Button Hair Clips

These clips are so cute - and they're so easy to make!

You will need; hair clips or hair elastics, thin ribbon, buttons of different sizes and strong craft glue.

Cut a length of ribbon about 15cm/6inch. You will need to cut the ends at an angle to help when threading the buttons onto it.

Put a dot a of glue on the base of the hair clip and put the middle of the ribbon over the glue to hold it steady.

Flip the hair clip over - you should now have a hair clip with the two sides of the ribbon coming up through the clip.

Thread the buttons onto the ribbon. It works best to thread two buttons onto one side of the thread and then thread them onto the other end of the ribbon. Add a dab of glue onto the top of the clip where the button will sit.

Slide both buttons down the ribbon so that they are resting on the clip. Then knot the ribbon, add a dab of glue and knot it again.

Snip the ribbon at a desired length - and your done!


You can use the same process on a hair tie too.

The reason I use glue all the way through it to make the clips a little bit safer for using with young children. Of course use common sense when putting clips with things on then in young children's hair.

You can see what other people are making at Tea Rose Home link party