Wire Basket Snowman - Create Make Decorate with Nikki

If you like a unique craft that is a little outside of the box, this craft is for you. I am about to show you how to take a few wire baskets from the Dollar Tree and turn them into a cute, little Wire Basket Snowman.

If you love snowmen, this guy is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face. It takes a little creativity and imagination, so if you are ready…let’s get started!

Here is what you’ll need:

2 large and 2 small wire baskets from The Dollar Tree
wire
E6000
Glue gun
Polyfil stuffing
Black top hat
Large wiggle eyes
Embellishments… ribbon, snowflakes, felt for buttons, black buttons or whatever you can think of to decorate your snowman.

How to make a Wire Basket Snowman

I picked up these wire baskets over at the Dollar Tree and after looking at them for a minute, I thought they would be perfect to make a snowman!

I grabbed some polyfil and placed it inside of the baskets to create the look of snow.

To assemble the body of the wire basket snowman, I took some E6000 and hot glue and stacked the two large ones together and the two small ones together. The hot glue will give a quick hold and the E6000 will give it a permanent hold.

For added reinforcement, I decided to take some flexible floral wire and weave the wire through the baskets. This step can be optional, but I didn’t want to wait for the E6000 to sit overnight. I tend to get a little impatient when I craft! Anyone else?

I continued this process on both of the baskets.

Next, I hot glued the smaller baskets on top of the larger ones.

Tada… we have a snowman body! How cool right? Now onto the super fun part of decorating him.

Time to bring him to life!!

I picked up a pair of buffalo plaid pajama pants and the top hat over at the 99 Cent Store for exactly that…99 Cents each. The glitter felt was left over from another project.

I cut the glitter felt into circles for the snowman’s buttons. Next, I grabbed some ribbon to create a bow for the hat.

For his scarf, I cut a piece of the pajama pants and wrapped it around his neck and secured it with hot glue.

I added some wiggle eyes and one of these carrots that I picked up over at the Dollar Tree during Easter for his nose.

Little black buttons from the Dollar Tree made a perfect mouth.

To finish it up and to hide the wire on the bottom baskets, I took some polyfil and hot glued it on around the base.

For the arms, I went into my yard and cut a few branches off a tree and hot glued them to the basket.

Here it is all finished! How stinkin cute is he? I just LOVE how this wire basket snowman turned out.

I made another wire basket snowman and decided to add lights and no polyfil. Which do one do you like best?

I definitely like the way both turned out! I will be adding some lights to the other one for sure. Just in case you are wondering, I placed the battery pack underneath the top hat. I didn’t glue the hats down, so I can change out the batteries when needed.

I hope that you enjoyed this project! Let me know if you will be adding this project to your list of Christmas crafts. I sure hope that you do!

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