Day 7 at Beccy's Place - F is for Fluffy FUN

  I'm playing along with the

Ninth Annual Month Of Holiday Cards

at

Beccy's Place

I'm not colouring at the moment but I am working on Christmas craft projects for creative little hands around our neighbourhood ... the endless months of Covid-19 lockdowns has brought our community much closer and I look forward to sharing more crafty adventures with them over the coming weekends and school holidays now that restrictions have eased.

Beccy's prompt for Day 7 is the letter "F"

(Beccy's post with "F" inspiration words and

Fabulous Fussy cut Figgy pudding card to inspire is HERE)

My "F" kids Christmas activity kit is for a Fluffy Fun rocking Snowman card.

This fun card starts with a 6" circle of white cardstock.  I cut several with my Silhouette Cameo, along with white top folding card bases (made by welding two of the circles together).  The card base is manually scored and given a firm crease with a bone folder to make a top fold.  I designed a black hat for my snowman in Silhouette Studio (it's 7" wide and 4" high) and cut several with my machine too, along with lots of orange carrot noses.  The accent strip for his hat was cut manually from red glitter cardstock into 5" x 1" strips.  The black circles to make his mouth are punched from scrap cardstock and when the time comes for little hands to make his mouth, I am sure that there will be a lot more than five making his cheery smile.

Now that all the "parts" are ready,

it's time to build a snowman!

Adhere the red glitter accent strip to the hat.  Adhere the hat to the top of the white circle, adjusting the height so that there is plenty of room for his face and that the rim is sticking out at the edges.  Run a line of adhesive across the face, just under the rim of the hat and stick fluffy cottonballs in place, going over the edge slightly so that you can't see the cardstock circle underneath.  Continue adding more lines of adhesive and cottonballs until his face is filled with fluffy fun and the cardstock circle is fully covered.  Choose some googly eyes and glue them in place, along with his carrot nose and black circles for his smile.    Glue the snowman to the card base, ensuring his hat is straight, in line with the top of the fold.

Once the glue is dry, it's time to stand the fluffy snowman up and get ready for action.  When you gently tap the edge of his hat, the snowman rocks from side to side

and I am sure his smile grows bigger each time.

   

*** INGREDIENTS ***

white cardstock - for the snowman's head - 6" circle

black cardstock - for the hat and smile

red glitter cardstock - for the hat trim

orange cardstock - for the carrot nose

small circle punch - to make the circles for the smile

buttons can be used instead of punched circles

googly eyes - with liquid glue or glue dots

cottonballs

liquid adhesive

I used Helmar 450 Quick Dry but you can use a glue gun, tacky glue etc

Silhouette Cameo

I designed the pieces for this snowman in Silhouette Studio and used my machine to cut several sets to make my original snowman and have plenty for little hands to play with.  Scissors can be used but when preparing multiple kits, machine cutting makes like much easier.

*** REFERENCE ***

This project was inspired by the "Snowman Craft" post

on "The Best Ideas For Kids" blog HERE.