We made nature pom poms today. I’m not sure why, I think it was because I wanted to see if it was possible. Plus, if it worked, I knew they’d look great and they did!
Make Nature Pom Poms:
- Long grass
- Cardboard
- Fishing line
- String
- Scissors
I can tell you that lomandras or anything thicker and less flexible than grass won’t work. Why, you ask? Well, I tried and it failed miserably. Grass was much easier to weave and like wool/yarn it was easier to manipulate into a pom pom.
Our first activity was collecting some long green grass.
You don’t really need to print a pom pom template for this craft. All you need to do is put two pieces of cardboard on top of each other, (we recycled a cereal box for our cardboard) then cut out a circle and cut another circle out of the middle of that circle. See the image below. Easy!
Next, hold onto the end of the grass while you wrap the grass strand through the hole and around the outside circle and through the hole again. Keep threading it over and over until there’s no more grass strand left. Do the same thing with more grass strands. The more grass you wrap around the cardboard the thicker the pom pom will become.
If you like this activity, you’ll love learning to braid grass too!
Once you can’t wrap anymore grass through the hole, get your scissors in between the two cardboard pieces and cut around it, cutting the grass wrapped there (see image below). Now it’s time to squish the grass back towards the cardboard. In between the two pieces of cardboard, wrap and tie the fishing line around the grass.
Take the cardboard pieces off and squish the grass again and give the pom pom a little trim if there’s a few uneven areas. Tie a bit of string onto the fishing line and viola nature pom poms!
Check out the fun we had!
Have you made pom poms using material other than wool yarn?
More grass activities
What a fabulous idea!! I would have never thought to make pompoms from grass. Love it! Something to add to my to do list. Thanks Penny!
Nawww, thanks Janice. I had a few trial and errors for this one. Lomandras certainly don’t work! My grass one’s are still looking great just losing their colour.
Love grass pom poms but hate fishing line . Fishing line kills so many animals and birds.please avoid it at all costs.
Thanks Sharron, that’s a great point. Mine was recycled fishing line and I deposed of it properly when we were finished with the craft. xx
You were certainly right about that – they look awesome! Makes me want to let the grass in our yard grow tall so we can try it. Don’t think hubby will agree, lol!
Perhaps you can steal some grass from someone else’s not-so-manicured yard.
These are truly lovely, Penny. My girls will really enjoy making them. Pinning! x
Thanks Bron. They were really fun to make. Give ’em a good squish and they’ll turn out lovely.
This is so cool!