How to Make Holly Hair Bows: FREE SVG and PDF Pattern

Learn how to make these holly hair bows to add festivity to any outfit. They are quick, easy to make and are perfect for Christmas! There are two sizes you can make, small and large. There are also a few variations for the holly berries depending on what materials you like.

Hair bows made to look like Christmas holly. Made from various materials.

The small measures approximately four inches long by one and a half inches tall. The large measures approximately five inches long by two inches tall.

Two hair bows shaped like holly in two sizes. One smaller, one larger.

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Here is what they look like in felt, faux leather and glitter canvas. These all have different materials used for the berries. The first bow in the picture below has felt berries (Cut from the pattern pieces.) the second has decorative glitter balls and the third has glitter pom poms.

Three holly hair bows. Top is a large bow in felt, middle is a small bow in faux leather, bottom is a small bow in glitter canvas and faux leather. — Top is a large bow in felt, middle is a small bow in faux leather, bottom is a small bow in glitter canvas and faux leather.

You can also choose to skip the berries and not add them at all. If you like these holly hair bows, make sure you also check out these cute DIY stacked hair bows.

Supplies Needed for Holly Hair Bows

Faux leather, glitter canvas or felt. (Green and red.)
Glitter pom poms or decorative glitter balls (Optional for berries.)
Hot glue gun
Hot glue sticks
Alligator clips
Scissors (If using PDF)
Cut machine (If using SVG)
Fabric pen (If using PDF)

Get the Files Here

Download

Click on the pink button above to download the files for the holly hair bows.

*These files are for personal and commercial (up to 50 times) use only.

Two holly hair bows, one made from faux leather, one made from glitter canvas.

SVG Cutting Instructions

Load the SVG into your cut machine software. select the material type, and send it to cut.

Cut settings I used on my cricut for glitter canvas. — Cut settings I used for glitter canvas

Load the material onto your cutting mat and feed it into the machine. Cut the SVG.

Green glitter canvas on a cutting mat. About to be cut in a cricut machine. — Using a fabric mat with the rotary blade for canvas material

Taking my canvas cut outs of the holly hair bow off of the cutting mat. — Taking my cut outs off the fabric mat

PDF Cutting instructions

Print the PDF and cut out the pattern. Once it’s cut you can trace the pattern onto the backside of the material with a fabric pen.

tracing the holly hair bow pattern onto the bow material.

After that cut it out using the outline made with the fabric pen.

cutting out the bow material with scissors using the drawn outline as a guide.

I use a disappearing fabric ink for this so that if there are any markings left over, they won’t stick around.

showing the fabric pen i use with disappearing ink.

Assembling the Holly Hair Bows

Tip: Hot glue needs a rough or porous surface to grab onto and sometimes faux leather can be a bit too smooth for the hot glue to create a strong bond. Using a bit of sand paper on the smooth surface that will be glued can make that bond stronger.

Take the top bow piece and put some hot glue in the middle of the back side.

putting hot glue in the center backside of the top holly bow piece.

Fold both sides over so the ends meet in the middle sitting in the hot glue. Tabs should be touching but not overlapping. Let the glue cool down.

Folding one side of the top bow piece over so its outside tab sits in the center of the bow. — One side folded over to the center

both side of the top bow piece folded over so end tabs are glued to the center of the bow. — Both sides folded over to the center

On the bottom bow piece, place a bit of hot glue on the center front.

putting hot glue on the center front of the bottom bow piece.

Set the top bow piece directly on top of that glue. Your bow pieces will now be stacked.

placing the top bow piece and placing it on top of the bottom bow piece.

Finishing the Holly Hair Bows

Take the center tab and set it flush with the top of the middle section of the bow on the backside.

Setting the center tab flush with the center of the holly bow pieces on the backside..

Clip the alligator clip onto the tab piece so it sits vertically centered on the bow. (See image below.)

placing the alligator clip on the center tab sitting flush with the holly bow pieces.

Hot glue the tab in that position. (Alligator clip will be in the hot glue.)

Placing glue between the center tab piece and the bow pieces. — Hot glueing the center tab and alligator clip into place

First part of center tab glued into place. — Pressing the center tab into the hot glue

Flip the bow over and put some hot glue on the center front of the bow.

Putting hot glue on the center front of the holly bow pieces.

Wrap the center tab around to the front and press it down on top of the glue.

Center tab wrapped around to the front and hot glued down on the center of the holly hair bow pieces.

Wrap the remaining bit of the center tab back over to backside. Put hot glue in between the last bit of the center tab piece and the backside of the bow.