- Hey guys! I'm Lavinia.
- I'm Caitlin.
- I'm Isabella.
- I'm Jasmine.
- And today we're throwing a big, huge Moana summer party!
(upbeat, summer music)
And Jasmine here is just gonna teach us how to make
Moana headdresses,
and they look like-
this!
- Oh wow, they look just like Moana!
- So pretty!
- So, let's get started.
(soft bell chimes)
- Okay guys, so step one we're gonna take our raffia
and braid it into three sections.
Okay and this is gonna hold the flowers together
on our head.
- Ooh!
- So eventually we'll measure them,
so we can get the perfect size for you guys.
- This must be very important then.
- So after you braid a couple of times,
just go ahead and pull your hand through the raffia,
because it does get tangled a little bit.
- I think I'm getting the hang of it.
- Oh no, mine got tangled!
- I'm almost done.
- Oh, good.
- Oh wow!
- Whoa.
- Beady!
- Yeah!
- So what do you guys love about Moana?
I personally love how adventurous she is,
and that she's ready to try anything.
- I will sail across the sea,
and restore the heart of Te Fiti.
- [Caitlyn] She loves the ocean,
I personally love the ocean too.
- Moana's headdress.
I really love how she chooses to wear a headdress,
instead of a crown.
And it kinda represents the love for the ocean and
the beach, and all the flowers.
- It's so long now!
- So once your braid gets off the table a little bit,
we can- - a little bit?
Yeah, heh!
(all laugh)
- Okay.
- So you're gonna take a little piece of the raffia,
and then wrap it around-
your finger or thumb.
And then you can take it from here and then go underneath,
as you slide your thumb out,
you'll place it with the raffia.
- Like when you're tying a balloon.
- [Lavinia And Jasmine] Yeah!
- Take some safety scissors,
and we're going to cut a little bit below the knot,
so we don't have all the excess raffia.
- Oh, that makes sense.
- We're gonna take the leaves,
and start to tie them on.
You're gonna start at the end,
you're gonna take a leaf, you're gonna lie it flat onto it,
so you're gonna make sure that the stem of the leaf
is lining up with the raffia.
Let's start by making a knot at the top,
that way when you do wrap it around and you keep going lower
it doesn't pull.
And then, as you get started, just keep on-
- Wrapping it- wrapping around,
just keep going lower.
- So you know how Moana wants to help her community,
help her people?
What do you think of that?
- It's so amazing that she wanted to be adventurous,
but at the same time she wanted to help her people.
- Yeah.
- We were voyagers!
We can voyage again!
- It's like, next level multitasking.
- Yep!
- So once it gets a little bit shorter, we're gonna knot it-
- And then we'll tie another raffia on?
- We tie another leaf on.
- Oh!
- So you wanna grab another leaf,
and then we're gonna overlap it a little bit,
that way they're a little bit thicker.
All right you guys, it's about that time!
We're gonna start adding some flowers in.
- [All] Yay!
- But before we do that,
let's start to just bend our leaves,
and our raffia braids,
that way once you put them around our heads,
they're already in that circular shape.
So as you guys can see, we have a couple of different colors
we have a light pink, and we have a dark pink.
So as you guys pull back some leaves you may notice that
you guys have some openings from where
you wrapped around the raffia, so,
you can just stick the end of the flower into it,
well what we can also do is wrap some of the-
looser raffia around the flower stem,
and hold it that way as well.
Anywhere you see a loose little spot,
where you tied your raffia around,
we can stick the stems with flowers into them.
- Oh!
(acoustic guitar strumming)
- I think I'm done!
What do you guys think?
- Oh, wow!
That's beautiful! - Oh wow!
- It's amazing!
- All right you guys we're coming down to the end,
let's double check it on our head.
So let's just put it against our head and then
let's just wrap it around.
And then you can use your fingers to feel,
how much room you would need.
That way once you take it off,
you can see where you need to tie it.
So now let's tie the knot,
where we had our measurements for the end.
Okay let's put it on your head and let's see!
Perfect!
Now we can take some scissors and cut off any excess.
I think we're officially done!
(all cheer)
- All right let's put them on and we'll see how they look!
- I feel like a princess.
- Oh my God, yours is so pretty!
- So pretty!
- I love yours!
- That's so pretty. - Thank you!
- Looks like we're ready for the party.
See you guys later!
[All] Bye!
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