Snowman Face

It has taken me over a year to complete this post! When we moved to Wisconsin a little over a year ago I was so excited for my kids to experience snow. Sledding, snowmen, snowballs... all that is pretty uncommon in Georgia. What I didn't know then is that there is more than one kind of snow, what we have here is a very dry powdery snow that doesn't really stick together. Also alien to my Steel Magnolia mind is that it can actually be too cold to snow!

Last year I had the genius idea of making a "kit" for our snowman so that I wouldn't be trying to find items for it when we were ready to build. I went digging through my Christmas craft box for supplies & inspiration. And then the hubby added a few touches and VOILA!  Or as we say down back home "That dawg will hunt!"






First I took a Styrofoam ball, about baseball sized. Cut that in half. And then using black acrylic paint (the cheap 59 cent bottle from Michael's works) I covered the ball. I had to rub the paint in by hand as it was quicker and easier than using a paint brush so wear "rubber" gloves just to make your clean up easier.

Set aside to dry

Then taking a Styrofoam cone, we cut it down to about 3 or 4 inches (only because I had a big 20" cone at the time that was damaged beyond other use.) And using orange acrylic paint I covered the "nose" by hand.

Set aside to dry.

For the mouth I took 6 strands of red yarn and braided them together, tying a knot at each end.








My wonderful hubby came up with the idea of metal hooks to help hold the light weight materials in place. He took a metal clothes hanger. Cut the 3 roughly 4' sticks and bent the ends for the eyes & nose. And then 2 sticks roughly 2" to hold the mouth.

Then inserting the bent ends into the Styrofoam he rotated them 90 degrees. And slipped the hooked ends into the knots of the yarn.

Finally after more than a year of waiting the hubby and daughter were able to build a snowman. I bought a cheap scarf at Walmart and the flower came from my kitchen, when you have a little a little girl they have to do these little girly touches.







Eventually I want to add some arms to the kit. But for now I think he is a happy looking snowman.









Thank goodness that is done!
Amy