Ok, so my ACTUAL snowperson wasn't that terrific Friday night, BUT I did MUCH better in turning 3 pumpkins from Halloween into a snowman for the front porch! Yes, he has no arms- we have to cut some sticks smaller, they were poking everything, when we tried them where we wanted to place him on the porch, and we still had to string lights over the door.
Cute huh? I shoulda bought more, but wasn't sure how it would turn out.............
Supplies:
3 craft pumpkins, staggered in size
Glue gun
Tinsel-optional
Craft Knife
Items for face-buttons, corncob,etc
Hat and/or scarf
1. Buy 3 craft pumpkins in stackable sizes. I left mine off-white (sorta like dirty snow), but you can paint yours white if you want (expecially IF you have the orange ones, otherwise your snowman will look like he spent too many days at the chemical plant...). If you catch the pumpkins on CLEARANCE after Halloween, you may be stuck with orange, and it might be hard to find the large bottom pumpkin. FYI, my bottom one is actually not the biggest they had- I got there too late to get the largest size...
2. Using a craft knife (ADULTS only please, pumpkins can be hard to cut at the seams) , cut out circle on bottom of top 2 pumpkins that will allow top pumpkin to sit OVER the bottom pumpkin's stem. You could cut off the stem and use for nose or eyes, but I already had the snowman kit from Renovation Hardware, so I didn't need it. My circles were about 2 1/2 to 3 inches in diameter. Punch out cut circle, so it's not rattling inside pumpkin.
3. If you have the snowman kit (which I love and would be the PERFECT Christmas travel kit for kids, just remember to grab a dollar store muffler to match!), or other items already to use, PUT them in at this time. it is much easier to poke holes in pumpkin when you are only holding one pumpkin. Glue gun can be heating up while you do this step.
4. Glue pumpkins onto each other with hot glue. make sure to allow each level to set for a few minutes BEFORE you go to the next level or add tinsel. Glue sections of tinsel around exposed seams, so hide the fact these are pumpkins.
5. Dress your snowman and put him where you want to!
Now let me give you some caveats, as you are thinking that the kit above doesn't QUITE match my snowman. Remember I said I had to get smaller pumpkins? Yup that's it in a nutshell:
The good thing about using glue gun is you can pop glue off later and it makes pieces easier to store off-season! Next Christmas season, just reglue and put back out on the porch!
Cute huh? I shoulda bought more, but wasn't sure how it would turn out.............
Supplies:
3 craft pumpkins, staggered in size
Glue gun
Tinsel-optional
Craft Knife
Items for face-buttons, corncob,etc
Hat and/or scarf
2. Using a craft knife (ADULTS only please, pumpkins can be hard to cut at the seams) , cut out circle on bottom of top 2 pumpkins that will allow top pumpkin to sit OVER the bottom pumpkin's stem. You could cut off the stem and use for nose or eyes, but I already had the snowman kit from Renovation Hardware, so I didn't need it. My circles were about 2 1/2 to 3 inches in diameter. Punch out cut circle, so it's not rattling inside pumpkin.
3. If you have the snowman kit (which I love and would be the PERFECT Christmas travel kit for kids, just remember to grab a dollar store muffler to match!), or other items already to use, PUT them in at this time. it is much easier to poke holes in pumpkin when you are only holding one pumpkin. Glue gun can be heating up while you do this step.
4. Glue pumpkins onto each other with hot glue. make sure to allow each level to set for a few minutes BEFORE you go to the next level or add tinsel. Glue sections of tinsel around exposed seams, so hide the fact these are pumpkins.
5. Dress your snowman and put him where you want to!
Now let me give you some caveats, as you are thinking that the kit above doesn't QUITE match my snowman. Remember I said I had to get smaller pumpkins? Yup that's it in a nutshell:
- Large coal eyes were waaayy too big for small top pumpkin, so they got put aside. Then we took the smaller coal for the mouth and used 2 for the yes-perfect.
- Small coals left looked awkward for mouth, but I remembered i had the star buttons for a dress I hadn't made daughter yet. Waala- perfect. We still need a small cobb pipe, as the one included looked like an arm, but need to go back to craft store for that one I'm afraid....daughter isn't willing to let mom cut her plastic corn on the cob up...
- The carrot nose looked like another arm attached to the little pumpkin, so it got put aside.Then we raided daughter's pretend kitchen for a plastic carrot. We couldn't find the small one, so we went with what we had. After I took the pix we found the other one, it's about half the size as one in pix.
- As you see the kit comes with no scarf. Well it JUST so happened that I had found a pair of my daughter's Christmas reindeer rights from her first Christmas that were totally gone in the waist, but legs were fine. AHA= one cut up the crotch area and one long tube achieved= instant muffler!
The good thing about using glue gun is you can pop glue off later and it makes pieces easier to store off-season! Next Christmas season, just reglue and put back out on the porch!
