Show us your Pom Poms! 

Get into the Aussie spirit with this fun little craft project. Super easy, and cheap to make!

What you’ll need…
– red, white & blue tissue paper
– twine or ribbon
– scissors
– stapler

How to… 

  1. Fold your paper in half 3 times until you have a rectangle approximately  7″ x 10″ as shown above. Cut along the folds until you have 8 pieces. If using a different size tissue paper, simply cut into 7″ x 10″ rectangles. Repeat for red, white & blue tissue paper.
  2. Take two cut sheets of each colour and layer on top of each other: red, white, blue, red, white, blue.
  3. Folding horizontally along the short end of the rectangle, create an accordion fold about and inch think along the tissue paper sheets. You should be flipping the tissue paper over with each fold to create the accordion fold as seen in Image 4 above.
  4. Pinching the folded tissue paper together, staple once in the centre to secure all of the layers in place.
  5. Flip the accordioned tissue paper over, and centre your twine or ribbon over the backside of the centre staple. Staple again to secure the twine or ribbon to your folded tissue paper layers.
  6. Trim each end of your folded pom into a point, as shown in Image 6 above.
  7. Fan out one half of the folded pom, and gently pull each layer of tissue paper away from the centre to fluff. Repeat for all layers of tissue paper on both the top and bottom half of each pom. You should have a pretty, round, mini-pom once you’re done!
  8. Repeat Steps 1-4 to create the next accordion pom. To make one continuous garland, simply measure the amount of space you would like between poms (I left above 8″) before directly stapling the folded pom to your twine or ribbon. Repeat Step 6 & 7 to finish each pom. Keep going until your red, white and blue pom garland reaches the desired length!

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