DIY Felt Snowman

This project was more for my little one ... but my eight year old had fun playing with it for a bit too! Those of you who have toddlers know what I am talking about when I say ... "will I ever get anything done with this little crazy person running behind me!" So cute .. Most of the time! Not so cute when toddler insists on doing all mommy things, always, all the time!

In order to try and help maximize my Christmas "time" I decided to create this fun snowman that I found on Pinterest crosscutsewingco.com . It was super easy to make and my, almost, 3 year old played with it for hours and still plays with it .. making different faces and rearranging how he looks.

I just drew the shapes and all the pieces free hand but you can get patterns all over the Internet or at billybear4kids.com . You can do however many or few pieces you wish .. you can do three separate balls for the snowman or make one shape for the body of the snowman. That's the fun .. its like paper dolls!

All you need is ...

Felt
Hot glue
Pen or black marker
Scissors

Use the pen or marker to draw your shapes on to the felt
Cut shapes
Hot glue any shapes that need it (we hot glued the berries on the holly and the stick arm parts)

We hung ours on the wall at first with pins ... this method wasn't the best as some of the extras made the snowman too heavy to stay up.
We found that the back of a peg board or white board (sometimes) will have that rough straw like texture ... we used that!
We found an old cork board and flipped it and Viola! Fun for days!

DIY Indoor Snowball Fight!!

Myself and my children (and my husband for the most part) have lived our whole lives with beautiful, soft, white, clear, crisp, cold ... SNOW!

A  little over a year ago we moved to the desert ... I mean the desert .. where its 120 in the summer and a wonderful 70 + in the winter!

Not a lick of snow here ... and we miss it ... badly!

What I decided to do was surprise my family with a snowball fight that we were able to have indoors, in the desert! Its not cold, its not wet and its suuuuuupppper fun!!

We set up a pile and a note for our pops when he got home from work and had a family snowball fight for well over 30 mins. After the adults were finished the kids continued to snowball fight each other until dinner!! Super fun!

The snowballs were super easy ...

Need:
* Yarn (we used white for snowballs but if you were just making these for fun pom poms you could use any fun color!)
* Your hand (if you look up the "how to" online they will say to use a fork, which you can do. We found that the fork was way to small and in order to get a big fluffy ball it was better to just loosely roll the yarn around our hand and not a fork.)
* Dollar store Christmas tin.

To Do:
* Loosely wrap the yarn around your hand - We wrapped 70-80 times (the more wraps you make the more fluffy your ball will be.) and cut from the bigger ball.
* Cut another string long enough (10 in or so) to wrap around the yarn on your hand.
* Hold the wrap together as you slide it off your hand, pinch it in the middle, flip it clockwise and tie the extra string around the middle in a tight knot. You should now have two big loops on either side of the tied center.
* Go through and cut the loops apart. Once all the loops are cut apart you should have a fluffy white ball with funny hair.
* Go through and give your ball a hair cut, even out the hair and cut any loops that are left and fluff it out.
* Fill the tin with snowballs and RUN!!!