DIY Hair Clips and Bows! {Easy Tutorials} The Frugal Girls

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Feeling crafty?? You’ll love this BIG List of Fun DIY Hair Clips and Bows!

They’re SO easy to make, and make super-cute gifts, too!

DIY Hair Clips and Bows:

DIY Hair Clippies for Toddlers

Let me show you how to make Cute Hair Clips for Babies and Little Girls!

DIY Flower Hair Clips and Headbands

Start creating your own adorable headbands with these easy tutorial for How To Make Cute Flower Headbands for Babies and Little Girls!

How to Make Korker Hair Bows

Learn how to make Korker Hair bows with this easy DIY tutorial!

Fabric Flower Petals Hair Clip Tutorial

How to Make a Double Bow Hair Clip

What You’ll Need:

Grosgrain ribbon {3/8″}
Alligator Clip {like this one}
5/8″ Smooth Ribbon
Hot Glue Gun
Pretty doo-dads for embellishing! 😉

What You’ll Do:

Glue 3/8″ ribbon to alligator clip, so you’ve got a cute little clippie to use as the base. {go here for step-by-step instructions}…

Cut 3 pieces of 5/8″ ribbon into these sizes: one 5 1/2″ long, one 4″ long, and one 1 1/2″ long

Glue the two longer pieces into two separate loops, like this…

Glue the larger loop onto the top of the clippie, just like this…

Place a small dot of glue on the inside center piece of the loop, then press the top down, so it will look like this…

Now grab your smaller loop, and glue that on top of the clip {with just a small dot of glue in the center}, just like this…

Just like we did above… now place a small dot of glue near the inner base of the loop, and gently press the top down, like this…

Now grab your little flat piece. This we’ll glue right around the center, with both ends hiding underneath the top of the clip. Start like this… then just wrap it tightly around, and glue the other side where the ends meet {on the inside of the clip}…

It’s getting CUTE!!!

Now go grab a pretty embellishment or flower… I found a set of four cute little flower clusters for around $2 at Jo-Ann’s {near the ribbon}.

Glue your pretty little embellishment to the top middle piece of the bow…

All done ~ wasn’t that easy?? Now… go make some pretty little clippies and bows of your own! 😉

What Your Frugal Friends Are Saying About These Double Bow Hair Clips:

Lampica writes: “Awesome, great looking and not too hard to make. Great for daughters, or maybe as a homemade gift. Quite unique.”

Laura writes: “I am sewing Easter dresses for my granddaughters and made some of these hair clips to match their dresses!! I can’t wait to see them all dressed up!”

Racheal writes: “Love this!!! So glad I found this site. Now I can make the hair pieces for my flower girls and junior bridesmaids to match the wedding.”

Angie writes: “These make great gifts! I know because I got several as gifts for both my girls.”

Robbyn writes: “You can also glue fake flowers to these clips (as above) and clip them on headbands or crocheted beanies. Great way to get an expensive looking hair decoration on the cheap that you can change with every outfit.”

Kristin writes: “Here’s a way to make the clips non-slip! In the isle with the contact paper, they have a rubber type that you can use in your drawers. (It looks like little circles all joined together.) Cut that 2 circles wide, and 8 circles long. Attach that to the top part of your clip, and now they won’t slip out!! ENJOY!!”

How to Make a Ribbon Flower Hair Clip

Frugal friends and sisters Brooke & Seasyn shared such a pretty flower hair clips!

She started with this tutorial from Domesticating Michelle, but then made the bow into 3 layers! Here’s what she said:

I used the tutorial for the base but made it into 3 layers….with varying ribbon thickness.
The thicker blue ribbon is cut at 10 inches, the thinner pink ribbon is cut at 7 inches, and the center decorated ribbon was cut at 5 inches.
I just followed the figure 8, gluing directions for each set of ribbon then stacked them on top of each other and glued….with the button in the center hot glued in place from my bag o’ buttons I had laying around.

Shautel writes: “I made 2 of these and will definitely be making more.”

Hair Clip Organizer DIY Ideas

Need a tidy and organized way to store all of your hair clips?

Don’t let those hair clips, bows, and ties taking over the bathroom counter! Get organized with these cute and DIY Hair Clip Organizers…

Simple Ribbon Organizer:

Place two thumbtacks on the back of the ribbon, near the top, and hang!

Framed Hair Clip Organizer:

For this one… I painted an old frame a pretty metallic pink, removed the glass, put scrapbook paper over the cardboard, then added some thick ribbon from the Dollar Tree.

This works great if you’ve got just a few clips and bows… or a larger frame could be used for a bigger bow collection.