Melted Snowman Ornament

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Melted Snowman Ornament - melted snowman ornament on light wood surface I'm just in love with this melted snowman ornament. It is made mostly of hot glue and paint, it's really easy to put together. Bring out the dimensions by layering on the hot glue, and making him an adorable top hat from soft felt.

Total Time: 1 hour plus dry time

Yield: 1 ornament

Supplies:

parchment paper
pencil
hot glue gun with glue
acrylic paint (white, brown, orange, black)
paintbrushes
black felt
scissors
thin ribbon
fine ribbon or string

Steps:

To make the melted snowman body, draw a squiggly blob on the parchment paper with your pencil.

Melted Snowman Ornament - drawing blob on parchment paper

Fill inside the lines with hot glue.

Melted Snowman Ornament - fill in shape with hot glue

Allow to dry. This won't take long at all.

Draw the snowman's branch arms and carrot nose onto the parchment paper.

Melted Snowman Ornament - make arms and nose from glue

Paint the melted snowman blob white. Let dry.

Melted Snowman Ornament - paint blob white

Paint the carrot orange and the branch arms brown. Let dry.

Melted Snowman Ornament - arms painted brown and nose is orange

To make the top hat, cut out one circle of black felt, then one a bit smaller. Cut out a long thin rectangle.

Melted Snowman Ornament - cut out parts for hat from black felt

Form the long rectangle into a cylinder, making sure its rim is the same size as the little circle. Hot glue the ends closed.

Melted Snowman Ornament - roll rectangle and glue

Glue the small circle onto the cylinder.

Melted Snowman Ornament - add smaller circle

Now glue this onto the big circle.

Melted Snowman Ornament - glue on larger circle for brim

Glue a piece of ribbon around the base of the hat above the brim.

Melted Snowman Ornament - attach a ribbon

Glue the hat, arms, and nose onto the white blob.

Melted Snowman Ornament - glue hat, arms, and nose to the blob

Add little blobs of black paint for the coal eyes and mouth. Let dry.

Melted Snowman Ornament - paint on eyes and black dots for coal mouth

Hot glue a loop of fine ribbon or string to the back of the ornament and hang. These also look super cute on their own, laying around on tables for wintertime gatherings.