How to Make a Robin Pompom

PomPom Birds

Making pompom songbirds is a craft that can be accomplished by both adults and children. For the spring and summer season, try making a pompom robin redbreast. Pompom robins are beautiful to display on a seasonal table or in a classroom, and all of the supplies you need can be found at any arts or crafts supply store.

Things You'll Need

• Yarn, orange and brown
• Medium-weight cardboard
• Scissors
• Felt, yellow and black
• Brown feather
• Tacky glue

Instructions

1. 

   Cut out four donut shapes from a medium-weight cardboard, using scissors. Two of the donut shapes should be around 4 inches in diameter, and the other two should be around 2 inches in diameter. Line up the matching donut pairs to make sure that they are even and similar in size.

2. 

   Place the smaller two donut shapes together, and wrap brown yarn around and though the center of the donut. Continue wrapping yarn around the donut pattern until it is full of yarn, and you can no longer pass any more yarn through the center. Repeat this with the larger two donuts, except wrap half of the donut with orange yarn, and the other half with brown yarn.

3. 

   Cut through the yarn around the outside edge, using scissors. To do this, push the tip of the scissors in between the two donut shapes, and begin cutting carefully all the way around the edge. Do not let the yarn slip off the donut shapes. Once you have cut around the entire edge, wrap a piece of yarn around the center, and knot it tightly. Then, gently slip the donut shapes off of the yarn. Trim the edges of the pompom to make the ends even. Repeat this process with both the large and small donut shapes.

4. 

   Glue the smaller pompom to the larger pompom using tacky glue. To do this, squirt a dollop of tacky glue onto the larger pompom, then press the smaller pompom onto the the glue. Hole it in place until the glue holds the pompoms together.

5. 

   Cut out a small triangle from yellow felt, using scissors. Cut out two small circles from black felt. Glue the circle to the smaller pompom where the eyes will be. Glue the yellow triangle to the smaller pompom where the beak will be. Glue a brown feather to the back of the larger pompom for the robin's tail.