Frosty The Snowman Easy Winter Craft

Last updated on October 23rd, 2023

Inside: What kid doesn’t love to sing along to Frosty the Snowman? Get into the holiday spirit by creating your very own Frosty the Snowman craft at home this year!

Frosty the Snowman Christmas Craft

This is the first year that my toddler is really understanding all things holiday-related and it is so much fun to share in his excitement! We’ve been singing Frosty the Snowman a lot and it’s so cute to see him trying to sing along to the words. We also got to watch the classic Frosty the Snowman movie and that just amped up his excitement even further. So when we sat down to paint together, you can imagine how happy he was to see ‘Frosty’ come to life.

What You Need for the Frosty the Snowman Christmas Craft

• washable paint
  • white, orange, black, red, and brown for Frosty
• thin paint brushes (4)
• medium paint brush (1)
• art smock
• Kraft paper or old drop cloth to protect your table
• glue
• a handful of cotton balls
• blue construction paper
• old washcloth, rinsed in warm water

How To Set Up for the Frosty the Snowman Christmas Craft

If you’ve never painted with a toddler before, be sure to check out this post detailing how to set up and clean up when painting with children. It also links all my must-have painting supplies!

How To Create the Frosty the Snowman Christmas Craft

Once you have the basic set up done to keep your table clean, gather all your supplies for the craft and set them in the painting area. Put an art smock on your toddler and set them up in the booster seat.

I like to use this trick when painting toddler footprints:

• Place your paper onto a lightweight cutting board – roughly the size of your paper or so
• With your child strapped into the booster seat, angle their chair so their feet are near you
• Using a medium paint brush, paint one of their feet white
• Now stamp their footprint onto the paper, with the cutting board behind the paper to keep the paper sturdy and from crinkling
• Set the cutting board / paper down somewhere out of reach of your child
• Using the wet wash cloth, wipe the white paint off of their foot
• Scooch them back to facing the table and let them freely paint whatever they want

I have great success with this method. Using the cutting board really helps keep your paper sturdy enough to stamp the footprint.

When my toddler was younger (maybe between age 1-2 or so), I used to sneak underneath the table and do all the footprint stamping while he was scooched in at the table finger painting – he was hardly aware of what I was doing. But as he grew older, he would giggle and wiggle his feet, saying ‘cold mama, tickles mama’. So now he is more content to watch the process (2.5 years old) instead.

So after you’ve captured your footprint and your toddler is happily finger painting / free for all painting, you can do the finishing touches. I like to do these alongside my toddler so we truly are ‘painting together’. He will periodically stop and check out what I’m doing and it helps to feel like we are really playing together in this way.

For the finishing touches, add a black hat with a stripe for a red ribbon, brown twig arms, black coal eyes, smile and buttons, and an orange carrot nose.

Once the paint has dried thoroughly, you can finish up step two with your child.

For step two, rip a handful of cotton balls into small pieces to prepare. Then add random small dots of glue to the background of the paper to mimic snowflakes. Next, demonstrate to your toddler how to add cotton to each dab of glue to create snowflakes. After that, give them a good handful of the shredded cotton, and let them have fun sticking ‘snowflakes’ onto Frosty’s background.

Once you complete the snowflakes, squirt some glue all over the bottom of your painting to give Frosty a snowy ground to stand on. Once again, let your toddler practice squishing the cotton on top of the glue to create a snow-filled ground.

Happy Holidays!

That’s it! My toddler absolutely loved getting to play with cotton and glue for the first time for this snowman craft. Adding in different elements like that to craft time keeps them learning and engaged. Now don’t forget to make a copy for Grandma for Christmas!

If you’re looking for more fun craft ideas, check out my Crafts Page for more ideas!

If you’re still preparing for Christmas, you won’t want to miss my Baby Gift Guide and Toddler Gift Guide – they have over 100+ ideas on them!