You only need yarn and a piece of cardboard from your recycling to make this super cute pom pom! It's an inexpensive way to make one of these cute and fuzzy accessories.
Active Time15 minutesmins
Total Time15 minutesmins
Yield: 1pompom
Cost: $1
Equipment
Cardboard (cut to 4 x 7 inches, or size of choice)
Grab a piece of cardboard from your recycling and cut a rectangle about 4 x 7 inches. The cardboard in a cereal box is not strong enough, so try to use heavy cardboard from something like a cardboard box. You can adjust the measurements to make a smaller or larger pompom.
Use scissors (regular scissors, not your fabric scissors!) to cut close to the middle on the short edge of the cardboard. Continue cutting about 2/3 of the way across.
Cut another parallel line about 1/2 inch away.
Cut off the 1/2 inch wide flap of cardboard.
Keep the yarn attached to the ball and begin wrapping it around the long side of the rectangle.Start wrapping the yarn at least 1/2 inch from the end of the hole in the middle. You need a gap there so you can tie the yarn around the loops later.
Wrap the yarn around the cardboard approximately 40 times. The next 2 steps will show how to make a multicolour pom pom. If you want to make a single colour pom pom, wrap the yarn approximately 140 times and skip ahead two steps.
Optional: To make a multi-coloured pom pom, leave the original yarn attached to the ball and wrap a second colour of yarn around the cardboard, over top of the first colour.Wrap colour two about 50 times before cutting it off.
Wrap the first colour another 50 times (for a total of 140 wraps, between the two colours) and cut off the yarn.
Cut a 10 inch piece of yarn.
Slide the 10 inch yarn through the gap in the cardboard.
Tie the yarn tight around the bundle and into a double knot.
Slide the yarn bundle off of the cardboard.
Using fabric scissors (or other sharp scissors), cut through the loops of yarn to create a rough pom pom shape.
Give the pom pom a "haircut", trimming and shaping it down.
Continue shaping the pom pom until it's an even and round ball shape.
Your yarn pom pom made with a cardboard rectangle is complete!