Both snowmen and blistering cocoa fist a cherished corner in the minds of many general public as comforting winter traditions. Storing your cocoa in a container that looks alike a snowman is a witty means to drink in some seasonal charm. Using some polymer clay and a sporadic connatural twigs, you can make your own snowman-shaped mason jar that's ethical as becoming in your own cookhouse as it is for a holiday alms to a amigo or family member.
Instructions
1. Establish the twigs soaking in dish of irrigate. This Testament control them from scorching when they're baked with the polymer clay following.
2. Spray tint the mason jar. Seperate the lid and jar, facing them with their insides down. Spray and let dry according to the directions on the colouring can.
3. Fashion the two "snowballs" for the Centre and top of the snowman. Accomplish one ball from approximately 1/3 Mug of bloodless polymer clay and the other from approximately half as still clay.
4. Stack the two snowball shapes calm. Incorporate a Toothbrush in the larger ball and skewer the smaller ball on this to associate them securely. Pull a small amount of orange clay (about the size of a pea) and form it into a conical shape. Press this into the middle of the snowman's face.7. Make a top hat for the snowman.
Call slightly smaller lumps to form a half-circle mouth. Leave space for a nose between them.
6. Press the backside of the snowman against your work station to flatten it.5. Pinch off little lumps of charcoal polymer clay and press these into the side of the "attitude" snowball to compose two eyes.
Form about a 1/4-tsp. sized piece of black clay into a disc by rolling into a ball, then flattening it. Make the top column of the hat by making a ball from a 1/2-tsp.-sized piece, then rolling it into a short, fat coil. Press the two ends of the coil against your work surface to flatten them, then press this piece on top of the disc.
8. Insert the two twigs into the sides of the snowman's body section for the arms.
9. Bake the snowman according to the instructions on the package of polymer clay.
10. Use a strong craft glue, epoxy or cyanoacrylate adhesive to glue the flat bottom of the snowman shape to the top of the mason jar lid. Screw the lid onto the jar when the glue is fully cured.
