Yarn Tassel Garland DIY

Spruce up your classroom with this DIY tassel garland. Follow these easy steps to make yarn tassels. It's easier than you think. Your bulletin boards will be looking jazzy in no time!

Have you seen all the beautiful bulletin boards these days? Amazing fonts, colors, pom-poms, and garlands have me swooning. I had been looking to purchase some yarn tassel garland for my bulletin boards, but didn’t have much luck finding exactly what I wanted. Heck, I actually had trouble finding yarn tassels at all. That’s why I decided to make my own!

The nice part about making your own tassel garland is that you can be the boss of your own garland. You get to decide the colors, length, thickness, pattern, and spacing of the tassels. Coordinate your colors to match a specific bulletin board, or make something fun and colorful that can stay up all school year.

Now, I know that yarn tassel garlands are not necessary for kids to learn. I just like my spaces to feel pretty. Pretty spaces make me feel happy, and happiness is the fuel that keeps me going strong throughout the day at school. Well, that and a cup of tea.

If you would like to make your own yarn tassel garland, just pick out some yarn in the colors of your choice.Make your own tassel garland from yarn. Here's how!

I bought my yarn at Walmart. You will also need scissors, a book, and some masking tape.

I also decided to use twisted white mason line for the string to hang my tassels. It would also be fine to just use a piece of the yarn.

Cut a piece of yarn *about* 8 inches in length and use the masking tape to secure it to the spine of the book as shown below. Don’t worry about measuring the string. If it hangs off the book a little on each end, it will work fine. The size of your book will determine the size of your tassel.

Then, take the end of your yarn and run it in the opposite direction across the book like this.

Make your own tassel garland from yarn. Here's how!

Wrap it tightly around the book until you have the desired thickness for your tassel. I wrapped mine 30 times.

Make your own tassel garland from yarn. Here's how!

Remove the tape from the spine of the book and tie a double knot to secure one end of the tassel.

Make your own tassel garland from yarn. Here's how!

I make a very loose knot at the top of that string to keep it separate from the rest of the tassel.

Make your own tassel garland from yarn. Here's how!

Next, flip the book over and cut across the center of pages.

Make your own tassel garland from yarn. Here's how!

Then, your tassel will come off the book and look like this.

Make your own tassel garland from yarn. Here's how!

Gather the tassel and tie another piece of yarn across the top. Wrap that piece of yarn around the tassel several times and tie it in a knot in the back. Trim that piece of yarn short.

Make your own tassel garland from yarn. Here's how!

Here is a finished tassel.

Make your own tassel garland from yarn. Here's how!

Go ahead and make as many tassels as you need. The more you make, the faster you’ll get at making them. It takes about 3-5 minutes per tassel. I made 15 tassels in an hour.

Spruce up your classroom with this DIY tassel garland. Follow these easy steps to make yarn tassels. It's easier than you think. Your bulletin boards will be looking jazzy in no time!

Finally, it’s time to attach your tassels to a string. Untie that loose knot at the very top of your tassel. Then, tie the tassels to a string. Space them how you like.

Spruce up your classroom with this DIY tassel garland. Follow these easy steps to make yarn tassels. It's easier than you think. Your bulletin boards will be looking jazzy in no time!

Trim the extra yarn from the top of each tassel.

Spruce up your classroom with this DIY tassel garland. Follow these easy steps to make yarn tassels. It's easier than you think. Your bulletin boards will be looking jazzy in no time!

Now, it’s time to decorate!

Spruce up your classroom with this DIY tassel garland. Follow these easy steps to make yarn tassels. It's easier than you think. Your bulletin boards will be looking jazzy in no time!

I tied a small loop at each end of the garland and secured it to my bulletin board with push pins.

Spruce up your classroom with this DIY tassel garland. Follow these easy steps to make yarn tassels. It's easier than you think. Your bulletin boards will be looking jazzy in no time!

This tassel garland will surely make me smile each day. I hope you decide to make one, too! Enjoy!

4 Comments

  1. March 25, 2019 / 2:00 pm

    Hi there! How many tassels do you think you could make of this size with one ball of yarn?

    • undercoverclassroom
      Author
      April 17, 2019 / 8:15 am

      Hi Alyssa, I think one spool of yarn would make quite a few tassels, but it’s hard for me to estimate. I used a little bit from many spools. I think it would make at least 20 to 30, maybe even more. Best wishes!

  2. Joanne
    June 11, 2019 / 12:46 am

    Lovely! I’m going to use these tassels to decorate the door signs my students are going to make at Summer camp. Thank you for the article<3

    • undercoverclassroom
      Author
      June 17, 2019 / 10:08 pm

      Awesome! I bet they’ll look great! 🙂

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