Button Headbands

On a bad hair day, a handband can be a life-saver! (It's much more chic than a baseball cap and it's goes with just about everything.)

Join us this week as we take something as ordinary as a headband and add a cute assessory to make it extraodinary.

DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY	Doesn't get much easier than this
PREP TIME	30 minutes or less
EXPENSES	About $4 (because I had to buy buttons /headband. If you already had both, it's free!

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

1 headband (1/4" to 2 inches)	buttons
hot glue gun and glue

STEP BY STEP

1. Start with a normal headband. Our's is plastic and about an 1/2" thick.Get out glue gun, fire it up, and set it aside (being careful to always to keep it away from children, pets, even husbands for safety).

2. Make sure to use flat buttons with holes, instead of the kind that have a loop in the back.

3. If you want to make a solid color button headband, be sure to sort the buttons out into colors. I found this step was helpful when I even made the multi-colored button headband, because this way I could find the color I needed next.

4. Place a drop of glue on the back of the first button and stick it to the end of the headband.

NOTE: It's important to find buttons that are the right size for your headband width. If the buttons are too big for the headband, they will be easy to break off. If they are too small, the headband will show through. That is why it is essential to find the right size headband for the job. ALSO: some headbands taper from smaller at the ear pieces to larger at the top. Make sure to inspect your headband to see if this is the case.

5. From here, you just keep adding buttons. It's that easy!

6. Here is my first one. Not too shabby.

7. After I finished the colored one, I made a plain white one. My buttons come from a bucket of buttons (from our local discount store). Going through them, I found a cute bunny button. It wasn't the same as the rest of the round buttons I was using, but it was just so cute, that I added it to my headband.