Easter Craft - Easter Egg Barrett and Fabric Wrapped Easter Barrette

Dress up your accessories with some Easter eggs and seasonal fabrics this Easter! Here are instructions to make two different Easter Barrettes...

Easter Egg Barrett

Supplies:
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Barrette (with a fairly smooth top surface)
Plastic Easter eggs (the smallest size; about 1-1½ inches long)
Glue (or 'hot' glue gun)

Step 1 ~
Choose the colors of eggs you want and make sure they're snapped shut securely. If necessary, glue them shut, so they don't come open later. For this project, I recommend the smallest size of plastic Easter eggs. With that size you'll be able to put 3 to five of them on your barrette. If you're only able to find the standard size, you can still do this project; you'll just only be able to fit 2 or 3 on your barrette. (And if you use the larger ones, you'll just have one big one, unless your barrette is unusually big.

Step 2 ~
Using glue, or your glue gun, attach your plastic Easter eggs to the outer side of your barrette. You can arrange them in a straight line across the barrette all facing the same direction, or you can lean some of them so that they look like they're tumbling.

Step 3 ~
Give your glue time to dry, and then your new Easter barrette is ready to wear!

Fabric Wrapped Easter Barrette

Supplies:
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Barrette
Miniature plastic easter eggs
Glue (or 'hot' glue gun)
Pastel fabric ribbon (or Easter print fabric strips)

Step 1 ~
If you're using Easter fabric, cut it into strips no more than an inch wide.

Step 2 ~
Open your barrette. After spreading some glue onto the top section, wrap the ribbon or fabric strips around and around, completely covering the top clip of the barrette.

Step 3 ~
Cut sections of your ribbon or fabric strips from between four and six inches long, and glue one end of each section to the underside of the top clip. (They'll be on the back of the section that you just wrapped in ribbon or fabric.)

Step 4 ~
On the end of each ribbon/fabric strip section, snap a miniature plastic Easter egg closed on the free end. You can put up to half a dozen of these dangling eggs without it looking cluttered, and they'll dangle down the back of the wearer's head and move as she moves.