Outsized Rainbow Wall Hanging DIY!

I’m so excited to share this tremendous enjoyable and amazingly cute rainbow wall hanging DIY with you at present!

I really like all of the little child rainbows which have been making the rounds currently whether or not that be on clothes, plush objects, or wall decor, and I further love the little rope rainbow development.

I are inclined to take every little thing that’s enjoyable and make it outsized, and I used to be fairly constructive {that a} rope rainbow can be wonderful on a big scale, and it seems I used to be proper!!

Are you able to guess what I used as a base to make this outsized rainbow wall hanging? I’ll offer you a touch … splish, splash!

Provides:
–5 pool noodles (did you guess it?)
–thick cotton rope (strive the trim part of your craft/cloth retailer)
–thick yarn in most well-liked colours (I didn’t use greater than the yarn you see above, so one massive yarn must be sufficient for my dimension)
–sizzling glue gun
–X-Acto knife and scissors
–10′ of three/8″ copper coil tubing
–mini pipe cutter
–4cm wool felt balls
–cat brush

First, you will determine how lengthy you need your outer rainbow shade to be, which is able to decide the general dimension of your rainbow—because it’s the outer layer.

I needed my outer layer to be longer than my pool noodles have been, so I reduce off 8″ of one other noodle and sizzling glued that part onto the top of one other full size one to provide me an additional lengthy noodle to work with.

Then, I used my pipe cutter to chop a bit of copper coil that was about 2″ shorter than my noodle, so it wouldn’t stick out the ends as soon as I threaded it by way of my noodle.

It took me a bit to determine what to make use of because the spine of the rainbow, as I wanted one thing that may be bendable and but sturdy sufficient to maintain its form as soon as bent.

I keep in mind seeing these copper coils within the ironmongery shop and I believed they is perhaps value a shot, they usually have been good! In the event you do a a lot bigger rainbow than this, you could have to strive the coil within the subsequent dimension up.

It is going to be tougher to bend into place, but additionally stronger as nicely as soon as bent into form.

As soon as your pipe is reduce, be certain that it’s the correct size to your noodle.

Then, use an X-Acto knife to carve out a few of the inside portion of the final 1″ or so of every noodle finish so you could have a bigger area so as to add your rope fringe on the finish. Pool noodles are tremendous simple to chop into, so this half shouldn’t be too onerous.

Then, sizzling glue your yarn finish to 1 finish of your noodle and begin to (are you prepared for this?) twist the noodle to wrap the yarn across the noodle.

It’s nonetheless time consuming however it’s waaaay simpler to twist the noodle than wrap the yarn across the noodle. Hold the yarn holding hand in place and use the opposite hand to twist the noodle physique as you go.

I glued my yarn to the correct finish of the noodle and twisted the noodle away from me, however if you’re left handed, you could need to begin on the left facet and twist if that’s extra snug.

Hold twisting and twisting till you could have about 3″ of yarn-covered noodle after which push all of the yarn downwards in the direction of the top you began from to condense the yarn.

Be certain that it’s tremendous tightly filled with no pool noodle beneath in sight—it is going to additionally assist preserve the noodle coated once you bend it right into a rainbow form as nicely if it’s tightly packed yarn.

Hold twisting and pushing down each 3″ of yarn till you attain the top. I used extra glue to safe the yarn to the noodle on the final 1″ of the noodle after which tucked the top into the noodle opening and glued it in place.

Together with your outer noodle now wrapped, slide in your copper pipe that you simply reduce to suit after which bend it into your rainbow form. I made mine a little bit of a taller/skinnier rainbow, however you might do a shorter/wider one as nicely in the event you like.

As soon as it’s bent into place, be certain that your subsequent noodle is lengthy sufficient to suit inside that form and begin to wrap that noodle with the following shade yarn.

When you’re nearly executed wrapping that noodle, place it again contained in the outer noodle to verify the match. Normally including the yarn modifications precisely how a lot noodle size you want, so that you’ll simply need to preserve checking the size earlier than reducing the noodle and ending the top with yarn.

Repeat with every shade for every noodle till you could have 4 layers! Because you’ll have leftover copper pipe after including it to your outdoors noodle, use the remaining inside one of many inside layers of noodles and that can assist it preserve its form even higher.

That is additionally a very good time to take a bit of yarn the colour of your third layer in and tie it round your pool noodle so you could have a hanger on the bottom to hold your rainbow from.

Principally, if the highest of the rainbow is on the 12:00 place on a clock, tie one finish of a bit of yarn on the 1:00 place and the opposite to the 11:00 place with the knots on the bottom so that you don’t see them and you should utilize the yarn that connects the 2 factors as a hanger.

A lot simpler to do it now earlier than you glue issues collectively!

Now it’s time to attach our rainbow collectively! I clamped my outer layer to a espresso desk so it wouldn’t transfer from that place, however you might additionally simply place packing containers or heavy books on the sides and high/backside to maintain in place when you glue as nicely.

Put a beneficiant quantity of glue on the sides the place every noodle touches the following and add one layer at a time till you could have all of your layers full.

Now that your noodles are hooked up, take your thick rope, reduce it double the size you need your tassel to be, after which tie some twine on the center of the rope to maintain the tassel collectively.

In the event you can’t discover tremendous thick cotton rope, you may as well reduce three or 4 strands double your tassel size and simply tie all of them collectively within the center for a similar impact.

Add some sizzling glue into the opening of the noodle and stick within the center fold of your rope so it sticks to the glue.

I did various lengths for every noodle, however you are able to do all of them the identical too. Now in the event you like that curly look when you unwind the rope, you’ll be able to go away it that approach, or you should utilize a pet brush to brush out the rope into one bigger tassel.

Because the of completion, glue some massive felt balls across the perimeter of the rainbow and your candy little challenge is able to dangle!

Critically although, how wonderful is that!?! I couldn’t be extra happy with how this turned out, and I’ve even been getting in her room simply to have a look at it randomly through the day. It makes me so pleased!

In the event you love this rainbow wall hanging, be certain that to take a look at the nook rainbow I painted in her playroom and our different child’s initiatives.

Only a fast security be aware: I’m not nervous about Lola reaching this from a security standpoint. She truly performs with these felt balls usually (they usually aren’t a choking hazard dimension for her since they’re bigger) and the remainder of that is simply yarn and pool noodles.

However, in the event you make this on a smaller scale or simply small felt balls, watch out it doesn’t fall into child’s palms if there are objects hooked up you’ll fear about them having.

That is completely an merchandise that I might additionally dangle in some other room in the home, so don’t really feel like that is restricted to a child’s room in the event you aren’t in that zone but! xo. Laura

Room Sources: DIY Wallpaper / Chandelier / Related Crib / Washable Rug

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