Decorating a room beautifully for any celebration is not a problem today. The market offers a wide range of holiday decorations. However, holiday decor elements made from with your own hands. And there is nothing surprising in this: handmade products are exclusive, and unusual materials are often used for their production. Their use allows you to create an atmosphere of unusualness, special sophistication.

Today, when decorating halls for various events, paper balls (pompoms) are often used; it is inexpensive, original and beautiful.
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Necessary materials
To make original decorations from napkins, you don’t need to spend a lot of money, and the set of materials and tools for their production is very small: two-layer napkins, white or multi-colored, thick threads, braid or thin wire.
This list will be enough to assemble products with a variety of structures.
How to Make Paper Pom Poms: Instructions
The statement of craftswomen that making paper decorations is not difficult is true, but requires explanations on how to make beautiful pom-poms from napkins with your own hands. Step-by-step instructions will help you master this technology.
- We fold the prepared multi-colored napkin paper into a “fan” or “accordion” shape.
- Tie it tightly in the middle with tape, strong thread or thin wire.
- We trim the edges as we wish: round them, make them sharp or carved.
- Now carefully “open” the pompom, bending the edges so that it becomes voluminous and “fluffy”.
Done! The resulting pompom can be hung on a ribbon or attached to a wooden skewer.
You can try another manufacturing option, and get an original durable pompom, which is perfect for decorating a birthday, wedding, or corporate event. You will need:
- thick napkins;
- two sheets of thin cardboard;
- felt-tip pens;
- glue.
The work begins with a cardboard blank. One of the cardboard sheets is folded in half, after which a semicircle of the chosen size is drawn on one side and two semicircles are cut out.
On the second sheet, two markers of different colors are used to draw alternating stripes. Their number depends on the selected width.
Important! To make the product look neat, it is better to use not glue, which will seep through the layers of the napkin, but a glue stick does it more neatly.
Stripes of one color are coated with glue and a thick napkin is placed on them.
To continue working, you need to "develop" stripes of a different color with a felt-tip pen on the pasted paper and glue the next sheet on top. This procedure needs to be done several times.
Please note! The more layers you glue on, the more elegant the pompom will be.
Cover the finished stack of glued napkin paper with the second cut-out semicircle and glue it to the top layer of napkins.
Examples of interior decoration with paper pom-poms
Napkin balls can be used to decorate assembly and banquet halls, which acquire a special flavor. Napkin balls are delicate, airy, a "highlight" in festive design.
You can use them in your own way for each celebration:
- when decorating a banquet hall where a wedding is taking place, satin ribbons can be attached to snow-white pompoms suspended at a sufficient height, which will add elegance and shimmer in the spotlight;
- the wedding celebration will also be decorated with a red and white composition;
- They can not only be hung, but also attached to the backs of chairs, alternating colors;
- the room where the children's party is held will be even brighter and more elegant if its decor includes multi-colored decorations made of napkins, fixed at different levels and decorated with ribbons, including paper ones; bright balloons inflated with helium can be "sent" to the ceiling;
- if the room has low ceilings, it can be decorated with a composition of pom-poms, made as a kind of bouquet; it can be placed in a free corner;
- they can be used to decorate cloth napkins placed near each piece of cutlery;
- they can be mounted on the wall as a panel;
- From paper balls you can make multi-colored rings, cascading decorations, decorated with other accessories.
Many options for using napkin pom-poms for decoration can be found on websites on the Internet.
Where to find study materials
If a young beginner craftswoman thinks that the information provided is not enough to consolidate the skill of making pom-poms from napkins with her own hands, she can turn to the experience of specialists for whom the hand-made direction has become the main type of activity.
Having looked at the photos and videos and having made several samples of balls yourself, you can acquire the necessary skills. The Internet offers a large number of master classes, through viewing which you can understand how to make various pompoms from napkins.