How to make Rainbow Ornament from Yarn

Today I wanted to show you a really quick and easy craft for making rainbows out of yarn you might have around your house already. Here are the supplies you need to get started. For this next craft we're going to be borrowing some skill from macrame and we're going to be making a rainbow out of chunky yarn. So I use this chunky yarn that I had on hand already. It was a size 7 braided yarn and you're going start by cutting off three or four, but I did three pieces of the chunky yarn, ten inches, eight inches, and six and a half inches. You just want a little bit of variety in the sizes so that when you make the rainbow you'll have the three distinct sizes for the rainbow. And the first thing you're going to do is take some floral wire and you're going to cut it to be longer than each of the strips and we're going to use this just to stabilize our yarn a little bit. And when you attach the floral wire just leave an inch to three quarters of an inch on each of the ends and that's going to end up being our clouds of our rainbow. So the floral wire should just be running along each of the strips and then twisted on both ends three quarters or an inch away from the end to give you some nice clouds for your rainbow. Now just repeat that for the other two strips. Then you're going to take three different colors that coordinate and these are going to be the colors of your rainbow. So you can use natural looking colors. I kind of like these boho inspired natural looking colors. My children preferred the brighter colors but you can choose any colors that match your Christmas decor. And you're just going to wrap around the chunky yarn and the floral wire. So take your yarn and just continue wrapping all the way around the chunky yarn trying to keep the same amount of thickness to the entire length of the strip because you want it to be a nice even rainbow stripe. So I did wrap the chunky yarn once with the yarn and then I came back around and I wrapped it another time just to even out any areas that were thinner. And once you're satisfied with the way that your roll looks then just hot glue the end of the yarn into place and then you're going to repeat that same process for the next two stripes of your rainbow. And then just take your ends and fluff them up. Make them look as much like clouds as you can. Cut off any extra with your scissors and just get that really fluffy look. This white chunky yarn did a good job of resembling clouds so I was pleased with how it looked in the end. Now to attach your rainbow you're going to first take some twine and in the top stripe of your rainbow tie a piece of twine in the center and this is going to be how you're going to hang your rainbow on your Christmas tree. So just make a knot and then tie another knot looping the twine so that you have a nice hanger for your rainbow. Then take your hot glue gun and just on the top edge of each of the stripes put a little bit of hot glue and this is how you're going to attach the rows to each other. And I kind of did a really bendy bow here so just put the hot glue in between the two different rows and squeeze it into place. Then just repeat that for the next row and hot glue the top edge. Squeeze it on to the other rows in your rainbow and then just trim off any extra yarn you have on the bottom of your clouds and then that's it! You have your little rainbow and there she is all warm and cozy and ready to decorate your Christmas tree!