Growing up, my mom got the idea to make all our Christmas cards for family and friends. She came up with the idea of making the cards into the shape of snowmen and then getting fabric strips and foam and buttons and anything she could find, to decorate them. It's pretty easy to cut a snowman out of some posterboard or cardstock and then you have the chance to decorate it any way you want and even have the kids help.
For a few of the necessities, I found certain things that work better than others. For the scarf, a thin strip of fabric works best. You can buy some scraps or maybe you have some laying around that you can cut up. For the nose, it's easy to buy a sheet of orange foam and cut a carrot shape out. For the arms, brown pipe cleaners work wonderfully. The rest is up to you, button or bead eyes, or even the squiggly eyes you can buy, felt or paper hats or even no hat and a pipe cleaner for antlers. The possibilities are endless. Have fun with it, like I did.
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