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This Winter Yarn Bug is a fun way to spend the cold winter days inside. You can make one yarn bug or create a whole winter wonderland.

Trivia:

The earliest known yarn and fabric samples were estimated to be around 7,000 years old. These were found in Robenhausen, Switzerland and were bundles of fax fibers and yarns. Source: American Yarns – Some Facts About Yarn

Supplies

• White Yarn
• White Craft Foam or Card Stock
• Wiggle Eyes — 20mm
• 2-1/2″ Styrofoam Ball
• Pipe Cleaners
• Old 3½” Floppy Disk or Heavy Cardboard Cut to the Size of One
• Tacky Glue
• Snowflake Foamies
• Scissors

Instructions

• Make a pompom by wrapping yarn around a 5″ piece of cardboard at least 100 times. Mix colors or use all one color.
• Cut a 6″ piece of yarn and slide it under wrapped yarn. Tie tightly into a double knot.
• Turn cardboard over and cut completely through yarn on this side. Turn yarn blob sideways and smooth down strands.
• Press Styrofoam ball onto a hard surface to flatten bottom. (You can also use an egg carton section.)
• Cover the top and sides of the ball with tacky glue.
• Separate the strands of the pompom to fit the Styrofoam ball up inside.
• Press pompon into place. Arrange yarn.
• Print any patterns your bug might need.
• Staple all around patterns onto craft foam or cardstock. Cut out pieces.
• Glue the bottom of the Styrofoam ball on to the foam or cardstock feet.
•  Glue on the wiggle eyes.
• Cut pipe cleaners in half.
• Glue a foamie snowflake on one half of each pipe cleaner and poke the other end into your bug.

Patterns, Templates and Printables

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