Crafts Your Children Can Do With Yarn Balls And Pompoms
Crafts are excellent for giving children the chance to develop their creativity, ingenuity and imagination. In addition, there are all sorts of materials you can use: paper, cardboard, beads, cans, plastic bottles… But today we will focus specifically on using yarn balls and pompoms.
Yarn balls and pompoms have become very popular. And if you do not already have them at home, you can make your own! With just a little string or yarn in clear colors, you can create your own yarn balls in all possible shapes and sizes.
Crafts your kids can do with yarn balls and pompoms
Make a colorful caterpillar
Spring and summer are the perfect time of year to make your own caterpillars with yarn balls and pompoms. All you need is the following material:
- Three yarn balls or pompoms – choose which color you want
- A clothespin
- Glue
- A pair of moving plastic eyes
The first step is to glue your balls in a straight line along one side of the clothespin. Your kids can combine the colors just the way they want.
If you have plastic eyes, you can glue them to the sides of the first ball of yarn in the row so that your caterpillar comes to life.
By creating their own caterpillars and combining their favorite colors, your children will see these creatures in a new light. Take the opportunity to make the activity a fun lesson about the butterfly’s life cycle.
You can also read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and then continue drawing or creating a beautiful butterfly.
Decorate notebooks with an explosion of colors
Children usually have a good amount of school supplies, including several notebooks to write and count in. Therefore, you can encourage your children to decorate their notebooks with yarn balls and pompoms to keep boredom away.
Not only will it give them something fun and creative to do, but it will also serve to make the time they spend on homework a little more colorful and fun.
To do this craft you need the following materials:
- Several pompoms in different colors
- Glue
- The notebook you want to decorate
A Christmas tree, a simple craft to do with yarn balls and pompoms
We still have many months left before Christmas, but why would that stop you from celebrating? Christmas is such a magical time of year, and your children will love to think ahead and plan.
To get started, you need to gather the following materials:
- Yarn balls and pompoms, mostly green
- Glue
- Cardboard or stiff paper
This is one of the easiest activities that children can do on their own. First, they have to arrange their balls on the cardboard so that they form the shape of a Christmas tree. It may help to sketch the shape with a pencil in advance. Then they just need to put glue on one small ball at a time and place it in the right place.
More crafts your kids can do with yarn balls and pompoms
A frame with their initials
This is another great craft idea for using these little balls. In addition, it is something that you can then use to decorate your child’s bedroom, playroom or homework reading area.
To create a frame with their initials, all you need is the following:
- An empty photo frame
- Glue
- Yarn balls and pompoms in nice colors
If you do not happen to have an extra frame on hand, you can make your own with cardboard or stiff paper. Once you have your frame, there is only one thing left to do: glue the yarn balls in the shape of your child’s initials. The colors and sizes of the balls you use are up to you and your children.
Dot-to-dot for coloring
Do you remember the dot-to-dot activities you used to do when you were little? The ones where you would draw a line between different dots to create an image? In this craft activity, you do the same thing but use small balls of yarn to make the dots.
You can create simple drawings, such as an umbrella or a flower. Let different colored pompoms mark each part of the object’s contours.
When you have finished “drawing” your picture, your children can color it – with crayons or even more pompoms! This craft gives new life to classic children’s activities such as drawing and coloring.
All these crafts with yarn balls and pompoms are not only fun, but they also train a variety of abilities in children, such as coordination, fine motor skills, creativity, imagination, concentration, etc. It’s just to start doing things!
