Do you ever use store-bought pasta sauce?
How about salsa?
Jelly? Olives? Pickles? Applesauce?
If so, I bet you're throwing away all those jar lids when you and your kids could be making a cute winter snowman out of them.
After reading this post, you'll know exactly how to turn 3 of those jar lids into a snowman.
Materials Needed for Snowman Craft
- Small paint stir stick (also available at Home Depot)
- White acrylic craft paint
- Light blue acrylic craft paint
- Craft paint brushes
- 2 sheets of construction paper (or any other surface such as a paper bag, cardboard, etc… that can be used for paint drips)
- 3 jar lids in sizes small, medium, and large (we I used an upcycled jelly, pasta sauce, and salsa lid)
- Sheet of blue felt
- Two self-adhesive wiggle googly eyes
- Orange self-adhesive foam sheet
- Scissors
- Blue self-adhesive rhinestone gems
- 3 small blue craft pom poms
- Hot glue gun with glue sticks
- 2 small twigs in the shape of a “Y” (or you could use pipe cleaners)
Snowman Craft Directions
- Paint the front side of your paint stir stick white. Paint 2-3 layers for best coverage. (NOTE: We used a stir stick from a local hardware store, so we needed to cover their logo. If you're just using a blank stick, you can skip this step and just paint it blue.)
- Make sure to move your paint stick over to the other side of the paper once you paint the first layers, so that it won’t stick to the paper.
- Once the paint is dry, paint a layer of blue paint over the white paint.
- While the blue layer is drying, paint the top of the lids white. Paint 2-3 layers for the best coverage.
- While the lids are drying, flip the stir stick over and paint the other side blue.
- Flip the lids over, and paint the insides white. Again, paint 2-3 layers for the best coverage.
- Cut a strip of blue felt approximately 12 inches long, and 1 inch wide.
- Tie the felt “scarf” around the handle of the stir stick. Tie it in a double knot on the right side.
- Hot glue the smallest lid onto the stir stick above the scarf.
- Hot glue the medium and large lids below the scarf.
- Hot glue the blue pom poms down the middle of the medium lid.
- Remove the backing and place the self-adhesive wiggle googly eyes on the small lid.
- Cut a carrot-shaped nose out of the orange foam, and stick it to the small lid.
- Stick rhinestone gems in the shape of a smile onto the small lid.
- Flip the stir stick over, and hot glue the twigs to the back of the stick.
- Now your snowman is now ready to enjoy!
More Christmas Activities for Kids
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- Small Printable Gingerbread Man Templates
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- 10 Advent Calendar Christmas Crafts for Kids
📖 Recipe
Snowman Craft with Upcycled Jar Lids
Active Time:
30 minutes
Total Time:
30 minutes
Difficulty:
Easy
Materials
- Paint stir stick
- White acrylic craft paint
- Light blue acrylic craft paint
- Paper bag or cardboard to use for paint drips
- 3 jar lids in small, medium, and large sizes
- Sheet of blue felt
- 2 googly eyes
- Orange self-adhesive foam sheet
- Blue self-adhesive rhinestone gems
- Small blue craft pom-poms
- Pipe cleaners or twigs
Tools
- Hot glue gun and glue sticks
- Scissors
- Paintbrushes
Instructions
- Paint the front side of your paint stir stick white. Paint 2-3 layers for best coverage.
- Once the paint is dry, paint a layer of blue paint over the white paint.
- While the blue layer is drying, paint the top of the lids white. Paint 2-3 layers for the best coverage.
- While the lids are drying, flip the stir stick over and paint the other side blue
- Flip the lids over, and paint the insides white. Again, paint 2-3 layers for the best coverage.
- Cut a strip of blue felt approximately 12 inches long, and 1 inch wide. Tie the felt “scarf” around the handle of the stir stick. Tie it in a double knot on the right side.
- Hot glue the smallest lid onto the stir stick above the scarf and the medium and large lids below the scarf.
- Hot glue the medium and large lids below the scarf.
- Hot glue the blue pom poms down the middle of the medium lid.
- Place the googly eyes, a carrot-shaped nose cut out of the orange felt, and rhinestone gems in the shape of a smile on the small lid.
- Flip the stick over and glue twigs on the back for arms.
Notes
If you're using a plain paint stick with no logo or lettering, you can skip painting the stick white and simply paint it blue.
Pipe cleaners can be substituted for twigs.
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