These cute little fellas are easy to make. In fact, you could be making a whole family before you know it!
Time to complete: 10-15 mins
Difficulty: Easy
Adult Help: 🌿 A little help – Children can decorate the snowman and assemble the simple features themselves. An adult should supervise the use of the tea light and help with any small or fiddly attachments.
You will need:
- LED tea lights in white
- permanent markers in black and orange
- small length of ribbon
- small pompoms
- pipe cleaners
- glue – a hot glue gun will work best here. Don’t have a hot glue gun? Check out my Glue Guide for an alternative.
Draw some eyes and a mouth on your tea light. You could use googly eyes her if you’d like. It’s a personal preference.
Cut a length of pipe cleaner about 2.5″ long
Curve it around the tea light and then add a small dot of hot glue on both ends to hold it in place. Don’t glue it all the way round. You’ll need to slide a piece of ribbon under it later.
Add a generous dab of hot glue where the ears would be and add the pom poms. Now your snowman has ear muffs!
Cut out a piece of ribbon to be approximately 4.5″ long. Then cross it over itself like in the picture below and add a small dab of hot glue to hold it together. I found this was the best way to make the ribbon look like a scarf. Add a small line of glue to the back of the “scarf”, and glue I to the back of the snowman
The scarf should naturally pop back to the position shown below without adding more glue.
Cut a piece of the thinner red ribbon to be approximately 11″ long and then slide it under the pipe cleaner.
Then tie a tiny knot in the ribbon to keep it together.
The tea light flame is white when it’s turned off so you’ll probably want to colour it orange with a marker to make it look like a carrot, even when the tea light is turned off.
That’s it. You’re done.