1. Remove label and glue from your jar by soaking in warm water.
2. Stuff the jar with fiberfill for the body of the snowman.
3. Glue two of the buttons for the eyes, two buttons in the center of the jar, the orange scrap for the nose, and the two twigs for the arms on the outside of the jar to form the snowman’s body parts.
4. Put the lid on the jar and place a small piece of masking tape on top of the lid to create a better gluing surface. Glue the pom pom on top of the masking tape for a hat.

Collect pine cones, coat them with peanut butter, roll in bird seed and hang them out on the tree branches with ribbon. Easy and inexpensive and the birds will enjoy their winter treat.

Draw an outline of a snowman on a piece of construction paper. Fill in the snowman with cotton balls.

Add details (eyes, nose, etc.) with scrap construction paper.

Generously brush starch or glue onto paper, then sprinkle rice on the paper. Shake off excess.

• To begin, lay the shirt flat on a plastic trash bag or old tablecloth and slip one or two grocery bags flat inside it. Cut the sponges into a star and two circles, one slightly larger than the other. Rinse the sponges with water and wring them out thoroughly.

• With a window open for ventilation, pour a shallow layer of bleach into the disposable container and about 2 inches into the spray bottle. Have your child spritz bleach across the bottom of the shirt to saturate it.

  She should gradually apply less bleach as she moves up the shirt, ending with a thin mist across the middle. Allow the bleach to soak in for a moment to see how it’s working.

• To build the snowman, help your child dip the larger round sponge into the bleach, squeezing to remove excess liquid, then press the sponge onto the shirt. Lift the sponge and check the boldness of the imprint.

  She can repeat this step if necessary, but should avoid using too much bleach, as this can obscure the image. Repeat with the smaller round sponge for the snowman’s head, then complete the scene with a bleached star. Allow the shirt to dry overnight, then soak it briefly in hot, soapy water, and rinse. When it has dried, your child can use the fabric markers to add the snowman’s buttons and facial features.

  Tips: If it’s not easily seen, you may want to mark the bleached (snow) and unbleached (sky) portions of the shirt with masking tape to avoid losing your snowman in a blizzard!

1. Turn anklet socks inside out, so the fuzzy side is showing on the snowman. Stuff with three separate balls of stuffing.
2. Tie off the bottom (toe of sock) first with a white pipe cleaner. Cut off excess pipe cleaner. Tie off two more parts to make a snowman with three balls (one for the head, one for the stomach, one for the bottom). Bend and poke the ends of the pipe cleaners into the interior of snowman so children don’t get jabbed. (Don’t include the heel of the sock - that part will be used for the snowman’s hat - Leave it hanging for now.
3. To make the hat from the sock fold the anklet part down. Folding the ribbing up about ½” to make the ribbing on snowman’s hat). Glue the ribbed part of the hat to the snowman’s head.

   Don’t worry how the back looks at this point. Pull the top up to make a pointed hat. Stuff some of the back part of the sock inside to make a triangle shape for the hat. Glue a seam up the back of the hat to enclose the excess part of the sock. Glue a medium-sized pom pom onto the top of the hat.

4. To make a black magicians hat. Paint the salad dressing container with black paint. Place the container with the open side down on a piece of cardboard. Trace around the brim. Draw a larger circle around this circle to make a brim for the hat. Cut the larger circle out. Punch a whole in the center of the circles. Cut slits from the center of the circle to the edge of the first smaller circle so that it looks like the cut lines are spokes of a wheel. Paint both sides of the circle. Bend up the parts that have been cut on the circle and glue them to the inside of the top of the hat (painted salad dressing container). Glue the finished hat onto the top of the snowman’s head.
5. Glue small pom poms on for eyes and nose on the head; and buttons on the stomach. Glue on 1-1/2″ piece of yarn for the mouth - or tiny black pom poms in a smile shape (to look like rocks).
6. Cut a scarf for the snowman out of felt pieces or use ribbon. Tie the scarf around the snowman’s neck. Glue it down if needed.
7. To attach the arms, cut two small holes, ¼” apart, on the sides of the snowman, about 1″ down from the neck. Insert 4″-5″ pipe cleaner strips all the way through both holes, so you have a double pipe cleaner to twist to form the arms. You may want to use large white pom poms for the arms instead.

1. Spray paint the noodles white and let them dry.
2. Glue them onto a piece of paper as shown in the picture. When they are dry you can cut them out if you would like.

Create sculptures by using toothpicks or pretzels to hold sculpture in place.

1. Cut a square of fabric to use for your banner. Fold one end over the dowel and glue it in place. Tie one end of a piece of yarn to each end of the dowel to make a hanger for the banner.
2. Cut some leaf shapes from the coffee filters.
3. Color the leaves with markers (not permenant markers) making each leaf different colors.

   Try to use more bright colors, as dark colors will run into each other and look muddy.

4. Mix one part glue with one part water. Paint the colored side of each leaf with this mixture.
5. Place the mixture side of the leaves one at a time, face down, on the banner. Cover the leaves with plastic wrap and rub over it to transfer the leaf pattern to the banner. You can get at least two prints from each leaf. Cover the banner with colorful leaf prints.