How to do a Sock Bun

Your child will need a Sock Bun for all performances, unless I tell you otherwise for a special hair style/specific dance.

Supplies: A Donut/Bun. Different sizes are available, get one to match the size of your child’s head. You can use any bobby pins – I recommend BunHeads or these Conair ones I found at Walmart. It only takes a few to hold hair in place with these. Pony tail holders – to match your child’s hair color & Hair Spray. I recommend Aussie (purple can).

1) Start with a high ponytail on the CROWN of your head. Not in the back, and not on top. No fly away hair, use gel or hairspray.

2) Some will roll hair onto the donut from the top, I find this hard with long hair. You can do it anyway that you prefer- but make sure the bun is secure to the head and will not come off. Sometimes when you roll the hair down and secure with bobby pins – the bun ends up falling out. I am showing the other method – where you wrap the hair over the donut. Put the donut around the ponytail.

3) Lay one layer of hair over the donut and put a ponytail holder around it to secure it.

4) You can then wrap the hair around & use bobby pins to secure the hair. OR you can braid it. It is up to you if you wrap the hair or braid it, you cannot tell from stage that some girls have braids and some do not; and we will usually have a hair piece or bow to cover the braid. If braiding – divide the hair into 2 sections, and do 2 braids. Put ponytail holder at the end of each braid. (please excuse by crazy child)

5) Use bobby pins to secure braids around the bun. Tuck the end pieces under to hide the ponytails. Using the better bobby pins, I have only had to use 6 or 7 to hold a bun in place, which helps getting it out fast when they have fast changes.

Sofia still has fly aways in this pic. I did not use a lot of hairspray on her. But, please make sure hair is slick & secure with no fly aways. If your child has bangs, you will need to pull them back & use pins to secure them – in the same direction as the bun – to the back crown of the head. Bangs cannot be pinned to the side.