Team spirit Snowmen

Ok - take a look at these two pictures and see if you can guess where I live. Yep, that's right.. Roll Tide!




These are so super simple that anyone can do them. It doesn't matter if you think you can paint or not.. they are too simple to not be able to paint them.

Start with small wooden rectangles. I get mine in the craft department at Walmart (if you still have a craft dept in yours, they should have them. ) The rectangles are about 1 inch by 2.5 inches.

The background should match the team color. Red for the Crimson and White of Bama, Blue for the Blue and Orange of Auburn. My secret to doing these quick and easily... Take an old rag, I use an old sock or sometimes and old wash cloth.. using the tip of your finger, put it over the top of your bottle of paint and tip... getting just a little paint on the cloth. Then just brush the cloth on the wood rubbing until the whole piece is covered and take a clean part of the rag and rub some more. It's like staining. You don't get an overbright color but just the right amount of a stained wood. And it dries very fast because you haven't put a huge coat of paint on that you need to wait on it to dry.

So you now have a painted rectangle. Take your white paint and paint a half circle on one end. I do these in an assembly line and do about 20-25 at a time, so by the time I get to the last one, the first one is dry and ready to move on.

Next, add the nose. This can be a simple triangle, or if you feel artsy, design it a little. It should be slightly rounded where it sits on the face and remember not to go too far out or you won't have room to paint your words. Don't worry if you can't paint a carrot, it's an optical illusion, anything orange that resembles a triangle shape will give the appearance of a carrot.



Next, using your teams other color write what you want with a small brush or paint pen.



Last - easy as pie - outline everything with a black sharpie pen. Add the eyes and dots or lines for the mouth and you are done. If you can be patient until the sharpie pen is totally dry, a day or so, you can lightly spray it with clear varnish. If you spray while the sharpie pen is still wet, the ink will run and ruin your ornament.
Add a jute or ribbon hanger to hang directly on the tree.

I sell these for $2.00 each and do the local high school teams, Alabama, Auburn and Tennessee. I've done special orders for Louisville and Kentucky. Easy to do, quick and fun! Oh - one more note: Rotate which ends you paint the semi-circle, so they aren't all facing the same way!