When it comes to planning a New Year's Eve party, the most important elements are delicious food, good friends to celebrate with, and decorations to set the celebratory mood.
Nothing says "Happy New Year!" quite like some streamers and sparkly hats.
This year, why not try making some festive headbands? With just a few shiny materials and a glue gun, you can transform a simple headband into a masterpiece worthy of ringing in the New Year.
With four different DIY headband designs to choose from, you can make a different headband for each guest or stick to one design for everyone. It's all up to you.
Check out the instructions below to learn how to make each New Year's Eve headband, and make sure to SHARE these festive headpieces with all your friends.
1. Disco Ball Headband
Materials:
Instructions:
- Wrap the headband in ribbon, and glue it on with hot glue.
- Carefully remove the strings from the disco ball ornaments.
- Glue the disco ball ornaments onto the top of the headband and leave to dry.
2. Tiny Hat Headband
Materials:
Instructions:
- Glue a star onto the top of the mini party hat.
- Glue the mini party hat onto one side of the headband.
- Glue a piece of the tinsel garland onto the party hat.
- Leave to dry.
3. Traditional New Year's Eve Headband
Materials:
Instructions:
- Gently remove the numbers from their wooden sticks.
- Glue a piece of the tinsel garland onto the headband.
- Glue the numbers that correspond with the upcoming year onto the center of the tinsel.
- Leave to dry.
4. Star-Spangled Headband
Materials:
Instructions:
- Wrap the headband with a layer of the wire star garland.
- Repeat once more with another layer of garland.
- Glue the stars onto the top of the headband. Repeat once more, creating a slightly elevated layer on top of the first.
- Leave to dry.