Rapunzel Wig Tutorial
This pretty, little Rapunzel wig is not only great for Halloween, but also for everyday imaginative play.
Update
Commentors have had great ideas: change the color to red & and put in two braids and you have Jessie from Toy Story. Style with two pigtails and you’ve got a cute rag doll. Change the color of yarn to blue or pink or purple with sparkles and style a fun fairy wig. The possibilities are endless!
Supplies:
2 skeins Lion Brand Hometown USA Yarn in Daytona Yellow
1 skein Martha Stewart Craft Glitter Lash Yarn in Florentine Gold
1 pair thick, children’s tights
1 piece of felt: 1″x7″
Try on tights. Make sure the fit very snug around head. The wig is rather heavy when finished. Mark top of head for wig cap.
Cut tights along mark.
Sew cut edge of tights with right sides together.
Turn right side out. This will be the wig cap.
Cut all skeins of yarn into 120″ lengths. This length made a 44″ wig (measured from forehead down back). You could make a longer one, but be aware that this wig is already heavy, adding more length will make it even heavier and harder to stay put on a child’s head.
Find the center of yarn pieces. Layer Glitter Lash with Hometown USA yarn and sew to felt strip at center point (60″ of yarn on each side).
Keep sewing yarn to felt piece until you’ve covered 6″-7″ of the felt strip and used all the cut yarn. Trim any extra felt.
Match center of felt hair piece and center of wig cap and pin in place.
Machine or hand stitch down center “part” letting 60″ of yarn hair to fall on each side.
Try wig on child (or substitute male child if “Rapunzel” happens to be at school). Arrange hair on cap and braid.
Tie off braid and trim ends to even.
Place wig on a small ball or head form (I used my son’s soldier helmet) and tack yarn hair to wig cap where needed.
Pick out some silk flowers (these are leftover from my days of children’s party dress designing, but I’ve had luck finding them at the dollar store and the thrift store).
Using a hot glue gun, tack flowers in place.
Try on and enjoy!
DISCLOSURE: While Lion Brand Yarn provided me with the yarn to complete this project all opinions and ideas expressed here are my own.
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October 19, 2011 at 11:46 am
This is unbelievable! Kicking myself that i bought the store bought wig! This is SO AMAZING! I would hurry and start selling them – you can make a FORTUNE!
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What a neat idea! Thanks for sharing
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I love this! I think I will work this into my daughter’s fairy costume! I’m certain there is a fairy in Pixie Hallow with this hair style.
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I literally just posted a tutorial for rapunzel wig, but yours is so much better!! You are so talented!
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Thank you so much for sharing! My daughter has insisted on being Jessie from Toy Story this year, and I attempted to make a wig using a tutorial I found online- and it turned out terrible. This is so much better! Attempt 2 should be more successful
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I just made this for my little girls costume! THANK YOU! She loves rapunzel and I’m excited for her to get to wear this. I’ll take pictures and send them to you!
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Thank you so much for the wonderful tutorial. I saw something really similar in the Disney Family Fun magazine and knew immediately that I wanted to make it for my daughter who is always tying a jumprope to her head and pretending to be Rapunzel. I found your tutorial much easier to follow than theirs though, and I thought that the sparkly yarn and flowers added a nice touch. Just a word of warning though: We made our wig pretty long, it was almost to the ground. At first I didn’t think it was a big deal, but then on Halloween night as we were walking right past several Jack-O-Lanterns I realized we should have made it shorter. Glad that we didn’t have any major disasters, but if you repost this tutorial next year you might want to mention it.
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I teach dance and my students are doing Tangled dances. I love your wig! What would you charge to make them? I don’t know how talented my students’ moms are or if they would be willing to make them! Let me know! Kathy
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January 20th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
So glad you like the wig! I wish I could help you costume your class, but I currently do not make anything to sell. You might be able to find someone locally, or even one of your talented moms who you could hire to make all of them. Good luck!
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