Does anyone know anything about hair braiding ?

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Hi,

We have just come back from Centreparcs and yet again the first thing my girls wanted to do was to get their hair braided at £6.50 each!!!!

It only took 5 mins to do each and it looked so easy I was wondering if it was something I could do at our local school to raise funds for some new equipment.

Does anyone do this already? Have any Tips? Where to buy materials etc.

I would be very grateful for any advise

Thanks

could you show us a picture of what this braiding looked like please.

at £6.50 i could make quite a bit of money on this one.

I don't have a photo at the mo.It's just wool plaited through her hair with 2 beads on the ends. Looks really simple.
Is this something you do?

Blimey - that's steep! You just need embroidery silks - you can get a set of colourful cheap ones from hobbycraft - and beads.

I use three strands, usually, of each colour. Don't make the cotton too long - it's easy to tie in more and cover up the knot if you don't have enough but it gets very tangled if you have it very long.

Have two or three colours - 3 strands of each, and tie them tightly at the top of the bunch of hair - you need a lock about 3 or 4mm across. Then choose which colour you're starting with and start to wrap - around the hair plus around the two other colours of thread, wrapping in the ends of the knot at the same time. Make sure you wrap tightly and firmly. When you've done a big enough stripe of the first colour, pick up the thread of the second colour and start wrapping around the hair plus the other two threads and then just carry on like that until you get to the end, where you tie in a bead.

How many braids do you do on one head?

They only had one @ £6.50 each!!

One! I might do that for the girls at ds's bday party as well as facepaints.

Usually it's just the one - it's not hair plaiting as I understand it, just a pretty hair decoration that stays in (and can stay in for ages!).

Well it's been in for 10 days now and hasn't slipped much, looks really pretty and they love it.
Just thought as it looked so easy I could do it at the school fayre to raise money for new equipment.
Quick,easy and low cost. Wouldn't charge £6.50 though

yes i think its a nice idea for a school fyre if yor girls like that sort of thing. i would look around for some cheap options, wilkinsons might have something. they o balls of wool for 97p.

yes i can braid hair quite well as i had acres to practice on when young. i don't braid my hair quite so much now being 40+ but hopefully when my niece is oldr i shall get to do more.

T'is very simple. I used to do it on my friends when we were teenagers. And rebraided dd1's center parks braid several times after it fell out. She had it in for months!!!!

Practise on one of those head doll thingies.

Thanks for the Wilkinsons idea. I'll check it out.

Right need to get practicing!!

I had dd's done at the town fair. It was about 3 metres of silk wrapped around a strand of hair. the problem came when I tried to unwrap it (after about 3 weeks), I found that quite a lot of her hair had broken inside the wrap. She is very because she's trying to grown it.