These snow people turned out so cute. I first made a larger one a couple of years back. Going through my daughters things, I found several pairs of baby socks that no longer fit her.

These made the cutest ornaments. Stuff the sock with batting (cotton balls would work in a pinch). Add enough stuffing to reach ankle height of the sock. Tie string around the opening of the sock and turn the sock over. The top of the sock has now become the snow-persons hat. I used two socks for my snow-girl. I put a colored sock into the white sock and then stuffed it. By turning the top of the sock out, her hat was now a different color. If you only have white socks, you can add ribbon or a pom pom to the hat. To give the sock the snowman shape, I tied a string around the neck area. I made a scarf to tie around the neck to hide the string. I used hot glue to attach black beads for the eyes, nose and buttons of the snow-people. The mouth can be made by either hand stitching or drawn on with a marker. Googly eyes can also be used. I hot glued ribbon to the tip of their heads to hang them. Raffia, yarn or twine can also be used to hang them.

I have also made a larger snowman out of an old clean white tube-sock. The only difference in making the larger snowman was, I added an old frozen juice can lid and some rocks to the bottom of the sock before stuffing it so it would stand up.

Supplies needed:

• Clean white sock
• Scrap fabric for hat and scarf
• Buttons or beads for face and buttons
• Yarn, twine, raffia or ribbon
• Fiber fill batting
• Glue or hot glue gun
• Glue sticks
• Rocks (for large snowman)
• Juice lid (for large snowman) optional
• Googly eyes (optional)

These are great safe ornaments for families with small children. I made several different ones of these. There are so many different ways to create them.

I used styrofoam balls of different sizes, scrap fabrics and lace. These can be made to coordinate with your homes decor. I started these by hot gluing ribbon or raffia to the tops of the styrofoam balls. Waiting to add the ribbon could be an eyesore. For one look, I cut a circular shape into some scrap fabric and wrapped the ball in it. I finished it by gathering the fabric at the top and tying it with a pretty ribbon. The second look for these ornaments can be achieved by simply wrapping the balls in raffia and hot gluing the ends. The third look was achieved by wrapping some lace ribbon around the ball.

The next list of ideas aren’t so children friendly. Using small push pins and sequins, I place sequins on the ball and attached them by pushing pins into them.I have also made these by hot gluing dried flowers to them. I purchased small clusters of flowers from the craft department at my local Walmart. After clipping half the stem off the flowers, I just simply pushed them in. You can roll the styrofoam ball in glue and then into glitter. I painted one of the balls red. I purchased artificial cranberry’s at my local dollar store. I snipped the wire about half way on the cranberry’s. After the paint was dry, I pushed the cranberry’s in to the ball. I have also seen these made by pushing real cloves into them and they smell wonderful.

Supplies needed:

• Styrofoam balls
• Scrap fabric
• Raffia
• Lace ribbon
• Ribbon or yarn
• Hot glue gun
• Glue sticks