How to Make Tissue Paper Poms

When I was planning Jillian's first birthday party, I fell in love with the beautiful and colorful tissue paper poms.  These poms are the perfect accent to any party and really give your decor a punch of color.  I also never realized just how easy they were to make. 

I have received a few questions about how I made the tissue paper poms so I put together a quick tutorial on how I made my beautiful poms!

In creating my Poms, I followed Martha Stewart's tutorial.  I ended up tweaking it a little bit to make the poms to my own taste.  Martha's instructions called for 8 sheets of tissue paper, I ended up using 12 which I thought made for a fuller pom.

{How to Make Tissue Paper Poms}

{Tools and Materials}

• 12 pieces of 20x30 tissue paper.  I used the standard packages of tissue paper from Target.
• 24 gauge floral wire.
• Scissors
• Mono filament (any clear thread will do).

Step 1

Stack 10 Sheets of Tissue paper on top of one another.  Straighted the stack so all four corners align.

Step 2

Make 1 1/2 inch folds creasing with each fold.  Your folds will look like an accordion.

Step 3

Fold an 18 inch piece of floral wire in half and place it over your folded tissue paper.  Twist the ends together securely around the tissue paper.

Step 4

Trim each end of the tissue paper into round or pointy shapes.  I chose round edges in my poms.

Step 5

Separate each layer of tissue, pulling away from the center one layer at a time. 

Be careful not to rip the tissue paper, it's very easy to do! Make sure you fluff each layer of tissue paper, creating a rounded ball.

Step 6

Tie a piece of clear thread from the wire to hang them.   I have also seen these poms hanging from chandeliers tied with ribbon too. 

Step 7

I found hanging the poms to be the biggest challenge.  Once I had all my poms created, I realized, how in the world was I going to hang them from the ceiling?  Taping them to the ceiling would not work, the poms were too heave and I didn't want a massive amount of tape all over my ceiling.   So I bought a few packages of the Command hooks by 3m.  I bought the small, clear hooks so they would not be obvious.  I took the clear thread, tied it around the hook, and fastened the clip to the ceiling.

I hung my pom's for Jillian's birthday party at varying lengths to give it a different affect.  You will have to play with the length of your string and how low you want your poms to hang from your ceiling.

Now that I finally know how to make these, I can't wait to make them for other parties and holidays!!  Thanks for stopping by! 

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