On Sunday, my little girl and I got some yarn from her stash (yes, she has her own) and made pom-poms.  I have loads of ideas of what to do with them.

But, when we had made about twenty I thought to myself that these would look fantastic strung together and loosely hung on a Christmas tree.

We had so much fun making these!  Little children need a template to make these.  I made a template like this:

1.  I took a piece of cardboard and traced two circles (actually I traced around two glasses).  Then I took a smaller cup and traced around it in the circles, to make a smaller inside circle.
2. Then I cut out both circles and the holes in the middle, until I was left with two cardboard donut shapes.
3. Then I put these two donuts together and took the yarn and began windng it through the donuts, close together.
4. Then I let my daughter take over (even children as young as four can do this).
5. When she had finished winding around it, I took the yarn and finished the pom-pom.
6. I left a piece of yarn hanging at the end.
7. I took scissors and cut the wound yarn on the outer edge where the two donuts met.
8. Then I put the yarn at the end, made a gap between the two donuts with my fingers and wound it around the threads tightly.
9. I ended this with a few knots and this made a lovely pom-pom.

For the pom-poms I made I used this fantastic Tutorial to Make Pom-Poms (the adult way, would be too difficult for little people) by Bella Dia has kindly posted on the Net.  Once I got the hang of not making the yarn so tight that it cut off circulation to my fingers, it was fantastic.  I made a lot of pom-poms in a short amount of time.  Pom-poms using this technique literally take three minutes instead of thirty for the other way.

The fun part was giving the pom-poms a good old hair cut.  My pom-poms needed a lot more trimming than the other ones!

Now we have a mass of pom-poms, strung together, and they will be the tinsel on this year’s tree!

Enjoy!

Mia

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