Craft Tutorial: Non-slip Hair Clip

I've been making crochet and felt flowers and bows for my girls' hair for a long time, and pretty early on I realized that most handmade bows are too heavy for the alligator clips, especially with a layer of felt in between the "jaws."  I figured out this way to make the clips stay in their hair better from looking at my non-slip headbands for running.  There's a line of clear plastic on the inside that grips my hair.  That was easy enough to do!

I put the flowers for all my crochet hats on alligator clips so that they can be used as hair bows after the baby grows out of the hat.  Using this non-slip hair clip method ensures that the clip won't slip off the hat or out of the kid's (or mom's!) hair.

Supplies:
Flower (this is the open version of the large no-sew rose)
Felt
Hot Glue Gun
Alligator Clip

Instructions:

Glue a circle of felt to the alligator clip by clipping it on the glue, with the glue on the inside of the bent side of the clip.

Quickly smash the glue into the flower.

Run a line of glue on the felt opposite the metal part of the clip, on the inside where it will grip.

In the same way, when you are gluing multiple flowers onto a circle of felt and covering the clip with felt, after you glue the clip to the flowers, you run a line of glue on the flower-side opposite the metal of the clip.

This will grip whatever you are clipping it to (hair or hat) so it will stay better.

So even this big, fluffly clip will hold back #1's unruly, curly hair!

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