Cute and Colourful Pom Pom Cake Topper DIY

This cute little DIY will get any cake ready for a celebration in no time at all. No candles, no worries – Pom Poms to the rescue!

Get colourful and creative with your wool choices, grab a fork and have some fun. Nothing screams FUN quiet like a Pom Pom Cake Topper, oh and the fork comes in really handy for eating the cake later on.

By Elise Clarkson from Pixels and Sunshine for Families Magazine – Gold Coast

You will need:

• Scotch tape
• Small sharp scissors
• Dinner fork
• Embroidery needle
• 2 Paper drinking straws
• Wool in various colours
• 50cm lengths of wool in a different colour

Step 1:

Cut a length of wool at approximately 40cm and set it to the side.

Step 2:

Pick up the ball of wool and the fork. Begin to wind the wool around the fork, making sure to hold the loose end in place.

Step 3:

Wind the wool around the centre of the fork. Keep winding the wool over the same spot keeping it nice and tight.

Step 4:

Use some scotch tape to hold the loose end in place. Take the length of wool you cut earlier and poke it through the middle fork prong.

Step 5:

Make a single knot and the poke back through the middle prong.

Step 6:

Do this three times and then, keeping the wool very tight, tie a double knot

Step 7:

Holding where you just tied the knot slide the wool off the fork.

Step 8:

Using the scissors cut thru the loops of the wool all the way around.

Step 9:

Fluff up the Pom Pom into a ball shape and give it a little haircut to tidy it up.

Step 10:

Repeat this process with the other colours of wool.

Step 11:

Using the embroidery needle make a hole thru the top of each straw.

Step 12:

Use some scotch tape to help thread the wool onto the needle.

Step 13:

Sew through the Pom Poms.

Step 14:

Thread the needle through the straw and repeat at the other end.

Step 15:

Tie off the loose ends with a few knots and trim to desired length.

Step 16:

Decorate a cake with the Pom Pom Topper. ENJOY!