Flower Clips For Little (And Big) Girls Hair Tutorial

I have 3 little girls and we are girly girls around here and we love to do fun things with our hair. We love putting pretty things in our hair, but hair bows are extremely expensive.

Through trial and error a few years ago I figured out how to make these adorable flower clips. They are super easy and dirt cheap to make. I have had a couple of people ask me how to make them so I though I would do a little tutorial for you all.

Here are the supplies you need. A glue gun, mine is super cheap (under $10.00) and I have had it for about 10 years and it works just fine. A pencil. Flowers, I get mine from the dollar store or from after season clearances at JoAnn’s and Michael’s. I never pay more than $1.50 for a bunch of flowers. Clips, see below.

I buy these at Sally Beauty Supply and the box was less than $5.00 for 100 clips.

Turn your flower over and take it completely apart. Take all of the plastic pieces out so that your flower will lay flat. You want to keep the fabric flower parts and the center post and discard the rest.

Put the center post back in and place the first fabric piece back on. Snip the center post so that it is level with the fabric piece.

Glue each fabric piece of the flower back together in the order they came off. You don’t need much glue, just enough to keep them together.

All of my pieces are back together now.

Here is where your pencil comes into play. Hold the clip with your pencil eraser. This is an awesome trick I learned from She Does Hair and it keeps you from burning your fingers when you glue the clip to the flower.

Place a line of glue down the center.

Now just lay your clip right in the glue. The eraser of your pencil will not stick to the glue once it is dry, so don’t worry about glueing your pencil to your clip.

All done! So cute!

Once you have the technique down, you can get a little fancy.

You can take these two flowers apart, and then combine them together to make this:

Or I had some extra buttons laying around from these button flowers, so I put this fancy button in the middle of the flower, and did not use the center post at all.

I love these flowers that I got at the dollar store all by themselves, but I think I love them even more when I put two of them together:

The little sparkly doo-dad came in my bag-o-buttons as well.

And when my hair was longer (and blonde!) I loved to wear them as well. They are perfect for dressing up a plain ponytail.

Each flower costs me $.50 each or less to make and my little girls get compliments on them everywhere we go. They make great gifts as well!