cardboard. We poke holes in it here and there. Along the back wall of the snowman there will be a regular New Year's garland with small LED bulbs. We put the light bulbs through the holes in the snowman. Thus, the garland itself is hidden behind the snowman and we see only the light points. The result is a beautiful New Year's lamp - an excellent New Year's craft for an exhibition at school or kindergarten.
Snowman made of paper strips.
volumetric 3D craft.
- Cut out of paper stripes- the lower part of the strip is thicker, and the upper half of the strip is slightly narrower.
- Next we cut it out of paper circle(this will be the bottom of the snowman). We glue the strips to the bottom circle - radially, like rays of the sun. When the glue sets well, lift each strip up.
- From another strip of paper we make ring. And we fasten the upper ends of the strips with glue onto this ring-rim - in a circle.
- Now bend each strip fingers in the place where it goes from thick to thin (we do the bend of the neck). We secure this fold with a ribbon tie.
- Leftover from paper fold your hat and put it on the snowman. You can make a hat from a jar of yogurt and paint it with black gouache. To prevent the gouache from sliding on a smooth jar, add liquid soap or dishwashing gel to it.
Snowman craft
FROM PAPER DOUGH.
- Take a roll of toilet paper. Tear into pieces and throw into a bowl.
- Pour boiling water over and leave to swell.
- Squeeze the swollen mass through a sieve or mosquito net.
- Add PVA glue to the squeezed mass. We make a snowman figurine from this dough.
- Dry on a sunny windowsill until it becomes wooden. Cover with white gouache, dry, and spray with hairspray.
- We draw eyes, buttons, mittens. We decorate with other decor from paper, fabric, thread, beads and other things.
Craft with snowfall.
Snowman in a snow bank.
You can make a REAL SNOW GLOBE WITH SNOWFALL and a snowman inside. Take a jar with an iron screw cap. We make a snowman out of plasticine, attach the figure firmly to the bottom of the lid (ideally, it is better to take a plastic snowman and glue it to the lid with thermal glue).
Pour salt water (a strong strong salt solution) into a jar. Add white and silver nail polish, sequins, beads and other tinsel to the water to act as snow. The salt water should reach the very edge of the jar. We put a lid on the jar (so that the snowman hangs upside down) and SCREW it TIGHTLY. Turn the jar upside down. And we watch how the sparkles and beads slowly settle in the water... and how the snow falls over the snowman. THIS SALT WATER prevents the particles from quickly settling to the bottom and causing them to swirl and dance. A beautiful craft - my daughter made me one for the dog’s year, we have a plastic dog in a jar under the snow.
Note 1- it is better to stick several layers of thick polystyrene foam (foam packaging) or other material that does not rot in water onto the lid - such a thick backing WILL RAISE THE SNOWMAN so that it is a little higher on an elevated surface. Or, for the same purpose, you can make a SLIDE from plasticine on the lid and only then stick a snowman to it.
Note 2- if you are afraid that your snowman will come off in the water, you can provide a wire frame. We bend a piece of wire in half - we stick the wire inside the snowman, two branches of wire remain below - we bend them in different directions, and we embed these wire tendrils into plasticine stuck in a thick layer on the lid.
Crafts for the window
paper snowmen.
We are all used to covering the window with snowflakes made of white paper, or small figures, New Year's silhouettes.
If you are already making a silhouette white lining applique for the window, then let it be a large, respectable size. Here are some ideas for making two snowmen. You can print this picture enlarged and draw a template based on it. Or you can simply redraw it by eye - this is not a complex drawing (simple geometry of circles and stripes).
But it’s better to decorate the window in winter with COLORED applications with snowmen. Such crafts look more elegant and more festive.
Such crafts made from colored paper CAN ALSO be glued onto SOAP, just like white snowflakes. This way you won’t have to scrub the sticky tape off the glass later.
Come up with different ones yourself funny snowmen. And slap them on your windows - let the winter be bright with emotions and rich in entertainment.
Here is a pendant craft in the form of a snowman made of colored paper, on which snowflakes are held on strings. This applique is beautiful to hang on a window or door. Both decoration and crafts. In kindergarten, such work can be done collectively.
Here is a snowman craft on transparent paper. Fits baking paper or parchment for patterns or inner packaging from ordinary Soviet cookies.
We cut out a base ring from cardboard (we cut out the same ring from colored paper). We insert parchment between the rings and make a snowman applique on it. This beautiful craft is suitable for middle and high school children.
Craft snowman
VOLUME APPLICATION.
There is already a large article on our website. Therefore, here I will only remind you of the idea itself, but you will find interesting works and snowman templates for applications in this article.
The snowman craft made from foam plastic balls of two sizes (larger and smaller) looks beautiful and convex. The balls are easily cut into halves with a knife. And then they are glued to the cardboard with thermal glue. We sculpt noses and hats from plasticine. We assemble the panicle from chopped paper and cardboard.
IN senior group Kindergarten students can make snowmen from paper rolls. Children themselves will bend the umaga strips into rolls and fix the gluing. And then they will assemble such a snowman and stick it on cardboard.
If you have a bright paper napkin, then HURRAY!!! you can make such a craft as an IMPRESSIVE SNOWMAN. Cardboard silhouette - a hat made of colored paper. Using a utility knife, make 2 slits on the tummy. We fold the napkin like an accordion, lift the slot with our fingers, insert the napkin, straighten the folds, and beauty. This craft is suitable for children middle group who just this year are learning to fold an accordion out of paper.
Flat applications
CARDS WITH A SNOWMAN.
For the New Year, you and your children can make greeting cards with snowmen. This will be a beautiful work that can be decorated with great artistic taste - add a paper openwork cutout (half or quarter of a snowflake), sprinkle glitter imitating sparkling snow. Glue sprigs of pine needles or scales of a cone.
The basis for an applique with a snowman can be a child’s footprint. We paint the child's foot with white paint, carefully press the foot onto a sheet of cardboard - the print is ready. Note - if you want to apply a paint print on GLOSSY cardboard (slippery shiny) - then be sure to add dishwashing detergent to the gouache; without soap, the gouache will simply form droplets and will not paint.
A lot of templates for beautiful applications in the form of snowmen you will find in the article
Anyone who knows how to work with the QUILLING technique can make a snowman craft from thin paper strips. But this is long and painstaking work for diligent adult children.
Craft SNOWMAN
from waste materials.
An ordinary cardboard egg carton can become inspirational material for creating a DIY snowman craft. The hat for such a snowman is cut out from the same box (the arrow points to the pimples).
Quick craft SNOWMAN from old cardboard and toilet paper rolls.
From gray corrugated cardboard (packaging) we cut out the silhouette of a snowman and paint it with gouache. We attach toilet paper rolls to the back side - this is a support post so that the snowman can stand upright and not fall. We line up these snowmen on a shelf or along a wall - let them stand and please the eye and decorate the house for the New Year.
You can cut the sleeve in half - and from these halves make a snowman, decorate it with a ribbon, sculpt his nose from a paper napkin mixed with PVA glue, dry it and paint it with orange paint.
SNOWMAN from NEWSPAPER. You can make a snowman from an ordinary wad of newspaper. We crumple the newspaper into a lump, wrap the komak in a new sheet of newspaper, then in another, then in another sheet until our newspaper sack grows to the size we planned. Then we fix the bag with tape, hide the tape places behind pieces of pasted newspaper (we dip pieces of newspaper in PVA glue, apply them on top of the tape, dry them. We paint all the surfaces of the snowman with white paint, attach the nose, eyes, hands.
We make a hat from a jar of yogurt - we also cover it with pieces of newspaper wet with PVA glue, dry it and cover it with black gouache, fix the gouache with hairspray). You will find even more interesting newspaper shapes of snowmen in our article.
Snowmen are funny and funny from popsicle sticks. This material is available for free in hypermarket refrigerators next to the ice cream. It is convenient to glue together, paint with gouache, paste over with colored paper
A plastic cup with foam balls poured into it can become capsule of New Year's mood. At the bottom of the cup we attach a cardboard silhouette of a snowman to plasticine, and we attach cardboard Christmas trees or trees to plasticine. We pour in the balls and plasticine fasteners are hidden under them. The craft is ready.
A white paper cup turned upside down can become a snowman candlestick (photo below). A wonderful and simple craft. Low yogurt jars also become small candle stands. Beautiful winter craft with snowmen for a good New Year's mood.
A puddle of HOT GLUE can become the basis for making a snowman - such a melted snowman can be used as a toy pendant for the New Year tree.
An unwanted clay pot can be turned into beautiful snowman. We paint with gouache, draw a muzzle on top, and spray with hairspray to fix the color and add shine. We put on a hat (a cut-off sleeve from an old sweater, or a piece of a woolen sock, tied with a ribbon on top)
Wine bottles can also be painted with gouache - to make the gouache stick to the glass, add liquid soap to it. We paint, draw, spray with hairspray. If you use gouache instead acrylic paint, then varnish is not needed.
Craft SNOWMAN
from a sock and a pack of salt.
And here is a SNOWMAN FROM A SOCK. IN Pour salt into daddy’s white sock - a lot, a whole pack. We tie the snowman on top with a rope. We tie another puffy sock in the middle with a rope - we form the snowman’s neck. From the second colored sock we make him a hat, vest or scarf. We make a carrot nose from a paper napkin moistened with PVA glue, dry it and paint it orange - sew the nose like a button with thread and a needle. The eyes are buttons, there are also buttons on the belly. You can make a fluffy pompom from threads and a fork in 1 minute (there are videos on YouTube to help).
Snowman made of FELT.
We go to a craft store and ask if there is white wool on sale, and we buy it. At home, we pour warm water into a bowl, add soap there - tear off a piece of wool with your hand, dip it in water and roll it into a ball with your hands in soapy warm water, it becomes small and dense. Once again add wool to the ball and again soapy water we roll it with our hands (we mold it as if from plasticine) - the felt very quickly rolls into dense balls. We dry the balls on the window in the sun. We assemble a snowman from them and decorate it with knitted or sewn accessories.
You can make a nose out of felt in the same way - cone-shaped. And then paint it orange and glue or sew with threads to the snowman.
Snowman FROM THREAD.
on a balloon.
You can make balls from threads. And make a snowman out of these balls. The method is quite simple. Any thread is suitable, even thick woolen ones. I showed and described in detail how to make such thread balls with my own hands in the article.
KNITTED snowmen
crochet crafts.
For those who are learning to crochet, the idea of crocheting a New Year's snowman is suitable. It doesn’t have to be big, you can make a small snowman
Or make a crochet craft - a melted snowman. Just a quick job for those children who have been knitting for the first year.
You can crochet candy bowls - shells for candy bowls.
You can also knit covers for cutlery in the shape of snowmen. And make the snowman’s rosy cheeks with blush or pink eye shadow.
Craft snowman
FROM FELT.
Children love it very much simple crafts from felt. They are cut out like an applique - you don’t even need to sew them with threads, but simply connect the parts with hot glue.
You can make simple felt appliques.
Or you can make toys-pendants for the New Year tree.
You can make cutlery covers in the shape of snowmen from felt. And you can sew phone cases in the shape of a snowman too
These are the beautiful and easy crafts with snowmen we saw today. Many ideas were revealed to us for the first time. We figured out how to quickly and easily make these snowmen ourselves. Now we can please ourselves and our children with a new interesting activity.
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When it's too cold outside to make snowmen out of snow, it's time to stay home to make, sew or cut them out of scrap and even scrap materials. Snowman crafts can be used to decorate your home, Christmas tree or table for the New Year, give as gifts to loved ones, bring to school/kindergarten for an exhibition, or simply be used for games. This material presents 7 master classes and 40 inspiring photo crafts for the little ones and older children.
Master class 1. Snowman made from a sock
Looking at these Stuffed Toys, it seems that they were sewn by skilled needlewomen, but in fact, every child can make the same snowman with their own hands in just 15 minutes from... a sock.
Materials:
- White sock;
- Filler – any small cereal or padding polyester/cotton wool;
- Thick threads or thin rope;
- Decoration materials:
- For eyes and nose: beads or pins with colored heads. You can also simply draw them with felt-tip pens or acrylic paints;
- Cloth: buttons;
- Scarf: a piece of colored material (can be cut from a colored sock) or ribbon;
- Glue and thread with a needle to sew on buttons and a hat;
- Scissors.
Step 1. Cut the sock into two parts as shown in the photo. The lower part of the sock (it should be without a heel) is the future hat, and the upper part is the body of the snowman.
Step 2. Take the top part of the sock and turn it inside out, then use a thread to tightly tie one end of the sock (preferably the heel part) and turn our workpiece right side out again. You will end up with something like a bag.
The slider below clearly shows the process of how to make a snowman's body from a sock.
Step 3. Fill the resulting bag with filler, for example, rice as in our master class. For convenience, you can pull the sock over a roll of tape (see photo).
Shape the snowman's body, then tie the top with thread and trim the ends.
Step 4: Now tie the thread around your neck. Hooray! The snowman is almost ready, all that remains is to decorate it.
Step 5. First, we’ll dress the figurine with a scarf and at the same time hide the thread around the neck. The scarf can be cut from any soft fabric, for example, from a colored sock or fleece. If the selected fabric does not crumble too much, you can cut fringe at the ends of the scarf.
Make a snowman hat from the remaining part of the sock.
Glue the buttons in the middle. If desired, they can be sewn on.
Step 6. Finally, make the eyes and nose of your snowman. To do this, you can simply stick pins, draw them with felt-tip pens, cut them out of felt, or sew on beads.
If you wish, you can make a whole family of snowmen using different materials and socks different sizes and flowers.
And here is a selection of photo ideas for decorating snowmen made with your own hands from socks.
Master class 2. Snowman made of cotton wool and cardboard
Children over one year old will surely love the idea of making a snowman from cotton wool and cardboard. You will need very little help from adults. The famous Olaf was made in this project, but you can make the most ordinary snowman.
Materials:
- Cardboard;
- Scissors;
- Pencil;
- PVA glue;
- Cotton wool balls (or just cotton wool);
- White paper, black and orange marker;
- Small twigs (collect them on a walk, wash and wipe dry).
Instructions:
Step 1. First you need to draw a silhouette of a snowman consisting of three balls on cardboard. If you want to make Olaf, then copy him from a picture found on the Internet. You can tell the child that Olaf’s body consists of a large and a small ball, his legs are made of two small balls, and his head looks like an elongated diamond.
Step 2. Cut out the drawn figure.
Step 3. Pour PVA glue onto a piece of cardboard or saucer and pour it in front of the child cotton balls or regular cotton wool. Next, you need to cover the entire figure with cotton wool according to the “dip-and-stick” pattern (you can say that). If you use regular cotton wool in a roll, then first you need to tear off a piece from it, then roll it up like a bun and only then glue it.
Step 4. C reverse side Glue the branch handles onto the cardboard. Don't forget to glue three branches to the head too.
Step 5. Now draw and cut out three small balls, paint them black and glue them onto the craft. Then draw, cut out and glue on the eyebrows, eyes, mouth and carrot nose. Olaf is ready! You can glue a loop to it and hang it on your door or tree.
By the way, if you have disposable plates lying around, you can glue them together and use them as a base for crafts.
A cotton wool snowman can also decorate a wall panel or postcard.
Master class 3. Snowman made of threads
The next craft idea is a snowman made of threads, which a child can make with his own hands with a little help from an adult.
Materials:
- Balloons (2 pcs);
- A skein of thick white thread (you can use latex or waxed thread, but it’s better to try to find just cotton thread);
- PVA glue;
- Hot glue gun;
- Glue container;
- Paints;
- Scissors;
- Scotch;
- Decoration materials:
- Hands: branches;
- Eyes and mouth: black cardboard or black buttons;
- Nose: orange paper/cardboard or white paper and orange paint;
- Cloth: buttons;
- Scarf: a piece of colored material or ribbon;
- Top hat (optional): cardboard, printer and tape.
Step-by-step instructions on how to make a snowman from threads with your own hands:
Step 1. Inflate balloons: one larger (torso), one smaller (head).
Step 2. Connect the balls using tape.
Step 3. Place newspaper on the table to protect it from glue. Pour glue into a saucer, lower most of the thread into it, then proceed to randomly wrap the balls, starting from the neck. Remember that the thread should always be generously covered with glue. Don't try to wrap the snowman too tightly.
Step 4. When the entire figure is covered with threads, leave the glue to dry overnight or 24 hours.
Step 5. Now that the glue is completely dry, pierce the balls with a needle and carefully pull them out. If you are afraid to widen the hole between the threads, pull out the balls under the neck, because it will still be tied with a scarf.
Step 6. Cut out a small circle at the bottom of the figure. This is necessary so that the snowman can stand.
Step 7: Trim the branches to the desired length and glue them using a hot glue gun.
Step 7: If you want your snowman craft to have a top hat, print out the template below on cardstock, cut out all the pieces, and glue them together. The cylinder can then be decorated with ribbon.
Click to download the template
Step 8. Now the work remains small. Tie a scarf on the snowman, glue a couple of buttons. Then glue eyes and a smile cut out of black cardboard onto the face. Finally, roll the orange paper into a cone and glue it under the eyes. Voila, the “snowy” cutie is ready for the holidays!
Master class 4. Large snowman made of plastic cups
Do you want your home snowman to be as big as a real one, to be able to withstand even outdoors, and even glow from the inside? We suggest making a snowman with your own hands from plastic cups as in the following photos.
This craft is done quite easily and quickly. The main thing is to stock up on cups (about 400 pieces) and even more staples for the stapler. You can learn how to make a snowman from plastic cups with your own hands from this video.
Master class 5. Snowman made from toilet paper rolls
Rolls from toilet paper or paper towels are excellent blanks for New Year's snowman crafts. Wrap the sleeve in white paper or paint in White color, then draw eyes and buttons on the stomach with a felt-tip pen, glue on a nose and a scarf cut out of colored paper.
If desired, the snowmen can be insulated with scarves and hats cut from colorful socks
Pipe cleaners and felt were used to decorate these snowman crafts.
You can even make an Olaf out of a toilet paper roll!
Master class 6. Christmas tree decorations made from light bulbs
Another idea for making snowmen from waste materials is Christmas tree decorations made from incandescent light bulbs. True, you need to work with them as carefully as possible and only with the help of an adult. But hand-made New Year's snowmen will be able to decorate the Christmas tree more than once.
Santa Claus and reindeer will make excellent company for the snowman
Materials:
- Light bulbs;
- Rope, ribbon, thread or thin wire (for a loop);
- Acrylic paints and brush or PVA glue and white/silver glitter;
- Materials for decoration: fabric for a scarf/hat, ribbons, buttons;
- Hot glue gun (needed for attaching branch handles);
- Branches (if desired).
Instructions:
Step 1. Paint the light bulb in 2-3 layers of white paint or cover the lamp with PVA glue and sprinkle generously with glitter as shown in the photo below.
Step 2. Wrap the base with rope/wire and make a loop.
Step 3. Glue the twig handles using hot glue.
Step 4. Paint the eyes and mouth with black paint. Draw the nose in orange or glue a carrot made of felt, fabric or paper in its place.
Step 5. The metal base of the light bulb can be painted black, as if it were a hat, left unpainted so that it resembles a bucket, or put a cap on it.
Step 6. Cut a scarf from a piece of fabric, tie it and, if necessary, secure it with glue. Draw or glue a couple of buttons on the stomach.
Master class 7. Springy paper snowman
And finally, we suggest making a snowman simply from colored paper. If you make a lot of these crafts and hang them on a ribbon, you will get a beautiful New Year's garland.
Materials:
- Two sheets of white paper (plain office paper will do, although a thicker one will work best).
- Paper of other colors (for the nose, scarf and outfit).
- Black marker.
- Glue, scissors.
- Optional: paper cupcake tin, glitter, buttons.
Step 1. Cut the paper into strips in two lengths, for example, cut one sheet of paper across and the other along the length.
Step 2. Now collect the strips into a ball, fixing it with glue.
Step 3. Draw or glue all the details: eyes, nose, buttons. Cut a long strip of colored paper and make a scarf. You can also use a paper cupcake liner as a hat.
Step 4. If you want the snowman to be able to stand, then glue a coin or small stone to the bottom of it.
Winter is associated with the New Year, fun and snow. If you're lucky with the weather, you can build a snowman with a friendly group. But don’t be upset, even if the winter turned out to be not very snowy. You can make a funny hero from scrap materials. Relax.by has prepared several options for you.
Crocheted snowman
Materials for creativity:
padding polyester or cotton wool;
white or red buckle;
hook 0.85;
needle;
two wooden beads.
Take a white buckle, cast on four chain stitches and create a circle. Make two stitches in each loop of the chain. Repeat the same in the second and third row. In the next row you need to make three columns and one air loop. Next, two stitches in the fourth loop of the chain; knit the entire row using the same principle.
You also need to knit the next row, but keep in mind that you need to knit two stitches every seventh loop. Next, knit every 10th loop in the same way, plus three chain loops in each new row. Knit two more stitches in further rows. You cannot add new loops in the chain after the 19th loop; knit two more rows in this way, and then decrease. You can increase the size of the toy by knitting additional rows without adding loops. At the end of the work, leave a small hole for padding polyester or cotton wool. Having stuffed the product with them, be sure to sew up the hole.
You will get one ball. Using the same pattern, create two more and sew all the balls together. To make it more convenient to sew on other parts of the snowman, tie a buckle around the wooden beads - these will be the snowman’s arms. Make the nose from an orange buckle, attach the eyes with glue.
Snowman made from socks
Materials for creativity:
white socks;
cotton wool;
markers;
scissors;
threads and needles;
pieces of colored fabric;
beads.
Making a snowman using this unusual method is very easy. Fill the sock with cotton wool and tighten it with thread. It should be a circle. Wrap white threads around several levels of the snowman, making equal parts.
The snowman will need a hat. Make it from colored fabric or socks. Stuff them with cotton wool and sew toys to the head.
Felt pens will help you make eyes, nose and mouth. By the way, it is better to make the eyes from beads, and embroider the mouth with red threads. Tie a small scarf around the snowman's neck.
Snowman made of corrugated paper
Materials for creativity:
colored polished cardboard in two colors;
3 balloons;
newspapers;
scotch;
flour;
drape in two colors;
rope.
This snowman is unusual - he has a surprise. This New Year's craft will delight both children and adults. Few people will guess that there are sweets hidden inside the toy.
Inflate the balloons to the required size and give them a spherical shape using tape.
Mix the paste. This is not difficult to do: bring the water to a boil, add flour to it and cook the mixture for several minutes over low heat. Cover the balls with pieces of newspaper. Apply several layers of newspaper to the surface of each ball. The more layers, the stronger the snowman.
Now glue the snowman and attach a string to its bottom. Secure it around the perimeter of the craft with tape or glue.
So, the base of the snowman is ready. You can start pasting corrugated paper in a circle, first bending it in half and making cuts in increments of 2-4 cm. For crafts you can use corrugated paper in a reel, or you can use a regular sheet, cut into strips.
Give the snowman eyes, nose and mouth. The scarf and buttons can be made from drape or other fabric, and the face elements can be made from cardboard.
When the snowman is ready, carefully cut a hole on the top of his head and pour sweets inside.
like this New Year's craft can be used for playing outside or as gift wrapping from Santa Claus. A DIY snowman can decorate your outdoor patio.
Snowman made of balls and strings
Materials for creativity:
a skein of white thread (not thin);
balls (5 pieces);
PVA glue;
big needle.
Inflate balloons for the torso and arms.
Thread the thread through a needle and pierce the bottle of glue. Remove the thread from the needle. In the future, the entire thread will be saturated with glue. Coat each ball sunflower oil and wrap the thread in a chaotic manner.
It is advisable to wrap it in such a way that gaps are minimal. Then hang the resulting balls in a warm place for 20-24 hours to dry.
Pierce each ball with a needle and pull out the remains.
