Legend Of The Crafter

Happy St. Patrick's Day, crafters!!! Or as I like to call it, happy wearing green, drinking fat tire beer, and eating kettle chips day because that is what I will be doing today besides making these cute St. Patrick's Day hair accessories, wear these and you are guaranteed not to get pinched! And hopefully if I have enough time I can watch Leprechaun in the Hood too, best St. Patty's day movie ever! Here's what you need to make the barrettes.
 
Supplies for barrettes:
plain barrettes
green puff paint
green sequins
green and black felt
googly eyes
green feathers
scissors
hot glue gun/gluesticks
 
Directions for barrettes:
Take your plain barrettes, you can use old ones around the house or get them at the dollar store like I like to do, and paint them green with the puff paint. While they are still wet press the green sequins onto them in any pattern you like and let them dry overnight. When they are dry cut out two green felt four leaf clover shapes for each pair of barrettes you want to do and glue these on to the wider end of the barrette (the end that doesn't open.) Now you can decorate these with googly eyes because things are cuter when they have faces. For the gentlemen cut out black felt tophats or mustaches and glue them on. For the ladies glue on a green feather and sequin. There you go, now you have some FABULOUS shamrock barrettes!
 
And here's what you need for the St. Patrick's Day headbands!
Headband supplies:
plain headbands
green yarn
cardboard
green and black felt
googly eyes
green feathers
green sequins
scissors
hot glue gun/gluesticks
 
 
Directions for headbands:
Okay take your plain headband (I got mine on clearance at Kmart for a buck woo hoo!) and use your hot glue gun to glue and wrap a piece of green yarn completely around the headband and trim off any excess yarn at the ends. Now your gonna take your cardboard and cut out a circle piece and a long rectangle piece. Cover these with green felt, then roll the rectangle piece into a tube and glue together. Now glue the tube to the middle of the circle piece and cut out a smaller green felt circle to glue to the top of the hat to cover the open top. This makes your tophat, now you can glue it to the headband. Now to decorate, glue the googly eyes on because tophats need faces too, duh! For the gentlemen hats cut a long thin strip of felt and glue it on for the hatband, and cut out a black felt mustache to make him quite dapper. For the ladies glue green sequins around the hat for a hatband and a green feather to the back of the hat, very classy! And now your FABULOUS hair accessories are done and ready to be worn have fun making them and drinking green beer and once again have a great St. Patty's Day!!! 
  
Oops! I forgot one last picture this is the leprechaun and you better like my blog post or he's gonna getcha!!!