Winter Crafts Kids Can Make: Curly Ribbon Clips

These adorable curly ribbon clips are simple, even kids can make them. They do require some assistance but can be arranged by little hands. My nieces love these fun clips especially when there are two. You could even arrange the clip on a bag of goodies. All you need is patience.

Materials Needed:

• Mini Bowdabra
• Bowdabra Bow Wire
• 3/8″ wide Grosgrain ribbon
• Alligator clips
• Clothes pins
• Wooden Dowels

Instructions:
1. Gather wooden clothes pins and dowels.

Winter Crafts Kids Can Make: Curly Ribbon Clips

2. Wrap pieces of grosgrain ribbon around your wooden dowels and secure with wooden clothespins.

Winter Crafts Kids Can Make: Curly Ribbon Clips

3. Bake at 250 for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely. When ribbon has cooled, remove the clothes pins and gently remove ribbon. Cut the ribbon into pieces 3-4” long.

Winter Crafts Kids Can Make: Curly Ribbon Clips

4. Next, cut 18” of Bowdabra Bow Wire and place into the Mini Bowdabra.

Winter Crafts Kids Can Make: Curly Ribbon Clips

5. Start placing each piece of curly ribbon onto the Mini Bowdabra.

Winter Crafts Kids Can Make: Curly Ribbon Clips

6. Use about 20-25 pieces of different colored curly ribbon. The fuller, the better.

Winter Crafts Kids Can Make: Curly Ribbon Clips

7. Scrunch down the ribbon by using the Mini Bowdabra wand.

Winter Crafts Kids Can Make: Curly Ribbon Clips

8. While the bow is still in the Mini Bowdabra, thread the two loose ends of the wire through the loop at the other end. Pull the ribbon tightly while the bow is still in the Mini Bowdabra.

Winter Crafts Kids Can Make: Curly Ribbon Clips

9. Glue a piece of grosgrain ribbon onto an alligator clip.

Winter Crafts Kids Can Make: Curly Ribbon Clips

10. Tie the clip onto the curly ribbon bow and cut the Bowdabra Bow Wire.

Winter Crafts Kids Can Make: Curly Ribbon Clips

11. Make a second curly ribbon bow so your daught
er, sister, niece or granddaughter could wear pigtails. Another idea is to attach the clip to a bag of goodies and hand out to your child’s friends. There are so many fun ideas you can do with curly ribbon clips. Make one for each holiday.

Winter Crafts Kids Can Make: Curly Ribbon Clips

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