Children are already starting to make crafts in kindergartens and schools. Many even hold competitions for the best New Year's craft. School exhibitions are decorated with Santa Clauses, Snow Maidens, Christmas trees and snowmen made by hand. A variety of materials are used for crafts with children - felt, fabric, paper, cotton wool, and even salty dough.
We have selected best ideas, from which you can make the most winter children's craft with your own hands - a snowman. Below you will find photos of finished toys and many ideas on how to make a snowman.
Make a snowman a pair of white socks is no problem. Just put cotton wool or padding polyester inside the sock (you can buy a special filling, and even cereals - rice, buckwheat, peas), tie a scarf, decorate with a hat and sew on a couple of buttons - the snowman is ready.
It’s a little more difficult to make an openwork snowman from white threads. Balls of thread are used for the base. You need to inflate the balloons, moisten the selected threads (can be of different colors) in PVA glue and wrap them around the balloon. When the glue dries, balloon you need to burst - you will be left with an openwork ball of thread. By connecting several balls, we get a snowman. This thread snowman can be decorated with buttons, beads, rhinestones, and colored ribbons.
Felt snowmen also quite popular among crafts. Felt is great for children's crafts, it is soft and holds its shape. You can sew a felt snowman as a soft toy:
The snowman from disposable cups. The cups are simply attached to each other with a stapler, then 2 balls are formed from them and attached to each other. Such a snowman can be placed near the Christmas tree in kindergarten or school.
Snowman made of glasses:
For the street, you can make a snowman from car tires:
or from the bottom of white plastic bottles:
You can also make a snowman from a yogurt bottle (or deodorant) by covering it with cotton wool or padding polyester:
A popular material for making a snowman is paper. You can even use toilet or white napkins.
Can you make it voluminous? paper snowman, gluing the parts as shown in the pictures below.
Excellent New Year's decoration is on the Christmas tree volumetric snowman from 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 one 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” in front of the circle, and the second in 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 don’t add a loop, then all horizontal surfaces, since the snowman holds perfectly in a vertical position.
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Winter comes - when the first snow falls, which means New Year Very close. Our children happily run into the yard and make huge snowmen with their own hands. So let's create a winter fairytale atmosphere at home! In this article we will look at how to make original snowmen for the New Year.
You will need: glass jar with a screw-on lid, foam ball with the diameter of the jar circumference, chocolate candies, glue gun, brush, PVA glue, white glitter, scissors, Christmas tinsel white, small black pompoms, orange polymer clay, colored lace, red and felt Green colour, cotton wool, knife.
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- Using a sharp knife, cut off a small portion of the foam ball to create a flat bottom.
- Attach the ball to the jar lid using a glue gun.
- Grease the ball with pva and sprinkle with glitter.
- Make a carrot from clay.
- Glue a carrot as a nose, and use pompoms to make eyes and a mouth.
- Cut 2 circles of the same diameter from felt and glue them together.
- Glue 2 candies and glue them onto a felt circle, forming a cylinder hat, then wrap the fastening area with lace.
- Make headphones from a strip of felt and two candies, glue them to the snowman's head, and attach a hat on top.
- Place cotton wool at the bottom of the jar and fill the rest with candy.
- Connect the head to the jar and wrap the white rain as a scarf.
The gift snowman is ready!
You will need: 3 plastic lids, cotton wool, white foamiran, green felt, scissors, buttons, black paint, glue gun.
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The cotton wool snowman is ready! Even more snowmen I recommend watching this video!
You will need: bushings, felt, glue gun, paints, sponge, decorative eyes, soft wire, buttons, sparkles, orange tic-tac, shiny balls.
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Snowmen made from bushings are ready!
You will need: a sheet of cardboard, a simple pencil, scissors, string, tape, plasticine in white, orange, brown, black, blue, purple and green, skewer, stack.
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- Draw a circle on a piece of cardboard, then cut it out.
- Cover one side of the circle with white plasticine.
- Make oval legs from purple plasticine, then attach them to the bottom of the circle.
- Roll out an oval nose from orange plasticine, then attach it.
- Make eyes and a smile for the snowman from black plasticine.
- Roll 2 buttons from blue plasticine, attach them and use a skewer to make 2 holes in the buttons.
- Roll the purple and blue plasticine into sausages, then form a hat as shown in the image.
- Roll a ball of white plasticine and attach it as a pompom, then use a skewer to create a “fluffy” texture.
- Make stick handles from brown plasticine, then attach them along to different parties circle.
- Make highlights on the nose and eyes from white plasticine.
- Draw a knitted pattern onto the hat using a skewer.
- Draw lines on the legs as shown in the image.
- Make 3 leaves from green plasticine and roll 3 orange berries, then decorate the hat.
- Attach a string to back side using tape.
The plasticine “Snowman” pendant is ready!
You will need: 3 white boxes of different sizes, acrylic base, glitter, tassels, acrylic paints, toothbrush, pattern template, buttons, orange felt, thread, needle, filler, scissors, glue, pencil, ruler, scrapbooking paper, hat, scarf.
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The box snowman is ready!
You will need: bottle of wine, acrylic paint white and red, acrylic primer, polymer clay black and orange, black felt, cotton pad, alcohol, gloves, fabric with Christmas colors, red satin ribbon, snowflake, sponge, crystal glue moment, scissors.
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- Wipe the bottle with alcohol to degrease the surface for subsequent work.
- Cover the bottle with acrylic primer and wait until it dries.
- Print out the hat template, cut it out and transfer it to felt.
- Cut out the parts for the hat and glue it together, fitting it to the neck.
- Cover the bottle with white acrylic paint using a sponge, tapping in, then leave to dry.
- Roll balls from black polymer clay for buttons, smiles and eyes.
- Make a carrot nose out of orange clay.
- Place the cap on the neck of the bottle.
- Glue buttons, eyes, nose and mouth.
- Make a scarf out of fabric, then tie a bow.
- Glue a snowflake to decorate the hat.
- Tie a ribbon bow, glue the pine cones and attach to the hat.
- Make another ribbon bow and decorate the scarf.
3D snowman
You will need: White paper, printer, scissors, template.
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The volumetric snowman is ready!
You will need: terry fabric in white and green, any fabric in orange, fleece in red or blue color, holofiber or other filler, black beads, sewing pins, threads, needle, scissors, glue gun, ruler, pencil, sewing machine, paper, tweezers, curly scissors, blush.
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- Make circles for the snowman's body in this way: prepare templates of wedges (petals, drops) of the following dimensions - 10.5 cm diagonally; 8.5 cm and 7.5 cm. For each ball, prepare 6 wedges.
- Connect 2 wedges and stitch them together using a machine. You should get 9 parts, 3 for each circle.
- Pin 3 parts together, machine stitch them, turn them inside out and fill them with holofiber.
- Sew the circles together from largest to smallest, forming the body of a snowman.
- Sew the nose this way: fold the orange fabric in half, draw a triangle, cut it out, machine stitch it, turn it inside out and stuff it with stuffing, then attach it to the snowman’s head with a blind stitch.
- Sew on beads for eyes.
- Draw a template of the snowman's arms and legs on paper, then transfer it to white terry cloth, cut out the parts, stitch, stuff with filler and sew up the hole with a blind stitch.
- Attach the arms to the body using the thread method, and attach the legs with a hidden seam.
- Sew the hat this way: cut out a rectangle of red fleece measuring 21x15 cm, fold it in half and stitch. Cut the edge with curly scissors on one side of the workpiece, and cut the fringe on the other side.
- Place the hat on the snowman's head, tuck the base, gather the fringe into a bun, tying it with a piece of fleece, then glue the edges of the hat.
- Make a scarf in this way: fold the red fleece in half, prepare a strip measuring 25x6cm, cut the fringe at the ends of the scarf with curly scissors and put it on the snowman’s neck.
- Draw a template for the mittens, transfer them to red fleece, cut them out, stitch them, turn them inside out, decorate the edges with curly scissors and put them on the snowman’s arms.
- Make a Christmas tree in this way: mark a triangle measuring 17x16 cm on green terry cloth, cut it out, fold it in half and stitch, leaving a hole for stuffing.
- Cut out the base of the tree, attach with pins and stitch it. Turn the cone inside out, stuff it with filling and sew the hole closed with a blind stitch.
- Sew the Christmas tree to the snowman, glue multi-colored circles of fabric onto the tree as decoration and rouge his cheeks.
- Sew a whole collection of creative snowmen using the same method.
You will need: corrugated paper in white, golden and red colors, chocolate Chupa Chups with surprise and round candy, wire, glue, padding polyester, red braid, beads, scissors, ruler.
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Snowman made from candies and corrugated paper ready!
You will need: white sock, rice, thick white thread, needle, scissors, pins with colored heads, buttons, glue, a piece of fabric for a scarf, large tape.
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You will need: thick white threads, 2 balloons, PVA glue, glue gun, scissors, sticks, ribbons, scarf fabric, tape, sheet of paper, printer, hat template.
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You will need: light bulb, white and black paint, brush, sponge, fabric for a scarf and hat, buttons, scissors, thread, glue gun, sticks.
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The light bulb snowman is ready!
The most spectacular New Year's attributes have big size. AND website wants to show how to make a big snowman from various improvised materials or even waste materials, which can live in a house or yard and become its decoration.
DIY snowman made from plastic cups step by step
Plastic cups are one of the most affordable materials for crafts, from which you will make a wonderful big snowman with your own hands. You can put an electric LED garland inside such a snowman and the funny snowman will be illuminated in the evenings and show the way home. Or maybe he will become a magical friend for your child? In any case, it’s worth learning how to make a snowman from plastic cups with your own hands step by step.
Necessary materials:
- plastic white glasses 3 packs of 100 pieces;
- stapler;
- glue;
- decorative materials for creation and Christmas tree garland.
How to do it step by step:
- To make such a snowman you need to create two larger balls from white plastic glasses. We start “rolling” the balls from the bottom row - lay out 25 white cups in a circle and fasten the cups to each other using a stapler.
- We place the second row between the cups of the first row. The cups should go slightly inside the ball to form a hemisphere. An ideal ball is unstable, so you need to strive for a hemisphere. For the second row you will also need 25 plastic cups.
- We lay the following rows. For the bottom ball you need to lay 7 rows of glasses. With each row, fewer and fewer cups will be required, since they are cone-shaped and your craft will take the shape of a ball. The workpiece should remain open; we will install the next ball on it.
- To make a snowman's head from plastic glasses you will need 18 pieces. Head over small size. We also lay them out in a circle until it turns out finished head. If it was not possible to finish the ball on top, then you can put a hat or cap on its head and thus cover the hole.
- Place the small ball on the large one, check how stable this craft is and fasten it together.
- Decorate the head - create eyes from fabric or plasticine, a nose - a cone from orange colored paper, hang tinsel around the neck, and place a Christmas tree garland inside for illumination.
- If a snowman made from plastic cups is made from 3 balls, it will turn out to be very unstable.
A detailed explanation of how to make a funny snowman from plastic glasses with your own hands if you want to please your children and guests with something unusual. It takes little financial cost and time to create it, but the arrival of a magical New Year's mood guaranteed!
DIY snowman made of threads step by step.
You can also make a fairly large snowman from threads; the advantage of this craft is that it can be made classic - from three balls. It is lighter, more elegant, can be hung from the ceiling and will not take up space.
You will need:
- 3 balloons;
- 1 skein of white b/w thread;
- PVA glue, glue gun;
- scissors;
- a little felt;
- sticks and twigs;
- colored buttons and beads.
How to make a snowman from threads step by step:
- We make 3 balls of different diameters from threads and glue. To do this, we inflate a ball of the same size as we want to make a ball of thread for a snowman.
- Next, you need to wrap the ball with thread dipped in glue. This can be done in two ways. First, lay the thread on paper and coat it with glue. The second method is more convenient - you need to thread a needle and pierce a tube of PVA glue with this thread. The thread passing through a jar of glue will itself be wetted in the glue.
- We wrap the ball with glue thread through the center, creating a pattern. If it seems to you that the ball is not completely saturated with glue, then you can additionally coat it with glue on top.
- Let's make two more smaller balls in this way.
- Do we leave the balls to dry for 10 - 12 hours? then we puncture the balloon and remove it.
- After drying, glue the balls to each other glue gun. To make them stick to each other better, you need to make a small indentation near one of the glued balls.
- We will make the snowman's arms from twigs and glue them to the body using a glue gun.
- You can also make a broom from branches.
- To create a snowman's face from threads, you can use buttons or beads, which are glued with a glue gun. The nose and mouth are made of felt, colored paper or plasticine. Let's draw the cheeks.
- Let's cut a strip of fabric from felt and make a scarf for the snowman.
- A hat can be made from a small bucket or a felt cap.
- It turns out to be such a cute snowman made from threads with your own hands for decorating a Christmas tree.
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How to make a snowman with your own hands from scrap materials.
There are materials at hand that are literally created to make snowmen out of them, these are:
- cotton wool and cotton pads,
- skeins of white thread,
- socks,
- paper and paper plates,
- felt.
Make a snowman out of cotton pads as easy as pie! This wonderful craft for children of kindergarten age. 2 cotton pads are glued to each other on thick cardboard and then decorated. Of such decorative elements you can make very cute New Year cards.
How to make a snowman from a sock with your own hands. Master Class.
A DIY sock snowman is also not complicated and quick to make. For this you will need:
- 2 white thick socks;
- semolina for filling;
- rope, thread and scissors;
- buttons, beads, felt or fabric for decoration.
How to do it New Year's snowman with your own hands:
- Pour half of the semolina into the sock.
- We tie it tightly with thread.
- Pour semolina into the second part of the sock, without filling it all the way, so that the snowman can be easily tied.
- We sew or glue buttons - eyes, tie a scarf. From the second sock we make a hat and New Year's craft ready!
How to make a paper snowman
The easiest thing is to make a paper applique in the shape of a snowman in the form of a poster to decorate your home or entrance. Glue 3 circles of different diameters onto a large colored sheet of whatman paper and color them.
A snowman made from paper plates is more interesting. To do this, you need to glue cotton wool along the rim on top of the plate, this will be hair, glue a cap and a nose - a carrot, and draw a face.
Most interesting crafts waste materials are used to make toilet roll snowmen.
- They need to be covered with white paper.
- Make circles out of shiny paper using a hole punch and glue them in place of the mouth and eyes.
- Make hands and headphones from wire for children's creativity.
- Tie scarves for them and place these snowmen on the balcony.
