Hair Clip Board
You might have noticed the decrease in activity posts here at SquiggleMum this year. Now that my daughter is a big kindy girl, her world is full of indoor and outdoor activities when she is not with me. Her needs have changed. What she is desperate for at home at the moment is down time!
I have missed spending special one-on-one time with her though, so on the weekend we did a girly activity together. We had seen cute ribbon boards for hair clips at the markets, and thought we’d have a go ourselves. To be honest I wasn’t really sure how well it would work, but I figured the process would be more important than the product anyway.
I didn’t buy a single thing for this project. We used a piece of polystyrene from the recycling bin and trimmed it with a stanley knife as it was a little bigger than we needed. We covered it with some fabric from the material box, pinning it at the back with dress makers pins pushed almost horizontally. (I tried the staple gun first but that was a disaster! Pins worked much better.) Next we raided the ribbon box and my daughter chose colours to match. (Ok, so I might have talked her out of bright blue and into chocolate brown…) I cut the ribbons into lengths and let her space them out on the board. Then I simply pulled them tight and pinned them at the back. Super easy. We added a little bow at the bottom to finish it off.
I was really happy with the way the board turned out. We made it using things we had at home already and it was a lovely mother-daughter activity. The end product is something pretty and practical, and it’s already getting lots of use!
That is so beautiful Catherine – mind if I share your idea with my daughter. We are forever losing clips in the bottom of her ‘hair-things’ tin.
This will make a great activity to add to our school holiday calendar
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For those of us to don’t get to markets so often…what is a hair clip board?? I think this aunty needs some kindy-education, I only just got toddler sorted out!!
oh this is great… I wonder if it would mean we’d actually keep a hair clip for more than three days before we lost it??? LOL
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My girls and I made one for them too. We bought an art canvas from Crazy Clarks and just covered it with pretty fabric and then the ribbons for the clips to go on. The fabric was just thumbtacked into the wood frame. Looks so pretty.
Lovely Catherine! It’s fun to do girlie craft. I use ribbon in a different way to hold my girl’s clips but recently had an email come through from Penny Scallan with the exact same idea on it. Crazy! You’ll have to show us a pic of your Hair Clip Board full of beautiful and groovy girlie clips.
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How sweet and simple and such a good idea.
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I have book marked a couple of tutorials on how to make one of these clip boards. Your approach sounds like something that I could actually do!
I love it. We currently have ‘the hair box’ but it would be nice to have somewhere pretty to put all the elastics!
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