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DIY No Sew Snowman Pillow Christmas Decoration For The Home

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Let's make some snowman pillow Christmas decorations for your home or as gifts to others! Making a snowman pillow is a great project for older kids as a club activity and the items could be donated to dress up a nursing home or firehouse for the Christmas Season! Or, you could make these and sell them on Etsy.

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What You Will Need

    • Old sweater, you could re-purpose or upcycle a favorite and beloved sweater that may have a stain, rip or hole in part of it.  Be sure it is freshly laundered!
    • Old orange clothing, same condition as above, can be tiny as it is for the nose
    • Hot glue gun
    • Hot glue sticks
    • White cotton flannel cloth
    • Fabric Scissors
    • Black buttons for eyes and mouth
    • Pencil, chop stick or stuffing tool (these often come in your bag of Poly-Fil)
    • Polyester Fiber Fill (you don't need much for one – I show a big bag because that's how I buy it)
Snowman pillows can be stuffed with the original poly-fil fiber fill
The Original Poly-Fil to stuff pillows with

Cut The Sweater Arm (if possible)

See if you can find an arm on the sweater with no stains, rips or holes.  Cut it off so that it is a little longer than you want it as you will lose a little length when you fold each end inward and glue it.

Snowman Pillow From a Re-Purposed Or Upcyled Sweater arm
An arm of a sweater being cut to make a snowman pillow.

 

Find Some Orange Material And Cut It Into A Carrot Nose

It's okay if your piece of material is stained all over on one side!  This sweatshirt has glitter paint on the outside.  But that's okay because I want my carrot nose to be fuzzy so I am going to use the inside of the shirt.

Snowman Pillow stained orange sweatshirt to use for the nose
A nail polish stained shirt to be re-purposed into a snowman pillow

Cut a small rectangle out of the fabric.  I know it doesn't make sense cutting a rectangle to get a triangle shape, but stay with me.

Snowman pillow piece cut from an orange sweatshirt to make the nose
A piece of an orange sweatshirt to use to make a snowman pillow.

Now cut from one corner diagonally over to the other to have the type of triangle we want to work with.

Snowman Pillow cutting orange fabric for the snowman nose
A scissor cuts the square diagonally to shape the perfect nose for your snowman.

Now take one of those triangles and round out the large end of the triangle to make it look carrot shaped like this.

How To Make A Carrot Nose For A Snowman Pillow Out Of Orange Sweatshirt Material
Round the edges of the large side of the triangle to look like this.

Prepare The Snowman Face

Cut your white cotton flannel cloth into the shape of a circle.  You could turn a glass with about a 3 to 3.5 inch rim upside down and trace around it or just cut it to look like a rough circle.  To create a hygge sort of feeling in your home, you don't want it to be 100% perfect, you may want it to look comfortable, relaxed, like you can touch or squish it and have fun and be happy, not a sterile, perfect, afraid to touch it feeling.

Warm up your hot glue gun with a glue stick in it.  Hot glue the eyes and mouth onto your snowman face similar to this.

Make A Snowman Pillow Face Applique white circle with button eyes and mouth
A snowman face with button eyes and mouth that were hot glued onto the fabric.

Now add the carrot nose with the fuzzy side sticking up.

Snowman pillow face with eyes nose mouth hot glued on
Snowman face with nose hot glued into place.

 

Get The Pillow Ready

Turn your sweater arm inside out and open one end of the arm and apply hot glue as shown, then close them together.

This Is How To Make A Christmas Snowman Pillow with hot glue in one end of the sweater arm
Hot glue one end of the sweater arm shut

On the other end of the sweater arm, glue a line that leaves an open space in the middle to provide a space to turn the arm right side out and leave a hole for stuffing to go into.

Make A Homemade Snowman Pillow Christmas Decoration To Give To Someone You Love with hot glue and old sweater hand made
When hot gluing this end of the sweater arm, leave a hole in the center so you have a place to put the stuffing.

After the glue has cooled, turn the sweater right side out.  Take your stuffing tool, pencil or chop stick and poke the corners out as shown.

Surprise Your Family And Save Money With These Cute DIY Snowman Pillows pillow turned right side out with stuffing tool
Poke out the corners of the pillow with a stuffing tool, pencil or chop stick.

Push the Poly-Fil into the pillow with your hands or stuffing tool.  Hold on to the end with the hole and give it a good slap or shake to get some of the stuffing in there farther or push it with your fingers or tool.  You determine how thick you want it to be.

Make Your Own Snowman Pillows For Christmas Gifts stuff with poly fil fiber fill
Stuffing the snowman pillow with poly-fil

Now, this is the hard part (have an adult do this part if this is a club activity) and you need to take care to not get burned.  Push the stuffing down inside of your pillow and fold in the sides of the open hole.  Put hot glue on it and push it down inward a bit with the nozzle of your hot glue gun (do not touch the glue with your fingers!)  Then pinch the fabric together so hardly any glue shows on the outside.  It is tricky, but again, this doesn't have to be PERFECT, it is handmade and touchable.

How To Hot Glue A Christmas Snowman Pillow So You Don't Have To Sew It glue gun hand holding material
Carefully put glue where the hole is, keeping in mind you will have to pinch this shut with cut seams on the inside.

It should end up looking roughly like this:

Snowman pillow sitting on a tote waiting for face to be glued on
The stuffed pillow waiting for the snowman face to go on.

Add The Snowman Face

Now take your face and turn it upside down in your hand and add the hot glue, then turn it in the right direction and place it on your pillow where you want it, do not adjust it or you will have a mess!  Do this quickly or it will start burning your hand through the fabric.

Snowman pillow face with glue on the back about to be attached to the pillow
What the glue looks like on the back of the snowman face.

It should look like this:

Make a Holiday Snowman Pillow completed work example
The snowman face after being hot glued to the pillow.

 

This is your finished product!  Isn't it cute?

DIY Snowman Pillow To Make Without Sewing example of completed work
A finished snowman pillow resting on a recliner chair.

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