Clay Pot Snowman

⛄ JANUARY: 
CLAY POT SNOWMAN  

Hello, and welcome back!  Since it is January and all the holidays are over, most people have all their decorations down and are now wondering what to put up next.  This post is all about one of my favorite January decorations.  I made this snowman about a year ago, and because of that, I don't have any step-by-step pictures of how this one was done.  So, like always, if you have any questions, please leave them down in the comments below.  I will try to get better pictures soon and update this post.



For this project, I used:
- 2 medium sized clay pots
- 1 medium clay pot base
- 4 small clay pots
- about 30 cotton balls
- a large, blue pom pom
- a medium, orange pom pom
- white felt
- black felt
- thick, blue ribbon
- 2 small, black buttons
- hot glue
- white string
- white acrylic paint
- black acrylic paint
- sponge paintbrush

Start by painting all but the clay pot base white.  On one of the medium pots, paint the top lip black, like you can see from the picture.  Also paint the base black.  Glue the base to the medium clay pot with the black top.  Then, thread up 2 strands of string up through one of the all-white pots.  either loop it up on a toothpick that's on top of the pot, or just pull it through the hole in the pot and glue it where the head will eventually be glued on.  Then, take one long strand of string and make sure it can go all the way from one hand to the other, being glued where the head will eventually go on.

To put on the hands, pull the ends of the string through the whole in the bottom of the small pots, pulling enough through to tie a knot.  Tie a knot and it should hold.  Just to be sure, I but a big glue dot in the bottom of it.

After that is done, glue on the head piece with the medium clay pot and the base.  Once it is all set, you can start adding the details.  To add more to the arms and the legs, I just tore apart some cotton balls and glued it just on the inside, top of the 4 small clay pots.  I really like the snow texture that it added to it.  For the eyes and mouth, I once again just used white and black felt.  You can design your face any way you would like, making it your own.  I found two small, black buttons to glue to his front.  I just used thick, teal ribbon for the scarf, gluing it in the place I wanted it.

For the nose, I just used a medium sized orange pom pom and just cut the edges to a point so that it looked more like a carrot.  For the top of the hat, I just added a large, blue pom pom that matched the scarf to make it look more like a beanie.

Thank you so much for reading about this project.  I love this simple design!  The dangling arms and legs are adorable!  If you like it as well, go to the top, left corner of this page and hit the blue "Follow" button. Thank you so much to Melisa Crook for the source of the idea.  Visit her Etsy page by clicking HERE.  If you want to see her original snowman, you can check it out HERE.

We will see you all again next time!