Make a DIY Snowman Kit

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Square feature photo showing all of the elements of a DIY Snowman kit.

A simple DIY snowman kit made with everyday supplies and stored in a basket for easy winter fun. See our finished snowman at the bottom of the post.

Step 1

Use any container you have on hand for this kit. I used this Flexible Plastic Storage Tub from Dollar Tree. It was the perfect size, and I like that it’s plastic so the kids can take it out into the snow. I cut a snowman face out of Dollar Tree Glitter Vinyl. It worked great, and my container was decorated in minutes!

DIY Snowman Kit - Horizontal image with Snowman bucket on bench that contains the DIY hat (showing), scarf (showing) and all of the other supplies are in the bucket (not shown).

Step 2

I have a post on how to make this cute, full-sized hat. Find the full DIY snowman hat made from dollar store supplies tutorial here.

Feature image of finished DIY Snowman Hat in a wintery scene on a stack of white washed books.
DIY Snowman Hat

Step 3 – How to Make a Carrot Nose

If you don’t usually have full-sized carrots in your refrigerator, make one using orange ribbon and aluminum foil. Start by pulling a large piece of tin foil off the roll, shape and glue it around a pencil or dowel. Wrap orange ribbon and green twine around the foil to decorate. Secure with hot glue as needed.

Supplies used to make a carrot nose for a DIY Snowman Kit. Four supplies show, colored pencil, orange ribbon, green twine and tin foil.
Supplies to make a Carrot Nose.
Hot gluing green twine to the top of a DIY carrot snowman nose.
Wrap the ribbon and twine around the foil. Hot glue as needed to form a carrot.

Step 4 – How to Make Eyes and a Mouth for Your Snowman

I used five small Dollar Tree ball ornaments to make the mouth pieces. I gave the ornaments a quick coat of black spray paint to make them look like coal, then I hot-glued the sharpened end of a colored pencil (cut it in half) to the end of each ornament.

To make the eyes, I cut a Dollar Tree Foam Ball in half and spray-painted both halves black. Again, I pushed the sharpened end of a colored pencil (that I cut in half) into the foam and secured it with a little hot glue.

Supplies show here to make a mouth and eye pieces for a DIY Snowman Kit. Supplies include a foam ball, 5-6 mini ornament balls, colored pencils and black spray paint.
Supplies to make eyes and a mouth.
Shown five small ball ornaments spray painted black and colored pencil half glued to the top to make pieces for a mouth in a DIY Snowman Kit.
Five ball ornaments for a mouth.
Foam ball cut in half and spray painted black to make eyes.
Foam ball cut in half to make eyes.

Step 5 – How to Make Buttons

To make oversized buttons for my DIY Snowman Kit, I used the lids from Dollar Tree Holiday Containers that were 4.75″ in diameter. I liked the look of the scalloped edge on these lids, but if you can’t find these containers, simply spray paint foam disks to use as buttons.

To use the lids, cut floral foam disks down a little, and hot-glued them to the inside. Then, push the sharpened end of a colored pencil (cut in half) into the foam. Secure with hot glue as needed and add a snowflake to the front.

Supplies shown that were used to make big buttons for a DIY Snowman Kit. Supplies included red treat container lids, floral foam, snowflake ornaments and colored pencils.
Supplies to make large buttons.
Push half of a colored pencil into the foam back of button and secure with a little hot glue.
Push the pointed end of a pencil into the foam backing of the button and add hot glue to secure it in place.
Snowflake ornament hot glued to the button front.
Hot glue a snowflake decoration to the button front.

Step 6 – How to Make a Simple Pipe

I made a simple pipe for my DIY Snowman Kit using an empty plastic Coffee K-Cup (spray-painted black) and a colored pencil.

Shown a simple pipe with a color pencil and a coffee k-cup spray painted black.
Finished pipe.

Step 7 – A Scarf

Don’t forget to add a Dollar Tree scarf to your Snowman!

DIY Snowman Kit - snowman in our yard
DIY Snowman Kit - Vertical Pinterest Pin to share!
Star divider used has two hand drawn lines with a star in the center, used as a content break and signals new or different content below. This doodle style illustration is in a medium charcoal gray.

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