Who Wants Some Useful and Fun Christmas Crafts?
Bracelets and Headbands Make Unique Christmas Crafts
If you’re looking for some practical Christmas crafts to work on, why not try a Christmas craft that you can wear? Making bracelets and headbands for Christmas crafts can be both fun and rewarding. After all, who doesn’t love wearing the fruits of their labors?
Easy as Pie
Though it may sound hard, making your own bracelets and headbands is not as difficult as it sounds. To get started with these Christmas crafts, you just need to get together a few supplies.
Making Your Bracelets
To create these Christmas crafts, you will first need to buy some plain bracelets. Because you will be covering them over anyway, you can buy solid colors at craft stores or see what you can find on clearance tables at your nearest department store. You will also need decorative ribbon. Pick out ribbons with pretty year-round designs and also pick out ribbons with holiday appeal.
Begin with a plain bangle bracelet. The bracelet can range in width from ½ inch to a few inches. Next, take a piece of decorative ribbon which will be glued onto your bracelet. You might need as much as 36 inches of ribbon depending on the thickness of your bracelet. Start with the decorative side facing up. Glue that side of the ribbon onto your bracelet. You can buy multipurpose glue at most craft stores and a glue gun works great.
Wind the ribbon around making sure that the decorative side is up. Overlap the ribbon as you go. When you completely wind the ribbon around your bracelet, you are almost finished. Then simply glue the last piece of ribbon in place. For this Christmas craft project, make as many bracelets as you need. You can make some festive ones with ribbons that are decorated with candy canes and snowflakes. You can also make ones that can be worn any day of the year and give them as gifts. Homemade bracelets make great stocking stuffers.
Make Matching Headbands
To make the headband part of these Christmas crafts, you will begin similarly with your decorative ribbon. Craft stores sell plain headbands that you can use for this Christmas craft project. You can overlap as little or as much as you want to create a unique look.
The results when you are all finished will definitely be popular. You will probably have difficulty convincing others that their new accessories are simply Christmas crafts and your recipients are sure to be impressed.