Laurel Headband

At church I teach the 16 – 18 year old girls. This group is called the Laurels. Off the top of my head, I don’t remember why they got that name, but that’s the way it is. I’ve been looking for a good way to welcome the girls into my class as they turn 16, and I came up with this so-simple-why-haven’t-I-thought-of-this-before idea. I know a lot of my readers are LDS, so I know you guys will be able to put this to use, but once I saw my girls were wearing these headbands to school, I figured that the rest of the world might be interested in crowning themselves with laurels too.

All I did was get a couple of different colors of green wool felt and cut a million little teardrop shapes out of them.

Then, starting at one end, I started hot gluing them on to a regular old headband so that they overlapped each other and covered up the color underneath.

Continue this way until you reach the middle of the headband, and then start again from the bottom of the other side.

You can embellish this with glitter or little flatbacked rhinestones, or just leave it the way it is. I think this would also make a great finishing touch for any of you upcoming toga parties.

14 thoughts on “Laurel Headband

  1. So cute! I haven't seen you in a little while, I miss seeing your cute face!

  2. how cute! That would be a great addition to a toga party to bad i never thought of something like this when i was still in college. Lovely! I imagine your girls love these.

  3. That's beautiful! I would totally wear that myself. Thanks so much for the idea. I'll be linking to this tomorrow if you don't mind.

  4. Wonderful! I love that headband. I'll probably try to make one. Thanks for sharing this tutorial.

  5. Wow, this is great idea! I have similar fabric and didn't know what to do with it-now I know;) Your blog is very interesting and helpful:)

  6. Thank you for your idea. I could not find three colors of green felt that I liked, so I created them.
    I took one piece of green felt and cut it into three pieces. One I soaked in a dye pot with items I was dying purple, one I soaked in a weak bleach solution. The third I kept normal.
    This gave me the colors need for a beautiful headband.

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