I just adore pom poms! Homemade or shop bought, big or small, pom poms can add a fantastic splash of colour and texture to all sorts of kids crafts. Adorable mini pom poms make these star ornaments come to life with a beautiful and zingy display of shape and colour! These colourful pom pom popsicle stick stars will look amazing hanging on your Christmas tree or as a bright and cheery bedroom or nursery display all year round.
I’ve also provided some super fun ideas to vary the craft, build fine motor skills and challenge the big kids too. Have fun!
I’ve been using pom poms with the kids for years now but only recently discovered these amazing mini pom poms US / UK link. They come in a pack of 1000, are ridiculously cheap and the colours are fantastic! One of my best craft supply finds ever!
The gorgeous mini pom poms sit on a popsicle stick star frame and I have a fantastic hack to make them quickly and easily without having to worry whether your popsicle sticks are going to match up neatly at the end. They will will this method, I promise!
But before we get totally engrossed in the Pom Pom Popsicle Stick Stars Tutorial you might want to bookmark or pin some of our other popsicle stick crafts to come back to later too. Mix ‘N’ Match Snakes have been much loved and are so fun to play with because they actually move! The Chestnut Family are lovely puppets to encourage imaginative play. Button Snowflakes and Yarn Wrapped Stars are wonderful if you are looking for some more pretty ornaments.
How To Make Colourful Pom Pom Popsicle Stick Stars
Supplies To Make Colourful Pom Pom Popsicle Stick Star Ornaments
- Coloured Popsicle Sticks US / UK
- Cool Temp Glue Gun US / UK
- Scrap Paper
- Pen
- Yarn
- Mini Pom Poms US / UK
- Glue
How To Make Colourful Pom Pom Popsicle Stick Stars
To start you need to make your popsicle stick stars. I’ve already written a post with a great hack to glue these babies together quickly and easily without the stress of finding that your last stick doesn’t close up the star! Check out my Yarn Wrapped Popsicle Stick Star Ornaments post to get the low down.
Once you’ve made your popsicle stick stars cut a short section of yarn and tie it into a loop around each star for hanging.
Now it’s time to have fun mixing and matching all those gorgeous mini pom poms. I love watching kids pick and chose. Some children love to pick out a single colour, some like two and others like many. Some like to space their pom poms evenly and others like a more random approach. Some children will try to fill every spare bit of space with pom poms and others will want to spread them out. It goes to show that even with a structured craft there is still plenty of space for children’s creativity and personal taste and style.
A top tip that can help younger children is to get them to choose their mini pom poms before they start glueing and then to spread them out with lots of space between them. When your fingers get gluey it can be tricky to pick up just one pom pom if they are all very close together.
Once all the pom poms have been added leave them aside to dry and then you can hang them on display for everyone to enjoy.
Variations To Further Develop Fine Motor Skills and Stretch Older Children
It can be fun to use a simple craft like these pom pom popsicle stick stars to develop other skills like fine motor. You can challenge little hands further with these craft variations:
- Children can use tweezers to place the pom poms.
- Kids can try using chop sticks instead of their hands.
- How about using suction to place the pom poms? Give kids a thin drinking straw (make sure the pom poms can not fit through it, we don’t want any choking!) and see if they can suck their way to a beautiful design!
- To challenge older children you can have a strictly no hands policy! They’ll have fun trying to do all the choosing, gluing and placing of the pom poms using only tweezers, chopsticks or straws!
Would your kids prefer to make their pom pom popsicle stick stars with their hands or by using one of the challenge ideas? I love hearing how you get on.
More Christmas Popsicle Stick Crafts From My Awesome Blogging Friends:
- Colourful Pom Pom Popsicle Stick Stars : Kids Craft Room
- Kid-made Christmas Tree Ornament : Sand In My Toes
- Nutcracker Craft Ideas: Popsicle Stick Nutcracker Puppets : Schooling A Monkey
- Christmas Picture Frames Kids Can Make : Uno Zwei Tutu
- Christmas Card Puzzles : The Twitchetts
- Christmas Sensory Sticks for Engaged Holiday Play : Views From A Step Stool
You can print the star craft instructions below.
More Fun Christmas Crafts To Try:
Pom Pom Popsicle Stick Stars
Materials
- Coloured Popsicle Sticks
- Cool Temp Glue Gun
- Scrap Paper
- Pen
- Yarn
- Mini Pom Poms
- Glue
Instructions
- Lay 5 sticks out to make a star shape and carefully glue them together.
- Cut a short section of yarn and tie it into a loop around each star for hanging.
- Have fun mixing and matching all those gorgeous mini pom poms.
- Add any other embellishments you want like glitter or sequins.