This adorable DIY styrofoam snowman project was actually such a hit in my house that I couldn't assistance making another one then I could lay out the whole process for others to follow along and learn how it'due south made every bit well.

Diy styrofoam snowman

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For this project, you'll need:

  • 2 white styrofoam crafting balls (one smaller than the other)
  • Scissors
  • A gum stick
  • Markers (red and blackness)
  • Black paper
  • Reddish yarn
  • A cherry ribbon
  • 2 googly eyes
  • A toothpick
  • A brown pipe cleaner
  • Brown crepe paper

Step 1: get gear up

Gather your materials!

Styrofoam snowman materials

Step 2: cut the crepe paper

Cut a rectangular strip from your crepe paper nigh an inch broad and two inches long. Apply mucilage on one side and fold the strip in half width-wise, and then it stays the same length but ends upward doubled over and half every bit wide as it was before.

Styrofoam snowman crepe paper

Stride 3: wrap the toothpick

Now apply glue across this new surface once more than, but this time only forth the right side. Identify your toothpick across the paper in line with the meridian border, and so it lies perpendicular to the strip. I made sure the tip of my toothpick simply went as far beyond the trip as the mucilage did, leaving the otherwise untouched. Wrap the tiptop edge around the toothpick and the curlicue the toothpick downwardly, keeping things every bit fifty-fifty equally you can, until you've rolled the entire strip effectually the finish of the toothpick.

Styrofoam snowman roll

Step four: make fringe

Use your scissors to cut the loose part of the crepe paper ringlet yous just fabricated, which sits just past the tip of the toothpick on the end yous simply rolled, into little strips, almost similar a fringe. Y'all've merely fabricated your snowman's broom, complete with beard!

Styrofoam snowman cut

Step 5: starting time the hat

From your black paper, cut a rectangular strip almost two inches long and half an inch wide. So cut two squares, i slightly bigger than the other. For each square, round off the corners and edges until you lot have two circles instead, still with one slightly bigger than the other. At present apply gum to one end f your black rectangle and roll the other end in and upwardly to meet the glue, sticking it down to create a paper cylinder.

Styrofoam snowman paper black

Step half dozen: assemble

Employ gum to the edges on one cease of the black cylinder and stick the smaller circle in that location. Trim the excess around the exterior of the circle until its edges align with the cylinder. That's the top of your snowman's lid! Next, utilise the tip of your pair of scissors to make a pigsty in the heart of the larger circle, then make cuts outward from at that place all the way around, out towards the circumvolve'due south edge but without cutting all the manner through. Bend these new spikes y'all've just made up and use glue to their outside surfaces. Then place them inside the top of the hat that you lot made before and use your finger to stick the spikes to the sides. Your tiptop hat now has a skirt!

Styrofoam snowman cut add glue

Pace 7: gum balls together

Apply glue to a spot on your smaller white Styrofoam brawl and stick it to your larger white ball. These will be your snowman's head and body.

Styrofoam snowman ball

Step 8: make the arms

Cut your brown pipe cleaner in half. You'll merely use one side here. Bend this half at its center signal as well, just don't cut it; you'll just brand a V-shape. Curl the ends of the pipe cleaner in once each to give your snowman fiddling hands, since this shape volition exist his arms.

Styrofoam snowman rope

Step 9: add the eyes

Apply glue to the backs of your googly eyes and stick them to i side of the smaller Styrofoam ball to brand your snowman'southward confront.

Styrofoam snowman apply glue

Step 10: draw buttons

Utilize your red marking to describe a grinning under the snowman's eyes. Then, on the larger Styrofoam ball that makes upwardly your snowman'south body, use your black marker to draw 3 filled circles that will be his coal buttons.

Styrofoam snowman dots

Stride 11: glue the artillery

Apply some glue to the bend in your piping cleaner arms and stick them backside the snowman'southward caput, at the base of where it meets the body, so that the arms stick out the front. Then, employ some glue on the top of his caput and around the edge of the hole in the top hat's brim and stick the chapeau on his head.

Styrofoam snowman hands

Step 12: add a ribbon

Apply some glue to i stop of your red ribbon and stick it at the base of the top hat so you tin can wrap the ribbon around it where it meets the brim. Wrap the ribbon all the way around like a strap then trim the backlog and glue the other end down also to keep the ribbon in place.

Styrofoam snowman hat

Step thirteen: make a scarf

Cut a slice of ruby yarn about three inches long. Wrap it around the snowman'due south neck, where his head and trunk meet, and tie information technology one time. This is now your snowman'south scarf!

Styrofoam snowman scarf

Styrofoam snowman cut

Step xiv: glue the broom

Utilise some glue on the toothpick broom handle about where you want the snowman's piping cleaner hand to grip it, then slide it through the coil yous made so he'southward holding information technology.

Styrofoam snowman for trees

You lot're all finished! But in example you'd like to try this project out for yourself, here's a fantastic tutorial video to help yous!