Christmas Pom Poms

With Christmas just around the corner it was time to decorate the Homeroom tree. It’s not really a christmas tree, in fact it used to be part of a tree living in my garden at home, but I needed a way of displaying some wood artwork in the Homeroom and so the Balance Bush was born.

Pom poms are really easy to make. All you need are:

• wool (red and brown for robins/white for snowballs)
• scrap cardboard (old cereal boxes are ideal)
• scissors
• for the robin-glue/felt/wobbly eyes  (or you can use paper)

Instructions

Draw 2 circles onto your scrap card (the size depends on how big you want your pom poms to be, ours were about 4 inches diameter).

Cut them out carefully.

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

Put the circles together.

Cut quite a long piece of wool off the ball,  long enough to wrap around a few times.

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

If you are making a robin you will need to wrap a small section of the cards with red wool and the rest with brown, (see photos).

Keep wrapping wool around until the hole in the middle is almost full.

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.

Cut a length 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 trim to cut off any straggly bits.

For the robin you will need to add eyes and a beak. We also put a bit of ribbon on the snowballs.

So now the Balance Bush has been transformed into our beautiful christmas tree, and how cute are those robins!

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