No Sew Snowballs

Frigid, icy, snowy, bone-chilling weather. That’s what’s happening at my house. How about yours?

In the wintertime when our kids were little, we’d dress in our winter clothes to go outside and play. It seemed like it took forever to pull on their ski bibs, zip their coats, struggle with boots, and convince them that they needed to wear a hat and gloves

It’s the same with grandkids, isn’t it?

But they sure love playing in the snow — even if they come in shivering cold afterwards.

If it’s too cold in your neck of the woods to go outside and play in the snow, you can still have a snow activity — inside your home. Yes, indeedy. Inside!

Have a snowball fight with no-melt-um snowballs. How cool is that? (Pun intended!)

Simply make no sew snowballs (try and say that fast three times!) for your indoor snow fun.

Pick up several sets of white stockings from your local dollar store. (At the store near me, they had two pairs for one dollar. So, for only two dollars, I was able to make 8 snowballs. What a bargain!)

Then, you’ll need some scraps of batting and a pair of scissors.

Cut of a good-sized piece of batting and stuff it in the toe of a sock almost all the way to the heel.

Then, hold the toe of the sock in one hand and with the other pull the open end of the sock so that the stocking is stretched as much as possible.

Keep pulling and wrap the cuff part of the sock around the stuffed part of the sock. Then, fold the cuff back over on itself so that the stocking will stay folded into a ball. This is what it looks like on one side of the snowball.

A whole flock of snowballs! I made all of these in less than ten minutes.

When my husband saw them, he said, “What if they come apart because they aren’t sewed together?”

No problem.

I’d simply re-wrap the cuff of the sock around the stuffed part and everything would be good to go for more play. (I’d much rather re-wrap an occasional ‘snowball’ than spend lots of time sewing them!)

Make a whole bunch of these. Then, when the grandkids come over, grab the snowballs and let the snowball fight begin!