![]() Since my craft foam was self-adhesive, it had a paper backing that I could draw on. It’s basically like you’re giving the ball a “haircut”.ĭraw a little sheep head shape onto the black sparkly craft foam. Every once in awhile, you can roll the yarn between your hands to see if anything new sticks out. Work your way around the ball, trimming any uneven lengths of yarn. It’s supposed to look like this!Īgain, using your sharp scissors, trim and shape the pom pom into a nice ball shape. You’ll end up with a very messy looking pom pom. Using a sharp pair of scissors, (this would be a great time to pull our your fabric scissors if you have any!) carefully cut the loops of yarn, working your way around the entire circle, until all the loops have been cut. Tie another knot (you should have a double knot now) to hold it all together. If it helps, you can press your finger on the knot to make sure it’s held tight while you tie. Then pull the ends of that 8 inch long piece of yarn as tightly as you can. You can see what I mean in the video above.Ĭarefully slide the yarn off your fingers. ![]() Don’t knot it yet – just tie it tightly enough that it can hold everything together. Remember that 8 inch long piece of yarn between your middle fingers? Take the back end and pull it around to the top, sliding it between your middle fingers so it wraps around the middle of the windings of yarn. (If you’re using regular thickness yarn, you’ll want to wind it about 130 times.) If you’re using chunky yarn wind the yarn around your fingers about 70 times. Make sure you have it there when you wind the rest of the yarn. Slide the yarn piece between your middle fingers. Start by cutting an 8 inch long piece of yarn. You can definitely use regular thickness yarn, but the thinner the yarn, the more you have to wind it around your fingers to get a full looking pom pom. I recommend using chunky yarn if you can – I linked to the exact yarn I used in the list above. 4 black pom poms (approximately 1 inch).White chunky yarn (this is the exact yarn I used).The affiliate links below will take you to products on Amazon that are similar to the supplies we used to make these pom pom sheep: I’m pretty sure these little sheep are going to join her collection shortly! Check out our video for how to make Pom Pom Sheep: My 9 year old has been waiting very patiently for me to finish this post so she can play with these little guys! She has the pom pom dragons, and two pom pom penguins on her night table right now. ![]() And out of all the pom pom crafts I’ve done, these were the easiest to make! I had no idea how fun and easy pom pom crafts were!? These pom pom sheep are adorable. And because those little dragons were based on the dragon from How to Train Your Dragon, my 9 year old LOVED them. And then I made pom pom dragons a few weeks ago. The pom pom penguins I made earlier this year were just so cute. OK, I might be enjoying the pom pom crafts too much. We prepared both video instructions for you to look through and a photo tutorial of this crafty project.Aren’t these pom pom sheep adorable!? They’re so easy to make, and they’re such a fun little craft for springtime! You don’t need any special tools to make the DIY pom poms. Worth researching various places, especially if you are a teacher and need lots of pom poms. For example our local stores carry packages with 50 to 100 pom poms that cost the same as a pack of assorted colors with 2000 pom poms we snatched online. ![]() Pom poms are a great crafting material (good for fine motor skills too), they can be a very inexpensive material you just have to find your place to them. This would make a fun assignment to make in the classroom or at home.īut let’s return to our little pom pom creatures on the leaf shall we? Chrysalis will need a bit of imagination though – but pom poms wrapped in tissue paper could work out nicely.Īnd there you have it a life cycle of a butterfly craft is done. You can also make a butterfly out of paper and pom poms and another leaf with a bunch of pom poms for eggs. This craft can be used as a part of the project to demonstrate the life cycle of the butterfly! We’re really into bug crafts lately, even more so into caterpillar crafts and we think this one turned out pretty cool too. This caterpillar pom pom craft is a fun and wiggly project the kids will love to make. Spring is the best time of the year to do some bug crafts, if it’s to rainy to go outside. ![]()
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