One of the most favored crafts to make is the tissue paper pom poms. They can be made to be used in several ways. These include hanging them from the ceiling, or using them to cheer the home team to victory like a cheerleader. These are two separate and distinct ways to have fun with tissue paper crafts. Children will especially love to help out making these. Make a bunch and string them up for a lively and festive look to any birthday party, bridal shower or baby shower. As holiday decorations, they are a big hit and easy to create.
The pom poms that open up into beautiful colorful paper balls can follow the same patterns used in making tissue flowers, except they are not place on pipe cleaner stems or plastic straws and stuck into vases for display. Rather, these poms can be made on a greater scale than their smaller counterparts and be suspended from the ceiling as decorations.
The materials for tissue paper pom poms that can be hung from the ceiling include a pair of scissors and floral wire, needle nose cutters and clear fishing lure line or long lengths of colorful wide ribbon. The tissue can be stacked into a variant degree of color for a tie-dye look, or one or two colors for a feeling of depth to the pom poms. The tissue is then cut in half. The rule of thumb is that the bigger the pom the wider the sheets of tissue paper.
Starting with one end of the paper, it should be folded together like an accordion. A fan-like pattern should emerge. Remember to crease down the sides of the tissue to sharpen the edges. A piece of floral wire, which has been cut into a two-inch piece, should be wrapped tightly around the center of the work piece. The tissue pom poms can be opened up fully into a ball shape and attached to a long piece of fishing wire, which is tied to the floral wire to aide in the suspension of it from the ceiling.
The cheerleader pom poms are created using smaller strips of stacked tissue paper, instead of two separate and even halves of tissue. Materials for the pom poms are simply a couple of rolls of colorful ribbons, large sheets of tissue paper and some sharp scissors and floral wire. The paper can be stacked together in the desired color scheme and cut into long strips which are even in length.
These strips are bond together with floral wire and a ribbon is wrapped around one end of the pom poms. A ribbon can also be used to make a loop handle for the pom poms. This pattern for tissue paper pom poms calls for at least fifty or more strips of tissue paper, but the end results are well worth cutting and binding the strips together.
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