What could be cuter than a pompom critter? A pocket-sized one, of course! Master crafter Sachiyo Ishii's irresistible collection of animals, birds, and insects will have you squealing with delight. With beautiful photographs to show off these charming pompom creations, this is sure to delight young and old alike. Sachiyo’s delightful designs include a ladybird, a fox, a hummingbird, a hamster, a dolphin and a hedgehog. You can be up-to-the-minute with plastic pompom makers or keep it traditional with the cardboard ring technique. Learn how to make the pompoms, attach them to each other and needle felt on features such as faces, ears, arms and legs adding the features is where their characters really come to life! All the pompoms can be made from scraps of yarn in your stash and each design uses only small amounts. ![]() With sections on materials, tools and basic techniques, you have all you need to get you started. What could be cuter than a woolly pompom creature? With Sachiyo Ishii’s ridiculously loveable pocket-size creations, you have all the ingredients of a fabulous, fun book! There are 35 imaginative designs for animals, birds, sea creatures, bees and other insects accompanied by clear, step-by step instructions. Want to share this tutorial with your friends? Just click any of the share buttons on the left to share with Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, etc.35 cute pompom animals, birds, sea creatures and insects to make. They’re so quick and easy to make you should make a bunch! Cut a small triangle out of orange felt for the beak and glue it on under the googly eyes. Glue the feet onto the bottom of the pom pom so that the tips of the “toes” just stick out past the pom pom body. Then cut a small “bunny ears” shape out of the orange felt to use as the feet. Once your pom pom is ball shaped, it’s time to add the chick features! Start by hot gluing two googly eyes onto the pom pom. This part gets pretty messy with all the yarn trimmings, so do it over a trash can or on a table you can easily wipe clean later. Take your scissors and carefully trim the ends of the yarn until your pom pom is circular. You’ll end up with a kinda lumpy wannabe pom pom, but don’t worry, we can fix it! Take your scissors and carefully cut through all of the loops on either side of the center tie. ![]() Pull the yarn around the center super tight and tie it in a knot to hold the yarn loops in place. Once you have enough yarn, carefully remove the yarn from your fingers and wrap another piece of yarn around the middle of the loops. The more yarn you use the “poofier” the pom pom will be! For these pom poms I did maybe fifty wraps with my yarn. Keep wrapping until you have a nice thick amount of yarn around your fingers. The first step is to make pom poms! If you haven’t made them before, they’re really simple! Start by wrapping a piece of yarn around a few of your fingers. They’re so quick and easy to make, and they turned out so cute! Plus they’re a great craft for kids to help with! As long as an adult supervises the hot glue portion, the rest is totally kid-friendly! How To Make Pom Pom Chicks For Easter ![]() Easter is almost upon us and I love seeing all of the adorable Easter decor the bunnies, chicks, and carrots are all just too cute! I already made some super cute curious bunny flower pots for Easter this year, but I wanted to add some chicks to my decor as well, so I spent a few minutes this weekend making these adorable Easter pom pom chicks!
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