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How To Tie A Bandana
By Leeanne Utiger
This piece of information is all about how to tie a bandana. Many people wear bandanas, including many children. In fact, a good way to prevent your child from picking up head louse, is in fact for your child to wear a bandana to school. (just thought that little tip was well worth knowing), and could in fact help with persuading your child to wear a bandana.
Now, back to how we tie a bandana. Bandanas can appear to look quite complicated. I used to think so as well, so if you think a bandana looks like hard work, or fiddly, you would not be the first to think that. The best way to learn how to tie a bandana is actually sit and watch another person tie one onto a persons head. Sometimes being able to visualise what another is doing, when teaching you how to do something new, is far better than just being told about it. This can often be the case when learning to tie a bandana. I am going to give you some step by step instructions on how I tie my daughters bandana. Her bandana manages to stay put, so I must be doing an ok job of it. However if you do know someone who either wears a bandana or ties a bandana in place for someone they in turn know, or parent, ask them if you can sit in one day and watch how tying a bandana is done.
If you do not know another who often ties bandanas, simply follow the guidelines I am going to get into. It is easier to tie a bandana if the person who is going to be wearing the bandana is lower than you. Get them to sit on a chair if need be. Before you can learn how to tie a bandana, it is best to have a couple of things handy. This way, as you read how to tie the bandana, you can at the same time practice doing it. This may sound silly, but it actually does help and works. You will need a bandana of course, and a ball. I mean to say, a ball, preferably a soccer ball or netball, as these are similar to the shape of a persons head. They are also firm enough to tie the bandana do, without it falling off or making things to difficult for you while you are learning to tie a bandana.
Sit somewhere comfortable, maybe even on the floor, just so the ball does not roll away from you, and hold it tightly in place between your legs. Make sure you fold the bandana in half, corner to corner, so your bandana now looks like a triangle. Once you have your bandana looking like a triangle, hold on to the two corners parallel to each other, with the third corner towards the ceiling, so basically upside down. You are going to place the flat edge of the folded bandana over the front of the ball, (pretending this is the face of a person), just across the 'forehead'. Pull the two corners around back towards you on either side of the ball, (this being the side of a persons head), just above where a persons ears would be. Now let the third corner of the bandana which you turned into a triangle fall flat across the top of the ball (a persons head) and down towards you. Once this part of the bandana is in place, you can now pull the two corners you have a hold of around to the back of the ball, (back of the persons head), always making sure before you reach the next stage, the part of the bandana that has draped itself backwards over the top and back of the ball, (the persons head), this remains downwards and is kept tucked under the two sides of the bandana from where you are pulling the corners from. Now you need to learn how to tie the rest of the bandana in place. Now that you have the main part of the bandana in place and the third triangle attached to this main part of the bandana hanging downwards, keeping the bandana firmly in place, tuck in what pieces may try to poke out, pulling the corners of the two sides of the bandana towards the centre back of the ball, (the persons head). Make sure the third triangle which you never really pull anywhere is still laying in place downwards, and pull the two corners of the bandana that you still have a hold of tightly across the main part of the bandana, which is the piece that the third corner is attached to. Now that you have done this and have a firm hold of the two corners of the two sides of the bandana, tie a knot. Make sure when you tie the first knot in the bandana you pull it as tight as you can, and as tight as the wearer will let you. Then tie another knot with the same two corners. So, in fact, you have tied a double knot with the two corners of the side pieces of the bandana.
If there are any bits that still appear to be poking out and looking awkward (which if the bandana has been tied successfully, there should not be, or very little), simply poke these in where they will fit and not be seen.
That is all there is to learning and knowing how to tie a bandana. I hope you have been successful in your first attempt at trying to tie a bandana, and I hope you didn't feel too foolish tying a bandana on to a ball. But it really is very helpful and it really does work. Practice these guidelines and steps as often as you can. The more you tie a bandana, the easier it will become for you. You may be able to in the future then teach someone else how to tie a bandana.
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