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1. Decorate the yoghurt pot.
2. Make a small hole, fairly near the top, for one end of the string.
3. Make a small ball with newspaper or wool.
   
   For a newspaper ball,
   • crunch up about half a sheet into a nice round shape.
   • Check that it will fit easily into the yoghurt pot.
   • Wrap it in kitchen foil to give it some sparkle and glamour.
   • Keep it in good shape by binding round it once with a length of button thread or thin string. Tie the ends together, but do not cut.
   • Continue to bind tightly round the ball as though making lines of longitude on the globe, or marking out the sections in an orange.
   • Tie the ends together again.
   For a woolly ball,
   • cut two circles of card, say 8 cm diameter.
   • Cut a hole in the centre of each, about 1.5 cm diameter.
   • Hold the circles of card together and hold the end of the wool against the circles with your thumb.
   • Wind the wool over the edge and up through the centre, gradually binding all the way round the circle. It looks a bit like a ring doughnut at this stage.
   • As the hole gradually fills up you will need a needle threaded with wool to finish the job.
   • Hold the ring to your eye. If you can't see through the centre the binding is finished.
   • At one point on the circumference, snip the wool until you come to the cardboard.
   • Poke the scissors between the two circles of cardboard and continue to snip until all the wool has been cut.
   • Gently edge the circles of cardboard apart, then with a length of thin string, tightly bind round the wool between the card circles. Tie a tight knot, leaving a long end of string to attach to the yoghurt pot.
   • Snip the cardboard circles and pull them away.
   • Fluff up the ball and trim it to fit easily into the yoghurt pot.
   • Tie the free end of the string to the yoghurt pot.