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Craft Tutorials | Seasonal Crafts | Summer Crafts | Sunflower Kissing Balls
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Sunflower Kissing Balls

Author by Meaghan Mountford on August 10, 2020 Updated on August 8, 2020

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Use these sunflower kissing balls for weddings, showers, parties, or to simply dress up your home or front porch.
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I can’t believe how quick and easy these sunflower kissing balls are to make, all while adding a pretty splash of color! Yellow whiffle balls and faux sunflowers are simple supplies for this sunflower craft.

Sunflower Kissing Balls

 

Use them for weddings, showers, parties, or to simply dress up your home or front porch. I chose sunflowers here, in anticipation of fall, but you can use any comparably-sized flower for any theme, season or event.

RELATED: If you love sunflowers, these sunflower mason jar centerpieces will be right up your alley!

Making Sunflower Kissing Balls

Using pre-cut faux sunflower heads, each of these sunflower kissing balls (aka sunflower pomander balls) takes only minutes to make. I’m always looking for easy craft ideas and this was no exception!

No need to paint pesky Styrofoam balls yellow or fiddle with paint that doesn’t stick to the porous Styrofoam surface.  Yellow whiffle balls to the rescue!

Whiffle balls are as light as Styrofoam, so they won’t fall with the added weight of the flowers. And the hot glue works so beautifully on the surface, that attaching the flowers is a cinch.

Do you sell these?

If you prefer to buy sunflower kissing balls that have already been made, I don’t sell my projects but there are plenty available here on Etsy!

Sunflower Kissing Balls hanging

If you’re also looking forward to autumn as much I am, try these sunflower decorated cookies. Or, paint pine cone flowers in fall hues.

Sunflower Kissing Balls 2

*You can purchase artificial flower heads or, purchase artificial flowers with stems and cut off the stem about 1/2-inch from the head. You will need approximately 25 sunflowers per ball if each sunflower is about 2 1/2 inches diameter.

Sunflower Kissing Balls step 1 materials

Cut a piece of ribbon or twine. Thread the ribbon through two adjoining holes on your whiffle balls and tie a double knot.

Sunflower Kissing Balls step 2

Have your sunflower heads ready. If your faux flowers have stems, trim the stems 1/2-inch from the head.

With your hot glue gun, dab glue around a whiffle ball hole and press a faux flower over the hole. You should have one flower for each hole in the whiffle ball. You should be able to dab glue around two or three holes at a time. Cover the whiffle ball, including the holes used for the ribbon.

Sunflower Kissing Balls step 3 adding sunflowers to whiffle ball with hot glue

Tie the ribbon the length you need to create a loop and hang where you like!

Sunflower Kissing Balls step 4

These super-bright and easy sunflower kissing balls should get me through fall. I’m already thinking of a poinsettia version for winter and bright gerbera daisies for spring!

Sunflower Kissing Balls hanging

Looking for another beautiful idea for parties, weddings, or home decor? You’ll want to check out these easy to make deco mesh flowers! They’d look adorable hanging in a nursery or in a craft room.

You can also easily turn them into wreaths! For a more kid-friendly craft, try these coffee filter sunflowers. A super easy and adorable craft for kids this fall. (They’d make cute cards as well!)

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Sunflower Kissing Balls

Use these sunflower kissing balls for weddings, showers, parties, or to simply dress up your home or front porch.
Age Group: Adult Crafts
Project Type: Crafts
Author: Meaghan Mountford

Supplies

  • Yellow whiffle balls
  • Faux sunflower heads
  • Raffia ribbon or twine

Craft tools

  • Hot glue gun
  • Scissors

Instructions

  • Cut a piece of ribbon or twine. Thread the ribbon through two adjoining holes and tie a double knot.
  • Have your sunflower heads ready. If your faux flowers have stems, trim the stems 1/2-inch from the head.
  • Dab hot glue around a whiffle ball hole and press a faux flower over the hole. You should have one flower for each hole in the whiffle ball. You should be able to dab glue around two or three holes at a time. Cover the whiffle ball, including the holes used for the ribbon.
  • Tie the ribbon the length you need to create a loop and hang where you like!

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This post was originally published on this blog on Aug 25, 2017.

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Meaghan Mountford was a professional cookie decorator for nearly a decade before starting The Decorated Cookie in 2008, a blog about decorated cookies, painted marshmallows, and other crafty sweets. She is the author of two cookbooks, Cookie Sensations and Sugarlicious: 50 Cute and Clever Treats for Every Occasion.
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  1. Tya Nelson says

    January 1, 2022 at 10:02 pm

    Do you know how big the whiffle balls were

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  2. Cookie says

    August 10, 2020 at 8:23 pm

    I love this sunflowers my favorite Flower’s Thank’s so much for showingus pretty thing’s you do

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  3. Mable Somerille says

    August 1, 2018 at 11:03 am

    Going to make these

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    • Amanda Formaro says

      August 2, 2018 at 4:54 pm

      Hope you have fun! We love them!

      Reply
  4. Barbara Sauvey says

    August 25, 2017 at 7:42 am

    So cute! I am definitely gonna make some of these!

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    • Eileen Becerra says

      November 9, 2018 at 8:47 pm

      Can’t wait to do these these now for Christmas.

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