Snowman Hot Chocolate

These little snowmen are fun and easy to make, and you can reuse them.

You could use any size jar but it will take quite a lot of supplies to fill anything bigger than baby food jars.

For One Snowman

3 baby food jars and lids, clean, with labels removed

Hot chocolate mix

Mini marshmallows

Candies – choose ones small enough to fit a bunch in the jar

Eyes: chocolate chips and dab of white icing

Arms: small twigs

Felt (or any scrap fabric) for scarf and mitts

Embroidery floss for mitten strings

Star sequins to decorate mitts and scarf

Polymer clay (orange) for carrot nose. You could also use orange beads, twigs, or anything else that looks nose-ish. Or paint them on.

Mini candy canes for buttons and hats

Santa hat

TOOLS

Marking pen for glass (black) for button mouth

Hot glue gun with glue sticks

Snippers for cutting twigs

Scissors for cutting felt

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You need 9 jars (below) to make three snowmen total. You can dress jars with your own ideas. The list of requirements above is for the picture just above here, the picture at the beginning of the recipe maybe easier to put together. Have fun coming up with new ideas.

1. Fill jars with marshmallows, hot chocolate powder, and candies.

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2. Hot glue the eyes and nose onto the marshmallow jar. As above.

If using chocolate chips for eyes, let the glue cool a few seconds before applying. Unless you want them melt.

If you don’t want to make a nose out of polymer clay, you can always draw one on the jar with a marking pen for glass.

3. Dab a bit of white icing or paint to give the eyes detail. As above.

Often it’s easier to use the wrong end of paint brush for tasks like this.

4. Apply twig arms with hot glue.

Cut the twigs on an angle (as shown below) for a better seal with on the jar the hot glue.

5. Prepare scarf and mittens

you can apply star sequins to the scarf using hot glue

you could also add a star to hide the hot glue attaching each mitten to the embroidery floss

Fold the scarf in half lengthwise and glue it shut to make it thicker

measure how long you want the scarf first before cutting the felt

6. Hot glue the jars together

Decide if you want the jars upside-down or right-side-up. The lids on top can give the look of the brim of a stove-pipe hat.

I chose upside-down because I like the marshmallows showing on top of their heads.

7. Add rest of decorations

Break up mini candy canes (carefully), keeping them in their wrappers to form little round hats. Or halos. Depending on how you look at it.

Broken candy cane pieces are used for the buttons.

If you’re giving them away, be sure to provide mixing instructions for the hot chocolate mix.