We love pom poms. They are fantastic for using up scraps of yarn and making them is great fine motor skills for the boys. With 2015 being the Chinese year of the Sheep and the new Shaun the sheep movie die out anytime, we decided to try our hands at making pompom sheep.
How to make a pompom sheep
Materials
- White wool and black wool – or any colour if you want a pink sheep who is to stop you!
- Pompom Makers
- Black Pipe Cleaners
- Black Craft Foam
or card
- Googly Eyes
- Bostik Extra Strength Sticki Dots
- Sharp scissors
The boys decided that there sheep were to be white. At nine and eight they are both at the age where things have to look life like!
Using our pompom makers (we used a Clover pom pom maker
Using the craft foam we made our sheeps heads. The boys free hand drew on to them, but you can find plenty of templates online if that is easier for your child.
We like using Bostik Extra Strength Sticki Dots
We used the Bostik Extra Strength Sticki Dots
Our sheeps legs are made from two black pipe cleaners. We folded the pipe cleaner in half and twisted them together before gently threading them through the pompom (don’t worry if some of the wool comes out your sheep will still be OK)!
Once the pipe cleaners are pushed through fold the ends to make feet for your sheep to stand on.
We have previously made pompom bunnies and pompom chicks.
These are adorable and I can’t wait to see the Shaun the Sheep movie too! I hope it comes to France soon.
What a great idea I will have to get my girls to make these, they are really keen to watch the Shaun the Sheep movie!!
Pom poms! Argh! You realise I’ll be winding wool until Easter now when my boys see these! So cute though, but they’ll want their own flock!
These are adorable!! (I love the pom-pom maker too). My 3 really want to see the Shaun the Sheep movie so I must make these with them – great craft idea.
I saw these the other day and thought how fab they were. Lovely 🙂
Great idea, and I love those chicks too. Very Easter!
Ahh I remember making pom pons when I was little! My boy would love these! xxx
oh how very cute! now where do i find some white pompoms here?!?
I love the idea of pipe cleaners as legs… I’d never have thought of that. The other one where of have been scratching my head is how to stick the head on. Your sort sticky does are again a great idea. Thanks… I will get my crazy on one day and do this with the kids!
These are just darling! I love the pompom makers as well – they make life so much easier don’t they?!
These look fab! I used to love making pom poms when I was a child, I really should teach my son.
These look a lot of fun. I am trying to persuade the kids that they can do crafts at home as well as school. At the moment they are 2 separate worlds .
I used to love making pom poms – these look fantastic and I love the idea of a pom pom maker x
Great idea!
Brilliant, I had a major fail making pom poms with Erin recently as I forgot so put some thread around the rings. Erin wasn’t impressed with me.
These are so cute and easy to make!
These are so cute, I remember making spiders using old cotton reels when I was a kid x
Ah these are so cute! Im most definitely going to attempt these with my son this weekend. Thanks for sharing x
My son is mad on Shaun the Sheep at the moment so I think these would be a hit with him.
I love these! I’ve got a few clover pom pom makers and love them. I recently tried the heart shaped one for valentines day but they went disastrously wrong!
Those are SO cute, will have to make them with Syd – pom poms is one of the few wool crafts I seem to have mastered!
Your sheeps look so adorable. I love using glue dots as they are so sticky and easy to use!
Thank you for sharing it with us #pintorials
I love making pom poms although I still do it with wrapping wool around card. I want to invest in one of the pom pom devices that Kirstie Allsopp uses
How wonderful is this !! At ideal art / craft project for us at school !!
Oh these are just super cute and your boys are crafty stars 🙂
These sheep are so cute and look really fluffy.
I love making pompoms, and these are so cute.
Used to love making pom poms as a child – so have to do this!
I remember making pom poms as a kid using the traditional cardboard cut out method. I didn t know you could get a little gadget now to make them, very cool! #tuesdaytutorials
Love this tutorial. Thank you for linking to the virtual fridge 🙂
You are this weeks featured post
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This is super cute, however you linked it up to my Field Trip Friday Blog Hop, I assume you were looking for Share it Saturday which will be available to link up to tomorrow morning. Thanks!
How cute pom pom sheep! Thanks for coming to the Inspire Me Monday Linky party and linking up with us!
Janice
I love these! Thanks for linking up to the Frugal Family Linky!
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Lucas & Grace say – This is fab. We are really interested in the Chinese New Year. We run a weekly linky over at KidGLloves called Mini Creations and this would be a fab addition. We open every Wednesday morning. We’d love for you to link up 🙂 #minicreations Comments
How cool and cute are these sheep! Thank you for linking with Frugal Family Linky 🙂
I chose this as a feature post on the Frugal Family Linky! Thanks for sharing.. .see it here:http://www.nemcsokfarms.com/3/post/2015/02/welcome-to-the-frugal-family-linky-february-12th-2015.html
haha how adorable are these i havent done these for many years about 20 in fact, great idea x
Lucas says – These pom pom sheep are sooooooo cool and definitely very realistic! We are loving the video too – it would really help someone when making them. XL High-5’s to some new linkers over #minicreations
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