How to style little girls' curly hair without using elastic bands?

So, I was inspired by a challenge awhile ago over at Beads, Braids and Beyond... it was a protective style challenge and part of it was that you weren't allowed to use hair elastics!

WHAT?!? I know! Now with ultra curly hair, or kinky hair, braids and twists and other styles sometimes stay put without the use of elastics to hold them.
(Isn't that amazing?! For anyone here with straight hair or wavy hair, you are probably as flabbergasted as I was! It's true! Some hair will even hold beads in with NO ELASTICS!  ok, so obviously I haven't gotten over my excitement about that.)

But, alas, that is not the kind of curly hair we have in this house! So lately I've been toying with that idea some more... Is there a way that I could style Q's curly hair that we wouldn't need elastics for?

The obvious answer is Yes.

There are clips! Snap clips, claw clips, barrettes.
But these can still be damaging, depending on the clip of course.

However, the biggest downfall with these is that Q just won't leave them in her hair! I don't know what it is, but she always tries to pull clips out. Talk about hair damage! (oh the ripping and pulling! ouch!!)

Then, I saw these....

(Not the greatest picture, sorry - it's hard to see the pin! But it curves around in about 3 loops - so to get it in your hair you have to spin it.)

Conair's spin pins. They have a pretty little diamond on them :) I'm sure they are meant to be just an added accessory once the style is completed.  

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But what happens if I make the spin pins HOLD the style?!  This! ...

I tried it a couple different ways, but what worked the best was to twist her hair and then wrap it around itself in a circle... then use the spin pins to hold it there! I did that by catching part of the hair in the twist as well as part of the hair against her head in each pin.

It worked great! :D