Summertime Pompom Animals

Make your own pompom animals like a chipmunk, squirrel, fox, bunny, mouse, and bird. When you’re not playing with them, you can carry them in their little garden tote!

What You’ll Need for Chipmunk & Garden Tote

Empty Pringles can with lid
12″ x 12″ sheet brown paper
1 sheet light green paper
1 sheet dark green paper
double-stick tape
Beacon’s Tacky Craft Glue
Flower stickers
Brown ribbon
scissors
brown, white, pink felt
1½” brown pompom
2 googly eyes, 10 mm
triangle head can opener
ruler

Steps

1. To make the chipmunk, cut a 2½” x 1″ rounded tail out of brown felt. Cut a squiggly stripe out of white felt and glue it onto the tail. Glue the tail onto the back of the brown pompom.

2. To make ears, cut 2 triangles out of brown felt and 2 smaller triangles out of pink felt. Glue the pink triangles onto the brown triangles. Make a part in the pompom fur and glue the edge of each ear inside.

3. Glue on the googly eyes.

4. To make the Garden Tote, wrap the brown paper around the can and tape it in place. Trim the overlapping paper. Poke a hole in the lid and the bottom of the canister with the can opener. Poke the ribbon ends into each hole and tie a knot in each end.

5. Set the can on its side. Cut out 2 bush shapes from the light green paper and a bigger bush shape from the dark green paper. Tape them onto the can. Decorate the bushes with flower stickers.

The Pocket Pals
To make the mouse, use a gray pompom and make pink and purple felt ears and a purple felt tail.

To make the squirrel, cut out a tan squiggly tail and glue it onto a tan pompom.

To make the fox, cut a flame-shaped tail out of orange felt and use a red pompom.

To make the bunny, use a white pompom and cut long pink and white ears.

For the bird, use a blue pompom and add turquoise felt wings and a yellow bill.