Kid-Friendly Snowpal Ornaments

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Create cute and colorful snowpal ornaments this holiday! These ornaments are kid-friendly and great for beginner sewers. Grab the free pattern to get started!

Two felt snowman ornaments handsewn by kids with cute fleece scarves.

Hello Crafty Friends and welcome to Day Eight of my annual series 12 Days of Holiday Crafts! Today we’re making these adorable and kid-friendly snowpal ornaments! These are great for beginner sewers and perfect for kids interested in learning how to stitch.

Preparing this craft includes creating pre-punched holes which makes stitching the snowpal together easy with a large plastic needed. While their is a bit of prep that goes into setting up this craft, this time helps make the activity go well for kids, especially if they are sewing for the first time! 

Three felt snowman ornaments lay next to a craft tray filled with buttons, pompoms and fleece.

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Making Snowgirl Ornaments with the Girl Scouts

Last year we made these ornaments with a Girl Scout troop and it was a really fun project for the group. We calle them Snowgirls! It took a bit of time to prepare for a group of ten girls, but it was a great introduction to hand sewing and a cute ornament the girls could keep or gift.

Below you can see how I set up the craft with all of the supplies prepped. The girls were able to go down the table and pick up all of the supplies they needed and put them into a bin to take to their table. I pre-punched the holes in the snowpal body, hat and noses and pre-cut their yarn for stitching the fleece for the scarves. 

This set-up was great and it allowed the kids to pick the colors for the yarn, fleece scarves, pompoms, hats, buttons and more! It’s always fun when you get to choose your own colors for projects and it was cute to see the different combinations of color they created!

The supplies for the snowgirl ornaments are prepared and laid out on a white table.

Making snowgirl ornaments with a Girl Scout troop.

Below is the tutorial for making these cute snowpal ornaments! 

Supplies Needed

Tray of buttons, sheets of felt, tape dispenser, plastic needles, yarn and thread.

Cutting and Preparing the Pieces

Step One: Cut out the pattern pieces and use an 1/8″ hole punch to punch out the holes. 

Pattern pieces are cut out and lay on a black cutting mat.

Step Two: Use the pattern to cut out two felt snowpals, one hat and one nose from felt. 

The snowman pattern is positioned on top of white felt with a pencil laying next to it.

Use the pattern to mark the holes on the felt with pencils. Punch out the holes using an 1/8″ hole punch or eyelet setter. I had better luck using an eyelet setter. I was able to just mark one snowpal and then layer them together and punch through two at one time. The holes were super crisp and since I was able to cut through both layers at once, the holes lined up perfectly. 

The holes are punched using an eyelet punch.

The Pieces Needed for Each Snowpal

Below you can see all of the items needed to make one snowpal ornaments. 

  • 2 snowpal shapes from white felt
  • 1 snowpal hat from colorful felt
  • 1 snowpal nose from orange felt
  • 2 tiny black eye buttons
  • 2 colorful buttons for the front of the snowpal
  • 1 pom pom for the top of the hat
  • 1 strip of fleece for the scarf
  • 1 piece of orange yarn about 6″ threaded in a plastic needle
  • 1 piece of colorful yarn about 32″ threaded in a plastic needle
  • White thread on a needle or hot glue for attaching the buttons

The supplies needed for each snowgirl ornament - the felt snowman shape, the felt hat, a piece of fleece, orange yarn in a plastic needle, blue yarn in a plastic needle and buttons.

Attaching the Buttons

Step Three: Attach the buttons to the top snowpal piece either using hot glue or white thread and a real needle. Some of the kids who are making these ornaments will be ready to sew with a smaller, sharper needle and some won’t. Pick the option that best fits the skill level of the child making the ornament.

The black eye buttons and colorful belly buttons are glued to the snowgirl with a glue gun nearby.

Two black eye buttons and two cute belly buttons are sewn onto the snowgirl.

Adding the Felt Nose

Step Four: Use a small piece of orange yarn to attach the snowpal’s nose. Line up the nose holes with the holes in the snowpal and stitch through the nose then tie a knot on the back. 

An orange felt triangle is attached to the face of the snowman with orange yarn.

Stitch the Snowgirl Together 

Step Five: Use a piece of yarn, in any color, to stitch the two pieces of the snowpal together while also attaching the snowpal’s hat. 

Two felt snowman shapes lay on a black cutting board with a pink felt hat and a piece of blue yarn threaded through a plastic needle.

Start by pulling the threaded needle up through one of the holes on the side of the snowpal ornament, then tape the end of the yarn to the back of the snowpal.

The felt snowgirl ornament with a piece of blue yarn pulled through one of the holes on the side of the snowgirl.

A plastic needle with teal yarn is pulled through one of the holes on the felt snowgirl ornament.

Stitch around the edges of the snowpal using a simple whip stitch, bringing the needle up through each hole. When your stitching gets to the hat make sure you stitch through all three layers to attach the hat while sewing.

The yarn is threaded through the next hole on the snowgirl ornament.

The yarn is continued to be sewn in the snowgirl.

The snowgirl ornament is sewn with blue yarn going through the holes along edges of the snowman.

When the ornament is stitched all the way around tape the end to the back of the ornament. There are definitely ways to hide these ends, but in an effort to not make this too complicated, we decided to just tape the ends on the back and it worked well! 

The blue yarn is taped on the back of the snowman.

The felt snowman ornament is completely sewn around the edges.

Add the Scarf and Pom Pom 

Step Six: Tie the strip of fleece around the snowpal’s neck. Use a piece of colorful yarn to add a hanging loop through the top hole of the hat.

Fleece is wrapped around the neck of the felt snowman as a scarf.

Use hot glue to add a pompom to the top of the hat.

A pom pom is added to the top of the snowman ornament and a loop of purple yarn is added at the top.

The snowpal ornaments are finished! They turned out so cute and are a great beginner sewing project for new sewers! 

Two felt snowman ornaments handsewn by kids with cute fleece scarves.

I hope you enjoyed these cute snowpal ornaments! They are a great craft to do with kids and beginner sewers! If you’re looking for more craft ideas for kids check out my Christmas Kid Craft page. I’ll be back tomorrow with day nine of my series, 12 Days of Holiday Crafts. 

Happy Crafting! -Kim

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