Need Christmas snowman help!
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Well, I think the lightest suggestion for stuffing Frosty would be Styrofoam packing peanuts or real unsalted, unbuttered popcorn. Not sure if the popcorn will attract critters, but after the season is over, all the popcorn can be used to feed the birds! You can find white trash bags in the store and stuff them and stack them up for a snowman shape. Now if you live somewhere without snow or much rain, you can build the three parts of a snowman using paper mache over balloons of different sizes. Also not heavy and you may have an easier time adding the nose and a pipe, etc with paper mache base rather than a plastic trash bag filled with popcorn or Styrofoam peanuts! On HomeTalk someone recently made statues using chicken wire. Maybe that is more to your liking? Good luck!
White kitchen garbage bags stuffed with newspaper?
If you are placing it outside I would recommend, stuffing it with plastic bags. You could place filler in them then stuff the bags in the snowman. I would use the the leaves you rack up to stuff the bag. If you need more I am positive your neighbors would not care if you took leaves from their leaf piles.
If you use thin tree branches for the arms you can get a branch that joins along a little larger branch and cut the larger branch off at the joining area for a bent arm shape then you can use silicone adhesive or maybe even white duck tape to attach near the neck area. Cover up the joining with the scarf your snowman needs and add the mittens onto the end of the branch tips. You also can make it stable with a tree branch stake in the back and tie to it at the different segments of the body. Sounds like good fun, Enjoy! If you don't understand the branch idea, let me know and I'll try to send a picture.
I have always placed a ball inside an old pillow case pinned it with straight pins to the body and added an old scarf or tie for the neck. you can paint or use markers for the face. I just glued stones I found around and hot glued them to make my face.
I will see what I can do as far as a picture goes. What size are you planning on making this guy? How tall and round. I guess if you give me the size of the bags you'll be using I'd have a better idea how to proceed, tall kitchen size? I'm thinking you might be able to repurpose a plastic pumpkin for the head. Cover in white duct tape and use black duct tape to make the eyes, mouth etc. or paint them on.