Decorative jute balls
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Jute Rope Wrapped Balls
Wow! You are going to love this quick and easy tutorial for Decorative Jute Balls, which uses items you can pick up at the dollar store.
Maybe you call them Jute Balls, Decorative Rope Ornament Balls, Bowl Fillers, Vase Fillers, or Bowl Orbs. Whatever you call them, it’s cheaper to do it yourself!
When I decided to make some, I went to get Styrofoam balls and was shocked at their price! I already had the jute (a hand-me-down from my daughter Jamie), and I wanted this project to be as cost-saving as possible. So, I started searching for anything round that I could glue some jute on.
I found this at Dollar Tree: five of these kid’s balls for one dollar! You can’t beat that.
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Materials to Make Rope Orbs
Here are my supplies. A 20-cent ball and some free jute.
Use a Hot Glue Gun
Of course, you will need hot glue and a glue gun. It’s amazing how quick and easy this Decorative Rope Ball project is! You may want to use some Hot Glue Finger Protectors to make this job safer and quicker!
I chose this free, cheap jute, but you could easily use a different kind of rope or even colored jute or twine to match your decor.
Oh, wouldn’t these be pretty in holiday colors for Christmas? This home decor project can be made quickly for very little money.
The whiffle balls were incredibly cheap, but you may already have Styrofoam or other kiddie plastic balls. I think it would be great to have plastic ball orbs of different sizes.
Small Whiffle Ball Jute Orbs
Voila! One rope-wrapped orb was completed using very little jute and not much time.
This is what the plastic rope-wrapped ball looks like on its side. Don’t you love how easy it looks to do?
Thrift Store Bowl Fillers
While in Nashville visiting Jamie, we went to Music City Thrift Store. I picked up these twig bowl filler orbs for $1.99
What a great deal I got on the twig bowl fillers! I like the variety they offer!
Vinyl Record Bowl for Orbs
Jamie’s husband, Andy, is a DJ who has a fondness for vinyl albums. He made me this bowl for my birthday.
When I returned from Nashville, I was trying to decide where to display my new vintage album bowl. So I started playing around with putting the decorative balls in it.
I added the balls I got at the thrift store. Don’t you love the way the black and the brown look together?
gail
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Looks GOOD! Glad to see you used Rebekah’s idea of using the balls from $Tree!! I can’t wait to tell her…she will be so excited!
~Bridgette {allthingzrelated}
Such an awesome THRIFTY IDEA! I LOVE it! I agree, the super cool Lp black bowl totally makes the balls POP and vice versa!
I work in Nashville and have never been to Music City Thrift! What is wrong with me?!!! I’m googling it now and going at lunch!
Love the jute balls, but especially like the vinyl record tray. Brilliant idea!
Your twine balls turned out perfectly and I love the mix of balls you used in the bowl. I used to make record bowls as a kid. Got in trouble a few times for melting down my parents albums–oops!
Smart thinking. I have a few of those laying around in our yard. Who needs styrofoam!
Great idea Gail! Thanks for sharing. And i was just kidding about calling you a slacker. It was worth the wait!:)
Sarah
I seriously like these! I know what you mean about having decorator issues, ha ha!! It’s taken me 20 years of marriage to finally define my “style” which my hubby defines as eclectic. I call it world traveller! 🙂 And do you know what is so sad, I just realized we made these with my preschoolers (taught for a few years) back in the 80’s. We used paper mache paste and used small balloons for the form. Once they were dry we popped the balloons.. Wa la! Thanks for reminding me!! (it must have been the wiffle bat balls…)
Once again thanks for the post!
Love how you taught us how to make these balls
.Thank you so much for sharing so many tips & tutorials.
I bought plastic balls over a year and a half ago to do this same thing with and have yet to do it. I will have to go ahead and get that one since I have a wire bowl I really want to display some in. Thanks for reminding me.
Your jute balls look fantastic and I love them against the black of the vintage album bowl. I’ve never seen a bowl like that. They are fabulous!
– Suzanne
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you are such a smart cookie, my kids better look out, momma is going shopping in their ball stash today. I love your decorative balls and that bowl is to die for. thanks for inspiring me.
Cha Cha
I love how you’ve displayed them all. I’ve wanted to make some of those myself but as you said the Styrofoam ones are ridiculous. Thanks for giving me another idea.