DIY Bunny Bows

I was looking for some inspiration on some Easter/Spring hair clips and found the blog Ten Cow Chick who had a tutorial on how to make Bunny Clips.  So I decided to create the same one and try a different approach.  The tutorial gives a great way to make the bunny clip for toddlers, but if you have an infant with hair, it might be too big.  So I made a smaller one.  And as always, if you don't have the time, or just don't want to try making it, you can purchase it at my Etsy shop.
Here's my go at it...

 Materials For Large Bunny

2 different colors of 3/8 in. Ribbon

Alligator clip

Embellishment for eyes/googly eyes

Hot Glue Gun

1/8 in. Ribbon

Directions:First you'll cut 4 pieces of ribbon 4 inches long, I used pink and white.  Then you'll take one end of the pink and glue it on top of one of the white.  (Just a small dot, leaving the other ends free.) Then loop them together by creating a small tear drop.  On my picture below, I made the tear drop too wide, to make the bunny ears more slender, you'll glue the bottom of the ribbons together.  Does that make sense?  Let me know if you need more clarification! 

Next, cut five strips of ribbon in 6, 5.5, 5, 4.5, and 4 inches.  You will loop these together like the picture above, where the side of one ribbon hits the bottom. 

Glue those five loops together like this.  Disregard the clip underneath, I will tell you when to do that in a bit.

  

Next, we'll make the face.  Cut a piece of pink ribbon about two inches long.  Loop them together the same way to make a tear drop, and then glue the top two corners down make a flat piece like the one shown below.

Then glue your two embellishments on for the eyes.

Next, make a small bow, by cutting the 1/8th in ribbon into a length of 5 in.  Tie a small bow and trim the edges to make it a very small bow.  If you need help tying a bow, check out my tutorial here.

Now take your alligator clip and about a 7 inch ribbon and glue them together.  I start gluing by putting the end of the ribbon into the alligator clip and closing it.  Then I place glue in the center line where the ribbon is exposed.  Next I close the ribbon over and squeeze the two pieces of ribbon together forming a tight bond. Then I continue gluing.

Now you'll have all of these parts: to glue together. 

Glue in this order,



Materials for Small Bunny

 different colors of 3/8 in. Ribbon
Alligator clip

Embelishment for eyes/googly eyes

Hot Glue Gun

1/8 in. Ribbon

Directions: 

First, Cut two pieces of ribbon at about 6 inches (it will be easier than with the 5.5 inches that I used)

Next, make a ribbon that looks like a rememberance ribbon.  Don't forget to glue each part down to each other.

Next, glue the ears back by making a little loop on the end.

Continue by creating a face like the one for the larger bunny using a length of about 2 inches. 

Next, glue each piece onto the alligator clip. 

I'd love to see your finished products and read your comments!  Make sure to check out all of my other tutorials here, and follow me on Twitter and Facebook!

How to Create Poppy Flower Hair Clips

I have seen these beautiful hair clips all over the internet, but haven't figured out how to make them.  Well, I found a great website this weekend called Brown Paper Packages.  She has some great DIY projects and the poppy hair clip directions!  It was super easy, and not much "craftistic" ability is needed!

Supplies:
Glue Gun
Scissors
Satin/Silk
Felt
Alligator Clip
Craft Brads
Foam Paper (I add this to all of my hair clips, it helps hold the hair tighter while still being gentle.)
Lighter/Matches

Instructions:

~Cut out circles from your fabric in large to smaller sizes.  Kierste recommends three, but I made one with four and one with six.  You'll want to make sure that your biggest circle is able to cover the alligator clip.  These circles do not have to be perfect, I promise, just your best circle.  The teacher in me wants to tell you a little trick.  Cut your fabric into squares and then round off the corners. 

~Then take your lighter/match and make the flame.  You will then carefully put the fabric edge right up to the flame.  The fabric doesn't need to touch the flame, just get it close enough to where the fabric starts to melt/curl up.  Make sure to melt all the way around the circle, and the repeat with your other circles.

~Next, place your circles in order from largest to smallest and poke the crafting brad through the middle of each one.  Open the brad, and then hot glue a small circle of felt over it. 

~Once you have the felt on the bottom of your flower, hot glue your alligator clip to it. 

~Then I like to add a little more glue to the top inside of alligator clip and place the foam on it. 

~The bottom of the clip should look like this:

~And the top should look like this:

Enjoy!