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Pom Pom Craft Activity – Cute Faces

These cute pom pom creatures are quick and easy to make. Pom pom crafts also require only a few resources, so this activity shouldn’t get too messy!

Pom Pom Craft

They have lots of potential uses including visual prompts for creative storytelling, puppet show characters, table mascots for the classroom, and even tree decorations.

Opportunities for learning:

  • To recognise and describe different feelings and emotions.
  • To describe colours and features.
  • Development of fine motor skills.

What you’ll need:

  • A selection of different coloured yarns.
  • Pom-pom makers (a variety of sizes if possible)
  • Pipe cleaners (if you want your character to have headphones)
  • Googley eyes
  • Mini pom-poms
  • The mouth shapes printable
  • A glue gun or sticky glue dots

Tip:
Ask a keen knitter if they have any left over wool from their projects, as you only need a small amount to make pom-poms.

Making the pom pom

Wrap yarn around the pom pom maker.

To begin, select a colour of yarn and wrap it around the pom-pom maker. Aim to get even coverage. Next, repeat this process on the other half of the pom-pom maker.

Repeat the process on the other half of the pom-pom maker and close the pom pom maker together.

Close the pom pom maker.

Using a small pair of scissors, carefully cut into the wool along the centre half until you can see the exposed inside plastic edge of the two halves.

Tie a knot.

Next, wrap a piece of wool twice around the centre of the pom-pom maker and tie a tight knot. This will hold it together.

Pull the edges of the pom-pom maker away to reveal your pom-pom. If you need to, trim any strands that are too long.

Trim the pom pom.

Decorating your pom pom

Now you’re ready to decorate your pom-pom and turn it into a head. Add googley eyes and mini pom poms (for ears or a nose) with a glue gun. In order to save time, we’ve provided a printable sheet with some different faces which you could print out and glue on. However, feel free to draw your own (Ideally, these would be laminated to protect them if you have access to a laminator). Headphones or earmuffs can be made by simply glueing a piece of pipe cleaner and two mini pom-poms.

Pompom-face-stickersDownload
Glue the eyes on.

You could also use the mini pom-poms for eyes or ears if you want (They make great monkey ears!).

Finished pom pom craft.

Extension Ideas:

  • To incorporate the characters from your pom pom craft into a stop-motion animation.
  • To write a short story involving the pom pom characters (give them names and a back story).

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