Rock Snowman

Messiness: High
Age Range: 4y - 9y
Estimated Time: 1-2 hours

Activity Designer

Melanie
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Create a snowman made out of rocks and decorated with almost anything you can find in your leftover craft supplies.

What You'll Need
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rocks / stones (3) - 3 rocks for each snowman will be needed, large, medium small (the largest being fist size)
acrylic paint - white
googly eyes (2) - 2 for each snowman

hot glue gun - and Elmer's glue for decorations
felt - scrap pieces
markers - to draw eyes and nose

ribbon - optional
buttons - tiny to use for decoration
paper - scrap pieces to make hat or other decorations

sticks (2) - tiny pieces of sticks for arms (2 for each snowman)
paintbrush

How We Did It

My seven-year-old daughter loves to collect things found in nature. One of her favorite things to collect is rocks. We decided to use her collection to make these rock snowmen. First she choose 3 rocks--small, medium, and large.

Then she painted the rocks completely with white acrylic paint. (Be careful to cover your work surface first; newspaper works great for that.) We let the rocks dry for half an hour then I used a glue gun to help my daughter connect the rocks together in a snowman formation. One on top of the other with the largest on the bottom.

Next we gathered up supplies to decorate the snowman. Once we had those supplies, she glued on the googly eyes, then began to create a snow woman. She used some ribbon to create a bow, glued on felt buttons, and made a felt scarf. I helped hot glue to branches to the middle rock.