DIY Snowman Kit

Our family Christmas gift to our adult children and their families is a three day snow retreat to the mountain resort of Greer, AZ.  Twenty-eight beds, six baths, ten cousins, four generations, three days.... it's going to be a blast!

My hubby wrote this poem as part of our Christmas day gift presentation:

Our gift to you this Christmas Day

We hope that you will find

To be a very special gift

Not like any other kind

We want you to take a trip with us

Up where the air is cold

To share a time of fun and play

A gift for young and old

In Greer there are two cabins

To stay in for two nights

We all will stay together

And take in all the sights

We’ll have some time for sledding

For snowmen, food, and fun

We’ll sit down by a roaring fire

Til our time is almost done

Then we’ll pack our stuff up in our cars

and while we’re on the drive

We’ll start the countdown in our heads

For the next Christmas to arrive

Merry Christmas and Love Always,

Grandma and Papa

Also included in the gift package was some gas $$$ and a snowman kit for each family. Between my hubby and I we made our own DIY re-useable Snowman Kit.

I purchased a tote just large enough to fit the hat.

Each tote was personalized for the family.

Snowman Kit

Hat

Gloves

Scarf

Carrot Nose

Eyes

Mouth

Buttons

Storage tote

I added a fun feature to the store bought gloves.

I stuffed them using rounded wire deeply wrapped in 

strips of plastic grocery bags so that the fingers all bend!

For the scarf I purchased 9" of fleece.

Each family got the same polka-dot print

but in different colors to match the gloves.

I cut the ends of the fleece to create a fringe.

The hat was store bought.

My hubby made:

The buttons (3) and eyes (2) were cut from  from 2" dowel @ 1 " thick.

The mouth (5) from 1 1/4 " dowel @ 1" thick.

The carrot nose (1) was cut from an old broom handle 8" long.

My hubby did some old fashioned whittling to round the ends and

to give the stick the shape of a carrot! 

We used black spray paint for the eyes, mouth, and buttons.

Orange acrylic paint for the carrot with waterproofing spray over that.

I packaged all of the parts in zippered bags

with card stock labeled inserts.

These snowman kits were a big hit as is the anticipation

of the shared snow trip.

Just add SNOW

and get ready to have some fun.

I can't wait to see the "snowmen cousins" decked 

out in their coordinating scarfs!