Are you looking for super fun crafts that will keep your kids busy this holiday season while they enjoy some time off school? Then these adorable niggling snowmen are exactly what you demand! On top of being smashing decor, they're also a fun way to upcycle old pairs of socks.

Cheque out these surprisingly simple steps for making your very own rice-filled snowman, complete with beautiful buttons and a winter hat, from your old socks!

Step 1

Gather your supplies. You'll demand:

  • Scissors
  • Super glue
  • One large sock
  • Sewing pins
  • Small buttons
  • Flake fabric
  • White thread
  • i kg of rice
  • Scroll of duct tape

How to make sock snowmen

Footstep 2

Cut the sock in ii merely below the heel by a few inches and set up the half with the toe bated.

How to make sock snowmen first step

Pace three

Turn the sock within out.

How to make sock snowmen turn sok inside out

Step four

Tie the cute end of the sock closed very tightly with a piece of white thread.

How to make sock snowmen tie the cute end

Step 5

How to make sock snowmen step 5

Step 6

Pull the sock through the middle of the roll of duct tape and roll the edges over and so the sock opens similar a funnel.

How to make sock snowmen pull the sock through

Pace 7

Fill up your sock with rice. The more rice you add, the more bumpy your snowman will be so that it looks like packed snow. Recall not to over fill up! You still need to be able to close it.

How to make sock snowmen rice fill

Step viii

Earlier you close the top, stand up the sock so the tied role is on the bottom and advisedly shape a head past shaping and pinching the sock a few inches beneath the opening.

How to make sock snowmen stand the sock

Step 9

Tie the top of the sock closed with some other piece of white thread, knitting it tightly.

How to make sock snowmen tie the top of sock

Stride 10

Where y'all shaped the "cervix" earlier to mark the size of your snowman's head, tie another thread. Pull as tightly as your rice will allow and knot the thread so the rice doesn't slip through and make your snowman'southward head shrink.

How to make sock snowmen neck

Step 11

Cut some scrap cloth and tie it around your snowman'due south neck as a scarf.

How to make sock snowmen scrap fabric

Pace 12

Fold the cut edge of your sock'due south toe (or the toe of another coloured or patterned sock) upward a few times similar a hat cuff.

How to make sock snowmen edge of sock

Pace 13

Identify the folded sock toe on your snowman's head similar a lilliputian toque.

How to make sock snowmen craft

Step 14

Gum buttons down the front of your snowman's breadbasket for some cute detail.

How to make sock snowmen add buttons

Stride 15

Give your snowman a face using markers, cloth pigment, or sewing pins with coloured ends!

How to make sock snowmen fabric

Have you lot fabricated other versions of the sock snowmen and you loved how they turned out? Did y'all follow this tutorial and create a beautiful niggling troupe? Link us to pictures of your work in the comments section!

Sources: Handimania, Worthy to Know, Dreams, The Crafting Periodical, Snapguide, Lil Bluish Boo, Wikihow, V8 Juice, Busy Creating Memories, Busy Being Jennifer.