25 Days of Christmas - Snowman Family Portrait

To start off our 25 Days of Christmas, I'm showing you a cute project.  When I say 'cute', I mean CUTE.  Like, dip a bucket of kittens into a bucket of puppies into a barrel of baby chicks.

It's adorable.

I saw it on another blog, Childmade.  It's too cute.  Did I mention that?

You'll need the following items:

Winter gloves

Felt in assorted colors (you'll definitely need orange)

Mini pompoms or googly eyes

A frame of your choosing, large enough for the project, with a mat

Blue scrapbook paper

Faux snow (totally optional)

To start, cut the fingers off the gloves.  You'll need one finger for each family member.  I cut down through the hand so I'd have long fingers to work with.

I took my fingers and lined them up on my mat to make sure they would all fit well, with the scrapbook paper behind them.

Keeping them in place, I used glue to dot around them and put faux snow on it.  If you find a piece of scrapbook paper that has snow on it, this will not be necessary.

It's a winter wonderland.

Once that was done, I started making my landscape.  I cut some white felt to look like snowy hills and put them on top of the scrapbook paper, behind the fingers.

I decorated my little fingers to look like people.  Pompoms for the eyes, orange felt triangles for the noses, and felt for scarves.  I braided a couple of them for extra cuteness:

Once I finished all my family members, I lined them up together.  I cut another piece of white felt and put it over the top of them.  Like a snowy blanket.

I used a pink marker to give them rosy cheeks.  You could use blush here, but I don't have any blush.  My pale, pasty skin rejects beauty in all forms.

Using Microsoft Word, I made a cover for the mat to personalize it.

Adorable.  You should try this one.  It's too cute not to be shared with the world.


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