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Snowman made from cupcake liners.
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Cupcake Liner Snowmen

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.
Prep Time30 minutes

Equipment

  • Drill
  • Hot Glue Gun
  • Tape Runner

Ingredients

  • White Cupcake Liners in two sizes
  • 4 inch Wood Round
  • 12 inch Bamboo Skewer
  • Snowman Hat
  • Fabric Strip or Ribbon
  • Twigs

Instructions

  • Flatten out 12 cupcake liners. Fold each one in half. Open it back up, and add tape runner adhesive perpendicular to the fold on the crimped section only. Fold it back down and press to adhere.
    Folding cupcake liner in half and securing with adhesive.
  • Add a short strip of adhesive near the top of the folded liner and again at the bottom, as shown by the blue rectangles in the photo (at 1 and 5 on a clock). Place a second liner directly over the first and press to adhere.
    Adding adhesive to liner halves, securing together.
  • Continue until you have a stack of all twelve liners. At this point you could open it up to create a ball. Repeat with the other size cupcake liners you are using (if you are using mini liners, you only need 10, not 12).
    Opening up cupcake liners to create honeycomb sphere.
  • Make a base by drilling a small hole in the center of the wood round and gluing the flat end of the skewer into it.
    Gluing a skewer into a hole in the center of a wood round.
  • Starting with the larger liner stack, add tape runner adhesive on the top liner at 1 and 5 like you did previously to create 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.
    Gluing the liners around 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.
    Opening up the liners around the skewer to make the bottom of the snowman.
  • You'll repeat this process for the top ball, but first, measure how high it will go and cut or break off the skewer just below that point. Then repeat the process: add tape runner adhesive at 1 and 5, add hot glue on the folds, press folds to skewer, open up ball around skewer and press outside liners to adhere.
    Gluing second set of liners onto the skewer.
  • This creates the body of the snowman. At this point you can decorate it however you like. Glue a hat on top, and gently tie on a scarf made from ribbon or a strip of flannel fabric.
    Adding hat and scarf to snowman.
  • Glue on twigs for arms and your cupcake liner snowman are complete!
    Cupcake liner snowmen.