Get into the holiday spirit with handcrafted Christmas hair pins and headbands. Make gifts for a special girl or deck out your co-workers for the seasonal office party. Hair pin blanks are available at most craft stores with a flat metal round at the top for attaching the festive embellishments. Select wide headbands from discount stores as the base for your holiday headband crafts.
Christmas Tree Hair Pins
Make Christmas tree hair pins with green feathers and colorful beads. Attach the green feathers to a small wooden craft stick to form the shape of a tree. Tacky glue or other liquid craft glue works to secure the feathers to the wood stick. Drape and glue a strand of glass beads across the feather tree in swags to mimic garland. Glue slightly larger glass beads onto the feathers to resemble ornaments. Tacky glue or liquid jeweler's glue works to attach the beads. Glue the back of the wooden stick to the front of a hair pin with viscous jeweler's glue. Allow the glue to dry before wearing the hair pins.
Christmas Figure Headbands
Christmas headbands can be whimsical with shapes of Christmas figures perched on the top of a plastic or fabric covered headband. Select a headband in a color to coordinate with the Christmas figure you prefer, such as red for Santa or white for a Christmas angel. Trace the shape of a Christmas figure onto colored craft foam---use coloring books or online images as templates. Select figures with a wide base so you can better attach them to the headband. For example, Santa riding in his sleigh gives you a base wide enough to affix across the top of a headband, but the tip of a Christmas star does not. Decorate the figures with markers or more foam cutouts before attaching them to the headband with viscous jeweler's glue.
Christmas Package Hair Pins and Headbands
Wrap small blocks of foam with colorful Christmas fabrics or heavy duty wrapping paper to make both headbands and hair pins. The foam boxes should be no more than 2 inches square; glue the wrapping in place with hot glue or fabric glue. Decorate the boxes with ribbons and beads---hot glue works well on either type of material. Attach single boxes to a hair pin form or glue a row across the top of a color-coordinated headband. Hot glue works to attach the packages to the metal pins or the plastic/fabric covered headbands.
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