Cute little snowman
I only drink coffee in the mornings. But I still manage to burn a whole container of creamer every week. And the containers are so nice that I feel guilty just throwing them away. So I thought, and I thought, “What can I do with these things to recycle them?”
This cute little guy is what I came up with. I don’t know what to do with the other 51 containers, but at least I recycled one.
We started with the creamer container, an old toe sock (nice people will not point out how the toe sock dates me…. I’ve had them since my Bay City Rollers days….. LOL!), a couple of bamboo skewers, some buttons, two googly eyes, a bit of orange foam paper shaped like a carrot, a permanent marker, and some glue.
First off, I poked a couple of holes in the sides of the container with the little screwdriver that looks pointy. Then GB pushed the bamboo skewers through the holes, angling them up.
Then he glued on the eyes.
Glued on the nose, and drew a smiley face. Just out of curiosity…. How many of you moms have lefty kids? I’ve noticed in my homeschooling group that there are an awful lot of lefties. Maybe more than coincidental? …. Digressing again…
Then I cut off the top of the sock because it had a nice hemmed edge and it was more interesting that the other parts. And I cut off two of the toes. They became the hat and the mittens. I just wrapped some embroidery string around the top of the ‘hat’ to make a pom-pom. Then we cut along the side of the sock to get a long ’scarf.’ And we cut fringe into the bottom of the scarf. I did the cutting parts because that’s kind of hard for GB. I like his fingers where they are.
See! It’s cute, right? We also added some little red buttons to complete his ensemble.
GB named him Fido………. Don’t ask me……… He’s not very good at coming up with names. I worry for my future grandkids.
That is sooooo cute!
Bay City Rollers? Good Lord, woman are you trying to bring on nightmares? Can’t we just smile and pretend the 80’s never happened? Please?LOL!
Comment by
lapazfarm — December 3, 2007 @ 9:24 pm
What a cute snowman! Wonder if you could donate them along with a picture of your craft to a kindergarten or day care or something. I’m sure someone would jump on that. It’s so cute!
Comment by Jennifer — December 4, 2007 @ 9:40 am
I use up lots of creamer also, so thanks for the idea on how to recycle a container!
Comment by
learningumbrella — December 4, 2007 @ 10:03 am
Oh, that’s so cute! And you’re so creative!!! Too bad we don’t use creamer around here. But, years ago I made a cute snowman out of a sock and styrofoam balls with my mil. Maybe I’ll have to post a photo.
Comment by Dana — December 7, 2007 @ 1:30 pm