Snowman

The record for the world's largest snowman was set in February 1999 in Bethel, Maine. The snowman was named "Angus, King of the Mountain" in honor of the then current governor of Maine, Angus King. It was 113 feet, 7 inches tall and weighed over 9,000,001 pounds.

This record was broken in 2008 when the world's largest snow-woman was constructed, again, in Bethel, Maine. She stood 122 ft, 1 in tall, and was named in honor of Olympia Snowe, a U.S. Senator representing Maine.

Materials Needed:

Ivy Bowl
Paint
String of Lights
5" Felt Hat
Craft Foam
Black Marker
Fabric Scarf
Snowflake Button
Craft Glue

Sponge paint the outside of the ivy bowl using white glass paint of acrylic paint covered with clear acrylic sealer. let it dry.
Turn it upside down. Paint on black eyes and a mouth, let dry.

Cut a small tirangle out of orange craft foam to look like a carrot nose. Use a thin black marker to make stitch-type lines around the nose. Glue in place.

Glue a fabric strip and button onto 5" felt hat. Glue felt hat onto ivy bowl. Tie a fabric piece around the rim of the ivy bowl to look like a scarf; glue to secure.

Put a string of white lites underneath the ivy bowl with the cord sticking out towards the back in one of the grooves. Plug in when needed.

6 white or silvery-white glass ornament balls
acrylic paint in black, pink, and orange
scraps of fabric
4 pairs of pom poms, your choice of colors
2- 14" long strips cut from flannel or an old scarf
craft or hot glue
small paint brush

Faces
Using paint brush and black paint, paint on simple dot eyes and mouths. Use orange paint to give each snowman a nose, and botch on pink paint for cheeks.

Earmuffs
Using scraps of solid colored fabric, fashion headband for earmuffs, glue in place across top of ornament, just below the top of the ornament. Glue pom poms at each end of the headband to form earmuffs.

Scarved Snowmen
For the snowmen that are wearing scarves, follow instructions above for faces. Next, at the middle of the strip of scarf, glue to the top of the ornament, above the snowman's eyes. Carefully glue in place, working your way around the face on both sides until both ends meet near the bottom of the ornament. Tie together and glue any areas that are out of place.

Your kids will have so much fun makeing these
cupcakes. Make your favorite cupcake recipe let
the cupcakes cool . Ice your cupcakes in your
favorite white iceing. You will need
Large Marshmallows
pretzle sticks
Black decorators gel
fruit roll ups
thin mints
junior mints
orange slice candy

Frost a cooled cupcake (baked from your favorite recipe) with white icing. Flatten a large marshmallow on waxed paper with the palm of your hand. Cut a second marshmallow in half horizontally, then stack the halves on the first marshmallow to form a torso and head.

Push a small pretzel stick down the center of the snowman, this will help him stand up and stay together.

Use your decorators gel to make a mouth , eyes
and buttons. Then add your pretzel stick arms
and cut a wedge from the orange slice to make
him a nose

Use the fruit roll up to make him a scarf and
use the junior mint secured to the thin mint
to make him a hat. {To secure the two use iceing.}

Now will you have some cute cupcakes for the holidays and your kids will love makeing them.

My love of snowmen even extends into cool books i love to read my kids. I have a top recomendation to all of you. I would love to share. A book called Snowmen at night , by Caralyn Buehner.Not since Frosty paraded through the village square have snowmen enjoyed such a slip-sliding good time as they do in the Buehners latest flight of fancy.When a boy observes that the snowman he built the day before now looks droopy and disheveled, he imagines what happened to his snow creation during the night. Soon the boy pictures all the neighborhood snowmen gathered in the park for "ice-cold cocoa," a snowball fight, a round of making snow angels and more. Surely a full night of play and a long glide back to their homes must be the explanation. Children will like being in on the secret here and eagle-eye readers will relish finding hidden figures in the shadows, clouds and snowdrifts. You trully will enjoy this book...and so will your kids.