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Vintage Glass Bottle Snowmen

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Project Instructions:

Designed by: Lori Butler

Skill level (1-5): 3

Time to complete:   1 hour

Age range: 12+

Messy level (1-5): 2

Materials:

  • Vintage & Sparkle Glitter: Silver Screen, String of Pearls
  • Bottle Brush Trees 
  • Paper Clay or styrofoam ball
  • Vintage bottle or jar
  • Scrapbook paper
  • Small ornaments, beads, sequins
  • Jingle bells, buttons, tags, other embellishments
  • Tinsel ribbon
  • Sparkle chenille stem – silver
  • Pom-poms
  • Craft glue or hot glue
  • E6000 glue
  • Craft paint – black, white, pink
  • Scissors 

Steps:

  1.  Insert glitter, beads, bottlebrush trees, sequins, etc. into bottle.
  2.  Cover jar lid or bottle neck with glue and Silver screen glitter.
  3.  Make snowman head by forming paper clay ball, or using styrofoam ball.  Cover with glue and String of Pearls glitter, let dry.
  4. Add craft glue to trees, sprinkle with String of Pearls, let dry.
  5. Create snowman’s face with beads, paint, chenille stems, or ornaments.
  6.  For party hat, cut out rounded cone from scrapbook paper, glue together to form hat. Add glitter, ribbon, tinsel, pom-pom or ornament to decorate.
  7.  Glue snowman’s head to bottle using E6000 glue, let dry.
  8. Glue party hat or bottle brush tree to snowman’s head for hat.
  9. Add tinsel ribbon and jingle bell around snowman’s neck.