Cinco de Mayo/Mexican Fiesta Chili Pepper Pom
Cinco de Mayo is just around the corner – hope you are having a little Mexican Fiesta to celebrate! I talked a friend into having a celebration this year promising to help with the decorations!
After searching the stores (and not being overly impressed with the decorations) I came up with this Hot Chili Pepper Pom! I thought it turned out kind of cute and plan to hang them from the ceiling.
I’ve included step by step instructions on how to make this Chili Pepper Party Pom decoration for Cinco de Mayo or a Mexican Fiesta!
Now you are ready to decorate for the Mexican Fiesta! Along with the decorations, you will need an awesome Margarita! Not just any margarita but a Moscow Mule Margarita…sooo good! Plus you will find many tasty Mexican food recipes here and other tasty Cinco de Mayo recipes!
Mexican Fiesta Chili Pepper Pom
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SUPPLIES:
- Beading Wire (Any color)
- Green Tissue Paper
- Red Tissue Paper
This is easy! Tissue paper can be found in so many place and often only cost a dollar each. You should be able to get two Chili Pepper Poms out of a pack of red. Only one pack of green is needed to make multiple pom poms.
I cut the red tissue paper into squares about 4-5 sheets at each size. Stack and cut each size at one time. I started with 9″ squares reducing the size by about an 1/2″ until I reached 4″ squares. Six sizes in all to create one pom. Nothing was exact…I didn’t measure a thing!
Cut a long piece of wire and fold it in half. Accordion fold each size and round the ends on both sides. Starting with the smallest, wrapped the wire around the folded tissue.
Twist the wire between each size of tissue about 3/4″ for the smaller squares and 1″ between the larger squares. I love how the wire naturally started to curve like a chile pepper!
Gently fluff your pom starting at the bottom, filling in the spaces created by the wire.
To finish off the chili pepper pom, accordion fold the green tissue paper to create the top. Instead of rounding the ends, I made about 3″ cuts, down the folded sides, to give the tissue a “spiky” look! Attach with no large space in the wire.
Fluff and separate the green tissue! You are done!
More Cinco De Mayo Party Ideas:
- Festive Cinco De Mayo Centerpiece
- 12 Mexican Fiesta Ideas
- Cinco De Mayo Party Printables
- Mexican Food Recipes For Cinco de Mayo
- Festive Mexican Party Food Ideas
- Margarita Bark Tequila Candy
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This is so great! Thanks for the instructions and clear photos, I look forward to making this!
I tried this tonight and it turned out great for my daughter’s mexican birthday party! Thanks so much for sharing!!
I am so glad that they turned out for your party. I always worry that my creations only work for me!
This is absolutely adorable! Last year I had a Cinco de Mayo dinner and if I do that again this year, I’m definitely making these! Thanks for sharing! Deb @ madefrompinterest.net
That’s really thinking at a high level
· this post makes me want to celebrate birthdays everyday, which i guess really means celebrate Life everyday. happiest of birthday wishes to your brother who sounds just so swell!
I am from San Antonio and our huge two week FIESTA celebration begins today!! I am going to pass this around…thanks so much for sharing!! We also celebrate Cinco de Mayo in a big way…but Fiesta is an event which began over 100 years ago and is bigger than Mardi Gras. Please stop by and say hello!!
Sounds like a wonderful celebration! How fun!
this rocks! Thank you for sharing at the Thursday Favorite Things hop xo
I featured you today on Made in a Day!
Kim
I made one of these tonight as a test for our Cinco de Mayo celebration and it turned out WAY better than I expected! Truly turns out just like the picture.
Fluffing the pom was difficult for me due to MS, but I still got the fluffing done and the peppers look awesome.
Thank you for sharing this tutorial.
Yay Kessa! I am so glad you were able to make them! They are so festive! Hope your celebration will be a big success!
Susan
My Mexican girlfriends find it really funny Americans commemorate Cinco de Mayo, a day that means absolutely NOTHING to Mexicans!
Yes I know! But it is another good reason to get together with girlfriends!!
Thank you so much for sharing this. I made these for the Chili Cook-off here at work and they turned out great and so easy!!
Awesome, Deb…so glad they worked for you! Glad to hear the Chili Cook-off was a success!
This is fantastic! Great tutorial . . . thank you so much!
Great, Kathleen, glad you found my Chili Pepper Pom not too hard to make! Happy Cinco de Mayo!
Love this! Great instructions!
This is so cute! We almost always have one Mexican-theme party or get-together every year so this would be perfect for it! Thanks so much for linking up with us in the Best of the Blogosphere Link-Up! Hope to see you again tomorrow!