Make an Adorable Snow
Folk Family
By Amanda Formaro
 Create
a group of carolers or a sleighful of happy winter friends with your mismatched
children's mittens, wooden balls, and lots of imagination. The sky is
the limit!
You can display these snow people in a basket with sprigs of greenery
and holly berries, or place them in a sleigh. Fill the sleigh with cotton
batting and place each family member in their seat. Place these cute little
people on your fireplace mantel, or attach a piece of gold cord and hang
from your tree or in your doorway.
You will need
- children's mittens
- rice
- cotton batting
- 11/4" diameter wooden balls
- buttons
- mismatched infant or children's socks
- small pom poms
- scrap material for scarves
- silk florals (holiday springs, berries, flowers, etc.)
- sleigh or basket
- tiny black plastic eyes or black acrylic paint
- rosey lipstick
- black marker
Instructions
 Basic
Snow Person
Fill the hand portion of a child's mitten with one or two handfuls of
rice, fill the rest of the way with cotton batting, be sure to fill thumb
as well. Cut a scrap piece of material for scarf and gently tie around
the mitten where the ribbing of the cuff meets the plain material of the
mitten (end of the cuff). When tying scarf, point the scarf material away
from the thumb to make it appear as if the scarf is covering the person's
other arm.) Fold down cuff to cover scarf and form a turtle neck. Hot
glue on wooden ball to top of turned down cuff. Glue on tiny plastic eyes
or paint on with black acrylic paint. Use black marker for mouth. Gently
dot on lipstick for cheeks by applying first to your finger and then dotting
onto face. Glue 2 or 3 buttons to tummy area. Glue a stem of holiday florals
or greenery tucked into the arm (thumb), and glue arm to the mitten body.
You can personalize each snow person with different hats, scarves, florals,
and more. Our examples show how you can create an entire family of folks
by simply using different colored mittens, scarves, and different styles
of hats and ear muffs.
 Grandpa
Our Grandpa wears a top hat that is fashioned from a scrap of scarf. Lay
your basic snowperson face up on your work surface. Lay a rectangular
scrap flat and place under ball head. Fold a flap of the material up to
form the brim of the hat (see photo) and begin gluing in place, wrapping
around the head as you work. Glue final seams in the back of the hat so
they are not visible.
Little Sister
 Little
Jessica is wearing earmuffs instead of a hat. We simply cut a scrap piece
from the cuff of an infant's sock and glued it across the top of her head.
At the ends of the headband, glue two pom poms for the muffs.
 Brother
& Sister
Amy and Peter are wearing snow hats. These hats are both fashioned from
infant socks. To make Amy's hat we simply fit the cuff of the sock onto
her head and rolled up the edge of the cuff to form her hat brim. Then
trim the end of the sock off and fold over neatly then glue in place.
Glue a pom pom to the top. For Peter's hat, put sock on head the same
way as Amy's, trim toe portion off, then cut the end of the sock into
three sections. Pull those three sections together to form a cone type
tip, glue three pom poms to that tip.
 Mom
& Dad
A slightly larger mitten was used for Mom and Dad. Because the cuffs of
the mittens were much larger and thicker, we formed parka hoods by simply
gluing the ball inside the cuff and gluing the "chin" to the mitten itself.
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