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HOLIDAY DIY: Create Gnomes for the Holiday!


What you need: 

  • Empty and rinsed soda, water, condiment, salad dressing, soap or liquor bottle that has a wider bottom and narrows at top 

  • Festive socks or ‘single laundry socks’ 

  • Toilet tissue or Cotton balls 

  • Rubber bands 

  • Faux fur 

  • Caps from repurposed bottles 

  • Kid-friendly glue gun or double-stick tape 

  • Optional: Ornamentation for hat 

 

 

How to Make Them:  

  • HAT:  

    • Determine which sock will cover bottle by pulling it down to point where it will overlap beard.  

    • Beard size is optional 

    • Remove sock and turn it inside out 

    • Stuff top of sock with tissue paper or cotton balls to form a ‘Pom Pom’. Size is up to you! 

    • Use a rubber band to tie ‘Pom Pom’ 

  • FACE:  

    • Beard:  

      • Cut a piece of faux fur big enough to wrap around base of bottle 

      • Attach with glue gun or double stick tape. 

    • Nose:  

      • Pick a ‘cap’ and glue on top of beard. 

    • Hat:  

      • Place hat over bottle 

      • Pull down to cover no more then half of nose 

  • Optional: Decorate hat with ornamentation 

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