tea Lights Snowman Ornaments

Here’s what you’ll need:

• Battery operated tea lights
• A Black Sharpie
• Red Ribbon (like this and this)
• Red Pipe Cleaners
• Red Pom Poms
• Black Felt
• Orange Sharpie
• Glue Gun

Use the black Sharpie to draw a simple face onto the tea light. You can use googly eyes if you want, but I preferred the look of the black dots.

Cut a piece of red pipe cleaner to approximately 2.5″ long.

Curve it around the tea light and then add a small line of hot glue on both ends to hold it in place. Don’t glue it the entire way around because you’ll need to be able to slide the ribbon under the pipe cleaner later.

Add a generous dab of hot glue where the ears would be and add the pom poms. Now your snowman has ear muffs!

Cut out a piece of ribbon to be approximately 4.5″ long. Then cross it over itself like in the picture below and add a small dab of hot glue to hold it together. I found this was the best way to make the ribbon look like a scarf.

Add a small line of glue to the back of the “scarf”

And then glue it to the back of the tea light like in this picture:

Then tie a tiny knot in the ribbon to keep it together.

he tea light flame is white when it’s turned off so you’ll probably want to color it orange with a marker to make it look like a carrot, even when the tea light is turned off.

I definitely recommend using an orange Sharpie for this next part. I didn’t have one, so I had to resort to using one of the kids Crayola markers. It worked for the time being, but it rubs off really easily, so it’s not going to last very long.

Here’s the finished snowman with the ear muffs. So cute!

Since a little variety is always fun, I also made a little snowman with a top hat. I cut a strip of black felt to be approximately 1-1/4″ wide. And then I cut pieces like in the photo below. The ribbon is just a scrap of gift wrapping ribbon I had.

Glue the hat together with some hot glue, so you end up with something like this:

Here’s how the collection looked with the flames turned off. I think the noses would be a much better orange color if I had used an orange Sharpie instead of a Crayola marker.

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