DIY Unicorn Headband

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June 14, 2017

DIY Unicorn Headband My best friend was having a unicorn themed birthday party, but could not find unicorn horn headbands anywhere! I went out to look for some for her and found they were all terrible plastic pieces of junk. I decided to make some for her. She loved them so much, she actually squealed. Success!

Total Time: 1 hour

Yield: 1 unicorn headband

Supplies:

1 plain headband
felt or fleece in white and pink
fiber fill or cotton
gold cord
scissors
scratch paper
needle and thread or sewing machine
glue gun with glue

Steps:

I used a 35 cent headband that had flowers on it so I removed the flowers in order to have a plain plastic headband. Start by cutting your white felt or fleece into 1 inch wide strips. I used 1 inch wide by 20 inches in length. Dab some hot glue on the inside bottom of the headband leaving some overhang. Start wrapping the material around the headband, overlapping the layers, securing with hot glue here and there along the way. When the headband is completely wrapped, fold the ends up to the inside edges and secure with hot glue.

DIY Unicorn Headband - begin glueing felt to inside of headband

DIY Unicorn Headband - wrap felt overlapping, and adding a bit of glue as needed

Cut a piece of your scrap paper so it is 5 inches by 5 inches. Cut one end so it is rounded, then cut the sides off to create a cone, but with a flat top, not a point, as shown in this image. This will be the pattern for your horn.

DIY Unicorn Headband - cut paper pattern for horn

Place the pattern over your white felt and cut out the horn. Beginning at one side, roll the material toward the opposite side to form a horn shape, then sew it shut. You will have a hollow horn.

DIY Unicorn Headband - cut out fabric and begin rolling into the horn shape

DIY Unicorn Headband - hollow horn sewn shut

Fill the horn with the stuffing. Be sure to fill all the way to the top of the horn.

At the top of the horn, stitch on some gold cord. Start wrapping the horn with the cord all the way down in a spiral motion. Every now and then, secure the cord on the seam with a stitch to keep it in place. I pulled the cord rather tight to make the horn look pillowy!

DIY Unicorn Headband - beginning at point stitch on some gold thread and start wrapping down to larger end

DIY Unicorn Headband - slip stitch the thread to the seam to hold in place

Prop your horn up onto a piece of white felt and trace a circle to cut out. Sew this circle to the bottom of your horn to close it up.

DIY Unicorn Headband - trace around the horn to create a felt circle, sew to bottom of horn

Start sewing the horn onto the headband with needle and thread through both sides of the base. I went through many times to make sure it stayed put. Cut out a piece of felt in an oval shape and hot glue it to the area where the thread is exposed to keep it hidden and safe from unraveling against your head.

DIY Unicorn Headband - sewing horn to the headband

DIY Unicorn Headband - view of stitching

DIY Unicorn Headband - cut an oval of felt to cover the stitching

Draw a 2 1/2 inch tall ear shape onto a piece of paper. Fold the paper in half at the base of the ear, leaving about 1/4-inch between the bottom of the ear drawing and the fold. Cut out the ear shape and unfold. Trace this pattern twice onto some white felt. Cut them out to make two ears.

DIY Unicorn Headband - draw ear shape on paper

DIY Unicorn Headband - fold paper in half

DIY Unicorn Headband - race twice onto felt

Draw a smaller ear shape for the inside of the ear on a piece of paper. Trace onto pink felt twice. Cut them out.

DIY Unicorn Headband - draw a smaller ear shape on paper and cut two out of pink felt

Fold the white fleece ears around the headband on each side of the horn, then secure with hot glue.

DIY Unicorn Headband - fold ears around headband and glue in place

Glue the pink bits onto the front of the white ears.

DIY Unicorn Headband - pink inner ear pieces glued in place

The ones I made for this tutorial are pictured in white. I made myself a smaller purple and blue one without ears and wrapped stars around the base. These were a hit at the party!