How To Make Christmas Snowman Gift Boxes

Christmas is my favorite time of year! I always love to find ways to fold traditional moments into the holidays. While others might find it tedious I fully enjoy creating an amazing Christmas experience for the kids in my life. One of the greatest traditions that we have in our family is the snowmen gift boxes. As we grew as a family we had to adapt how we organized all the presents. We have 3 families who celebrate together because we are all family between us we have 7 kids and 4 adults. It got very overwhelming to organize and keep everything in the correct space with that many kids. I had seen an idea on Pinterest that I thought might work so I adapted it to our family and made it something of a tradition in our home.

First, you need to find 3 types of boxes. I used these moving boxes. Depending on how many kids you have each snowman needs 3 boxes. One small, medium, and large. The moving boxes I purchased 3 years ago and don’t re-purchase these each year because we save the snowmen for the next year if you are worried about the cost of the box I get boxes that will last years so I don’t have to redo these every year.

The next step is choosing the wrapping paper. My suggestion is to get large amounts of the same paper but different patterns for every snowman. This way you can patch the boxes if they get torn for the next year. Here’s some wrapping paper I find adorable! When you wrap the boxes make sure that you leave the tops open so that you can put a hole at the top and use a ribbon to tie the tops closed. You don’t want the children tearing wrapping paper off the boxes because you will reuse them. Their gifts will be inside the boxes individually wrapped this is just to keep everything organized.

The next step in the process after wrapping all of the boxes is to make holes in the boxes. You need at least 2 holes on the tops of the boxes so you can thread through some ribbon to tie the boxes shut. You will also need two small holes in the middle box so that you can feed the arms through it. For the arms, I used black pipe cleaners.

Tie knots on the back of the ribbons and feed them through the tops. Make sure they are long enough to tie into cute bows. For the pipe cleaner arms have 3 pipe cleaners and tie them into an arm and 3 finger-shaped hand. Feed the arm part through the hole in the middle box and make the back a big knot so the arm doesn’t fall out. The arms will be a bit floppy but that’s ok.

Here’s the back of the arm that you need to feed through the hole.

When you are finished wrapping, ribboning, and putting the arms in. Then you need to start with the buttons, face, and nose. For this, you will need black and orange construction paper. Make 6 (2in) black circles, 5 (1.5in) black circles, and 1 (4.5in) orange triangle. 4 of the circles will be the buttons on the snowman. The other 2 (2in) circles will be the eyes. The smaller circles will be used as the smile on the face of the snowman. Take the triangle and fold the long side of it by 1/2 and in. You will use this side to attach it to the face of the snowman.

Our tradition includes top hats that I made out of black cardboard the first year we had them. Later I found top hat tree toppers that worked way better. We put the kids’ names on each of the hats. On Christmas Eve night we set all the hats out on the table after dinner and we have Christmas Eve presents under each hat. Then when the kids are asleep we put the hat on their snowman so they know which one is theirs in the morning. This is such a fun tradition for all the kids to follow they love waking up to find out which one belongs to them. I like to change it up every year so they don’t know which is theirs.

Originally we bought these to curb our spending but it didn’t really work out that way since I got pretty large boxes to begin with however we have kept to a couple of rules. The top box usually holds art, books, coloring supplies, or notebooks. The middle box is usually filled with the toys they requested for that year though as the kids get older it’s hard to fill with things because they don’t really want that many toys anymore. The largest box we try and fill with clothing, blankets, shoes, or pillows. One year we got each of the kids a squish mellow and it worked great in the bottom box. We originally didn’t wrap any of the presents in the boxes but it didn’t really work out as a surprise that way. I find the kids enjoy actually unwrapping something so I wrap each gift individually and put it in the boxes.

We love celebrating Christmas with our snowman tradition. What is a special tradition you all like to use to celebrate?

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