A Facebook friend of mine posted a picture of a bucket of snowballs she had bought for her family. (If you Google search Bucket of Snowballs, you can see what I mean!)
I saw her picture and instantly knew that my family would have a lot of fun with something like that. So of course I started thinking, “How can I make that?” The snowballs kind of had me stumped though because I wanted something light that could be thrown at anyone at no risk of injury, but I’m not much of a sewer and I didn’t know how to sew spheres and didn’t have time to learn right then, so . . . I kind of put that project in a dark recess of my brain to be recalled at some future time.
Then, one day, a few weeks before Christmas, I was in a dollar store (busy place just before Christmas!) and I saw some small plush baseballs. My mind instantly recalled the recessed snowball project and I knew that these baseballs were perfect. I emptied the shelf – all eight of them. Then I went to the isle of containers and found a suitable snowball bucket.
Then there were only two things left to do:
– spend about five minutes total snipping the red stitching off the balls so they wouldn’t look like baseballs anymore
– painting the word Snowballs on my bucket. I just free-handed it and painted it on with regular craft paint.
And this is what it ended up like . . .
Oh, I painted a few snowflakes on as well.
Here’s a Christmas morning photo – can you find the bucket? Dad seems to get pelted a lot!!!
We’re still having lots of fun with them – the novelty hasn’t worn off at all. Snowballs are always flying by. And I’m happy to report we haven’t had a single human injury – the bird did get knocked off someone’s shoulder once, but it fluttered to the ground with no problem! I’m thinking that I’m gonna have to be on the lookout for more plush baseballs – I think we need another bucket in the family room!!!
