First, we gathered our materials: a (brand new) white tube sock, a big bag of rice, rubber bands, different colored scraps of felt, buttons, cotton balls, pipe cleaners, and our trusty little hot glue gun.
The Sooy kids took turns scooping rice into the sock while Mommy held the top of the sock open (this was hard work because it turned out I picked up a pair of compression/support socks - wow, my arms were tired the next day!):
After filling the sock a little over 2/3 full, Mommy tied off the bottom portion with a rubber band. And then the kids scooped some more rice into the sock and Mommy tied that portion off to make the middle.
For the top, we stuffed the sock with cotton balls until we were happy with shape of the snowman's head.
Then we got busy decorating - Mommy traced out shapes for the cape and the Superman emblem and Sean cut them out. Clare added the pipe cleaner arms.
And then Clare took a picture:
Sean and Clare picked out buttons to use the eyes, nose, and mouth, Then Sean cut up little strips of black felt for the hair. And then Sean cut up red felt to make his little boots :-)
After everything had been hot glued into place (and then hot glued again to ensure the snowman could handle a bus ride while stuffed into Sean's backpack), the kids were proud to show off their creation: Super-Snowman!
