Little girls look nice when they have a pretty outfit with matching shoes and neatly tied hair adorned with cute bands. The DIY we are presenting today is about turning a plain elastic band into a fancy one and you only need a few things to make this craft.

Things you need:

1. Plain elastic bands

2. Piece of felt sheets (any two colours)

3. A button or a bead

4. White glue or hot glue

5. Pencil

6. Scissors

Directions:

1. Flower 1: fold felt six inches lengthwise and 1.5 inches width wise, cut this strip out; pictures, 2 and 3.

2. Glue one side and then fold to make the strip, pictures 4 and 5.

3. With the strip still folded, cut your felt from the folded side, making thin loops. Make sure you don’t cut all the way to the end, leave half a centimetre from the edge so that you can roll it in the later steps, pictures 6 and 7.

4. Roll the loopy-cut felt strip, picture 8 (keep pasting glue inside).

5. Once rolled in, secure it tightly and glue this flower on the band, pictures 9 and 10.

6. Flower 2: take a two-inch wide and two-inch long piece of felt. Draw the flower and then cut it out, (the shape depends on you), picture 11 and 12.

7. Put this cut out flower on another piece of felt. You can change the colour to highlight the one which comes on top. I used red over pink felt; picture 13.

8. Glue them onto each other, picture 14.

9. You can glue either button or bead on top of it, picture 15.

10. Paste it tightly on the elastic band, picture 16.

Published in Dawn, Young World, January 26th, 2019