How To Make Pom Pom Hair Ties

Hi everyone, its Jennifer from fiber flux in this video, we're gon na, learn how to make these super cute. Pom-Pom hair ties it's just a very simple pom-pom. No special tools needed I'm going to show you how to make this entirely with your hand and just a nice pair of scissors now there's two sizes here this I made by wrapping yarn around my hands 200 times and this one I made by wrapping my the Yarn around my hands and this one here to 100 times so you can make the smaller version or this nice big, large, fluffy one. So I'm going to show you how to do everything from start to finish. So, let's get started for this project. You'Ll need a pair of scissors. You'Ll need some hair elastics. Now that you can find these in a big pack at the store in neutral, colors or bright colors like I have here and you'll, also need some yarn we're going to be using red heart Super Saver and I picked some really fun bright, colors to kind of Go along with the colors of these: this is the amethyst. This is the pumpkin, and then this is the spring green system, just some really fun bright colors and that's all you need for this project. We'Re gon na make pom-poms using just our hands. So what you want to do, let's make our first pom-pom together, I'm gon na grab some of this purple yarn here. If I can find the end and what we're gon na do is the center pool balls of yarn are super helpful, but to make a pom pom, all you'll need to do is cut a piece of yarn about 12 inches long and set it aside. Next, what we're gon na do is wrap the yarn around our hands and we're gon na make a nice big, full fluffy pom-pom. So the more wraps you do around your hand, the denser it's gon na, be so we're gon na. Take our yarn run it down the front of your hand like this and wrap it around your fingers and around your fingers and around and keep doing that until you have a nice big bundle on your hands. Okay, so I wrapped this around my hand 200 times and, as you can see, I have a nice thick bundle, so grab your scissors and trim and then what you're gon na do is grab that. Remember that piece of yarn we caught a few minutes ago, you'll just want to lay that out flat in your table. This does help if you do it on a table or some kind of flat surface. Okay, now you're gon na carefully slip the bundle off of your hands, keeping those tails pointing down is helpful and then you're going to lay the bundles down onto your yarn and then very carefully you're going to tie it on and you're gon na get it really Really tight as tight as you can now you don't want to it's a balance, so you don't want to tie it. Super super super tight because you could break the yarn and then you have to start over, but you want to get it nice and tight. So there's strands: when we cut them, don't fall out. Okay, so get it really nice and snug. You can squeeze with your hands if needed. Just get it really really tight. Another thing you can do and let me just get this knot on here before I tell you this next tip. Okay, so I got nice and tight and now we have a little handle that we can hold on to and we have our bundle. So here is our bundle, and it just looks like loops right now. As a side note, a little tip is you can put before you tie this. You can run some hot glue down this strand on the middle of it before you tie it and that will kind of lock everything in. But if you tie it nice and tight, it should stay together, pretty well okay. So then, what you want to do is grab your scissors and I have my big scissors, because you'll want you're gon na do a lot of cutting. You don't want little baby scissors for this, and what we're gon na do is we're just gon na cut all these loops. You want to keep these nice and long though those are your handles to work with. You just want to go through and cut all the loops that you see and it's this some pom-pom doing it this way with your hands and no tools, it's gon na look kind of crazy, but we're gon na give it a little haircut in a minute. But you just want to sort of sound started digging them out with my scissors, just wan na make sure you get all those loops out of there. Okay and then flip it over you're doing this project with kids just make sure with the small ones that you help them with the scissors part, because you don't want anybody to cut themselves. But you do want a nice sharp pair of scissors in order to get all these loops out. Okay - and you want to make sure you don't remember that yarn we'd ride around this whole crazy bundle. You don't want to cut that of course. Okay, so any Lukas that you see, you can kind of go in with your hands and sort of floof it up. Okay, so you're gon na have a big, crazy, pom-pom right now, so I'm gon na grab. I have a little yarn, pull it up, use it to catch some of my scraps. This is a can be a messy project. So if you're home try doing this over a trash, can that's what I do and I'm not on camera? But what you want to do is you just want to cut everything nice and even get everything uniform, looking just give it a nice little haircut, okay and you're, just gon na go through and trim. If you see any loops remaining, just give there's a little cut. Also, you don't want any loops left, but what you're gon na do is just cut all this down and the closer in you cut it the denser. It will look. Okay, you don't want it to look, have like a wild look, you want it to be nice and neat and dense looking okay, that makes for a nice pom-pom. Okay. So I'm gon na keep giving my little pom-pom a haircut and don't forget down here this long stuff down. Here too, you want to just kind of come up under it. Give that a trim as well and just go a little bit at a time. If you take too much off, you don't want to have kind of like a weird dent in your pom-pom, but just kind of go around your whole pom-pom, give it a little trim all right, I'm gon na keep trimming and then we'll rejoin in just a moment. Our pom-pom is all done and now we're ready to just tie it right on to our hair tie. Now, as a side note, I knew people call these a lot of different things and I was wondering what you call them. Do you call them hair elastics? Do you call them ponytail holders to call them hair ties? What do you call these things? I think everybody calls them something different share below of super curious to see what you guys call them. Also, this is our scrap from when we trimmed don't get rid of this. You can use this to stuff on Megumi or pillows, or anything else I like to keep mine in a big ziploc bag. Okay, so we have our pom pom, it's nice and big and fluffy. Yours doesn't have to be this big, but I thought it would be fun to have it nice and big and fluffy. So just take your hair tie, slash ponytail holder, slash, hair elastic whatever you call it and just tie it right on there, and you want to do a couple of really nice secure knots, because this is kind of a tension area when it gets used. These sort of take a beating when they get used. So the next thing you want to do you don't need to weave in any ends. You just want to trim it close, so mimics, what's going on with the pom pom and then what you can do is kind of fluff it up with your hands, I'm just sort of rolling it around and fluffing it up, and then you can just any last Little things you want to trim, I find this to be very relaxing, giving a pom pom a haircut. I don't know how you feel about it, but I find it to be very relaxing and we're just gon na give it a little trim. A little final trim and that's it is how you make a pom pom hair tie thanks so much for watching and be sure and click the subscribe button to get all the latest fiber flux, video updates, thanks again,