Here in New England, we are all convinced that Spring will never come. The calendar tells us it has arrived today, but looking out of the window everything is snow and mud and gray and cold!
So yesterday on our free Wednesday Craft Day, we thought we would add a little green to our lives by making trees out of pom-poms. We love pom-poms–making them, playing with them, glueing them together to make bigger poms-poms, on hats, on mittens…you get the idea. We had seen such a tree during our visit to the NY Toy Fair in February, on the stand of the folks who invented Loopdedoo (you know, the cool bracelet machine–if you don’t know it, check it out!) Anyway, they were crazy about pom-poms too, and we just thought it would be fun to make our own.
The first thing we did was dig through our yarn and fiber stash for all things green.
Pretty good selection! It really doesn’t matter what you use or what weight it is. We liked using a variety of different yarns in various colors, that made differently textured pom-poms (note: the big, full, round pom-poms take a suprising amount of yarn).
We then wound them around our niddy-noddy to form a long skein (winding it around a big piece of cardboard or some chairs would work just as well), which we then tied at intervals tightly.
Then we cut into the center of each section (between the ties) and look–a pom-pom!!
You can make them larger, smaller and trim them to every shape and form.
Then we cut out some cardboard to resemble a tree top, chose a small branch as a stem, and started glueing the pom-poms onto the cardboard with hot glue.
Finally we made a base with some cardboard and a small piece of thicker branch with a hole drilled through, adding some Leicester Longwool dyed curly locks to the base to cover the cardboard.
Done!! We did another, smaller version and added tiny little red pom-poms–an apple tree!!
And look how great they look on the piano:
It was an incredibly fun afternoon spent crafting, and today we are getting out our Ostheimer figures and playing with the new trees in front of the fire since…guess what?…yup, it’s snowing outside!
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