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diy pom pom penguin craft

DIY Pom Pom Penguins

Looking for a fun winter craft? Try these DIY pom pom penguins!
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Equipment

Materials 

Instructions 

  • Cut an 8” piece of white yarn and place it between your middle finger and ring finger.
  • Keep this piece here.
  • Wrap the white yarn from your ball around all four of your fingers about 25-30 times. Cut the end.
  • Do the same with your black yarn but wrap it around about 40 times and cut the end.
  • Take the first piece of white yarn that we started with and pull one loose end between your middle finger and ring finger.
    Take the other loose end and tie the ends together tightly enough to keep all your yarn together.
  • Slide the yarn off your fingers.
  • Make sure it is tied tightly together. Tie it again if necessary.
  • Trim the ends for a neater look.
  • Cut each yarn loop right in the center to get a shaggy look.
  • Continue to do this all around the ball.
  • Start trimming your ball so that it looks neat and tidy and no longer shaggy.
  • Keep cutting all around the body until your ball looks neat and tidy.
  • Make your penguin’s head in the same way that you made the body. Wrap the yarn around 2 fingers instead of 4 so that the head is smaller than the body.
    Wrap the yarn 25 times and the black one 35 times. Tie it tightly, cut into the loops, and use your scissors to make the ball look neat and tidy.
  • Attach your penguin’s head to the body using your hot glue gun.
  • Cut out black wings, an orange beak, orange heart shapes for the legs, and an 8” long scarf from your felt sheets.
  • Glue the wings onto your penguin’s body.
  • Wrap the scarf around your penguin’s neck and secure it with glue.
  • Add your legs, nose, and eyes. Your penguin is finished!
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