Wooden Snowmen

I come from a small farming community just over an hour outside of Calgary.  Every year for forever our town has hosted a Turkey supper at the beginning of November.  Along with this we have a Bazaar.  My church always has a candy and craft table.  One year one of the farmers ripped up an entire section of fencing and had all these wooden posts that he didn't know what to do with.  His wife came up with the idea of making them into little snowmen and selling them at the Bazaar.  These snowmen are really easy to make.  We even went a step further and grouped them into little family's as well.

To make these snowmen you will need:
-pieces of wood (as many as is in your family) it doesn't have to be fence posts (about two feet high and varying sizes)
-white and black paint
-some old plaid material
-orange cloth (for the nose)
-some buttons
-nails
-some old wool socks

First you have to paint the wood white.  We only did one coat so you could still see the wood through it but you can put on as many coats as you want.  Taking the old wool socks you want to cut the toes off and use them as a toque for the snow men.  The old plaid material is for the scarves of the snowmen.  You can cut the material and tie it on however you want.  I suggest hot glue gunning the toque and scarf onto the snowman so that they don't fall off.  You can then take a couple of the buttons and nail them onto the snowman.  You can then paint black eyes and a smile on to your snowman.  To make the nose you first have to hammer a nail into the post where you want the nose to be.  Then cutting a triangular piece out of the orange material hot glue the material onto the nail so that they snowman has what looks like a carrot nose.  If you have done a family snowmen what we did was use barb wire and looped it around the little family.  You can use whatever you want or you don't have to tie them together.  I wish I was at home so I could show you what mine looks like but here is a similar one that I found on Pinterest.

They are so cute for winter and you can put them outside or keep them inside.  Its up to you!