Surely you have often admired the beautiful decoration of holiday rooms in the form of lush paper balls. This type of decor is paper pompons. With your own hands, each of you can make such beauty. Read the instructions for their manufacture, presented in this article, and see for yourself.
Learning to make paper pompons. Master class for beginners
To make a paper ball you will need the following tools and materials:
- large scissors;
- thin wire;
- corrugated, tissue or crepe paper;
- fishing line or braid.
How to make paper pompons with your own hands? Description of the work process
- Cut a roll of paper into pieces the size of a landscape page, approximately 20x30 centimeters. To complete one ball, eight such blanks will be needed. Fold each sheet on the principle of a fan with a bend width of 2 centimeters. Thus, complete all the details. You should get eight accordions.
- Fold all the blanks on top of each other, aligning the edges. Fold the product in half and outline the middle (bend point). Tie the paper in this place with wire, tightly twisting it. Keep in mind that the material from which the product is made is very thin and can easily tear. Therefore, be extremely careful when working with wire and scissors. Alternatively, you can bandage the workpiece with a dense thread.
- Pull a fishing line or braid through this mount, forming a loop over which the product will subsequently be suspended.
- Cut the edges of the paper blank in a semicircle or triangle. If you design the product in the first way, then the pompom will have rounded “petals”. Sharp tips will be obtained if the edge is performed by the second method.
- Carefully “fluff” each layer of paper, lifting it from the center and forming a magnificent ball. If the petals do not want to stand straight and fall, then they can be grabbed together with glue in several places. But there should be literally a couple of drops of this material, otherwise the product will lose its airiness and lightness.
Now you know how to make paper pompons. Having spent only half an hour of your time, you can make your own original and very beautiful product.
Some more useful tips for those who for the first time make DIY paper pompons
Reducing or increasing the size of the blanks, as a result you get balls of different sizes. The number of sheets of paper can also be changed as desired. Consider the fact that the more "harmonica" you make, the larger and more magnificent the pompom will turn out. If you introduce sheets of paper of different colors into one product, then the ball will turn out bright and colorful.
Where to use paper-made pompons made by yourself?
There are actually a lot of ideas. These large accessories can be a wonderful decoration in the room. If you hang several multi-colored pompons of different sizes on a fishing line and hang it on a wall or staircase, then this will turn out to be a bright garland. Today it has become fashionable to decorate wedding cars with such paper balls. Small pomponchiki can decorate the festive table by attaching them to the legs of glasses, the necks of bottles with drinks, decorating them with holder rings for napkins. And these are far from all ideas where paper balls can be used. Imagine, create and decorate your life with bright and cute little things.