pom poms
P✺m p✺ms. Those fun fluffs of yarn. Pretty to hang in windows, toss around as balls (they won't knock a lamp over), and just plain fun and relaxing to make. We have 10 ideas how to use your pom poms once you make your own following our daughter's easiest ever pom pom instructions. I thought our daughter would like to make some with me. I had been taught how to make one by wrapping yarn around a rectangle of cardboard. I had seen other ways of using doughnut-shaped pom pom templates. I would show her how. She showed me...a better, easier way she had come up with. No templates. No confusion. No hard to understand instructions. Just fun. So easy. So simple...
easiest p✺m p✺m how-to:
Our daughter had bits and pieces of yarn snippets on the floor around her—leftover ends from various projects of hers. She haphazardly grabbed a clump of them. Tied a short length of yarn around these yarn scraps and fluffed them for an instant, easiest ever, pretty pom pom.
pom poms
easy p✺m p✺m how-to:
Our daughter had a second way of making pom poms. Almost as easy as her first. This pom pom is made with the relaxing repetition of making loops. Perfect for some special together talk time.
1 Loop yarn around and around in a circle. 2 Set this looped yarn down when you have made a thick handful. 3 Cut a short piece of yarn. 4 Put the yarn loops you have made on top of the short piece of yarn you just cut. 5 Tie this short piece of yarn in a knot around the yarn loops. 6 Cut the ends, cutting off the loops on each side. Fluff pom pom into a circle.
10 ways to use your handmade pom poms
1 Use hot glue to attach a pom pom to the straps of the kids' summer flip flops.
2 Adorn sneakers and ice or roller skates with pom poms.
3 Put pastel pom poms in Easter baskets instead of Easter grass.
4 Hang from the window with a thread like we did with ours (top photo).
5 Hot glue a pretty pom pom to a girl's headband.
6 Attach one pom pom to each end of a little girls' hair ribbon.
7 Kids can play catch with pom poms...or learn to juggle with them.
8 I think there are entire books devoted to pom pom projects (I believe we had one when I was growing up)! Use your handmade pom poms for most projects that call for store-bought ones.
9 Pom poms make pretty party favors—or party craft project—for birthday parties, Sunday school, or summer camp.
10 Or just make them for fun. Making pom poms is a special, relaxing way to spend time with someone else.
What are you going to do with your pom poms? ©heather cahoon • wordplayhouse®
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