If you missed them, check out Party Decor Part 1 and Party Decor Part 2.
I knew I wanted something fun and whimsy hanging for Hudson's party. I decided to make some tissue paper balls. They are SO easy and SUPER inexpensive to make. Plus, I love that you can make them out of any tissue paper color/design that you can find.
What you need to make these:
8 sheets of tissue per ball
Craft wire
scissors
invisible thread/string to hang them from the ceiling
(I also used little round hooks that screwed into the ceiling to hang 2 of them because tape was not working on them.)
Stack eight 20-by-30-inch sheets of tissue. Make 1 1/2-inch-wide accordion folds, creasing with each fold. You could cut the tissue paper smaller if you wanted your ball to be smaller. Varying sized ones would be super cute!
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Fold an 18-inch piece of floral wire
(or craft wire if that is all you have like me!) in half, and slip over center of folded tissue; twist. With scissors, trim ends of tissue into rounded or pointy shapes.
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Separate layers, pulling away from center one at a time.
I recommend almost doing one ball to just play with before you do the other 'real' ones. I did not do as good of a job with my first ball as the second. You finally get the hang of pulling each layer better by the time you finish one of them. I would also recommend tying something through your wire loop at this point before all of the layers are separated that way you don't smoosh them later trying to do this.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAtJzm2Lq4RJnd70T3fczETNpJsbF2vYVojeWg0dMHYElpvEgXAceVk-nXJZI9r6Y8z6Sc_Gi68Dr95C3u52SBiDk7faOoyGtRbsdnwX-kRhTBuSb9FfPQSjyRZPe5LolykUim7fAhLAE/s320/msw_spring06_pompom_ht_4_xl.jpg)
Bend wire into a loop to fit around napkin, and twist end around loop to secure.
Good luck making these. They are so fun! Happy party time!
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