Make your Valentine’s Day cards stand out this year with Meyamo’s pom-pom creatures and card templates. Create a pom-pom heart, caterpillar, sheep or even an alien to gift on its own or together with our fun personalizable cards. The pom-poms are a great way to use up leftover yarn from knitting projects and get the kids involved.
Download Valentine’s pom-pom template.
Instructions to make the pom-pom:
Step 1: Cut two circles of cardstock to the size indicated on the template. Then, cut out the inner circle of each.
* To make a mouse, bunny or another animal with a head and body, make two pom-poms of different sizes.
Step 2: Put two same sized circles together and wrap with yarn as shown in the photo. If you run out of yarn before you finish wrapping, you can tie on a new piece and keep going.
* Using a yarn needle with a rounded point will make this process easier. The more yarn that you add, the fluffier your pom-pom will be. You can also try wrapping with more than one strand of yarn at a time to make the process go faster.
Step 3: Once you finish wrapping your circle with yarn completely, tie a knot. Then cut the yarn around the perimeter of the circle.
Step 4: Separate the cardstock circles at the inside of the pom-pom. Pass a string of yarn between them and tie a tight knot several times at the center of the pom-pom.
Step 5: Cut the cardstock circles to pull them out of the pom-pom.
Ready! Now you can add eyes, antennas, ears and other accessories to make your Valentine’s Day creature. Stick it onto a card or add one of our labels to make a gift.
Tips
– Bee: To make the bee, cover the cardstock circle completely once with yellow yarn. Then, use black yarn for the second time around. This will add the colored lines to your pom-pom to make the bee.
– Heart: To make the heart, make a regular pom-pom and then carefully trim the sides to form the shape of a heart.
Instructions to make the pom-pom cards:
Step 1: Print the template on white cardstock or regular paper. If you print it on regular paper, glue it onto cardstock later to make it more rigid to support the pom-pom.
Step 2: Choose the template that you like. Make a little hole in the center of the figure where you want to put the pom-pom.
Step 3: Have fun decorating the card with color or valentine messages.
Step 4: Tie a piece of yarn to the pom-pom. Then pass the thread through the hole in the card, making a knot on the reverse side to attach it.
Ready! Gift your personalized card on Valentine’s Day.
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February 1, 2011 at 9:38 pm
creativejewishmom/sara
Adorable! Thanks so much for sharing on Craft Schooling Sunday, a nice surprise to see you, and hope you’ll be back again soon!
February 2, 2011 at 2:57 pm
Ginger
How cute! Thanks for linking up to Mad Skills Monday!
February 3, 2011 at 12:24 am
Kerri
My little one loves bees right now! I may give it a try! Thanks for sharing! Kerri
February 3, 2011 at 2:52 am
Nikki
Those ARE soooo CUTE!!!!! Thanks so much for linking them up to gettin’ crafty on hump day! 🙂
February 4, 2011 at 2:55 am
heidi@TheCraftMonkey
Oh those are SOOO cute! LOVE them!
February 4, 2011 at 11:27 pm
Jenn Erickson/Rook No. 17
Those are just about the sweetest valentines I’ve ever seen. I guess you could say I have a “soft” spot for homemade pompom crafts. So glad I saw your linkup at “Fun To Craft”.
Jenn/Rook No. 17
February 16, 2011 at 8:41 pm
Marie
These are amazing. How easy is this method?! I’m downloading your template now and making something fun for next week. I’ll be sure to link to you!
February 22, 2011 at 4:25 pm
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[…] are a lot of ways to make these, but to make them a super small and the perfect size, I used the pom pom tutorial from Meyamo. I printed out her template for winding the yarn around, cutting, and tying. I used the […]
February 23, 2011 at 7:31 pm
Uma S
Thanks for this lovely craft idea. I love it and am going to make some with my kids!!!
I am sharing this on my FB fan page KidzExcel Bay Area.
March 8, 2011 at 4:59 pm
Maria Cecilia Barreto Ferreira
Obrigada, não falo nem leio teu idioma, mas consegui entender direitinho o passo a passo, valeu! Bjs