Everyone loves soft toys: both kids and adults. Bears, bunnies, cats and other animals take pride of place on shelves in the closet. Many mothers needlewomen knit soft toys on their own. But not everyone knows that such things can be made from yarn in a completely different way. Do you want to know? Then, dear craftswomen, this article is especially for you. We will acquaint you with such a direction in needlework as making a toy from pompons with your own hands.
Surely every knitter in the bins has small balls with the remains of yarn. You can’t tie a large product from them, but it’s a pity to throw it away. Exactly such "wealth" will come in handy for performing soft crafts. So, we invite you to joint creativity. Learn information on how to make toys from pompons, admire photos of finished products and recharge your inspiration.
Preparation of materials and tools
To make toys, you first need to perform pompons. A description of this process will be presented later, and now we will talk about what is needed to work. So you will need:
- yarn;
- a sheet of cardboard;
- compass;
- scissors;
- pencil.
Making toys from pompons
With your own hands, you first need to make a fluffy ball of yarn. It is this detail that is the basis for this type of toy. The first thing that is required is to execute the template. Using a compass, draw a circle on the cardboard. Its diameter will be equal to the size of the pompom. Inside the large circle, outline the same small figure (approximately 2-3 centimeters in diameter). Fold the cardboard in half and cut two identical pieces. On one side, cut through each part. The photo above shows how the template should look.
The next step is winding the threads. Lay the circles one on top of another and wind the yarn tightly and evenly over the entire surface of the pattern. It should be noted that the tangle that you take for work should not be large, otherwise it will not crawl through the internal hole of the template. Consider this point: the thicker the layer of thread you wrap, the more magnificent and beautiful the ball will turn out. For the manufacture of toys from pom-poms with your own hands, just such details are needed.
Next, carefully cut the scissors in a circle in a circle around the outer edge of the product. Between the cardboard circles, put a piece of yarn, tighten it and fasten the knot. It should turn out so that the whole bunch of threads from which the main part of the pompom is made is tied exactly in the middle. Now remove the pattern, and straighten the soft ball. That's all. One pompon is ready!
Other ways to make balls of yarn
Craftswomen make some of the pom-pom toys with small hands from round parts. Most often, such elements serve as paws, ears, noses of animals. How to make a small ball? It is almost impossible to make it on a cardboard template. The needlewomen came up with a different elementary method. Take an ordinary fork and wrap yarn around the teeth with a tight ring. Then enter the scissors under the layer of thread and cut them in one place. Tie the bundle in the middle in the same way as described above. Spread the little pompon.
For those who do not want to tinker with the execution of templates each time, we recommend that you purchase a special device for making pompons in the needlework store. It consists of four plastic molds. Clips allow you to configure the device to make balls of thread of different diameters.
Soft toys from pompons. Workshop on making chicken
So, you learned how to do the basic details. How to make out figures of your favorite fairy-tale or cartoon characters from them? We will tell you now! Consider the whole process on the example of making chicken - a fun toy from pompons.
Instruction manual
From yellow yarn, make two balls of different sizes. Sew these parts together. Attach two dark beads to the small pompom that serves as the head of the toy. These are the eyes of the chicken. From the orange or red felt, cut out two triangular parts, from them form a beak. On the pompom, which is larger (serves as the body), sew wings made of felt or feather. Now make the paws.
Cut out an oval from cardboard, paste over it with orange felt (or any other cloth). Attach a chicken to this stand. So the toy will be stable. A soft figure can be supplemented with decorative elements: a hat, a bow, a bow tie.
Caterpillar made of colored pompons. How to make such a soft toy?
Make six identical-sized balls of yarn of different colors and one slightly larger than the rest. This large pompom will serve as the head of the caterpillar. Tie the pieces together at the ends of the threads that bundles were tied during the formation of the balls. If you cut them off - it doesn’t matter. Pompons can be sewn together. Make buttons out of buttons or beads. Next, follow the foot. To do this, weave braids from threads or crochet chains of air loops about 8-10 centimeters in size. Two such blanks are required for each ball. Fold them in half and sew on to the pompons below. You can put a bead on each foot.
Such a caterpillar will definitely please the baby. It will perform not only a game function, but also a development one. Why? During manipulations with such an object, the baby learns to distinguish colors, develops fine motor skills of hands, tactile sensations. So, dear mother-needlewomen, literally in an hour you can make a toy that is not only beautiful, but also very useful for your baby.
In this article, we told you about how to make toys from pompons. Based on the described principle of the chicken and caterpillar, you can come up with and create figures of other heroes. We wish you pleasant minutes of creativity! And let your labors be rewarded with the enthusiastic look and happy smile of the child when he takes in his hands a toy made by his beloved mom!