This melting snowman ornament tutorial is super easy to follow! These snowman ornaments make an awesome craft for the kids to do during the holidays.
Melted snowmen are a great idea if you’re looking for a fun kids craft and Christmas decoration.
I set up my very first table at a Christmas Craft Fair last weekend. Between hosting a Crafty Christmas Open House last week and the craft fair I would say that selling my crafty goodies was a big success. We’ve made Alphabet Block Snowmen, DIY snowmen making kits and these Cork Snowman Ornaments too.
Are these snowmen not just darling?! It’s our favorite ornament to create every year.
Anyway, I searched Michaels for clear glass ornaments and the sales lady said that they had been sold out for quite a while.
Then last weekend (after my craft fair), I was wandering the isles of Walmart (without kids ~ one can only wander without kids in tow otherwise it looks more like a dash through the isles) and totally stumbled upon some clear plastic ornaments (not where I thought they would be).
Thrilled, I nabbed a whole bunch and set out to make some Melted Snowmen Ornaments with the boys for their preschool friends and teacher.
Melted snowman ornament tutorial:
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Supplies:
- Clear ornaments (glass or plastic) I love that we found the plastic ones because they are safe and super durable for preshoolers.
- Salt for snow (or clear glitter)
- Orange polymer clay for noses (or card stock or fun foam cut into triangles)
- Black polymer clay for eyes and mouths (or peppercorns or tiny pom poms)
- Brown polymer clay for arms (or sticks or pipe cleaners)
- Ribbon for scarves (or fabric)
- Extra ribbon or jute for hanging the ornaments
Directions:
1. Use a pea sized piece of orange polymer clay to form each carrot nose.
2. Use a pea sized piece of brown polymer clay to form each arm.
3. Roll many, many, small black polymer clay circles for eyes and mouths.
4. Bake as directed on the package. Usually 30 minutes at 275°.
5. Fill the clear ornament with 2-3 Tbsp of regular table salt or epsom salt.
Here I had set up a filling station for the boys to create their own snowmen. We used larger sequins and white glitter as fake snow as well.
Tip: older children could make their own features out of polymer clay and fill the ornament with salt themselves. I didn’t want to take my chances with twin five year old boys. Assembly line fashion works best for them. And even after instruction some of our snowmen had three noses and ten eyes!!
Our noses, stick arms and scarves. You could add a black top hat with black felt too.
The boys love, love, loved creating these!!
I am thinking that these could be a yearly tradition of child labour for craft fairs. *wink*
Adorable ornaments all filled.
6. Finally, tie with jute or ribbon to hang on the Christmas tree.
A melting snowman with arms. Be sure to check out these homemade Christmas ornaments or these snowman Christmas ornaments for more fun ideas!
My crafting essentials for kid crafts:
- We love using these Apple Barrel Acrylic Paints to add bright color to all of our projects.
- These paint brushes are ideal for most craft surfaces and a great price!
- This art supplies kit is our favorite because it has everything we needed to get started.
- This rolling storage cart helps to keep our craft supplies organized.
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I adore these- we just did an ornament exchange at work yesterday and someone made one!! So fun :)
So cute! Our PTA does a little giftshop for the kids over the holidays, this would be a craft! I’m adding this to the list. Thanks for sharing! <3
How do these handle being dropped or shaken? Wondering if the snow stays on the bottom with the nose, scarf, etc up on top.
Yes the plastic ones do – the snowman parts settle to the top if gently shaken.
If you don’t put too much ‘snow’ in them, you can shake them til the bits come back to the top
Yes! So fun :)