Poms and Tissue Paper Flowers

We've made these very easy poms and tissue paper flowers on several occasions, including decorations for our Mother's Day celebrations. These very cute creations can be made into spherical poms and be hung or you can very easily make these half-poms and turn them into flowers. Also, these poms are very forgiving, so if yo can any mistake, don't worry, no one will know.



Materials:
8 pieces of tissue paper (you can cut the standard size tissue paper to make smaller poms, or use them as is; for this particular pictorial tutorial, I used 2 sheet of tissue pape and cut each sheet into 4 squares)
Scissors
Yarn, ribbon, or floral wire


1. Line your sheets of tissue paper together.
2. Accordian fold (or pleat) your pile of tissue paper.
3. Fold the pleated tissue paper in half vertically.
4. Tie your peiece of yarn (I use sewing thread) at the midsection and secure it with a tight double knot.
5. Starting on one side, separete the sheets of tissue paper. Be very careful, yet firm. If you tear anything, just keep going because these guys are super forgiving.
6. Continue separating the tissue paper. For each side, you want to peel four sheets upward and 4 sheets downward.
7. Once you're all dne separating the tissue paper, look over the entire pom and touch it up so it looks full and spherical.


**To change these poms into flower, when you are separeting the sheet of tissue paper, only peel in one direction (just peel up on both sides).


Good luck!


Price breakdown:
FREE!!! (I always stock up on tissue paper and gift bags)


If you are staring with nothing in stocked because you never give away gifts, here's the price breakdown for you:


Tissue paper: $1.00 (for 10 sheets, so you can make 5 poms)
Scissors: $1.00

Interesting note: Martha Stewart actually sells the materials to make poms. Her products sell for ~$20 and it makes 7 poms. So who's smarter now Martha? Well, you are because you somehow were able to use $2.00 and sell it for $20.00. 1000% profit.