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Melting Snowman Craft (Dollar Store DIY)

By: Author Kimberly

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Categories Dollar Tree Crafts

This easy melting snowman craft is an easy dollar store DIY that you can make in 30 minutes or less. If you are looking for a winter craft or a snowman craft, this one is so cute!

Crafted snowman ornament with a blue scarf, orange carrot nose, and twig-like arms on a wooden base, set against snowflake decorations and a plant.

What I love about this craft is that it is all painting and gluing! How easy is that?!?

Crafted snowman figure with a blue scarf, orange nose, and button eyes, lying on a wooden base with three blue buttons in front. It has stick-like arms and a blurred snowflake backdrop.

Easy Melting Snowman Craft

I bought many of these materials at the Dollar Tree, but you can easily find the craft supplies at any dollar store or craft store.

Materials

  • Wooden Round
  • 1.5″ Styrofoam Ball
  • Self-Adhesive Pearls, Black
  • Plaid Fabric (1″ X 10″)
  • Buttons
  • Brown Chenille Stem
  • Orange Craft Felt (or craft foam or card stock)
  • White Acrylic Craft Paint
  • Hot Glue Gun or Craft Glue
  • Paintbrush
  • Scissors 
  • Ruler
Craft supplies on a table: paint bottles, buttons, wood ornament, glue gun, foam balls, scissors, paintbrush, felt sheets, and fabric pieces.

Directions

Step 1

Paint the wooden round with white acrylic craft paint in a random pattern that looks like melting snow (see picture below).

Next, paint the entire Styrofoam ball with white acrylic craft paint. I put the ball on top of a craft knife so that I could paint all of the surfaces at once.

Let the paint dry and apply a second coat, if needed.

Crafting tools on a wooden surface: a bottle of white acrylic paint, a wooden circle partially painted white, a paintbrush, a small knife, and a textured foam ball.

Step 2

Squeeze additional white acrylic craft paint directly from the bottle onto the wooden round in a swirl pattern to look like melting snow.

Let dry.

Open bottle of DecoArt Americana acrylic paint next to a wooden slice partially covered in white paint.

Step 3

Glue the Styrofoam ball head to the wooden round body with hot glue. If you are using liquid craft glue, allow additional time for drying.

Using scissors, cut out a carrot shape from orange craft felt.

Glue the carrot nose in place.

Crafting materials arranged on a white wooden surface, including a hot glue gun, scissors, orange fabric, a round sponge, and a cardboard piece with white glue.

Step 4

Add two self-adhesive pearls for eyes and five for the mouth.

Crocheted snowman head with orange nose on a wooden base, surrounded by small black beads, on a wooden surface.

Step 5

Now it is time to make the scarf. You can just cut the plaid fabric into one strip that is approximately 1” wide by 10” long.

OR you can tear the fabric into a strip to produce a frayed edge on the sides.

Tie the fabric around the snowman’s neck, and trim any long ends with scissors.

Crafting scene with a small snowman on a wooden base, wearing a blue checkered scarf. Orange scissors and fabric pieces are on a white wooden background.

Step 6

Cut a 12” long brown chenille stem in half. Bend a zig zag pattern into one end of the chenille stem.

Bring the short end to the bottom of the bends and twist in place. Separate the sections to create a twig arm.

Repeat to make a second twig arm, then glue arms to the melting snowman body wooden round.

Orange scissors next to cut brown pipe cleaners forming a triangle, letter "M," and an arrow on a wooden surface.

Step 7

Select three small buttons and glue to the melting snowman body on the wooden round.

Snowman craft with a fabric scarf and button decorations on a wooden base, next to a glue gun and a container of assorted buttons.
Crafted snowman decoration with a pipe cleaner nose, button eyes, blue checkered scarf, and brown twig arms on a round base, set against a white wooden background.

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Materials and tools for a melting snowman craft are shown, including scissors, felt, and glue. The completed melting snowman craft with a scarf and buttons is displayed below.

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