Skill Level: Easy

What You Need  

• lilac card stock cut to 5 ½” x 8 ½”
• white printer paper cut to 2” x 5 ½”
  
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• scraps of black, red, orange and yellow paper
• adhesive such as a glue stick or double-sided sticky tape
• scissors
• marker, computer and printer, or New Year stamp

  What You Do  

• Fold lilac cardstock in half.
• Fold white paper strip in half and halves again. Using those folds as a guide, accordion fold strip into eighths. (This is like making paper dolls.)
• Cut a half snowman shape into the accordion. Unfold the four snowmen friends.
• Cut three tall triangle scraps from the bright papers and a bowtie from the black.
• Glue the frosty friends onto the cardstock and add the hats and bowtie.
• Print off, stamp or write a greeting such as “Let's Get Together!” or “Happy New Year!” Glue beneath the snowmen.

Helpful Hints  

• Use beads, buttons, scraps of ribbon/material and other “extras” to dress up your snowmen. Kids can help with dressing the snowfolk or adding faces (rosy cheeks would be cute).
• Don't use white cardstock for the snowmen–when it's folded multiple times it becomes too hard to cut.
• This card is a fun invitation for a New Year's party, or simply as a way to say you'd like to get together sometime soon.

Quick switch To make this into a Christmas card, use Santa hats or regular snowmen top hats and carrot noses on the snowmen.

If you want to make a gift tag, just use two snowmen buddies.

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