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October 30, 2019

Toilet Paper Snowmen {Easy Christmas Craft}

In today’s post: Turn rolls of toilet paper into a cute snowman decoration!

Last fall I posted a fabric pumpkins made from rolls of toilet paper and it ended up being my most popular post of the season. When I shared them on Facebook this year, one of my readers suggested making a snowman version. GENIUS!! I wish I could remember who suggested it so I could thank her.

Today I’m showing you how to use the same easy technique to turn rolls of toilet paper and some fabric into adorable snowmen.

These adorable snowmen are made from rolls of toilet paper! Cute, easy Christmas craft.

Toilet Paper Snowmen

This is a great craft for a couple reasons:

  • It’s so easy, it’s pretty much impossible to mess up
  • You can customize the hat and scarf colors to match your decor
  • If you don’t want to keep the snowmen for next year, just take them apart and you can still use the TP!

I have a video below that shows you exactly how to make this cute Christmas craft.

The body of the snowman is just fabric wrapped around toilet paper rolls, and then I’ll show you how to make a simple hat and scarf from a small cut of plaid fleece. You can sew the hat together with just one seam – or you can make life even easier and use a glue gun instead of sewing.

Or skip the hat altogether and use earmuffs from the dollar store instead:

Snowman made from two rolls of toilet paper with fleece scarf and earmuffs

Toilet Paper Snowman Supplies

To make easy snowman, you will need:

Two rolls of toilet paper: I used mega rolls so the snowmen would be nice and fat

Ten inches of fleece: This is just under 1/3 of a yard. Fleece is often on sale for $3-4 a yard this time of year.

Two 18-inch squares of white fabric: I used inexpensive tea towels that I found at Walmart for 5 for $5. You could also purchase 1/2 yard of cheap white fabric (flannel or broadcloth works well).

Two buttons (optional)

Glue gun: If you don’t want to glue your snowmen together you don’t have to! You can just set the head on top of the body. It won’t be as stable, but if it’s not going to get bumped it shouldn’t matter. This would allow you to reuse the white fabric squares if you’d like – if so, pin the buttons on instead of gluing them.

Small Christmas pick or other decoration (optional)

These adorable snowmen are made from rolls of toilet paper! Cute, easy Christmas craft.

How to Make a Toilet Paper Snowman VIDEO

Watch this video to see how I made the snowman (written instructions follow).

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Make the Snowman’s head

1 – Place an 18×18 inch square of white fabric on a flat surface. Place one roll of toilet paper in the middle of the fabric. Unroll the toilet paper about 14 times and rip the paper off and set aside. Unroll the toilet paper 3-4 more times, but then loosely roll that paper back around the roll, twisting it as you do so. This will make the head a little bit round.

How to make a toilet paper snowman

2 – Pull up each corner of the fabric and tuck it inside the toilet paper roll. It can be helpful to use a pencil when tucking the fabric in.

White fabric wrapped around roll of toilet paper; hands using a pencil to stuff excess fabric inside toilet paper roll

Make the Snowman’s body

1 – Place the other 18×18 inch square of white fabric on a flat surface. Place the other roll of toilet paper in the middle of the fabric. Grab the extra toilet paper that you set aside and begin loosely rolling it around the TP roll, twisting it as you do so. Keep rolling it up until the TP roll looks nice and fluffy.

2 – Pull up each corner of the fabric and tuck it inside the toilet paper roll, as you did with the head. The body should be fatter and rounder then the head.

3 – Glue two buttons to the front of the body.

4 – Glue the head onto the body.

Two rolls of toilet paper wrapped in white fabric stacked atop each other with two black buttons on the lower roll

Make the hat + scarf

1 – Cut fleece pieces:

  • Hat: 16 inches wide by 10 inches high
  • Tie for hat: 12 inches wide by .75 inches high
  • Scarf: 26 inches wide by 2 inches high

2 – Make hat:

  • Place hat fabric with right side down. Fold in one side and run hot glue down the short edge.
  • Fold over the other side and overlap hot glue to create a tube.
  • Cut fringe 2-3 inches into the top of the hat
  • Gather hat together just below fringe and tie with tie piece
  • Fold up bottom edge to create a cuff.

How to make a hat for a toilet paper snowman Christmas craft.

3 – Cut a fringe into the short ends of the scarf piece.

4 – Put the hat and scarf on the snowman. Add a small Christmas pick if desired.

All done and ready to display:

Snowman craft made from two rolls of toilet paper wrapped in white fabric with fleece scarf and hat

Looking for more fun Christmas crafts? Visit these posts:

Wood slice Snowman Ornament

How to cut a Snowflake

Cinnamon Applesauce Christmas Ornaments

How to make Personalized Photo Candles

These adorable snowmen are made from rolls of toilet paper! Cute, easy Christmas craft.

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  1. Sondra says

    November 6, 2020 at 7:49 pm

    I was curious about the measurements for the hat and scarf for the snowman. Under the list of supplies it says you need 10 inches of fleece or a little under 1/3 yard. But on the step by step instructions the measurements are more than 10 inches.

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  2. Shelly clemens says

    November 12, 2020 at 12:21 pm

    Where did you purchase the fleece?

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  3. Kristen says

    November 16, 2020 at 10:34 pm

    Love this. Every year I make a Christmas gift for all my friends a family. This is going to be this year’s gift. I’ve made three already and they’re super easy. I wanted them to be useful so I used the recommended tea towels instead of pieces of fabric. I also got individually wrapped toilet paper so used tissue paper to fluff up around the rolls. Instead of fleece for the hat and scarf, I used a beanie (it fits perfectly) and some scrap fabric I had for the scarf. Last, I didn’t want to use hot glue so I got a tagged online and I’m using that to tack everything in place.

    Thank you for sharing your project. It’s perfect for a COVID Christmas gift.

    Reply
  4. Carrie Copus says

    November 18, 2020 at 12:35 pm

    Can you tell me the size of the wood that you put your snowmen on? Thank you

    Reply
    • Patricia A Potter says

      December 4, 2020 at 4:14 am

      I used a 6 to 6.3 inch round on Amazon…They have them in 5 or 6 packs…

      Reply
  5. Patricia A Potter says

    November 20, 2020 at 5:27 am

    Hi, I love these snowmen and everytime I give one away they ask me where is the face…Can you help me on how to put a face on?

    Reply
  6. Patricia A Potter says

    December 4, 2020 at 4:15 am

    I used a 6 to 6.3 inch round on Amazon…They have them in 5 or 6 packs…

    Reply

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