This is a great fine motor exercise for younger children and they love filling up the ornaments. Close your pom pom ornaments and get them ready to hang on the tree or give as gifts. We had a mix of large and small craft pom poms.ģ. Begin filling your clear ornaments with the craft poms poms. You can use glass, but if you’re doing these pom pom ornaments with children, plastic would be a far better option.Ģ. First, grab however many clear plastic ornaments that you want to make. These little ornaments are super easy to make! It hardly needs instructions, but I’ll offer up some anyway.ġ. Directions for Making These Easy Pom Pom Christmas Ornaments It can be filled more quickly, but there is a seam around the whole ornament. However, here is an alternate style of clear plastic ornament that splits in two. That makes it nice because then you don’t have a seam around the whole ornament. It has an opening on the top for dropping in the pom poms. This is a great style of clear plastic ornament. Here are my suggestions for clear plastic ornaments for crafts: Craft Pom Poms (The pictures show sparkly craft pom poms Here are Christmas-colored craft pom poms).Clear plastic ornaments (see my suggestions below).We love making gifts! You can find all the posts in this series here.Ĭredits: Created by Jane from See Jane Blog for Design Mom.Easy Pom Pom Ornaments Craft for Kids Supplies for the Pom Pom Ornaments Craft – A craft activity at a book-themed birthday party. – A little gift for guests at your next book club gathering. – A gift for a teacher - just add a favorite book! These pom pom bookmarks are sure to put a smile on any bookworm’s face, and the best part of this project is that kids can make them all by themselves! THIS POM POM BOOKMARK WOULD ALSO BE GREAT FOR: Voila! Your pom pom ball will appear! And your yarn ball bookmark is officially done! This step does take practice, and you will improve with each ball you make. Continue to turn and snip the yarn, looking at the ball from different angles while doing so. Keep rounding it off until you are pleased with the shape. Start snipping! With this step, you need to cut the yarn pom pom into the shape of a ball. This is what your pom pom will look like - it will start to resemble a ball, but is in dire need of a haircut!

Next, holding the ball on it’s side, slide your scissors through the yarn loops and start cutting. To add the yarn ball bookmark ‘tail’, use the 15-inch piece of yarn, tie it around the same string you used to tie the 90 loops together, as seen in the pictures above.Īt this point, your yarn ball bookmark should look like the picture above. Tightly tie a knot around the middle of the 90 loops. Lay it down over the 8-10 inch piece of yarn. We recommend wrapping the yarn 90 times.Ĭut the yarn after 90 wraps, and carefully slide it off your fingers. To start, hold the end of the yarn in your hand, and begin wrapping the yarn around your fingers – snug but not too tight. You will need these lengths in later steps. *Before you start, cut an 8-10 inch piece of yarn and a 15 inch piece of yarn and set it aside. And you do not need any special tools for this pom pom ball – just your fingers! That’s it! You do want your scissors to be sharp, or the last step will be difficult. Supplies needed for your pom pom bookmark: It’s sure to improve the look of any book!

This is the perfect anytime gift because it’s affordable, easy to make, and turns out a fluffy pom pom of cuteness.

It was actually my daughter’s clever idea to make a yarn ball pom pom bookmark. Are you the same? I’m sure you have many fellow book worms in your neighborhood, so I thought it would be fun to create a charming little yarn ball pom pom bookmark that would make a great anytime gift for anyone that needs a little fall comfort. Has the weather turned cold where you live? In my neighborhood, temperatures have dropped and my instincts are to spend the day cozied up with a favorite book and favorite mug full of hot cocoa.

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