Korker hair accessories are popular with little girls and big girls alike. These fun barrettes, clips and pony tail holders are an attractive bunch of multicolored corkscrews. They can be expensive to purchase and are not always available in the colors you desire. Making your own is less expensive and opens up your options on colors and designs.
Instructions
1. Preheat your oven to 275 degrees. Then, prepare your dowels by cutting them down to 1.5 foot lengths. Finish your preparations by lining a cookie sheet in foil.
2. Secure one end of the ribbon to a dowel with a clothes pin. Begin carefully winding the ribbon around the dowel. When you reach the end, cut the extra ribbon off and secure the wound ribbon to the bottom of the dowel with another clothes pin. Lay it on the cookie sheet. Do this with any other color of ribbon you also would like to use. It will take 3 to 4 dowel rod's worth of ribbon to make one korker bow.
3. Place the cookie sheet onto the middle oven rack once you are done wrapping the ribbon and the oven has finished preheating. After 20 minutes, you will need to check your ribbon. Being careful not to burn yourself, remove the clothes pin from the bottom of one dowel and slide the ribbon free. If it is curled tightly and evenly, your ribbons are done. If not, return them to the oven and check them in 5 minute intervals until they are. Once done, remove the ribbons from the oven and allow them to cool completely.
4. Remove the ribbons from the dowels after they have cooled and cut them into 3-inch sections. Measure them curled--do not pull them flat to measure. Spray the cut ends with the fray stop.
5. Cut a foot long piece from your elastic string and lay it out on your work surface. Lay 25 to 30 pieces of the curled ribbon on top the string, then tie the string in a double knot. You can use the hot glue gun to affix the korker bow to the hair accessory of your choice.
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