

Start GENTLY, I repeat, gently pulling the top layer of tissue paper up and toward the center. The end result should look like this when fanned out. Then, grab your scissors and round out the corners of the tissue paper. Just make sure your wire isn’t too flimsy. I actually used 22 gauge jewelry wire for the pom-poms I made for our gender reveal party because I was out of floral wire and didn’t feel like running to the craft store for more. Grab your floral wire, center it in the middle of the tissue paper (use the ruler if you aren’t good at eye balling– no shame).įYI, you don’t have to use floral wire. The next steps are to be repeated for each section of tissue paper. In the end, you should have the following from one package of 20 inch by 20 inch, 10 sheet tissue paper.

Cut it in half so you have two 10 inch pieces. Grab the other remaining section that you put to the side in the beginning. Since these will be the smallest pom-poms, I refold them, accordion folds style, only smaller than the original fold (see photo after the photo below). Fold it in half hamburger style (if you don’t know what I mean, Google “fold paper hamburger style”).Ĭut it along the fold, so you will have two sections with 5 sheets of paper in each section. Once folded, cut the strip into two pieces. Divide the 10 tissue papers into half– so 5 and 5 in each stack.
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How to Cut and Foldįlatten out the tissue paper. You can still make tissue paper pom poms from that size, you just won’t end up with the exact 5 pom poms that I was able to make. If you can’t find 20″ x 20″ tissue paper that’s fine. NOTE: Since publishing this tutorial, Hobby Lobby has changed the tissue paper to 8 sheets and $1.29 per package.

Tissue paper (I use 10 sheet, 20 inch by 20 inch)… Hobby Lobby Supplies for Making Tissue Paper Pom Poms I “watched” old Grey’s Anatomy episodes on Lifetime while I made the majority of mine for the gender reveal party. But you have to “watch” something you don’t really have to pay attention to since you’ll need to watch what you’re doing with making the poms.
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It’s also a good mindless TV watching crafting activity. These are really easy to make once you get the hang of it. Not only will I show you how to make tissue paper pom poms, I’m going to show you how to get 5 easy to make tissue paper pom-poms (1 large, 2 medium, 2 small) out of one $.99 package of tissue paper. Well, today’s your lucky day– it’s tissue paper pom pom making time, people. Step-by-step tutorial showing you how to make tissue paper pom poms! Tissue paper pom poms are the perfect, inexpensive party decoration.Īfter I posted our gender reveal party, many of you wanted a tutorial on how I made the tissue paper pom poms.
