With the pom poms, you can craft almost any animal softie. Just wrapping, knitting, joining, and gluing. Let’s discuss these 7 ways to craft DIY no-knit yarn animal plushies that will make keychains, stress toys, and bag charms.
We shall discuss crafting a panda, a penguin, a polar bear, and a few more. You will learn many types of pom poms, including the capsule pom and two-colored pom poms, and how to work with felt.
If you are a crafter, see community-favorite craft animals! These animal plushies are all really cute.
Way #1: Craft A Pom Pom Panda
To craft a sitting panda keychain, start with a 5cm cardboard base and wrap it 200 times. This will be the head of the panda. For the body, you will have to wrap the black yarn 50 times and 180 times around a 6cm base.
For the muzzle, a 2cm base with 50 wraps. After you have all the pom poms, stack onto the other, attach the arms, legs, ears, and safety beads.
The legs and arms must use an oval pom pom. So, overall, you need a two-color pom pom, a ball pom pom and an oval pom pom. This will be a quick desk buddy.
Way #2: Craft A Pom Pom Penguin
This super-realistic yarn penguin plushie can stand without support. It also uses some felt. From the felt, you have to take a cutout for the flappers, feet, and beak.
When the plushie is finished, you can make wearables using red and white felt, like a Santa hat and scarf for Christmas. Craft it at any time of winter.
Talking about crafting it, first wrap black yarn 120 times around a 4.5cm base. Immediately after that, wrap around the same base, the white yarn 60 times. Stack the white wrap over and complete the combined pom pom.
This will let you have the penguin body with a belly. For white on the face, again make a two-color pom pom. You can insert an unfinished pom pom in the face for the eye sockets.
Way #3: Craft A Pom Pom Cheburashkha
Cheburashka is actually a fictional animal, or what people say, inspired by “an unknown” animal. It is a hybrid of monkey, bear, and rabbit. We shall craft a small Cheburashka doll with poms, craft eyes, a popsicle stick, and a round foam base.
The body is not round, but quite flat. The same can be said for the ears. Start by wrapping brown yarn 130 times around a 5.5cm base. Squish together a light brown wrap of 60 turns.
This will make the face of Cheburashka. Make a similar pom pom but a little smaller for the body, too. For the ears, make circles of 4cm in diameter, and place loops of yarn all around.
For the arms, you have to make long, looped cylinders of yarn. Overall, let me call it an intermediate plushie.
Way #4: Craft A Pom Pom Polar Bear
Winter is still there for a while. And if you have some white yarn left, craft this life-like baby polar plushie. It stands on its legs in a pose that we call standing on four legs.
Wrap white yarn 160 times around a 4.5cm base and make an ellipsoid of it. This will be the body pom pom. Next is a small pom of 60 wraps, about a 2.5cm base for the head.
Use hot glue to attach, and always trim the pom neatly. A black felt nose and plastic beads look nice on it. You will also learn the capsule pom poms for the legs.
Way #5: Craft A Pom Pom Hamster
You cannot have too many hamsters around. That’s why you should craft this miniature hamster pom plushie holding a sunflower seed for your craft table. With looped cylinders, you can make REALLY perfect arms and legs for them.
And there is, of course, the use of a two-color pom pom for the head. My favorite is golden with white. You can easily attach the body to the head by knotting with a length of yarn.
Wrap yarn 60 times and 50 times around a 3.5cm base in separate colors. Then join the wraps and finish the pom pom. Similarly,m you will have to make wraps for the body.
Way #6: Cute Dogs Yarn Pom Pom
With the wine cork and a felt circle as a base, these poodle dogs can be easily made from a set of pom poms with a knot in the centre. Just glue them around the cork, then make the layers of the pom poms.
You can make many in either white, black, or brown. A small glittery sheet bow can be added before gifting. This small dog also needs a smaller nose and eye beads.
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