How to Make Popcorn Ball Snowmen

Make a popcorn ball for any occasion.

Delicious caramel popcorn snowmen can be a fun tasty winter craft project to do with your kids. It's a simple way to have fun indoors on those cold winter days when your looking for ways to occupy your children. Once completed they can be eaten or wrapped in colorful plastic wrap and given as a gift. Does this Spark an idea?

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1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup dark corn syrup
1/4 cup margarine or butter
1/2 tsp salt
8 cups popcorn
Thin strips of "red" fruit-roll up
pretzel sticks
Red Hots or M&M
Mini-chocolate chips
Round peppermints
Wax paper
Large mixing bowl
4 qt. pot

Instructions

- 1
  
  Place popcorn in a large mixing bowl and set aside.
- 2
  
  Combine brown sugar, corn syrup, margarine and salt. Over medium heat simmer combined ingredients in a 4-quart pot, stirring constantly.
- 3
  
  Pour heated mixture over popcorn. Stir until popcorn is evenly coated. Allow time for it to cool slightly.
- 4
  
  Shape popcorn into three different sized balls.
- 5
  
  Roll out wax paper and assemble your popcorn balls into snowmen. Use your candy, fruit roll up, pretzels and chocolate chips to decorate your snowmen. The fruit roll up can be used as a scarf where the two balls meet. The pretzel sticks are arms, mini chocolate chips for the eyes and mouth and the candy pieces as buttons.
- 6
  
  Wrap a piece of fruit-roll-up where the two balls meet as a "scarf" and slightly press onto popcorn balls. Stick pretzels sticks on the sides as "arms". Use candied imperials down the front as "buttons"and use as a "nose". Use mini-chocolate chips to make a "mouth" and "eyes". Slightly press down a peppermint on the top of the 1-inch ball for a "hat".