Pretty Floral Ears! (Super late post but it is always a good time to make ears)

Note: This post is from years ago but it seems that never posted correctly, I just noticed that since I tried to refer it to make some new ears. Hope these tips help you in creating some lovely ears for an upcoming trip!

Thanks to some of the greatest friends ever I have been making up for lost time and have gone to Disney World a few times this year. If you are going to go to Disney it is nice, if you can, to show your Disney spirit.

For one of my recent trips to Disney I decided to make some floral Mickey ears. Inspired by some that I had seen online and after viewing multiple tutorials I was ready to take a leap and make my own. I made some alterations to what I had seen to make them more comfortable for me and I think they worked out pretty well. 

I had some purple wired ribbon that had been sitting my ribbon box for a long time. It was so pretty but I had not found a use for it - until now. I went to Michaels and got a lovely selection of flowers, leaves, other greenery like roses, heather, and rosemary sprigs as well as floral wire to make the ears. For a headband, I headed to Walmart to get some that are very flexible and can adjusted to comfortably to fit your head.

To do the shape of the ears I looked around my house for a container that was the size that I would like the ears to be and found this larger candle that comes in a glass case. Keep in mind that the object you use needs to be sturdy enough so that you can wrap the wire around it and apply just a little bit of pressure if you have to get it as round and even as possible. Making sure that you will have a remaining piece of wire to wrap around the headband on both ends, about 4 inches each side, wrap the wire around the candle to get your perfect circle. Carefully remove the wire rounded wire from the candle and then gently bend/straighten the remaining wire at the end of the circle to form the pieces you will use to wrap around the headband.

 

Once you have your pieces place the headband above the base of the circle and start wrapping the wire around the headband. I used some pliers that we had around the house to help me. After you have wrapped each the wire well so that it is sturdy you can cut any remaining wire. Be careful cutting, making sure to cut away from you and check to see that there are no jagged edges sticking out of the headband. I used the pliers to squeeze the wrapped wire a little so there was nothing sticking out.

 

 Now that you have your ears ready you can begin wrapping the ribbon. I started by tucking in the ribbon at one end and wrapping it around the headband, being sure to go within and around the ears thoroughly. Once I got all the way around the head band I cut the ribbon leaving a little excess pieces, I then ran some hot glue around the bottom of my headband and wrapped the excess piece so that it would stick and finish up the head band. While I only used the hot glue at the end to finish it off, it would be a good idea to use a little hot glue at the beginning as well. In my case the wire ribbon was actually doing a good job of staying but at you can see below it did make it a little uneven.

Finally, I cut the flowers and leaves off apart making sure to leave enough of a stem so that you can use that area to stick it to the ribbon wrapped headband. On my headband I tried to space the three larger flowers in the center and then filled in the surrounding areas with the smaller flowers and sprigs.  If you look closely you can tell that they are not perfect but they were very comfortable and were a big hit around the park. Daisy Duck seemed to like them and Chewie even gave me a congratulatory hug when he saw me.