Did you ever learn how to make a daisy chain headpiece as a child? I think it should be on every bucket list. In this post I thought I’d share with you simple instructions that your older children could do at home themselves.
We are experiencing some beautiful Spring weather and the flowers that are popping up can’t help but make me smile. Possum (aged 2.5 years) is particularly drawn to our small collection of daisies and so I thought I’d go about making her a beautiful daisy chain headpiece similar to this one.
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How to make a daisy chain headpiece
You will need –
- 12 or more clean flowers
- threading needle
- thread
- scissors
There are many ways to make a daisy chain headpiece and this is just one of them. Of course you don’t need to just use daisy flowers to make a daisy chain. You can use whatever you like, even mix it up with a variety of blooms! Just check them all over very thoroughly for any bugs or other nasties. A light rinse under water should remove anything that is undesirable. Allow them to dry face down.
Once they have drip dried remove the stems, but leave about 1cm behind. The daisy is a particularly good flower for threading into a chain as it has a thick undersides base that gives it stability.
Using a needle and thread, carefully pierce the base of the flower and thread it along the cotton strand. Continue this process until you have a long piece of cotton thread with flowers all along it. Depending on who’s head it’s for, you’ll need about 40cm of threaded flowers for it to comfortably sit on a young child’s head.
As you can appreciate, this is an activity that requires supervision and recommended for children who are old enough to carefully use a needle and thread. Parental discretion is required to make this, not to wear it. 😉
Once I had threaded on all my flowers, I used a vase to help adjust them and tie the ends together. Of course you can thread a variety of flowers onto the cotton strand, the choice is completely up to your child.
And there you have it, instructions on how to make a daisy chain headpiece. These look so beautiful and can be personalised. Possum really loved wearing her daisy chain headpiece and commented that she felt like a fairy!
Did you ever make daisy chains as a child?
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So sweet and pretty. We always tied the stems to make them, but this would be more sturdy. Lovely.
Thank you Kelly! Yes, I did consider that approach but did want something that wouldn’t come apart so easily. Little Possum wore the headpiece all day and it lasted well. 🙂
At the moment our paddocks are filled with those little yellow daisies that are actually weeds but they make fab daisy chains! thanks for the reminder… and how gorgeous is your girl?!?!?
Thanks Kate! Oh I can imagine the paddocks of those little daisies. Hard to believe they are weeds when they look so pretty. 🙂
Oh, that’s gorgeous!
Thank you Sara. You’re always so lovely and I really appreciate your sweet comments. X
Oh my goodness! Those big brown eyes! So, so cute. Oh, and the daisy head piece is gorgeous too 😛 xx
Oh my goodness Possum is just absolutely gorgeous…showed her picture to my girls and they asked if she could make them one!! We have so many of those daisy’s at the moment will have to do this!x
How adorable! Thanks Jodie. Feel free to email me a picture if you get around to making some. 🙂
I love making these with my girls (but we just weave the flowers through each other). Love how this one sits! And you daughter is GORGEOUS!
Thanks Kelly! I did consider weaving the flowers as typically made, however, I knew my little Possum would be dancing and prancing about with daisy chain on and so I went with something a little stronger. LOL Thank you so kindly. 🙂
Funny story – we made daisy chains when the girls were smaller but I accidentally made them with those flowers that close up not long after picking. The girls WAILED. I learned my lesson!! x
This is on our to-do list for this week – but we usually just slice the stem with a fingernail and thread them together (while sitting at the park). Those daisies look fab!
We usually splice the stem too but this looks so much easier! Loving the last pic especially 🙂
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