by Beatrix Kiddo

Created on: November 10, 2009

The clay pot can be used to create various Christmas crafts from a Christmas clay pot snowman, holiday pen and pencil holder, decorative candy cane cup, clay pot water or snow gauge, personalized photo coin cup, Christmas planter or mini-tree decor, or a Christmas silver bell without the use of any paints. These easy step-by-step Christmas crafts using clay pots can actually serve as great Christmas gifts and can be created by young children as well as adults. Please use adult supervision when needed.

Highly Recommended Clay Pot Snowman:

Items needed would be one clay pot, standard glue, one piece of black construction paper, one small pack of white snow flakes (found at most craft stores), one round Styrofoam ball (also found at craft stores), one sheet of newspaper, one small to medium paint brush, one long brown pipe cleaner that is easy to bend, 5 small black beads (snowman's eyes and buttons), one 1" of black yarn, scissors, and one orange cone shaped bead (found at craft stores).

First you will begin at the body. You will take the glue and spread it all over the outside of the clay pot by using the paint brush. Make sure you do this over the newspaper. Then sprinkle the white snow flakes all over the glue. Make sure that you place three black beads on the "front" of your snowman to display buttons going down the front. You simply press the black beads lightly into the snow as the excess glue should allow them to stick to the clay pot. If you need more glue simply glue three beads of glue where you plan on sticking the three black beads. Allow to dry.

Next you will focus on the head of the snowman. Lay the round ball onto the newspaper against an object such as the side of a book so that it does not roll away. Place a bead of glue where the eyes would be and place a black bead onto the glue then put a bead of glue where the nose should be and place the nose "bead" onto that section. Take a very small amount of glue and stick the yarn onto where the mouth should be. Allow to dry.

While this is drying you can work on the top hat. You can create your very own black hat for a snowman by using black construction paper. How? First you cut two small circles and then one strip that would measure around one of the circles. Glue the long strip between each circles so that you created a small round shape with flat top and bottom. Allow to dry. Cut a larger circle out of the construction paper and glue the already created shape on top of it. You have created your

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