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Mickey Sock Snowman Craft (without rice!)

This easy sock snowman craft is fun to create and a good DIY project for kids and adults. Use them to decorate for the holidays or give away as gifts.
Author: www.peacelovechristmas.com

Equipment

  • Hot Glue Gun & Glue
  • Scissors
  • Fabric Pencil
  • Ruler

Materials

  • Two White Fluffy Socks
  • ¼- inch Red Ribbon
  • yd Red Velvet
  • ½- inch Red and White Polka Dot Ribbon optional
  • Small Amount of Polyfill
  • 2 Bamboo Skewers
  • 4 tiny Neon Green Pom Poms optional
  • 2 small Neon Green Pom Pom optional
  • White Embroidery Thread
  • 4 Rubber Bands
  • 13 small Black Beads
  • Scraps Orange Craft Foam

Instructions

  • Working with one sock at a time, fill the sock full, but not packed, with the polyfill. Using the rubber bands, section off the sock into fairly equal ⅓ sections.
  • Pull up an about ½ inch ball of sock and stuffing on each side of the toe end of the sock and, with the embroidery thread, tie a thread around the base of the pull-up and tie tightly,
  • Slide a bamboo skewer through the center of the sock, trimming it to be even with the opening of the snowman. 
  • Tug the edges of the opening of the sock toward the skewer and hot glue it in place, closing the bottom up. 
  • Make a tiny bow with the red ribbon and hot glue it in place in front of one ear, designating that snowman as Minnie (and thus a snowwoman). 
  • Cut a ½ inch wide section of red velvet about 8 inches long. Fold this rectangle in half longways and hot glue in place. Wrap this around the non-bow-adorned snowman just under the head and hot glue in place to make a scarf. You can repeat this for the second snowman (Minnie) or you can use the red with white polka dots ribbon to make a scarf. If you want to add baubles to the ends of the scarves, you can use the neon green pom poms to make a teeny tiny mickey shape. I ultimately decided that the scarf wasn’t the look I was going for on Minnie.
  • Make a skirt for the Minnie snowwoman by folding your velvet in half, then drawing a 5-inch diameter quarter circle, with one end on the fold line. Then draw a parallel 3-inch diameter quarter circle on the fold line about 3 inches away. Then square off the end not on the fold line, about 5-inches from the fold line. 
  • Cut this rounded rectangle shape out then hem the edges, as necessary.
  • Wrap this shape around the top of the middle and bottom balls of the Minnie sock snowwoman and hot glue in place along the back.
  • Cut thin tiny triangles from the orange craft foam and hot glue the triangle to the center of the head pointing off to one side.
  • Add two small black beads to each face above the carrot nose, 3 beads under the nose for a smile and 3 beads down the front of the Mickey gnome for buttons. Then display and enjoy!