These popsicle stick snowman ornaments are a simple snowman craft , easy enough for toddlers and preschoolers to make with little assistance.
The hooligans have made a LOT of popsicle stick ornaments in my daycare over the years, and these simple snowmen ornaments are always a favourite. They’re easy for young children to make, and require just a few basic craft supplies that you already have around the house.
Use free or cheap essentials as the “bones” for your kids’ craft projects, and visit the dollar store for a few key craft supplies like popsicle sticks, googly eyes, foam shapes, pompoms, gems, paints, glue and pipe cleaners, and you’ll be able to craft right along with us.
Supplies needed for our popsicle stick snowman ornaments:
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- jumbo popsicle sticks
- white paint
- googly eyes
- fabric scraps (or ribbons, bias tape, trim etc)
- Buttons
- black tissue paper
- white glue
- orange craft foam (or felt or paper)
Making your Snowman Ornaments:
Before we got started, the hooligans explored the fabric and ribbons, and examined the buttons and chose the ones they wanted for their snowmen.
While I cut the fabric into strips for their snowmen’ scarves, the kids painted their popsicle sticks.
There was a bit of a wait while the popsicle sticks dried, so they messed around in the buttons again, and then they spied the scissors in the craft bucket, and wanted to do some cutting.
I gave them some thin strips of paper, and they worked on their scissor skills while I dried the popsicle sticks with a hair dryer.
Before moving on to the next step, I tied the fabric scarves around the popsicle stick.
A preschooler could likely do this herself, but my 2’s and just-turned 3’s haven’t mastered “tying” yet.
With their scarves on, we were ready to decorate our snowmen. The hooligans glued buttons, googly eyes, carrot noses on their popsicle sticks.
In hindsight the noses look more like duck beaks than carrots. You can cut your noses narrower than I cut mine.
For the final touch – the hat!
When I was planning this craft I was a little stumped about what to use for the snowman’s hat. But it eventually hit me – tissue paper.
The hooligans glue crumpled up tissue paper the tops of their popsicle sticks.
To finish, I used a glue gun to attached a loop of silver yarn to the back of each snowman.
And that, my lovelies, is all there is to making our popsicle stick snowman ornaments! What do you think?
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Jackie is a mom, wife, home daycare provider, and the creative spirit behind Happy Hooligans. She specializes in kids’ crafts and activities, easy recipes, and parenting. She began blogging in 2011, and today, Happy Hooligans inspires more than 2 million parents, caregivers and Early Years Professionals all over the globe.
Melissa W. Houston
This is great! I am trying something new in my kindergarten class on the lines of an economics unit/holiday workshop that a colleague introduced me to recently. I have been looking for good ideas for easy crafts and this fits the bill beautifully. Thanks so much!
happyhooligans
You’re welcome, Melissa! If you need more easy/inexpensive ideas, be sure to check out my Hooligans’ pinboard: http://www.pinterest.com/happyhooligans/happy-hooligans-posts/
Amie
Popping over from The Multitasking Mummy…this activity will go great during our snowman theme week!
backinthehills
What a simple and fun activity! Those little scarves are hilarious! Thanks for sharing.
Pinkoddy
These are just so adorable and yet so simple to make.
davve holzer
love the hooligans! was looking for a Styrofoam snowman to have my grandkids from Hillsboro make and hang on the tree
happyhooligans
So glad you found ours then! Have fun crafting with the grands!
Lauren McKay
I’m a kindergarten teacher and we always send ornaments to decorate the trees at the museum and they wanted us to do gold snowmen (50th anniv of museum) and I’ve been super stumped! I found lots of ornaments on Pinterest but not kid-friendly and I really love that this is something super easy that they can do and make it all their own and of course SOOOO adorable! And I can still add gold with some sparkly gold ribbon for the scarf! Thank you so much! I was just praying I would find something this week and I found your website within minutes! Your blog is now one of my favorites! Merry Christmas! 🙂
happyhooligans
Yay! So glad we saved the day for you, Lauren! I love it when the Universe delivers exactly what’s needed like it did for you when you found us! The good old power of prayer! I’m so glad you’ll be following along with us now! We’ll have lots more to share before the holidays, so you’re in for some fun!
Becky Dwinnell
Thanks for all your ideas. Excited to try the snowman with the CDs
happyhooligans
You’re so welcome, Becky! Hope you guys have as much fun with your snowmen as we did!
Melissa W. Houston
We started our holiday workshop this week and made the most adorable craft stick snowmen. The kids loved it and they did an awesome job! We used black foam for the hats. This is a great craft and I so appreciate your sharing the idea. My colleague had her kids make the snowmen craft sticks as bookmarks – equally cute and fun, and she did the button wreaths as well, with great success. Happy Crafting Holidays!
Jessica Wright
We made stick stocking name tags the other day. Wrote names with glue, glittered them and added a jingle bell or two and sparkly things to the ends. I taped them on our stocking holders. Super cute! We also made a Santa, Googlie eyed sticks and some with jingle bells all the way down to shake while we sing the song. I glued those that we didn’t put on the mantle to a green card stock paper and hung it on a window pane to catch our xmas tree lights. My three year old loved it! I’d upload a photo but don’t see that option here.
happyhooligans
I don’t think you can here on my blog, Jessica, but I’d love you to share the photo over on my Facebook page. Here’s the link. Just select Photo/Video option at the top of my page: https://www.facebook.com/happyhooligansblog