Crafts and Such

How to make pompom balls and hang them on your walls.

Start by finding some scrap cardboard or paperboard around your house. Trace something round like a container of mod podge or a giant yogurt container or a small bowl on top of the board with a pencil. Then, trace something slightly smaller and round inside of that circle, like an old film canister from back in the days of actual film, or a glue stick, or maybe a container of lip balm.

Trace two of these doughnut like things and cut them out. Then, line up your yarn cut into maybe 20 or more strips the length from fingertip to shoulder.  You can keep it all one color or make multi-colored balls just make sure that they're bunched together nicely for the next steps.

Put the bunch of yarn through both rings of board and wind it around and around until the two paper doughnuts are completely covered. 

Trim the excess. 

Stick the scissors in between the two doughnuts and carefully, making sure that you keep the string close to the board so that the string doesn't come apart from the bunch, cut all the way around the circumference of the circle.

Lastly, take a piece of string and place it between the doughnut boards and tie a knot. Carefully take off the doughnut rings and you can tie this string to other pompom balls and make a chain. As soon as your chain is ready, you can attach some small 3m hooks to the wall and go balls to the walls!