Here is the first pom pom craft as promised! So I’m hoping that you’ve had time to practice your pom pom skills…no?!? Well grab a skein of yarn and get busy! You can refer back to my tutorial here.
This snowman requires three pom poms in graduating sizes – a 1 finger, a 2 finger, and a 3 finger. Does that sound strange to anyone? It does to me and I came up with the terminology – sorry!
Let’s start with the nose and mouth. Cut out a triangle from an orange piece of foam. Hot glue the carrot nose onto the middle of the smallest pom pom. For the mouth, I cut a piece of black yarn and pulled the strands apart and then glued it on with Elmer’s Glue All.
Next comes the two eyes made out of coal. Obviously this is not Frosty because I opted for a carrot nose instead of a button but you could totally use a button. For the eyes I knotted up some black yarn and kept tying more knots until I got the size I was looking for. These I glued on with hot glue.
For the hat I decided to stick with the yarn theme and crochet him a little hat. For those of you who don’t crochet, another fun way to do this would be to make the hat using the technique that I outlined here. Just make the hat black and hot glue some sort of hook to the top of the hat. (If you do crochet and are interested in the pattern just leave me a comment. I just kind of made it up on the fly but I can recreate 😉 )Â
So here he is all cute with his little hat but he’s looking a little chilly. I thought about crocheting a scarf – next time! I used a ribbon instead and I think he looks adorable!
Two great things about this snowman:
1. He weighs hardly anything and so even on a fresh tree he doesn’t weigh down the limb – love that!
2. Can’t be broken!!!! Super awesome especially since Bryce was swinging his blankie around two nights ago and shattered an ornament – ouch!
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Creative Steph says
When the snowman is done about how mant inches is he? Mine looks huge compared to yours. I found the other link I went on my laptop instead of my phone- sorry
marissa says
oh he’s so cute I’d love you to add it to my What We Wore and Made link party over at http://raegunwear.blogspot.com/search/label/WWWMW
K. @ Craft Wannabe says
So sweet!
cathy@my1929charmer says
Absoutely adorable. One cute snowman. He reminds me a little bit like a penquin, that’s a compliment, Maybe it him handing in your lovely tree. He is so cute. Thanks so much for sharing your inspiration over at Sunday’s Best! Keep coming back your part of the family now!
Cindy@CrayonWishesandPopsicleDreams says
Love this! I was thinking about making some yarn pom pom balls for a pretend snow ball fight this winter…how fun it would be to turn them in to these snowmen afterwards!!
Elle and Lou says
A really sweet Christmas idea.
Elle and Lou
Lori says
I love your snowman! I’m a new follower. Stop by and visit and enter to win my Heirloom ornament…only 1 day left to enter. Warm wishes
Trish@MomOnTimeout says
@raising4princesses Thanks Maria!
raising4princesses says
this little guy is just adorable ! maria
Trish@MomOnTimeout says
@Creative Steph Hi there! I did a tutorial previously and linked to it in the first paragraph. Let me know if you need any pointers 🙂
Creative Steph says
That’s so cute! How do you make the pom poms?
odetoinspiration says
He’s adorable! Thanks for sharing:)
Julie says
He is really cute! I would ne honored if you shared your snowman here:
http://juliejewels.blogspot.com/2011/12/show-off-your-stuff.html
Beth (www.livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com) says
This turned out super cute!
Beth =-)
Comeca Jones says
And he is too cute!