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Gnome and snowman tinkering

Instructions No. 1842

Instructions No. 1842

Difficulty: Beginner

Working time: 1 hour 30 Minutes

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The elves are coming! Give this cute little elf and his friends, the snowmen, a home. With just a few materials you can make this great decoration. On window sills, as table decoration and as a small gift idea these companions make themselves fantastic.

Create cute gnomes
First, prime the flower pots with red primerHandicraft paint. If necessary, apply a further coat to increase the opacity and bring out the colour brilliance. Then paint on a belt with buckle using markers.

Glue a small Wooden ball on the bigger This becomes Wooden ball. later the Secret Santa nose. Now the faces are painted on with markers and Handicraft paint Here it is entirely up to you whether you want to have happy, thoughtful, sleeping or surprised Secret Santa. Simply adapt your face to the desired emotional mood

Cut the Felt and roll them into caps. Glue together with hot glue. Glue double-sided adhesive to the lower edge of the cap from the inside and outside and attach Adhesive tape the Knitted tube.

Use a little hot glue to stick a small one to Wooden ball the tip of the cap. Now you can glue the head to the body and the cap to the head. Then put the remaining Knitted tube scarf around the neck of the gnome.
Snowmen tinker
Would you like to design these cute snowmen in addition?These can also be moved and tinkered just as easily as the gnomes.
Prime these Wooden balls and the terracotta pots white. If necessary, apply a second coat of paint to achieve greater opacity

Now paint the face on the Wooden ball. Shorten the styrofoam tube and stick it on as a nose.

Finally, glue the cylinder and the head to the upside-down flowerpot. Also the Knitted tube is glued on as a scarf and shortened if necessary.

Must Have

Terracotta pots "Luna
2,99 €
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Material list

VBS Wooden balls drilled "Ø 60 mm", 2 pieces
3,99 €
(1 stuec = 2,00 €)
Quantity:
VBS Wooden balls half drilled "Ø 15 mm", 10 pieces
1,59 €
(1 stuec = 0,16 €)
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Knitted tube, two-coloured, 22 Needles/Ø 3 cm, Red/White
2,75 €
(1 m = 2,75 €)
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Knitted tube, 22 Needles/Ø 3,0 cm, White
2,49 €
(1 m = 3,11 €)
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VBS Craft felt, 20 x 30 cm, Red
0,65 €
(1 m2 = 10,83 €)
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VBS Craft paint, 50 ml, Carmine Red
3,29 €
(1 l = 65,80 €)
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VBS Craft paint, 50 ml, White
3,29 €
(1 l = 65,80 €)
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POSCA Marker PC-1MC, Black
3,99 €
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POSCA Marker PC-1MC, Gold
3,99 €
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Cylinder, Black
2,89 €
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VBS Styrofoam carrot, 7 cm, 12 pieces
2,99 €
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Knitted tube, two-coloured, 22 Needles/Ø 3 cm, Blue/White
2,75 €
(1 m = 2,75 €)
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