These cute flower crowns are fun to make and wear, and you can make one for your mom this Mother’s Day! Flower crowns have been beautiful throughout the ages, and they are now a popular “filter” used to make selfies on a smartphone. You may have seen your mom (or someone else you know) use this filter, or maybe you have even done it yourself. Well, move aside, fake selfies, we’ll craft a flower crown that we can use in real life!
*Adult supervision required. Let an adult handle the scissors.
You’ll need
* Construction paper in 5-8 different colours (including green and yellow)
* Scissors
* Pencil
* School glue or glue stick
* Tape
Instructions
First, make the headband: Cut two one-inch strips from the longest side of your green construction paper. Tape the two pieces together to make one long strip. Set aside.
For the flowers, cut about 18 squares – half of them two inches long, and the other half three inches long. Use the different colours that you have – red, pink, orange, purple, blue and white are all nice colours to use. Avoid yellow, black and green.
Fold each square in half, and then in half again length-wise.
Keeping the paper folded, put your fingertip on the corner that has no open edges. Using your other hand, draw a petal shape, starting from the left side of your finger tip, and ending on the right side. This is similar to a leaf- shape.
Placing your finger tip there helps you to hold down the paper and makes sure you don’t draw the petal shape all the way to the centre of the flower.
Make some petal shapes round and make some pointy. They won’t all be the same. Remember to use the different colours.
Let an adult or older child take the folded paper, and cut along the lines you made with the pencil. Then unfold the paper to reveal a flower pattern.
Cut nine small, yellow circles; these will be the centres of the flowers. Cut out a few leaves as well from green construction paper, by first cutting small rectangles, folding them in two length-wise, and cutting a curved line from one edge to the other (leaving the folded line intact).
Now for the fun part! Take every larger flower and glue a smaller flower on top of it. Make sure the petals are spaced out so that the bottom flower is not covered. Use contrasting colours, then glue a yellow circle at the centre of each flower.
Take the green strip and wrap it around your head/your mom’s head, and mark with a pencil how long it needs to be. Add an extra inch or two, and cut the strip to size. The extra space is so that you can easily tape the ends together later.
Lay the headband flat on the table, and glue the flowers into place. There should be just a little spacing in between each flower. Fill some of that space with leaves. Leave the edges clear. Tape the edges together and the flower crown is complete!
Pictures: Paper and Glue.
