Mermaid Yarn Wig

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
Headband
Hot Glue Gun
Scissors
Medium Weight Yarn, Purple
Medium Weight Yarn, White
Medium Weight Yarn, Turquoise
2 mm Foam Sheet, Light Pink
2 mm Foam Sheet, Turquoise
2 mm Foam Sheet, Purple
Markers
Pearl beads
 
DIRECTIONS:
 
Cut out the wig base from the purple foam sheet using the pattern template.
Glue wig base to the headband using hot glue .
Cut yarn into 6’ long strands until you have about 100 strands of each color.
Cut a 2’ long piece of purple yarn. Take two strands of matching yarn, fold in half, and loop around the short piece of purple yarn. Pull knot tight to secure. Continue tying the strands of yarn in this manner, pushing knots close together, until the section measures the length of line “a” on the wig base template. Hot glue the yarn piece to the wig base along line “a”.
Continue building sections of yarn hair the lengths of the guidelines on the wig base template and hot gluing in place. Cut additional strands of yarn as needed.
Once wig is full, style the yarn hair as desired. Trim yarn as needed.
Use starfish and shell templates to cut accessories from foam sheets.  Add details to cutouts using markers. Glue foam accessories and pearl beads to yarn wig.
 
JOANN Hacks:
Find an object such as chair legs to wrap yarn around to speed up cutting time.
Tie several strands of the same color onto yarn base before switching colors.
If possible, style hair on the intended wearer’s head.