Easter Bows

Spring Break starts today!! This is both awesome and agonizing as a stay-at-home mom of 4. So to celebrate (or distract myself) I made Easter Bunny hair clips. I had pinned a website with directions but when I went back, it was "temporarily unavailable" but I could still find pictures on Google for ideas and here's what I ended up with:

As you can see I played around with the size of the head and whether the head was folded forward or back, but I really don't have a favorite and I think the individuality of them all is what's so cute.

Here's how it's done:  Line your clips! (I've got 1 for each of my big Ks and we have a Spring Break craft play date next week and I thought I would make some for those girls too- hence 6.)

Measure out your body ribbon. I just made a figure 8 over the clip to the size I wanted.

Then fold to how you want the head to look and glue into place. It really is just a figure 8 with one side smaller and flattened.

Loop the bottom half back up and glue it down.

Use the body to measure the size of the pink ribbon for the belly and cut it (again, I didn't actually take a measurement, just held it up to find what I liked).

Glue it into a petal shape.

Then glue to the belly of the body.

Measure what size you want the ears to be. I wish I would have had a thinner ribbon but I think the thicker turned out okay, the thinner just would have been easier to work with. Then cut two ribbons to that size.

Measure a pink of the same size for the inside of the ear.

**Moment of honesty** I tried gluing the pink to the white but the moment I tried to bend it: 1) it didn't- it was too stiff and 2) it didn't line up right. So much for an easier option. Also- when you hot glue a ribbon and then try to remove it tears up the ribbons, pulling apart the fibers, like this (see how you can see the brown table through the first couple rows of the ribbon by the glue):

Okay, now that we've thoroughly established the fact that I'm not perfect, just a perfectionist, let's continue (although, I'm pretty sure this isn't the first failure I've admitted to).

Next, you make tight petals with the white and pink ear ribbons.

Glue the pink into the white. I found it was easiest to put just a dot of glue on the bottom edge and then put the pink "loop" of the petal into the white loop and then pressed the end down on the glue.

 I lined the ears up on the body and then glued the ears together. Then I ran a line of glue across the ears to attach them to the body.

Next I made a tiny bow (the easy way) for a bow tie.
The easy way is comprised of folding a ribbon over a template (I've seen people using forks for a bow this small). Clip the beginning and the end so the ribbon doesn't shift.

Twist a wire around the middle to hold it all together. Then slip it off.

Next take a small portion of the same (or complimentary if desired) ribbon and make a knot.

Then glue the knot over the front of the bow and glue the ends behind it.

Then glue the bow to the top of the bunny's belly. (I tried drawing a face with fabric markers but wasn't fond of the way it turned out, luckily I was searching for a paintbrush for my husband and found little eyes that I forgot I had.)

Finally attach the clip.

And done!!

 I may go back and add a few more noses on some of them, maybe even use a pink marker. We'll see, that's part of why I love crafting, there's always a chance to change it or at least add your own touch.

That's all for now,
Jo!