Hey party peeps! Need a last minute Halloween costume idea? Well, this couldn’t get any easier or cuter. This tutorial was inspired by my daughter, Faith who is an avid DIY’er! She makes things ALL THE TIME and one of her signature crafts is her custom headbands. So, I asked her to teach me HOW TO MAKE A DAY OF THE DEAD HEADBAND that I could wear this year for Halloween with my super cool Day of the Dead mask. Now all of you can find out how too! If you like her tutorial, you can find her over on her own YouTube channel where she teaches LOTS of really cool DIY projects! Click here to see this entire tutorial on YouTube!
NOW…LET’S GET CRAFTING!
HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
First we started with a trip to Michaels to get all of the supplies we needed that included:
– Headband (wide band)
– Acrylic paint (various colors)
– 3 bunches of small white flowers
– Plastic spiders
– Paintbrush
– Hot glue gun
HERE’S NOW TO MAKE IT:
Now that we have all of our supplies, we are ready to get started!
Step 1: Remove the flower heads from the stems
Step 2: Hot glue the flowers all along the top of the headband
Step 3: Paint each flower a different color. Don’t paint the entire flower, you want to get a splatter effect by using a wide paintbrush and pushing down on to the center of each flower with the paintbrush.
Step 4: Add a plastic spider
That’s it! Super easy and cute! Perfect for my Halloween outfit!
DAY OF THE DEAD WREATH!
We also created a Day of the Dead wreath to match this for my front door. Click here to see HOW TO MAKE A DAY OF THE DEAD WREATH.
Happy Halloween!
Tonya
WHERE DID SHE GET THAT?
Styling & photography: Soiree Event Design
Tutorial: PastelGamerGirl13 (my daughter)
Supplies: Michaels
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Ohhhh what a fun project! It looks so much more difficult than it actually is—really anyone could make this. Love it!
Wow, what a pretty headband! I love all the Day of the Dead things I’ve been seeing lately. They’re all so beautiful and unique.
That headband is absolutely gorgeous. The detail is stunning.
That looks awesome! I would love to be this talented! I love all the colors on it and a great halloween costume!
That is so cute. I like that this design can work with any holiday.
These are so bright and colorful. They’re beautiful. The colors are one of my favorite features of the day of the dead celebrations!
I know right! I used to love watching the educational videos about it in Spanish class.
Wow, this came at the right time! I can make my own day of the dead flower crown for my costume this year, love it!
That headband is adorable. It seems that your talents extend outside of fantastic party layouts.
I love that this headband is both pretty AND creepy at the same time!
I love it. So bright fun and festive!
It’s super awesome! And the headband is beautiful! My daughter looked over my shoulder particularly at that.
How cool is this!! I love the day of the dead and I have all of the things I need to help my kids make these headbands!
Well this is super cute. I’d love for the family to make some and join in on the festivities!
thanks for the great instructions. I have mad loads of headbands for my daughters, but we have never painted the flowers
These are adorable and could be made for other parties! I love that your daughter made them with you
Awww, I love these! I will definitely be making a couple of these with my daughter! Thanks for the how-to!
That is so pretty and so original! I’m always impressed by your creativity!
Love the headband, the details and how you captured this Hispanic Tradition! I will be sharing it! Love it!
That headband is amazing. She sure did an amazing job with that. I might have to give that a try myself but probably won’t look as great. 🙂
That Day of the Dead Mask is gorgeous!! I also love the meaning behind it!! Great post!!
The day of the dead is oh so popular and I really love the headband idea because that can be worn throughout the month
Fun DIY project! I’ll give it a try. My daughter needs a headband and a mask!
such a fun craft idea! i will use it for my niece’s next make and take party.
The tips you have for making this headband are quite useful. These same ideas could be used to make a headband for other holidays and occasions.
This is pretty and fun. The girls will have so much fun doing this project.
I love the Day of the Dead decor! This headband is awesome especially with the addition of the spider! So cute!
You are def. super creative and talented too. This came out great.
I love this idea. I think I’ll have to stop by the store today and pick up the supplies. My daughter would love to make one.
What a cute headband! I love the idea of using white then paint it the color that you want.
This is super cute! I love this idea and very cute backdrop by the way, I love the purple flowers!
This turned out great and it seems super easy to make! I love the addition of the spider.
So beautiful! For some reason I didn’t think you could paint fabric flowers but that looks so bright and colourful. What a cute craft idea.
What a great DIY craft project. I bet my daughters would each love to make one of these. So cool!
That turned out so awesome! I love Day of the Dead themed items and those painted roses look great!
That looks so nice! I wish I had the patience and skill to be that creative too.
gorgeous headband! I love how easy and fun it is to make.
I love this idea! The colors are great and I am a big fan of sugar skulls.
That looks so cute! If I tired it would not look like that. haha. I am getting a little better at crafts though the more I try.
As a fellow DIY’er I love love love this. My kids love when they can get in the mix of crafts projects.
That looks neat! I think from the instructions we can make a lot more designs. Thanks for taking photos of the step-by-step instructions, it works easier for me. Now there’s some headband projects in my head already. 😀 Thanks to you!
Very cute. I love the big flower crowns. I did a tutorial recently, too. I am trying to convince my daughter to watch the Book of Life, that kids movie about the Day of the Dead. So far no luck.
OMG what a beautiful headband! I want to make one for myself lol. So cute 🙂
I love crafting! It is so relaxing! This looks like a fun project!
How fun are these! Day of the dead is popular in my family as we love to celebrate it! These headbands are so cute and trendy!
Beautiful. The colors are stunning and the tutorial is easy
My boys were asking about day of the dead the other day. What a great craft idea.
This is so fantastic. My daughter would love one of these.
It is a really good idea for this day. So colorful and pretty!
So colorful and cute! My daughter will love this.
Oh wow this is truly amazing, I am loving how simple but pretty it is
Such a cute DIY headband! It really looks cute
That is something my daughter would totally want to make! Thanks for sharing!
What a great idea!! And I like how it isn’t that hard to make. Thanks for sharing.
That’s a cute Day of The Dead headband! I’ll have to show this to my girls, they’ll love it!
That’s really beautiful and colorful. I love the creativity. I love how you can put your own style to it.
I love this and it seems so easy too! I mean I have no creative ability but I could pull this off.
This is such a fun headband! I love all of the colors. Such an easy and pretty DIY!
This headband looks fantastic. I will have to get the supplies I need to make a few with my daughter this weekend.
Love this!! It looks really easy to do but lots of fun. I definitely need to make me one.
Wow so cool!