Cut the paper snowman outline, then place it on a piece of white felt. Use your pen to trace the outline of the snowman onto the felt, then cut it out with the scissors. Trace another snowman outline onto a second piece of felt and cut that one out too. You should now have two identical snowman outlines.
Cut out five small circles from the piece of black felt. These will form the snowman’s eyes, along with his three coal buttons. Cut out a small triangle from the orange felt. This will form the carrot for the snowman’s nose. Cut out two stick shapes from the brown felt. These will be the snowman’s arms.
Take the two white felt body pieces and line them up, placing the piece with the sewn-on features on top. Take the brown felt arms and place them between the two body pieces, sticking out at an angle. Take the length of white ribbon, fold it over, and insert the end between the two body pieces at the top of the snowman’s head. This will form the hanging loop for the finished ornament.
As you’re stitching, make sure to catch both of the snowman’s arms and the looped thread in a stitch, in order to secure them in place. Don’t stitch the entire snowman closed just yet; leave a space of about 1⁄2 inch (1. 3 cm) to an inch open at the bottom.
This may sound strange, but this is what allows the glitter to stick to the inside of the ball. Just make sure the product you use is acrylic based and clear drying. Gently swirl the product around the inside of the ornament, making sure the entire inside surface is coated in floor wax. Once you’re done, you can pour the floor wax back into the bottle. Waste not, want not!
You can choose any colors you like –gold, silver, red, blue, green, purple – whichever ones go with the color scheme for your tree. If you want to be really wild, you could even try mixing a few different colors for a real disco ball effect.
Take two of the glued-together pieces and align the flattened edges at the top to form a right-angle. Attach two more pieces to form an X shape. Take the remaining four glued-together pieces and stick one in between each right angle. You should now have a snowflake.
