How To Make Pom Poms

• Left over wool
• Scrap cardboard (cereal box type)
• Scissors
• Coloured card, paper or felt to decorate
• Glue

Instructions:

Draw 2 circles onto your scrap card (the size depends on how big you want your pom poms to be, ours were about 5 inches diameter).

Draw 2 more circles just over half of the size of the first one's.

Cut them out carefully.

Cut a hole in the middle of the circles to form a donut shape.

To make it easier we cut in a kind of a six shape and made the hole bigger as we cut.

Put the circles together in pairs

Cut a quite long piece of wool off the ball, or you can use scraps as long as they are long enough to wrap around a few times.

Start wrapping the wool through the hole in the middle of the card and around the outside.

Keep wrapping wool around untill the whole in the middle is almost full.

Try not to wrap it too tightly as this will make the next stage very hard!

Carefully with a pair of scissors poke the point into the outside edge of the circle.

Cut a small amount so you can see the card.

Cut around the circle with the point of the scissors between the card.

They should look like this!

Cut a lenth of wool and tie it around the pom pom, inbetween the two pieces of card.

Pull it tight and do a double knot.

Now you can remove the cardboard circles.

Give your pom pom a shake and a quick fluff up and trim off any straggly bits.

Tie the two pom poms together.

We decided to turn these pom poms into a tiger but you can make lots of other things too.

Using the coloured card, paper of felt decorate your pom poms with eyes, ears, noses or anything else you like.

Ok, so it doesn't look like a very fierce tiger, but very cute!