To Do with Gloves
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Adorable Snow Folks
Create a group of carolers or a sleighful of happy winter friends with your mismatched children's mittens, wooden balls, and lots of imagination. The sky is the limit!
You will need
children's mittens
rice
cotton batting
1 1/4" diameter wooden balls
buttons
mismatched infant or children's socks
small pom poms
scrap material for scarves
silk florals (holiday springs, berries, flowers, etc.)
sleigh or basket
tiny black plastic eyes or black acrylic paint
rosey lipstick
black marker
What you do Basic Snow Person:
Fill the hand portion of a child's mitten with one or two handfuls of rice, fill the rest of the way with cotton batting, be sure to fill thumb as well.
Cut a scrap piece of material for scarf and gently tie around the mitten where the ribbing of the cuff meets the plain material of the mitten (end of the cuff). (When tying scarf, point the scarf material away from the thumb to make it appear as if the scarf is covering the person's other arm.)
Fold down cuff to cover scarf and form a turtle neck.
Hot glue on wooden ball to top of turned down cuff.
Glue on tiny plastic eyes or paint on with black acrylic paint.
Use black marker for mouth.
Gently dot on lipstick for cheeks by applying first to your finger and then dotting onto face.
Glue 2 or 3 buttons to tummy area.
Glue a stem of holiday florals or greenery tucked into the arm (thumb), and glue arm to the mitten body.
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