How to Make a Fourth of July Firecracker Hair Barrette

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With summer patriotic holidays on their way soon, dress up your little one with this adorable firecracker barrette. You can embellish it with different buttons or use a variety of patriotic ribbons for added appeal!

Difficulty level: Easy
Time required: 20 minutes
Age range: 10+

Things you’ll need:
1 1/2″ wide satin or grosgrain ribbon
1/4 or 3/8″ grosgrain ribbon
Barrettes
Wood burning tool
Scissors
Hot glue gun
Hot glue sticks
Piece of glass from a photo frame
Buttons **optional

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Things to do:
1. Warm up the wood burning tool. Cut the red ribbon to 2 1/2″ long. You can use scissors or the tool, which will cut and seal the ends at the same time.
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2. Cut two pieces of the yellow ribbon to 2″ long.
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3. Carefully use the wood burning tool to cut each yellow piece in half width-wise. Warm up your hot glue gun.
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4. Roll the red ribbon the long way and glue in place, forming a tube.
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5. Hot glue one of the yellow ribbons inside the tube as shown.
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6. Repeat with the other pieces of yellow ribbon.
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7. Hot glue another piece of yellow ribbon, cut to the length of the barrette, to the top of the barrette.
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8. Glue the firecracker to the barrette.
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9. If desired, hot glue a button to the center of the firecracker.
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