Pom Pom Book Marks

I have a crafty activity for you in this post which is also related to books. In a previous post I have shown you how to make corner book marks, but now I have a new cute bookmark idea for you to try. All you will need is some wool in your chosen colour, a pair of scissors and your crafty little hands.

Step 1:

Set aside two lengths of wool, one around 20cm long and the other around 30cm.

Step 2:

Wrap the wool around two or three of your fingers loosely. Do this for about 2.5m of wool or until the loop is nice and thick.

Step 3:

Carefully take the wool off your fingers making sure that the loops of wool stay in place.

Step 4:

Take the shorter piece of wool you cut earlier and tie it around the middle of the pile of wool in your hand, pull it as tight as you can before tying it in a stable knot

Step 5: 

Cut between the loops on each end of the wool making sure not to cut the middle piece that is tying it all together.

Step 6: 

Tie the longer piece of wool that was previously cut to one end of the piece that is around the middle of the wool.

Step 7:

Even out the lengths of the wool to make the ball look more dense and fluffy. Do not cut the long piece you just tied.

After this, your Pom Pom bookmark is ready to use. You could also glue the long string between two pieces of paper to make it more like a normal book mark. You can also decorate or personalise it more like this.

I hope that this post was useful and easy to understand. These bookmarks look really cute and are heaps of fun to make, this is a great activity for the school holidays and also makes you more motivated to read. Thanks for visiting my blog, please return often for new blog posts every week. 

This craft was inspired by a post by designmom.com

~Inkpot Blogger