First things first - lay the paper bag on a flat surface, with the bottom flap facing you. You also want the opening of the paper bag to be facing downward. Just envision that the smaller rectangle area is the face and the larger portion is his beard.

Now grab your choice of color in paint crayon and paint ONLY the bottom portion of the bag {not that smaller flap!}

Once done, set aside to let it dry completely.

Now grab your scissors and two pieces of paper.

Cut out a large, triangle hat from your scrapbook print and a small oval for the nose, from the solid cardstock paper.

Now we are ready to finish up the gnome craft. Grab your painted paper bag, all your paper cutouts, the glue and the scissors, once again.

Go ahead and start off by gluing the triangle hat to the flap of the paper bag.

Follow that up with the nose in the center of the craft.

To finish it off, cut the loose portion of the paper bag into thin strips to create the "gnome beard." Just make sure you don't go up too high on the paper bag!

And that's it on this Paper Bag Gnome craft! Go ahead and add any other embellishments before you display him proudly for all to see!

BTW - you can stick your hand inside the decorated brown paper bag {with the paper strips hanging over your arm and your hand in the bottom of the bag portion} to make it into a puppet!