Grinchy Cindy Lou Who Teacup Headbands!

Grinchy Cindy Lou Who Teacup Headbands!

  We had a Christmas breakfast at our church...the kids all dearest to wearing clothing up!
 So nosotros did our favorite theme, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
The Grinch inwards his Santa hat, Max the dog, in addition to Cindy Lou Who--complete amongst teacup headband!

Cindy Lou Who hairdo a few years now...

It's easy.  It solely takes slightly longer than only a elementary ponytail...

in addition to a modest newspaper cup!

 Here's the Teacup headband I've wanted to recreate for a long time!

 Here's how nosotros did it!

My darling immature adult woman got these for a birthday gift...tiny teacups!

(thanks to her aunt Janell)...and since she has unopen to other set, she allowed me

to cannibalize these ones!

And nosotros made 3.

Take unopen to sculpey, fimo or other laid upwards of 

Bake Hard Polymer Clay...white in addition to red.

 Just equally modest slice of each rolled into long snakes...

Twisted together

 

Rolled out smooth...cut in addition to curved to make

 an adorable footling candy cane!

 Or 4+...I only used all the clay that I began with...
Baked according to the instructions until hard.

 Next, bust out the E6000 in addition to gum the loving cup to the saucer.
See how it's laid slightly dorsum on the saucer...Just to laissez passer on it
a whimsical look!

 See where the candy canes acquit on the teacups in addition to gum them equally well.
permit dry out overnight.

 Cute!

 Next, you'll desire a heavy duty metallic headband.
This 1 is ten mm wide...and it's perfect.
I bought them on ebay.

 You'll require a rig to concord everything inwards house spell it dries...
this outrage didn't quite cutting it.
You'll meet I switched to a pigment can!

 I tied a big, beautiful, exaggerated bow in addition to glued it with
 E6000 correct onto the headband.
Secured it amongst clothespins!

 Ahh yes, the pigment tin is perfect!

 Then I set gum correct on the middle of the bow in addition to stuck that teacup correct on top!

 let dry out overnight...

 Perfect!

Linking upwards to THESE parties this week!

Cindy Lou Who Hairdo!

Cindy Lou Who Hairdo!

 We dear going all out for dressing upwards whenever possible!
And that means, dressing upwards similar Cindy Lou Who from How the Grinch Stole Christmas every yr for our church building Christmas party!

You volition need:
Paper Cup
Hair accessories (brush, elastics, bows, braids)
Funny as well as over the laissez passer on Christmas clothes
Tea Cup Headband

It all started when she was 5...and pretty stinkin adorable!

With shorter hair, simply add together to a greater extent than braids as well as clips!

Then when she was 6!

 When she was 7...I allow her apparel the girly ELF costume...

And concluding yr nosotros made Teacup headbands to jibe Cindy Lou as well as her moms!
Because our Party was a breakfast, the kids wore their jammies.



This year, because my daughter's pilus was as well as thence much longer,
nosotros used a bigger loving cup inside...

Here's a quick stride yesteryear step:
Pin it for quick reference!

Pull upwards laissez passer on business office of hair...

Split it inwards half...

Slip inwards a newspaper cup...a Blue SOLO cup, similar nosotros used this year,
 or a fifty-fifty a plastic H2O bottle!

Pull the pilus over the laissez passer on of the cup
as well as fasten it alongside an elastic...
Make certain the pilus covers upwards the loving cup as well as yous are good!

Curl, braid, add together as well as accessorize!

We constitute the Christmas circle skirt at the thrift store.

The fur neckband was at a yard sale...

as well as the cape is a tree skirt!  Tree skirts brand awesome skirts too!

Get creative!

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How The Grinch Stole Christmas: Cindy Lou Who Pilus & Headband Diy!

How The Grinch Stole Christmas: Cindy Lou Who Pilus & Headband Diy!

 How the Grinch Stole Christmas: Cindy Lou Who Hair & Headband DIY!
If you've e'er googled Cindy Lou Who Hair, chances are you've seen my daughter.   When she was five I dressed her upwards for a Christmas political party in addition to she was the star of the nighttime (picture at the halt of post).  Every twelvemonth after that, she insisted on dressing up.  In 2010, she got her tonsils out in addition to came to the Christmas political party dressed upwards similar Cindy Lou Who simply iv days later.  8 years later, nosotros are nonetheless dressing up.
I've done lots of Whoville hairdo's, but hadn't done the master majority version of Cindy Lou...
until now.  There's nonetheless fourth dimension to brand 1 earlier your adjacent Christmas party!

 Cindy Lou is adorable in addition to looks similar a acre mermaid.
She has bows in addition to curly picayune wires (?) on her head.
This could hold upwards adapted for a infant headband too.

 Let's brand it--it is super unproblematic in addition to takes less than fifteen minutes to make!
You volition need:
Metal Headband
(I dearest metallic headbands in addition to move them for all my headband crafts)


ii dark pipecleaners
Red 1/2 inch ribbon
Hot gum gun
Big pencil

 Begin yesteryear twisting the pipecleaners on the headband close 1 inch of wrapping.  Place them where y'all desire them in addition to hot gum them inwards place.

 Wrap the pipecleaner around the big pencil until close one-half of it is wrapped.

 Repeat inwards similar trend for the other side.  They should appear wonky but uniquely adorable!

 Next, necktie ii bows close the same size alongside the ribbon.

 Finally, hot gum the bows on the base of operations of the pipecleaners in addition to trim back the ends equally necessary.

 Now it is laid upwards to article of apparel in addition to stone the Cindy Lou look!
It's lightweight in addition to adorable.  I wore it to our church building Christmas political party in addition to I intend everyone loved it!  Lots of people recognized the reference in addition to it's calorie-free plenty I didn't fifty-fifty know I was wearing it.

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This was the rootage twelvemonth I made my immature adult woman wearing apparel upwards similar Cindy Lou.  She was five years one-time in addition to sang "Where are y'all Christmas" perfectly. (back earlier I was a blogger in addition to didn't accept bully staged pictures)
Full tutorial for the pilus here.
 

Make a Whoville worthy teacup headband!


And how to brand your pilus Who-tastic!

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