Holiday Snowman Jars
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Mason jars can be a handy way to give a gift of food around the holidays. And if you want to make those mason jars just a little more festive for the Christmas season, here’s a couple of ideas to decorate them like snowmen! And one of the ideas doesn’t even require giving your snowman a face to help keep things super simple.
For both projects I used black scrapbook paper to make a rim around the top of the jar and then painted the canning jar lid and ring black to give the appearance of a little hat. Then I looked through my button box and was happy to find a few black buttons that would be perfect on the front of the jars. Each jar also has a small amount of fabric wrapped around it to make a scarf.
For the jar that has a snowman face, I found using my paper punch to make little black circles made the process a bit easier. I found my double sided tape to be handy for both these projects too.
Snowman Jar Gift Idea #1
For the first mason jar snowman idea, you just fill the jar with the treat of your choice (I used white wrapped mints so it would look white like a snowman). For decorations I wrapped a scrap of fabric cut to a size of 1½” wide by 20″ long and then tied it around the top of the jar to look like a scarf. I attached three buttons to the front of the jar with double sided tape (you can also use glue).
To make the lid of your mason jar look like a hat, you’ll need to paint the lid black (both the ring and the band). To make a brim for the hat, I placed the canning jar upside down on my black scrapbooking paper and traced around the opening. I then drew another circle about 1″ larger around that circle. (I found it easiest to find another item in my house of the appropriate larger size and trace around it). I then cut out the circle, and then cut out the inner circle, so that I now had a ring to be a rim for the hat. You may need to trim the circle a bit as needed to fit around the neck of your jar.
Snowman Jar Gift Idea #2 with Hot Chocolate Mix
The next snowman jar project is a fun idea that fills the bottom half of the jar with hot chocolate mix and the top half of the jar with marshmallows. Because the marshmallow portion of the jar is white, it’s a perfect background for a snowman face!
To make the face on this snowman, I wanted little black circles that I could stick on the jar. I ended up using some adhesive chalkboard vinyl that I had leftover from this canning jar with a pourable top project. This worked out very well because I could just peel and stick the circles on the jar. If you don’t have any kind of black adhesive paper, you can just use black scrapbook paper and glue the circles to the jar too. I cut a little triangle from some orange paper for a carrot nose.
Then just as I did for the other snowman jar, I added a scrap of fabric for the scarf and tied it on the middle of the jar. I also attached a couple of buttons on the bottom half of the jar. The hat was made in the same way as described above too.
The hot chocolate mix is made by mixing together a 1/2 cup of Nesquick, 1/3 cup of powdered sugar, 1 cup powdered milk, and 1/3 cup of powdered creamer. This makes a nice amount to fill the bottom half of a quart mason jar. Then I put some mini marshmallows in a baggie and added it to the jar. (A 1/4 cup of the hot chocolate mix is used per 8 oz cup of water).
So those are a couple of ideas for your mason jars at Christmas time because once again my motto is, it’s not really Christmas until you put something in a jar! 🙂
Holiday Snowman Jar Gift Ideas
Materials:
- Quart canning jar with lid
- Black paper (I used scrapbook paper)
- Black paint and paintbrush
- Fabric cut to 1½" x 20"
- Buttons
- Scrap of orange paper (if making a face with nose)
- Paper punch (to help make circles for face)
- Doubled sided tape or glue
Hot Chocolate Mix (for jar #2)
- 1/2 cup Nesquick powdered drink mix
- 1/3 cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup dry milk powder
- 1/3 cup powdered creamer
- mini marshmallows and baggie
Instructions:
Jar #1 Idea (with no face)
- To make the top of the jar look like a hat, paint the jar lid black (both the ring and band if using that type of lid).
- To make a brim for the hat, place the canning jar upside down on the black paper and trace around the opening. Draw another circle about 1" larger around that circle. (I found it easiest to use another item of the appropriate larger size and trace around it). Cut out the circle, and then cut out the inner circle, so that you now have a ring to be a rim for the hat. You may need to trim the circle a bit as needed to fit around the neck of your jar.
- Fill the quart jar with the treat of your choice. (I used white wrapped mints so the jar would look white like a snowman)
- Tie the fabric piece around the top of the jar for a scarf.
- Attach buttons to the front of the jar with double sided tape or glue.
- Place the black ring that you cut out around the top of the jar, and screw on the black lid.
Jar Idea #2 (with face & hot chocolate mix)
- Paint the lid black and cut out the black rim as in the instructions for Jar #1.
- Stir together the hot chocolate mix ingredients and place in the bottom of the jar.
- Put some mini marshmallows in a baggie and place on top of the hot chocolate mix in the jar.
- Place the black ring that you cut out around the top of the jar, and screw on the black lid.
- Tie the fabric strip around the middle of the jar for a scarf.
- Attach a couple of buttons to the bottom half of the jar under the scarf.
- Use the paper punch to cut out black circles for the face. Attach to the top half of the jar using two small circles for the eyes and five small circles for the mouth. Cut a small triangle from a scrap of orange paper and attach for a nose.
- Add a tag with instructions to use a 1/4 cup of hot chocolate mix with 8 oz of hot water to make a cup of cocoa.
