Making toys from pompons

From the leftover yarn for knitting, many multi-colored fluffy pom-poms can be made. They are easy to make in the form of balls of different sizes, and then assemble simple and pleasant to the touch toys for children or interior decorations.

To prepare the required number of pom-poms for crafts, you need to prepare two circles of thick cardboard with holes in the center separately for each size. When making a funny New Year's snowman, you need to use 3 pairs of cardboard bagels with different diameters, depending on the total size of the toy. They should resemble snowballs, so you should use white or slightly bluish threads. To create a craft, you will need the following materials.

• Fluffy yarn reminiscent of snow in color and texture.
• Multi-colored pieces of felt for carrots and other attributes.
• Strong sewing thread in base yarn color.
• Sintepon or holofiber in a small amount.
• Red and blue beads.
• Two beads to represent the eyes.
• Wire for the frame.
• Instant adhesive and silicone.
• A piece of thick cardboard for making tori.
• Sewing needles and scissors.

A sample of a soft toy can be made from rings of 3 diameters, for example, 8, 6 and 4 cm, according to the proportions of snowballs, from which figures are usually made in nature. The step-by-step procedure for making a snowman from pompons with your own hands is very simple. 2 rings of each diameter must be folded in pairs and wrapped with fluffy thread. To make the toy more voluminous and denser, you should wind more yarn.Having cut the threads along the edge of the circle, you need to move 2 circles apart a little and fasten the yarn between them with a pre-prepared strong braid.

Having fastened the middle of the fluffy ball with a knot, you can trim individual protruding threads with scissors so that the pompom looks like a neat snowball. Having prepared the required number of parts, you can assemble the prepared pom-poms according to a simple scheme, when the largest is at the bottom and the smallest is at the top. You can connect the edges of the pom-poms with a heated glue gun, and you can give a vertical shape to the snowman using a wire frame threaded through the centers of the snowballs. Putting beads for the eyes on the needle one by one, you also need to apply glue to them, and put them on one side of the upper ball. A carrot-shaped nose, wire-arm mittens, and a hat can be made from colorful waste felt or other dense material.

A very quick result can be obtained by making chicken-shaped pom-poms. To do this, you need a piece of thick cardboard to make two circles with holes in the middle, yellow fluffy yarn and a thick thread of the same color. There are two different options for making chickens from pompons - for the first one you need to prepare one fluffy yellow ball, and for the other - 2, but of different diameters, separately for the body and for the head. From red felt, you can cut out the legs and small combs of chicks according to the drawn pattern. A single-pom-pom chick can be made sitting on red cardboard legs, and a two-piece toy can be shaped like a legged chick using a wire frame. Visible sections of the wire are wrapped with thick threads to match the material from which the legs will be made. The front part of the crafts should be highlighted with bead eyes and small felt or thick red cardboard beaks. All small parts are well attached to the threads of the pom-poms with the help of heated silicone.

Many experienced needlewomen use special pom-pom-making tools, which can be purchased on special sites or in stores that sell knitting and needlework materials. They are pom-pom-makers or a kind of forks in the form of a round plastic blank, with two outlets from different sides. Many layers of yarn are also wound on them, then cut along the edge of the circle, and the pompom is tied in the middle with a strong sewing thread or ribbon.

Having prepared 2-3 pompons of different sizes with the help of simple devices, you can, together with your child, assemble a simple toy in the form of a dog. The largest detail will be useful for the torso, the smaller ball will suit the head, and the smallest pompom will represent a round ponytail. For work, you need to take threads of suitable colors, scissors, needles, glue, pieces of soft cloth for making ears, muzzle and paws of a dog. The eyes and nose of the craft can be made from beads or leather.

Lovers of home crafts always have a lot of waste of beautiful yarn, pieces of fabric, leather or felt in stock, the use of which can be found by making pleasant to the touch, beautiful and unusual toys from pompons. Some craftswomen use cardboard to make fluffy balls, others prefer ready-made plastic pom-pom-makers, and still others use a very simple method, winding a thick layer of thread around their palm. Having removed the resulting skein of yarn from your hand, it is tightly tied in the middle and cut off along the edges, then trimming the resulting ball on all sides.

From pompons, you can make whole garlands to decorate objects or walls in the interior. Fluffy soft balls of different colors and diameters are connected in the form of wreaths, a solid canvas or long pendants. They can be used to make original wall tapestries in the form of clouds, green lawns with flowers or a snowy landscape. You can decorate chairs, chairs and stools with pompoms.

Numerous photo examples from the Internet, which many use for inspiration, can become interesting ideas for decorations for the New Year holidays. These can be fluffy snowflakes, fairy-tale characters, the already mentioned snowmen and much more, and all this can be made from various pom-poms.

For example, You can make a small Christmas tree yourself, while teaching children various actions with threads, glue and other materials at hand. Even a young child will be able to cope with wrapping threads on cardboard bagels if adults are there and help with further work on crafts.

To make a Christmas tree, you should prepare a reliable cardboard cone or a wire frame with a stable leg. With regard to the color of the New Year's symbol, everyone can show their imagination and choose both traditional green and silver or bluish colors. It is better to take coarse yarn so that it keeps its shape well even after attaching the jewelry. When choosing a tapered frame glued from cardboard, balls can be glued to its surface with silicone glue, covering the entire outer plane of the base. If the device of the Christmas tree is based on a wire frame, then you need to prepare several pompons of different diameters in order to string them on the rack - starting with the largest at the bottom and ending with the smallest at the top. This final pom-pom can be made with red or silver threads for a festive Christmas tree top right off the bat.

Under the tree made of pompons, you can place Santa Claus, made of white yarn, with the traditional attributes of red felt. And under the Christmas tree, a child can expect an unusual gift in the form of a fluffy bunny made of pompons from older family members. Fluffy animals are obtained from a large pom-pom for the body, a smaller ball for the head, two smaller balls for the ears, and the smallest one for the tail.

Having shown a little artistic imagination, you can assemble toys in the form of a bear or a doll from pompons. All work on making crafts is done using silicone or instant glue, which holds the connected pom-poms in the desired shape for a long time and securely.