Easy Flower Pot Snowman and Santa with Video
Do you want to make an easy flower pot snowman and Santa? I’m at it again with more clay pot crafts. Today I am making holiday decor with terra cotta pots! This time… Santa and a Snowman. These are inexpensive projects for a fun Christmas craft that the whole family will enjoy. This is a great craft that uses simple supplies you can find at any craft store. Most garden supply stores will have clay flower pots. These festive characters will also make fun gifts at Christmas time or are just a great addition to your holiday decoration. I had so much fun making these flower clay pot characters, so, let’s get started!
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Flower Pot Snowman and Santa Materials
For both the Santa and Snowman craft I started with two different sizes of terra cotta clay pots, 4 and 10 inch.
Flower pot snowman and Santa instructions
Santa – I painted 3 Apple Barrel Red and 1 of them with Apple Barrel Black around the top for the belt. I painted the last one with Waverly Paint in the color Ballet Slipper.
Snowman – I painted 3 of them with Apple Barrel White paint and one with Folk Art Chalkboard paint.
Once the paint dried, I used silicone to put them together in this shape.
Santa – I painted a belt buckle using Folk Art Treasure Gold paint. I used a long piece of batting/snow that I found at Dollar Tree and glued it under the belt.
I glued more of the snow/batting on the top for his hat.
I added a little Mod Podge and glued one last section of batting/snow to his chest.
I used a hot glue gun to attach fake cobwebs for hair, beard, mustache, and eyebrows. I drew his eyes and nose, as well as gave him rosy cheeks with a pink crayon.
Snowman – I painted the white part of the snowman with sparkle Mod Podge.
I hot glued on some white ribbon to cover one of the seams, and I hot glued on 3 snowflake ornaments as the “buttons”.
I hot glued on red ribbon onto the hat.
I hot glued on 2 buttons for eyes, and I drew on a carrot nose and smiley face.
I added a scarf to his neck. I also added 2 ball solar lights to the top of each Santa and the Snowman.
Other tips:
- Acrylic paint is great because it cleans up easily with water
- I love my hot glue guns and I have different temperatures that range from cool glue to hot glue. These are great when working with kids so they do not burn themselves while making this cute craft
- If you want you can create a snowman planter by omitting the top flower pot.
- You could use a plastic bucket instead of a terra cotta pot
- I have several other snowman projects that you might want to check out. This can be a great winter craft that can stay up all season long.
- You can learn about the history of the snowman
Flower Pot Snowman and Santa vIDEO
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I absolutely LOVE snowmen, so I am definitely going to make a couple of these guys! Adorable! You are so creative and love your ideas! PS: So happy your surgery was a success! Keeping you in prayer.
Thank you so much for everything and I am so very excited you want to make some of these. Please send me pictures 🙂
These would be perfect for the grand and great grand kids I have18 of each.
Congrats on the grandkids and I love that idea!
Super cute project. Love your Creativity. I am happy to feature your santa and snowman on Sunday at Love Your Creativity. Merry Christmas
Thank you so much Linda for the kind words and feature. I’ll see you at the next party.
This is such a cute idea Chas. I shared on my weekly post today.
Thank you so much Kim, you are just so very sweet to share with your followers.
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Thank you for sharing at #OverTheMoon. Pinned and shared. Have a lovely week. I hope to see you at next week’s party too! Please stay safe and healthy. Come party with us at Over The Moon! Catapult your content Over The Moon! @marilyn_lesniak @EclecticRedBarn
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Thank you so much Marilyn, I hope you are having a great weekend.
These look so cute Chas! Thank you for sharing them at #OverTheMoon. I hope to see you again next week.
Thank you so much Marilyn, and thanks for a wonderful party.
These are SO cute! I think my grands would love making these next year! I might try the nutcrackers myself! I could see making little miniatures of these for a cute tablescape! Can’t you see little snowmen dancing down the middle of my table?!
Thank you so much Chloe! I totally see that and you can make them with the dollar store flower pots 🙂
The flower pot snowman is great. I’ve bought enough pots to make as Christmas gifts but where did you get the little scarves with the pom poms?
Thanks Micky and I found them at Dollar Tree. I’m sure they’ll be coming out soon.