It’s not too early to start thinking about Christmas activities. 🙂 And it’s not too early either to start collecting white plastic bottle caps for this little and easy craft… snowmen to hang on our Christmas tree!
Another Christmas decoration idea: popsicle stick Christmas trees: click HERE
It’s very very quick and easy, and allows lots of variations on the theme. The Cub Scouts may also try to sell them around to raise a little money (Christmas charity project, maybe?)
You’ll need:
plastic bottle caps in 2 different sizes
ribbons
acrilyc paint markers
beads, buttons, whatever you want
1) make a loop in a piece of ribbon, so you’ll be able to hang the snowman on the tree.
Glue (with hot glue gun) the ribbon on the front of the caps. The smaller will be the snowman’s head, and the big one will be its body.
2) Decorate your snowman as you like.
I painted the nose as an orange carrot, then used beads to simulate buttons. Glitter is always lovely so I added some to the borders with glitter glue 🙂
(you may also make little beads with aluminium foil, use spray glitter, add cardboard hats or felt scarves…)
Do you like them? Are you crafting these with your children/ scouts/ students? Let me know!! 🙂
ps: check out Inspire Me Heather, she is having an awesome giveaway! 🙂
Akela
I’ll be linking this project here:
I love this idea!
🙂
What a cute idea! 🙂 I’m always looking for fun crafts to do with my son…and I agree, never too early to start getting excited for Christmas! Thanks for sharing! Would you link it here?
http://oneartmama.blogspot.com/2011/10/csh-thursday-link-party.html
I linked! Thank you!
Adorable! What a great project for kids!
so cute and so simple!! Wonderful! thank you so much for sharing!!!!
Jaime from crafty scrappy happy
thank you Jaime!
Those turned out super cute! Thanks for stopping by my snowman ornament page and letting me know about them!
You are very welcome since your post was the inspiration! 🙂
Great minds think alike. My son and I made some sort of like this that I am going to share in a series of Christmas ornaments. We filled them with cotton balls first thought, so they are a bit differetnt. I love yours. I would love for you to share at my weekly linky. Fri-monday come strut your stuff.
Filling them with cotton is a great idea!! They’d look even more snowy! 🙂 thank you
This is an adorable idea.
Sarah
http://www.budgetfriendlydecorating.com
Thank you Sarah!
Excellent blog here! Also your site loads up fast!
What web host are you using? Can I get your affiliate link
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yours lol