Craft for Fun - Pom Pom Flower

By PY. Images by PY and June Chan.


We showed some pictures of the colorful floral pom pom last week. Today, we will show you the tutorial to make these lovely pom pom flowers. 

Materials

(1) Tissue papers  x 8 sheets

You will need 8 sheets for 1 floral pom pom.

You can choose any colors that you like. You can even combine different color of tissue papers for 1 pom pom flower. 

In terms of size, we are making a huge pom pom flower (20 x 30 inches)

You can adjust the size. Use smaller sheet of papers to make smaller flower. 

If you are making a very small pom pom flower, you can reduce the tissue paper to 6 sheets. 

You can purchase the tissue papers from Art Friend (The Garden) or any other craft stores near by.

You can also purchase it from Box2Pac, a local online store. 

(2) Scissors

(3) Baker's Twine 

Other than bakers twine (which could be quite pricy), you can also use tiny cable tie or cotton string. 

Once you are done with Step 6, you can actually leave it until you need to hang the pom pom flower. It would be quite handy when you need to make 10 pom poms. Instead of bringing 10 huge floral pom poms to the decor site, you can bring a small bag that contain 10 folded tissue papers. You may proceed to Step 7 when you need to hang them. 

Steps

Step 1, 2 and 3
Stack 8 sheets of tissue papers together (size: 20 x 30 inches)
Make 1.5 inches wide accordion fold.
Crease the folds.

Step 4.
Fold the tissue papers in half.

Step 5. 
Tie a bakers twine in the middle.

Step 6. 
Trim the edge. (Rounded or pointy shapes are both popular. My personal favorite is rounded edge)

Step 7
Pulling the sheets away from center. (Layer by layer.)

(a) If you would like a rounded flower to hang from the ceiling, please make sure that you are pulling towards 2 opposite directions from the center.

(b) If you intend to stick it to the decor wall/prop wall to become wall flowers, you can pull the sheets towards only 1 direction.

WIP (work in progress). Half way through Step 7(b)

Step 8
(a) Tie an extra bakers twine to the one in the middle. Make sure the knot is tight. Hang it to the ceiling. The length of bakers twine will be determined by how low you would like it to be from the ceiling.

(b) Stick it to the prop wall with hot glue gun. If it is not a prop wall, use double sided sticky tack.

Here are 2 small pom pom flowers and 5 WIPs.
1 "WIP-half-way-through-Step 7(b)" and 4 "WIP-stops-at-Step 6"

My little note for the floral pom pom. 

Little artist, Baby G, adding colors to the white pom pom flower. She is 2 years 4 months old.

4 lovely pom pom flowers, ready to be sticked to the wall.

3 small flowers are colored by little artist, Baby G. ^u^
The big one is the collaboration of Baby G and her mummy.
Isn't it a fun children friendly craft?

Pom pom flowers are so fun to make! You can add a little spice to the look of your party by choosing your preference of colors. 

You can even make it a children friendly activity for your kids' party. All kids can color the pom pom flowers together (by themselves or with their parents). The party host can collect all pom pom flowers and stick these colorful flowers to the wall! Now you have a 100% handmade photo booth. Snap some pictures and cherish the wonderful moments with your kids and friends!