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a close up of the peony balls hanging in the window
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DIY Peony Kissing Balls

Make these fun DIY Peony Kissing Balls to hang in your home. Step-by-step instructions included.
Prep Time10 minutes
Active Time1 hour
Total Time1 hour
Yield: 7 Kissing balls

Equipment

  • 1 Hot Glue Gun with Glue sticks
  • 1 Tape measure

Materials

Instructions

  • First using your hands pop the flower heads (blooms) off the Peony bush. Depending on the peonies you buy you may need to remove the blooms with wire cutters or scissors. Discard the foliage and stems or save them for another project.
    5 blooms off the bush ready to be made into a diy peony ball
  • Take 5 Peony blooms and flip them over. With your hot glue gun add a little bit of glue to the bottom flower petals and begin to glue the flower heads together. Place them in an open circle - one at 12:00, then 3:00, then 6:00 and finally 9:00. Carefully hold the two petals together while the glue dries.
    4 peony bloom glued together
  • Next with a dab of glue add the 5th bloom to close the circle to make a ball.
    peony balls on kraft paper
  • Take each kissing ball and on one of the top flower petals poke a bulb pin through the petals.
    adding a bulb pin to the peony ball
  • Next measure how long you want the chains to be and lace one end of the chain through the bulb pin that is on the peony ball.
    one kissing ball hanging
  • Add a second bulb pin to the end and loop the end around the curtain rod and secure with the second pin.
    curtain rod holding the chain with the bulb pin.
  • Hang remaining peony kissing balls at different lengths.
    a close up of the peony balls hanging in the window