Happy Christmas with Snowman candle holders
You will need
- A clean jar
- Clean wipe able surface & cloth
- Small hard bristle paint brush & one flat end 1nch brush.
- P.V.A & a container with lid.
- Strong safety glue
- One sheet of A4 black, red sheet of paper
- One, white, green, brown, orange, paper scraps about A6 size will be ample
- White acrylic paint
- Silver or white glitter, red & green
- One pair of stick on craft eyes for snowman and one eye for the robin
- Water jar or bucket for washing brushes
- Apron & kids safety scissors
Mix together 25% white acrylic paint & 75% P.V.A.
Paint your chosen jar with paint mix quickly and with a flat end 1 inch brush.
Then while WET add white or silver glitter.
Draw around your jar base when dry on to some black paper.
Cut out with a 1cm border for hat brim.
Then fold in half ready and cut a hole about 1 cm in, ready for inner cuts.
Cut from centre to brim inner edge, as quarters and then again to make glue tabs as shown & fold them up.
Place onto jar for gluing.
Trim tabs ready for gluing.
Then with clear strong stafty glue stick them down one at a time.
Cut a trim the circumference of the jar, with a little overlap and with the height from brim of the hat to the top of the jar.
Glue on with over lap at the back.
Glue on eyes, I used boobly ones, you could use paper instead.
Cut a stip of red card for scarf, with the width in proportion to the body and the length wants to be the circumference.
Stick on around body.
Cut two smaller parts the same width and stick on as shown.
Cut a small one for the scarves knot & add tassels on scarf end by cutting small evenly spaced snippet on both ends as shown.
Feeling a bit warmer xxx
Now for the nose cut a small piece of orange paper mine was about to make nose cut in proportion to body.
Roll orange paper into a cone/carrot shape, glue together &; cut of end.
Fold over on the end to glue on as shown.
Cut two white rectangles out for arms.
Round of the ends.
Glue to body by folding end over slightly.
He can now see, smell & hug x
Now cut & glue on a trim in red card to size for hats circumference with overlap.
Looking good 🙂
Then cut two small rectangles in green paper in proportion for holly on the hat.
Cut them into petal shapes.
Then cut three curve inserts on each side.
Then glue on and cut three red circle for berries out of some red card.
Glue berries on
Then for a robin, cut out shapes as shown to make robbin, but make it to fit the hat and in proportion to the snowman.
Glue the robin onto hat and give him a bobbly eye.
Then apply with a small round paint brush some P.V.A onto scarf for red glitter.
Then glitter the berries & the robbins breast.
Then glitter the holly leafs.
One snowman ready for some christmas light
Light a tealight with an adult!
With an adult add to the jar & happy snowman making xxx
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