Snowman – Let It Snow - Christmas Tree Decoration

Isn’t it funny how some ideas just come together ……..

This Christmas tree decoration idea started with a picture (below) on Pinterest.  https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/81487074495686801/

It was the top hat that did it after I had bought 50 of the little blighters from Amazon after they randomly appeared on my feed, I thought snowmen straight away, but I got them purely on a whim.

With the picture in my head I started to wonder I could put two different sized wooden, children’s domino pieces, that I already had, together to create a sort of shelf on which to put a little snowman in order to make a Christmas scene tree decoration.

They did, so I immediately painted them with white emulsion Match Pot paint to cover up the pictures, however if I make anything like this again I think I will leave them to leave a part of their history with them.

When the paint was dry, I faux stitched round the painted side (the back) with a black biro, leaving the rest blank, thinking that I may sign and date the decorations when I give them as Advent fairing gifts in place of a Christmas card.

On the unpainted side I glued a piece of subtle snowy paper, again faux stitching round the edges and then I glued on the “shelf”, it was getting exciting, as I knew exactly where I was going with the idea.

The next step was to make the snowman using air dry dough, trying to get them in proportion to the top hat.  The noses are made using tiny pieces of Fimo. I made a small hole in the middle of their faces so that said noses would have a firm anchor once glued into position. 

The eyes and buttons are black flat back gems, the scarves a narrow strip of red felt, the arms are real twigs (pushed into the dough with a dab of PVA before the dough dried through) plus a tiny sprig of holly was made using a punch and three equally tiny red gems.

When the dominos were finally dry, I was able to add the “Let it Snow” using blue tape in my Dymo label maker and a few snowflake sequins to create the background.

Then the exciting part, putting the snowmen in place, to see if the whole thing would look like it had done in my head ….. it did, I was so chuffed.

Again, there was a bit of a waiting game for the snowmen to dry in position ……

……… before building up several layers of Aleene’s Glitter Snow and adding some tiny, iridescent polystyrene balls (Poundland) to look like snowballs.

The last thing was to fix a tiny, silver screw eye into the top decoration to put the hanging thread through. 

Voila ……… I have made ten so far, but think after counting on my fingers I need to make at least another ten.  My stash of wooden dominoes pieces had gone down rapidly, so as soon as the charity shops open again I am on a mission to find some more.  I have looked in to buying ready cut rectangles but toy dominoes work out an awful lot cheaper, how daft is that?