How to Make a Snow Globe

1. Roll a head and a body shape from brown clay. Press the head on top of the body.

2. Roll two legs and a little pair of leaf shaped ears from brown clay. Add a tiny bit of black clay for hoofs to the bottoms of the legs, then attach the legs to the body, blending with a cocktail stick. Round the ears with the stick and attach to the head.

3. Use your fingers to push into the head to create two eye sockets.

4. Roll two tiny black balls for the eyes and a tiny red one for the nose. Press these onto the face.

5. Use ivory coloured clay and a cocktail stick to create two antlers. Roll into sausages then mould the clay into 'Y' shapes and attach onto the head.

6. Roll and cut a long thin green triangle for a scarf and attach around the reindeer's neck. Make a base if needed as per the instructions in the Santa step.

1. Begin by rolling out some black clay for the penguin's body. Shape it into an oval with one slightly larger end, making sure it's nice and smooth.

2. Roll out some white clay as thin as you can between two sheets of baking paper. The baking paper helps to keep the dust off the clay. Keep lifting the clay up and moving it around so it doesn't stick to your surface. Then use a knife to cut out the penguin's belly, using the picture for reference. Press the belly onto the body.

3. Roll two black sausages and flatten them a little for flippers. Press them onto the sides of the body using a cocktail stick to blend the clay together.

4. Make a little beak and feet from orange clay. Press the beak onto the face and the feet onto the base of the body.

5. Roll two tiny black balls for the eyes and press onto the face.

1. Roll out two balls of red clay for the body and press them together.

2. Roll a thin sausage of black for Santa's belt and attach around the body.

3. Make a ball of skin coloured clay for the head and press it to the top of the body. Then, roll out some white clay between parchment paper as before. Cut it to a beard shape and place it onto the head. Play around with positioning and trim to size before pressing gently in place.

4. Add a little more white clay around the back of the head. Then add two small balls of black for the eyes and one small ball of skin coloured clay for the nose.

5. Roll a cone shape from red clay. Push your thumb into the base and tease out the sides to make a hat shape. Attach it on top of the head and add a little white ball of clay as a pom pom on the end of the hat. Add two balls of black down the body for Santa's buttons.

If you have a tall jar you can make a base for your characters to sit on. Scrunch up a ball of foil a little smaller than the lid. roll out a piece of clay and cover the foil with the clay. Cut off the excess around the base. Check the base fits onto the lid of the jar and that you can still screw the jar onto the lid!

Once happy with your polymer clay creations, bake according to the packet instructions. Allow them to cool then use strong glue to attach the figures to the bases and the bases to the jar lids.

Add 3tbsp of glycerine to each jar and pour in water to about 3/4 full. Stir to combine then mix in 2tbsp of artificial snow. Stir and insert the lid with the glued figure inside. See how much water is needed and fill it up as required.

Screw the lid on tightly and shake the globe to see how it looks. Add more glycerine if the snow floats to the top too quickly.

Prefer to use our ready-made resin characters instead? We have a great selection of decorations available to use in your snow globes. These work best without water, simply glue to the base of the snow globe and add the snow!