This easy snowman craft is great for kids of all ages, even preschool and Kindergarten using styrofoam cups. Kids will have so much fun making a cute styrofoam cup snowman craft all bundled up for winter with a few simple supplies. Making this adorable snowman craft is a great idea at home or in the classroom.
Easy Styrofoam Cup Snowman Craft for Kids
I love making all kinds of snowman crafts. I’ve learned that you can make almost anything into a snowman! This time I went with styrofoam cups although you could use any type of white disposable cup in any size.
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Kids love making their own snowman inside {giggle} with snowman crafts that are extensions of winter lesson plans in the classroom, great way to develop fine motor skills and it is just plain fun creativity!
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How to Make a Snowman Craft from Foam Cups
For my snowmen, I used coordinating outfits, matching up the colors of the scarves and earmuffs. You can use whatever colors you like!
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This is an easy peasy snowy or rainy day craft the kids will love. This fun craft is easy to make and fun to display.
Craft Supplies Needed To Make Disposable Cup Snowmen
- White styrofoam cups or white paper disposable cups
- Felt – we used green felt, pink felt, blue felt, purple felt & orange felt
- Medium pom poms
- Pipe cleaners
- White craft glue
- Scissors
- Black marker
Directions to Make Foam Cup Snowman
Watch this Short Video Step Turtorial for Fun Snowman Craft
Step 1
First, cut a 1-inch wide strip of felt using the full length of the felt sheet with scissors.
Fringe the ends with scissors by cutting 4 or 5 slits at each end which will make the snowman’s scarf.
Step 2
Second, place your foam cup upside down. Glue the scarf around the cup, leaving enough room for a face.
Step 3
Third, cut triangles from orange felt and glue them to the face area for the snowman’s carrot nose.
Step 4
Let’s begin to make the snowman’s earmuffs. We chose to use the same color for each snowman’s scarf and earmuffs, but that is your fashion decision to make…
- With scissors, cut a pipe cleaner in half.
- Bend the 1/2 of a pipe cleaner around the top of the snowman’s head (bottom of the cup).
- Trim the ends of the pipe cleaner so that they hang over by about 1/2-inch on either side.
Step 5
The next step in making the snowman’s earmuffs is to trim one side of a pom pom to make it a little flatter.
Step 6
The final step in making snowman earmuffs is to glue the flattened pom pom to the pipe cleaner on the side of the snowman’s head.
Repeat for the other side.
Step 7
Finally, use a black marker to add eyes.
You can add eyebrows if you like as well! I always do because it adds to their cute expressions and gives them character.
Final Results of SNowman Craft
Everyone loves how our easy snowman crafts turned out! They make fun decorations for the holiday season or just add a little happy to snowy days this winter season.
Suggested Variations for Snowman Craft Projects
Here at Kids Activities Blog we love when you can just make something without running to the store or spending money. Here are some ideas to make your snowman craft easier, cheaper, more useful and get the whole family involved:
- Loop a string through the top of the styrofoam cup snowman’s head, tie from inside the cup and hang on your Christmas tree.
- Substitute toilet paper rolls instead of cups, cut the craft rolls down a little to make a shorter snowman and then follow the directions to create your own snowman toilet paper roll craft.
- If you don’t have felt sheets on hand, try using construction paper! It won’t be as cozy, but it will be super cute.
- Replace the pom poms with cotton balls for big fuzzy snowman earmuffs.
- Use googly eyes instead of drawing in your snowman eyes.
Cute Snowman Craft from Styrofoam Cup
This easy snowman craft is so much fun to make with kids of all ages! With just a few simple craft supplies you may already have on hand, you can create the cutest snowmen ever!
Materials
- White styrofoam cups or white paper disposable cups
- Felt – we used green felt, pink felt, blue felt, purple felt & orange felt
- Medium pom poms
- Pipe cleaners
Tools
- White craft glue
- Scissors
- Black marker
Instructions
- Cut a craft felt sheet into a 1 inch wide strip using the entire length of the felt sheet with scissors.
- Fringe the end of the 1 inch felt strip to make the snowman scarf.
- Place your cup upside down and glue the felt scarf around the cup leaving some space at the top for the snowman's head.
- Cut out carrot triangles to make the snowman's nose out of an orange felt sheet.
- Cut a pipe cleaner in half with scissors and then bend it across the top of the snowman's head or bottom of the cup.
- Trim the ends of the pipe cleaner you just bent so there is only 1/2 inch remaining on each side.
- With scissors, cut 2 pom poms by 1/3rd flattening out one side and then glue them on either side of the snowman's head to finish the earmuffs.
- With a black marker, draw in snowman eyes and add any details you want like snowman eye brows, etc.
More Creative Snowman Craft Ideas
We are not done with fun snowman crafts! Grab your glue stick or hot glue because we have more winter crafts that little hands will embrace in an adorable way.
- How to make easy marshmallow snowmen!
- I love this fun toilet paper snowman idea.
- Follow the simple steps for a DIY wooden snowman.
- This salt dough snowman is really fun to make.
- These creative snowman ideas are all edible…and yummy!
- And for some more snowman crafts, see this list of 50 festive snowman crafts!
- This snowman template is a free printable template that turns into the cutest snowman craft.
- Let’s make a puffy paint snowman painting out of shaving cream!
- Pssst…if you have extra plastic spoons, you might want to try these plastic spoon snowmen! You can also use plastic cups to make this fun lighted string!
- Try these fun ways to play in the snow on your next snow day!
- Make your own toilet paper snowman!
- Move on over to our how to make a paper snowflake!
- Check out these snowy winter crafts for kids!
- Check out our super fun snowflake crafts for kids.
- For light and easy snowman fun, check out these snowman coloring pages!
Tell us how your easy snowman crafts turned out! What colors did you use for the snowman’s scarf and earmuffs?
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