This easy Disney craft is also a great way to use up leftover scraps of yarn – why can’t Rapunzel have some pink or purple highlights? Or some brown or tan lowlights woven in? Don’t feel like you have to go out and buy new yarn to make this craft, just be creative with what you already have on hand.įor our braid, we used up the yarn that came wrapped all around that super cute gift which we hilariously unboxed on Facebook LIVE. A double set of braids for Princess Ana? A white braid for Elsa? Red with mini seashells for Ariel? This DIY Rapunzel braid can be customized in so many different ways and you can use this same process to make braids for any princess costume. I’ve also started pointing out how handmade or well-made things last longer than some of the cheap toys or accessories she has impulse purchased and she’s been getting a lot better about not spending her allowance on those things and she often asks me to take a picture of something so she can try to make her own later on.
To truly love and enjoy wearing something that you created is an amazing feeling that not many people experience – it’s easy to instil when kids are younger and their standards for what they wear are a bit freer. I think my favorite thing is the confidence and pride she has whenever she wears one of her creations – it’s something that doesn’t happen when you just buy and wear something. It replaces the consumer mentality/response with a creative response (instead of strengthening the inclination to buy and accumulate, we strengthen the desire to create and be inspired).It gives her confidence in her abilities.It teaches her to value her possessions – and to limit her possessions to those which hold special value.
It teaches her the value of craftsmanship.Not a ton of money but encouraging my daughter to DIY simple projects like this is about so much more than money! The clip-on braid was $18 while the hat was $25. I’ve made a really concentrated effort this year to encourage my daughter to attempt to DIY things that she wants to buy and our newest project is this cute DIY Rapunzel Yarn Braid that saved her about $15 and gave her a great confidence boost making it herself!Įlla recently saw two Rapunzel braids that she wanted to buy – one was a clip-on to go in her hair and the other was attached to a puffy princess hat.
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