Mom Turns Kids With Cancer Into Disney Princesses With Magical Wigs

The wig was such a hit more mothers began asking Christensen for wigs for their little girls and so, The Magic Yarn Project was born.

Christensen chose to make the little girl a princess wig inspired by her favourite Disney princess to wear after she had lost her hair from chemotherapy. “Last fall, I found out that the little girl of one of my college friends was just diagnosed with cancer”.

Christensen, a cancer nurse, knew how sick the little girl would get.

Ms Christensen’s first creation was a long, Rapunzel wig weaved in yellow yarn and embellished with colourful flowers. It made her “feel like the handsome princess she is”, said the mom.

As word of Ms Christensen’s wigs spread other parents helping their children deal with chemotherapy requested similar designs, and she established The Magic Yarn Project with her friend Bree Hitchcock.

Observing how the wig made Lily happy, Christensen considered the possibility of making wigs on a larger scale and came up with the Magic Yarn Project.

Christensen thought it would be a special, small project but it quickly grew. “The Magic Yarn Project was then created to answer this call to bring yarn wigs to little girls nationwide and to help community members get involved in this project”. “[The wigs] are made on soft crocheted beanies”.

The team is now working on a variety of wigs, including those of Elsa and Anna, Ariel, Rapunzel, Jasmine, and Belle of Disney feature films. All wigs are given free of charge to recipient families in hospitals around the country, and a second workshop is planned for mid-November.

“She absolutely loved it and her mother expressed that it brought joy and light to an otherwise hard and dark time during her life”, she told the Mirror Online.

The Magic Yarn Project is in the process of establishing itself as a not-for-profit organisation, which will allow it to obtain more funds and make as many wigs as possible, as well as provide training to individuals and communities that are already enthusiastic about the project.

A GoFundMe page has been set up to collect money so that more kids can benefit from the project.

The project smashed its $5,000 (£3,300) target in less than one month, and shows no sign of slowing.