Learn how to make a rainbow pompom wreath using yarn pom poms made by hand in rainbow colors, hot glue, and a wreath form!
Once you learn how to make yarn pom poms, a whole world of craft possibilities opens up!
You can make yarn ornaments, accessories with pompoms, and even pompom cacti, and DIY cork trees, just to name a few.
Today, we are going to make a rainbow pompom wreath, with handmade yarn pompoms, a styrofoam wreath form, and hot glue!
Here's how to do it!
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Why You'll Love This Craft
- Yarn is a craft room staple that you likely have lots of already.
- It comes in so many different colors, you can make yarn pompom wreaths for different occasions by varying the colors of yarn! Red, white and blue for the 4th of July, shades of green for St. Patrick's Day... Autumn colors for a Fall wreath, and red, green, and white yarn for Christmas!
- Making yarn pom poms, especially by hand, is meditative and mindless once you get the hang of it. That makes it the perfect project to work on while you're watching a show or movie.
Craft Supplies Needed
- Yarn - Medium-weight yarn works best for making pompoms, and is usually the cheapest option too!
- Wreath Form - I used a styrofoam wreath form for this project. You could also use a grapevine or straw wreath form as well.
- Scissors - For cutting the yarn to make pompoms.
- Hot Glue Gun and Glue - If you are using a styrofoam wreath, be wary of full-sized, super hot glue guns. These can melt the styrofoam. I have a Hart cordless glue gun that gets so hot that it melts styrofoam very easily. Instead, I use a mini hi-temp hot glue gun for temperature-sensitive projects like this.
How to Make a Rainbow Pompom Wreath
Step 1: Using this handmade yarn pom pom tutorial, make a bunch of pompoms in rainbow colors.
Make multiple sizes of pompoms - large, medium, and small, in all of the colors you're going to use.
Trim the pompoms into balls, and cut off the tie-string tails.
Step 2: Hot glue yarn pompoms onto the wreath form in a staggered arrangement.
Keep poms of the same color away from each other so the colors are varied, and vary the sizes of pom poms too.
Step 3. Glue pom poms onto the inner and outer edges to give the wreath a beautiful full appearance.
Step 4: Tie a loop in a piece of twine.
Step 5: Decide which way you want your wreath to be oriented; choose which is the top.
Hot glue the twine hanging loop to the back of the top of the wreath.
Step 6. The rainbow pom pom wreath is ready to hang up on the wall or door!
Common Questions
Through lots of trial and error, I discovered that medium-weight yarn seems to make the best pompoms. This is great news because medium-weight yarn is usually the cheapest option too! And it comes in so many different colors which means it is easy to customize your wreath by carefully choosing the perfect colors.
You can use a pom pom maker for your yarn pom poms if you want to! I wrote a tutorial about that process.
Another option is to make yarn pom poms by hand, using the method I outlined in a tutorial. I prefer the by-hand method because I think it's faster and easier than using a pom pom maker. But either way works great!
You can make as big of a pom pom wreath as you want, you just have to find a wreath form that size to glue the pom poms to! They sell an 18" diameter styrofoam wreath on Amazon, which is about the biggest I was able to find. And there are many smaller sizes readily available.
Making yarn pom poms by hand is a labor of love, especially as many as we needed to make this beautiful rainbow pompom wreath.
However, it's the perfect craft project to do while watching a movie or catching up on a TV series.
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How to Make a Rainbow Pompom Wreath
Materials
- Yarn
- Wreath Form (You can buy them on Amazon or from craft stores.)
- Scissors
- Hot Glue Gun and Glue
Instructions
- Using this handmade yarn pom pom tutorial, make a bunch of pompoms in rainbow colors. Make multiple sizes of pompoms - large, medium, and small, in all of the colors you're going to use.Trim the pompoms into balls, and cut off the tie-string tails.
- Hot glue yarn pompoms onto the wreath form in a staggered arrangement.Keep poms of the same color away from each other so the colors are varied, and vary the sizes of pom poms too.
- Glue pom poms onto the inner and outer edges to give the wreath a beautiful full appearance.
- Tie a loop in a piece of twine.
- Decide which way you want your wreath to be oriented; choose which is the top.Hot glue the twine hanging loop to the back of the top of the wreath.
- The rainbow pom pom wreath is ready to hang up on the wall or door!
Notes
- Use medium-weight yarn to make yarn pom-poms. This works the best, and is also the cheapest option (with the most color choices!)
- You can use a pom pom maker to make the yarn pom poms, or make them using the by-hand pom pom method.
- You can make any sized wreath as long as you can find a wreath form in the diameter you need. I saw styrofoam wreath forms up to 18" in diameter on Amazon.
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