Free Christmas Craft Patterns to Make Your Own Frosty
Build your own Frosty the Snowman from these free Christmas craft patterns
Create your own, handmade wooden snowman with these free Christmas craft patterns. You'll love how your Frosty looks hanging from your front door, your mantle, or even nestled into the boughs of your Christmas tree. He is simple to make if you are able to work with wood.
For an option that does not require saws, drills, and sheets of wood, consider working with sheets of foam or canvas backed with foam board.
Craft Yourself a Free Frosty
Supplies:
-- Wood, Canvas, or Foam
-- Scissors
-- Pencil
-- Glue (wood or school glue, depending on your materials)
-- 1-2 inch wide ribbon
-- Acrylic paint: white, black, orange, yellow
-- 1 sprig of holly or greenery
-- Wire or thin ribbon
Directions:
Make your own Frosty the Snowman from these free Christmas crafts patterns or compile a collection of free craft patterns for Christmas gifts to the wood worker in your life. Either way, the patterns are free and simple.
Before we begin, appropriately judge your skill level and determine with which medium you prefer to work. For the more advanced craftsman capable of maneuvering a saw, build your Frosty from plywood. If this sounds too advanced for you or if you are letting your kids build this craft, work with sheets of foam found in your local craft store. Finding yourself in the middle? Use canvas as your basis for the paint and adhere it to a foam backer board.
If this sounds like the project for you -- regardless of the medium you choose to use --let's get started!
1. Begin your craft by printing and cutting out these free Christmas craft patterns. The basic pattern outlining the Snowman's head and long rectangle will be your main patterns for cutting out your Frosty.
Use the detailed Snowman head to help you draw and paint his face.
2. Lay your template on the material from which you are going to cut your Frosty. Trace it and cut out the Snowman.
3. Punch or drill holes at the top of his hat, as indicated on the pattern. This is where you will run your ribbon or wire.
4. Use a pencil to draw your Snowman's face. If you're painting him (if working with wood or canvas), complete his hat and face now.
5. After he is painted and dried, cut out the star and glue to his hat.
6. Embellish his hat with a piece of holly. Complete your snowman by tying a bow out of your favorite ribbon and attaching beneath his head.
7. Finish your Frosty by stringing wire or ribbon through the holes in his hat and tie them off so he can hang from your desired location.
Enjoy your Frosty! Use your computer on a cold day to search for more free Christmas craft patterns on the Internet.