Make Your Own Adjustable Elastic Headband - DIY Tutorial
Want to make your own adjustable elastic headband? It may seem complicated, but it's not. After you do a few for practice, these will become so easy peasy you could do them in your sleep.
We have broken down each step for your with pictures.
These are the items you will need to make your FOE adjustable headband.
- Fold Over Elastic
- Plastic slider sets
- Hot Glue
- Scissors
- Lighter
We offer 2 sizes of the headband slider sets in our etsy shop. The clear are available in 3/8" for narrow elastic and 5/8" for regular FOE. Just visit piperalley.etsy.com and go to the hardware section. We also have tons of colors and prints of fold over elastic as well. Just be sure to get the slider size that matches your elastic width.
Step 1: Cut elastic about 18 inches. This is my preferred length for newborn to pre-teen but you can adjust to your preference.
Step 2: Heat seal the ends with lighter to keep from fraying.
Step 3: Insert one end of elastic through the figure 8 slider piece. Next wrap elastic over middle bar and back through other side of figure 8. Hot glue end down.
Step 4: Slide the ring onto the elastic and push it past the half way point.
Step 5: Thread the elastic through the figure 8
Step 6: Glue the end around the circle.
TA DA!!! You are finished...
I told you easy peasy. Here is the headband we just made and another in the 3/8" width and the 5/8" width.
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