Dollhouse Miniature Snowman Porch Sign

 

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I was looking at various home decor sites the other day and saw a couple of adorable snowmen signs to put on the front porch of a real house. They were so cute I just had to make a mini version for today's tutorial.

This is a really easy and quick project and I tried to do my best to design it in such a way that you can use what you have on hand. The items I used were all in my stash of wood shapes, if you don't have the exact ones use something close in size. My circles are made of wood only because I have some of different sizes rattling around in my bin of stuff I want to get used up. If you don't have these you could use anything of about the same size, even cut some from some heavy card-stock should work just fine.

I started with 3 circles (½”, ¾” and ⅞” ) I glued these to a craft-stick. I left a bit of the craft-stick showing at the top and a lot at the bottom. At this point I hadn't figured out exactly how this was going together but I lucked out and had the right amount at the top for my hat later on.

After the glue dried I painted this part all white and allowed to dry.

Next I cut and painted some wood pieces for the hat (½” of craft-stick and about ¾” of slim stick) these I painted black and allowed to dry.

Next step was to glue the hat in place. And allow to dry.

Next up was to paint the features, for this I just used a toothpick since all the details are really small. I used some black paint for the charcoal pieces that form the eyes, mouth and buttons. And just a touch of orange to represent the carrot nose. (a tiny orange bead would be cute for the nose too)

After this was dry I created a stand for the snowman. I used a small bit of craft-stick (¾”ish) and a bit about ¼” of a piece of ⅛” by ⅛” strip-wood. (use whatever you have on hand)

 

 

 I did try to glue the stand on with the small piece behind the snowman but found he was a bit too tippy that way so I ended up gluing it in the front. Once painted it doesn't show too badly.

Speaking of painting it was now time to paint the stand/base with the same white paint we used earlier. If you want you could sprinkle some white glitter over the wet paint to add some sparkle.

Once the paint dries give your snowman a coat of mat Mod Podge and once dry he can stand either on the front porch of you dollhouse or in the corner of any mini room.

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