DIY Cupcake Liner Snowmen

In today’s post: Learn how to turn cupcake liners into adorable paper honeycomb snowmen! This is an easy Christmas craft for adults you can complete in about half an hour.

Easy DIY Christmas Decor

Today’s project is another fun, easy Christmas decor idea! For this one you flatten cupcake liners, fold them in half, and glue a stack together in a way that creates a fun “honeycomb” ball when you open them. It sounds complicated, but it’s super easy! You can use two balls made with different size cupcake liners to create a DIY snowman with a modern feel. I used standard size cupcake liners and jumbo liners to create the larger snowman, which is about 13 inches from top of hat to the bottom:

And then I used standard size liners and mini liners to create a smaller snowman, which is ten inches from top to bottom:

Supplies

Here’s what you’ll need to make cupcake liner snowmen:

• White Cupcake Liners: It’s best to use liners in two different sizes. I got my liners from Walmart and I used the regular size and the jumbo size for the larger snowmen and the regular and the mini size for the smaller snowmen.
• Wood Round: This is used as a base for the snowman to keep it from tipping over. I used wood slices that are about 4 inches across or coaster size. you can find them in the craft section at Walmart or Hobby Lobby.
• Bamboo Skewer: You’ll need one 12 inch bamboo skewer for each snowman.
• Adhesive: You’ll want a hot glue gun and a tape runner to make these snowmen. Tape runners are inexpensive and you can find them in the scrapbook or craft section of most stores.
• Small Snowman Hat: You can make your own hat with scrap fabric if you’d like, but I purchased snowman ornaments from Dollar Tree and pulled the hats off them.
• Sticks for arms
• Fabric or Ribbon for a scarf

You will also need to be able to drill a small hole into the wood round.

Cupcake Liner Snowman Video

Here’s a quick video that shows you how to make the cupcake liner snowmen. You’ll also find detailed instructions and photos below the video, and a printable instruction card at the end of the post.

Fold and Glue Liners

Start with 12 regular and 12 jumbo cupcake liners (or 10 mini and 12 regular liners for a smaller snowman). Flatten out each cupcake liner, then fold it in half and crease. Open the liner back up, and run a strip of adhesive perpendicular to the fold. So if you look at your liner like a clock and the fold goes from 12-6, run a line of adhesive at the 3, only on the crimped part of the liner. Then fold the liner back down to adhere it to itself.

Glue liners in a stack

Once you have 12 liners glued in half, grab one and place it on the table in front of you. This time you will run a short strip of adhesive at the top of the liner (where the 1 would be on a clock) and another short strip at the bottom of the liner (where the 5 would be). The blue boxes on the first photo below show you were the adhesive goes. Then place a second liner directly over the first.

Continue until you have adhered all twelve liner halves together in a stack. At this point, when you grab the outside liners and open them up, you can create a ball. Repeat with a set of larger (12) or smaller (10) cupcake liners.

Make the Base

Drill a small hole in the center of a wood round. Add a bit of hot glue in the hole and place the flat end of a skewer down into the hole. This is the base you will create the snowman around.

Create the Snowman

At this point you have a base as well and two sets of cupcake liners. Starting with the larger set of liners, add adhesive at 1 and 5 to the top of the stack, the same way you did before when making the stack. Then hold the stack with the folds toward you and place hot glue across all the folds, but not all the way to the top and bottom. Immediately press the folds against the skewer.

Working quickly, grab the front and back edges of the liner stack and open it up around the skewer, allowing the folds to get glued around the skewer. Press the top and bottom liners together where the tape runner is to adhere. Fluff out the ball as needed.

Now you will do the same thing with the smaller ball on top! But first, hold the smaller cupcake liners on top of the first ball to measure, and break off the skewer just below where the top ball will end. Repeat the process: first adding adhesive at 1 and 5, then adding hot glue along the folded edges, then opening up the ball around the skewer.

Decorate your Snowman

At this point you can decorate your snowman however you like! I ripped the hat off a Dollar Tree snowman ornaments and glued that on top of my snowman (the hat may come apart when you take it off the ornament, if it does just hot glue it back together). I also cut a strip of flannel fabric to make a scarf, snipping the ends to make them look fringed. Tie the scarf gently so you don’t squash the cupcake liners.

Finally I found a couple small twigs in my yard and hot glued them inside the folds of the bottom ball to make arms.

Here are the finished snowmen: