How to make a beautiful wall or door decoration from a dollar tree straw hat

[Music] hey Laura here today we are going to be doing a fun video on decorating a hat so I don't want to do one of these for a little while and I found a couple great hats at the Dollar Tree so we are going to decorate one of those so let me get pan down and we'll get started so I was at the Dollar Tree the other day and I found these straw hats so they have this small one isn't that adorable so this would be really cute I think for a little girl's room it's very small and it would just be perfect for a cute little decoration on it and then I also found you these larger hats so I think these are both really fun and we're going to decorate one of the larger ones I'm going to do a different video on decorating the smaller one so the first thing I'll do is to take this little ribbon that's on it now off it is glued on there which of course is what I will do as well but just want to gently pull it off okay so I'm not going to use this I want to get so I love purple absolutely love purple and I have this great ribbon it's a 1 and 1/2 inch which is really great for a hat like this see how it just fits this hat very well so what we're gonna do is we're going to use this and first thing we're gonna do is we're just going to wrap it and we're going to glue this part on sorry so I will just sit this off here you just want to get enough to go around the brim of the Hat ok and then what we're gonna do is we're gonna make a bow so I'm gonna make let's start off with 4 inch loops in the back yep okay about 4 inches all right and remember you always want to have some excess so I'm just gonna make two basic loops here make sure they match they do okay and another set same size and I'm not there okay so this ribbon is actually the same on both sides so you don't really have to twist it when you get to the center it's really just up to you let's do one more loop so we're going to do four on each side okay here we go now I'm gonna trim this off I want to keep some excess there now what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this and I'm going to get some wire I'm going to use some of the bowdabra wire okay so I'm gonna take some of the but every wire and I'm going to slip it right in between okay then I'm going to take this old piece and I'm gonna place it down just like that that way I don't have to keep holding it while I'm trying to do other things all right so I'm also gonna get my glue gun going here I already have my electric skillet going with simply back here it just takes regular glue and I'm going to be using these flowers and we may add in some others but I know for sure I want to use these you see how pretty they are with this ribbon and they're purple so I'm going to cut two tails now I want long tails so one is gonna be a yard okay and the other one is going to be 32 inches there we go so all I'm gonna do is find the center and I'm just gonna press it down so that I know where the center is just like that okay now this is quite not quite ready so what I can do while I'm waiting on my hot glue gun to to get ready its I'm going to push up the leaves on my flower here okay whoops okay not quite that hard so if you do like me just go back and put it back on okay all right so we'll see all right so we're gonna cut this let's see how much I cut off about seven inches so I'm just gonna cut it some various links and we'll be able to figure out if it's too long or too short as we go along okay all right all right so what we're gonna do is we're gonna take our ribbon and we're gonna find the center so here's our Center and when you're putting ribbon on something like this you kind of have you have to angle it to get it to lay flat so you want to start in the center and I'm gluing from the top and so the reason I'm gluing from the top it's because if you start off gluing from the bottom what's gonna happen is you're gonna get a lot of buckle as you go around okay so you want to glue from the top right here and you want to give it a minute to make sure it's gluing well okay and we're going to put some more so we're going to put some more glue on the sides here and you want to pull it and make sure it's adhering to the Hat just like this okay you want to do the other side so put a good bead up at the top pull on it just like that all right okay and then what we're gonna do is we are going to put some pull on the end and very carefully pull it and glue it down okay because you're gonna need that angle there we go okay this one got off a tiny bit and you can put glue in a few spots along the way let's see what's going to happen is you're going to end up with a little V in the back okay and this is not something you need to worry about because you're gonna put your boat here see any spots that need a little bit of attention just go ahead and correct them before you move on as it gets more and more difficult to do that as the glue gets a little bit stiffer so there we go so you see how it's adhered to the Hat all right now we're going to have our hat like this okay so what we're going to do now is we are going to pull our bow back out okay and I'm going to twist these around so that they're facing the back and I'm going to put my two tails in so I'm just taking the center of my tails putting them right at the back of the bow and then I'm going to tie it off you want this to be as tight as you can make it okay yeah so make it tight tight all right now you can pull your water out so this is going to be where we're going to put our bow okay now there's two different ways you can do this so this can be the bottom okay and then you have these lovely streamers hanging down or it can be the side either way you can have these really nice streamers hanging down if you do it on the side then you pull them around like this if you do it at the bottom then you want them to be more spread out on the sides like this so we're actually going to do it on the side so what we're going to do is we're going to take our old wire here and I'll get a nice clean edge on it and this is a straw hat so I'm going to stick it right through these little holes okay I'm using the bowdabra wire because it's just it's nice to work with the color works out very well for a straw hat since it's gold okay so once you get both ends through then you can just flip the Hat over and tie it off you see how well this blends with the Hat okay and then you can just trim this off okay beautiful all right now I'm just kind of moving the bow around I can fluff it again okay yeah we go now with so you just want to do each one of these like this and gently pull it out so there you see how you have these nice little curls okay now what we're going to do is we are going to start putting in some flowers so we have these beautiful Sun daisies and we have this nice delicate little flower I love these they just look so delicate and get the price tag off there we go all right I also have this wonderful palm leaf so we're going to use a little bit of this for granny and so what I'm going to do is I want my flowers to come up just on this one side okay so what we're going to do is we're going to take this and there's a couple ways you can do this you can just glue right in underneath your bow here you could also put a tiny block of styrofoam here if you're worried about it coming loose you can hide it underneath your bow you can also stick it through your straw the other thing you can do is kind of put them together like this take some so what I'm doing is varying the links here okay then I'm going to tape them together because this is a straw hat there's not as much surface to glue things on so if you do this and make it into a bunch then you only have one area to glue on so it's just kind of a little easy cheap thing you can do all right you can kind of spread them out we can even add on our beautiful flowers doing that I am taking this and bending this wire so that the flower is actually facing so it's gonna be facing right high so I want to do the same thing with these I want to have different lengths so this one actually looks really great with the ease and then we can kind of put this one out to the side a little you just want to play around with it until you get a good combination and then you can tape them together yeah there we go so then when we put it in we already have a whole bunch together okay we can take some of this okay and we can just have some greenery coming out in different places so what I'm doing is just figuring out where I want everything to go and once I get that figured out then I will glue some things down so let's see I think we should have a flower out there to the side and what appear what you think buddy good you like it yeah me too all right oh all right so maybe just a little bit more of this what I can do is bend it so that it's kind of coming out here ooh that's good let's do another one of those okay yes I think that's good so now I have my placement set now we can start gluing things in so what we're going to do take everything back out and we're gonna start with this little bunch that we made okay now I'm gonna run it through Michael in here I'm gonna lift up my bow and I'm gonna stick it down right in there you can also take your glue gun and run a little bead and glue some of that down as well okay then I'm gonna run this in the clue [Music] back down there yeah all right we need to put some of our granary in hiding it behind that little bush right there okay Wendy to put bar stems down okay this one yeah so you're always going to have these little glue strings and that's okay you can just get your hair dryer out and run your hair dryer over it and that will get rid of those little stray strands because they can be very aggravating all right let's one more please I'm gonna put it right down here so I can hide all that there all right I think we need just a little bit more of this all right just kind of stick this down the center good pretty big okay so we have one more flower so fold it so it's facing forward run it through your club and slip it in right back there we go so we've created a lot of volume in our hat that want to kind of move it over so that it's going in this direction we have just a little bit too much all on a straight line okay there we go there that's better okay just a little bit more right in here there we go wonderful then you can take greenery of your choice and just fill in any spots that you see yeah you just remember when you're gluing these down you want to make sure that you're gluing it to something so that it will stay so that was the reason why we started out with that bunch because then I'm kind of gluing everything on to that bunch that just makes it a lot easier okay okay so I'm gonna put one more flower right up here right there here we go okay there here we go it's wonderful so one more piece of bamboo I think we are good to go there we go wonderful all right now now there's a couple of ways that you can hang these so you can just flip it over and you can put a little tie right here you can also take more of your ribbon and you can make a little hanger and attach it underneath that is really adorable as well but there you have it there's our decorated hat let's see if I can pull this up a little bit so you can see it alright so I hope you enjoyed this and it keeps you an idea of something that you can do and you know I added a lot because I really liked that but you don't have to add this much it's really strictly up to what you like okay so make sure to LIKE and subscribe and let me know what you thought and I will be back with more fun project soon thanks for watching bye bye [Music]