DIY Painted Santa and Snowman Logs
If you’re in the mood for a festive and easy Christmas craft, consider turning an ordinary wood log into a snowman or Santa using paint and a couple of winter accessories! The result is an adorable Christmas decoration to display in your home for years to come.
My friends and I recently got together to paint logs into cute snowmen after being inspired from this popular previous Hip2Save post!
What a fun and easy project. None of us had easy access to logs, but we’re able to pick up these already shaved ones from a local firewood and lumber yard. They are ponderosa pines, and measure 18-22 inches, about 7 inches wide. You could always adjust the size to your preference.
HipTip: Use snow hats and scarves you may already have on hand or look for some inexpensive ones at thrift stores to accessorize your snowman!
Snowman Painted Log:
Supplies:
- 18-22 inch tall log, shaved
- Craft Paint (white, black, orange, pink)
- Paint Brush or Paint Sponge
- Wine Cork and Pencil (for stamping face)
- Adult Snow Hat & Scarf
- Thumb tacks
Directions:
- Paint entire log white, and let dry.
- Use a wine cork and end of a pencil eraser to “stamp” face and button details with paint.
- Use a small paint brush for the nose. Let dry.
- Place Hat and scarf on and secure with thumb tacks if desired.
Santa Painted Log:
Directions:
- 18-22 inch log
- Craft Paint, (red, white, pink, flesh colored)
- Paint brush
- Wine cork (for stamping face)
- Santa hat
Directions:
- Use a pencil to plan out space for face, beard, and body.
- Paint the top in a flesh color, the bottom in red, and then use a paint brush to fill in beard and bottom coat detail. I used the bottom of paint brush to tap the ends of beard so it looked like hair, and the bottom like fur.
- Paint and “stamp” face details using wine corks and a small paint brush, let dry.
- Add a Santa hat to the top. (I also used my daughter’s headband as a belt.)
How much were the logs?
Also wondering how much logs like that cost! Cute project!!
$10 – thanks!
Try old fence posts. I just took down 400 feet of wooden fence and replaced with a black aluminum. Call fence contractors/installers and ask for scraps from their jobs.
I’m sure it would vary by region, but I live where there are no pine trees and we paid $10 a log that came shaved.
So cute. I just don’t know the first thing about shaving logs.
These are so cute!♡♡♡ Especially since we can’t have real snowmen in Florida. Love them!
Exactly! Thanks Leslie 😊
The dollar store usually had hats and scarves that would be great to use for this, too! I have used some in the past to do snowman wreaths that I personalized and gave as family Christmas gifts.
Hi Amy do you have a pic of your wreaths and some directions. If you could email me I’d appreciate it. I love Christmas wreaths melaniemavros at gmail dot com thank you
Hi! Super easy wreaths…I bought – grape vibe wreaths from the dollar store 3 different sizes. Smallest to largest, to make a snowman☺ I used floral wire to attach the wreaths together. Added a dollar store scarf and used recycled scrabble tiles to personalize with last name! I cut the scarf the long way in half and used one scarf for 2 snowman! It cost $3.50 per wreath and everyone loved them! Simple, cute and easy! Hope that helps! If add a picture but I have them all away! I bet if you Google, you could find one though.
Cute! Love it ❤️⛄️
Oh fun! Thanks Amy 😊
Adorable! Thanks for sharing all the great ideas.
Sure- Thanks for reading Tonya!
You could decorate these with sports team apparel and they would be so cute! If you just buy the fabric, you could fashion a hat and scarf and it would be more affordable.
Love that idea! Cute
How super cute! I made these snowman kiddie treat cups for my son’s class a few years ago and thought they’d be great to up-cycle glass Glade jar candles (the bottom of the candle is a pain to remove, but I had luck putting the glasses in the freezer for a few hours and gently prying the metal from the bottom with a flat head screwdriver, then washing in hot soapy water to remove any wax residue) I fill them up with Hershey kisses or other small wrapped candies.
https://www.bluecricketdesign.net/2011/12/snowman-cups.html
Where did family pjs find the logs?
Where did y’all find the logs?
We found ours at a local firewood lumber place 😀
Does it have to be ponderosa pine logs or could you use any kind of wood logs?
Oh ya I’m sure you could. I was just reporting back what kind ours were.😀
Thank you, Lina! They are too cute!!