How to Make Fruit Salad Hair Clips

Carolyn J. Braden • 3 Minute Read  

How to Make Fruit Salad Hair Clips

Fruit usually shows up in many of my spring and summer crafts. There’s something refreshing and delicious fruit that just screams warm weather. Unless you are making my boozy grapes recipe, which can be enjoyed any time of the year.

I love them all, but I really like my grape adorned purple one!

I love fruit salad and fruit punch and the colors are inspiring. When I ordered some fun colored duck clips from TEMU, I decided to use some polymer clay fruit slices I already had to create some fruit salad inspired hair clips. Read on to learn how to make them.

The kiwi one is a close second best loved clip!

The first clip I created was fruit salad-y as I included all the fruit slices in my kit plus some flatback pearls and rhinestones. It looked okay, but wasn’t exactly what I wanted. I decided to color coordinate the clips with the fruit slices and that looked much better to me.

They do a great job of keeping your hair out of your face

You can wear one or more in your hair to hold it back for doing makeup or just to keep your hair out of your face, which is something I definitely do when the temperatures warm up.

They easily clip in and don’t pull your hair

You can customize these with any kind of polymer clay slices. There are many choices like butterflies, flowers and more. I sometimes even add them to my toenails after painting them to give them a custom nail art look.

The duck bill clips are comfy to wear all day

You can add letter beads to make them more personalized. I made a watermelon slice one inspired by my mother-in-law that loves watermelon themed things. The creative possibilities are endless.

I love having fun while crafting and you can see my project get revealed in a quick 15 second video inspired by The Mask (a cute movie featuring Jim Carrey) below or via my YouTube channel @carolynjbraden:

The finished hair clips

I adapted this project from my mermaid hair clip tutorial, which got pretty popular on my Pinterest page. For that one, I used mostly crystals and pearls and resin seashells and they turned out beautifully. Get that full project here: Mermaid Hair Clips

Up close look at the hair clips

Did you know: Common ingredients found in fruit salad are strawberries, pineapple, honeydew, watermelon, grapes and kiwi. I usually include grapes and melon when in need of a good dippable fruit for my Orange Cream Fruit Dip. Get the recipe in my one-minute video below or via my YouTube channel @carolynjbraden:

How to Make Fruit Salad Hair Clips

Supplies:

I got all my supplies for the clips on TEMU and Amazon and included links below. You can use this link to shop TEMU and use my code afe55197 to get 30% off at checkout on your first app order. Just search for the products on TEMU using the terms I used below. If you don’t shop TEMU, I’ve included almost the exact product links to buy them on Amazon.

My DIY hair clip supplies

I love the “mini” fruit slices!

How-To:

1—Clamp the clips onto an old towel or a piece of cardboard. A piece of wax paper will work too. The clip could stick to the towel or cardboard, so if you clamp onto one of those without a layer of wax paper, just be careful how much glue you use.

2—Add glue to the clip and use the wax pencil to grab fruit slices and add them on top of the glue.

The wax pencil makes grabbing small crafting items easier

3—After adding a layer of fruit slices, add some glue, then some flatback pearls until you have covered the top of a duck bill clip. Some of mine hung over the edge slightly, which is fine.

I added flatback pearls to add a little dimension to each clip

4—Use a pointed cotton swab or a toothpick to clean up any oozy glue.

The finished fruit salad inspired hair clips

5—Allow to dry for about 24 hours, then wear and enjoy!

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Carolyn J. (C.J.) Braden is the owner of Carolyn’s Blooming Creations is a regular contributor and editor for CBC. She has been featured in numerous media publications such as InStyle Magazine, on HGTV, on Bustle.com, and more. She is the author of the books Georgia McMasters in Amethyst Lake Cemetery, How To Be Yourself: 3 Ways To Help You Being You, and the illustrator for the children’s book Bridging Connections. She is a former classroom teacher that now dedicates her life to educating others on how to live their most healthy, creative and happy life. Learn more about her visiting our About Us page.