This easy DIY craft tutorial teaches how to make a flower crown that lasts longer than a day with felt, satin, and other types of fake or faux flowers.
This DIY flower crown craft tutorial simplifies assembling a gorgeous flower headpiece, headband, or headdress with fake or faux flowers made with felt, satin, silk, and other fabrics. Kids and adults of all ages (including preschoolers and kindergarteners) can make flower crowns with the step-by-step how-to instructions and flower crown DIY video tutorial below at home, in the classroom, at a birthday party, or at summer camp.
These delightful adornments and fashion accessories are perfect for many occasions and purposes. With the flower crown craft tutorial below, you can learn how to make a flower crown for a wedding, May Day, the summer solstice, a spring or summer fair, birthday party favors, or any other festival or special event. Whether you’re attending a music festival, a wedding, a garden party, a May Fair, a Mid-Summer Solstice celebration, or simply want to add a touch of enchantment to your everyday attire, a flower crown effortlessly elevates any look. Additionally, flower crowns make wonderful props for photography sessions, theatrical performances, and themed events such as birthday parties or school dances, adding a touch of ethereal charm to the scene.
In this flower crown tutorial, we’ll explore how to craft these charming accessories step by step, providing you with the tools and techniques to create your own unique designs with various types of fake or faux flowers. First published on April 27, 2023, this felt flower crown DIY tutorial is regularly updated and republished to improve the content. You might also enjoy making paper flower crowns with our printable crown template.
How to Make a Flower Crown with Fake Flowers:
Have you ever wondered how to make a flower crown? If so, the step-by-step flower crown DIY tutorial below makes it easy for kids or adults to fashion a gorgeous flower headpiece perfect for May Day, a wedding celebration, summer solstice, summer camp, a birthday party favor, or another festival or special event any time of year–because it’s made with faux flowers!
My daughter and I learned how to make flower crowns with felt roses using the technique described below at a May Day festival at the Waldorf school she attended in kindergarten. I’m not sure who came up with the idea, but I’m sure it was one of the fantastic teachers at Blue Oak Charter School in Chico, CA.
That day we learned how to make flower crowns with felt scraps rolled into cute little roses. But since then, we’ve made these beautiful flower crafts with all sorts of different fake and faux flowers using the same floral wire crown. As you can see in the photographs sprinkled throughout this flower crown craft tutorial, they have all turned out beautifully and look gorgeous on any girl, boy, man, or woman! Just look at how pretty they look on my daughter in the photographs below.
Fake Flower Crowns for Kids and Adults:
Fake flower crowns can serve many purposes. They make a lovely fashion accessory and symbolize elegance, whimsy, and natural beauty. Best of all, unlike flower crowns made with real flowers, fake flower crowns are made to last. Faux flower crowns offer durability and longevity compared to their fresh counterparts, ensuring your creation remains intact and vibrant for years. They’re also hypoallergenic, making them ideal for individuals with sensitivities to pollen or certain flowers.
Moreover, crafting flower crowns provides an opportunity for creativity and self-expression, allowing both children and adults to tailor designs to suit their unique styles and preferences. For kids, making flower crowns fosters the imagination, develops fine motor skills, helps them learn to self-regulate, and offers a fun and rewarding activity that results in a delightful accessory to wear proudly. For adults, crafting flower crowns can be more than just a hobby or craft. It’s a therapeutic and fulfilling activity that offers a much-needed reprieve from the hustle and bustle of daily life.
Whether you’re craving a DIY flower crown for a wedding, birthday, festival, or other special event or simply someone who appreciates the beauty of flowers, the step-by-step flower crown tutorial below will teach you how to create stunning fake flower crowns to add a touch of whimsy and elegance to any festive occasion! You might also like this list of flower art projects, crafts, and painting ideas.
DIY Flower Crowns Made with Fresh Flowers:
Benefits of fake flower crowns aside, handmade flower crowns made with fresh flowers are especially gorgeous because they are real, lush, and fragrant. If you prefer to use real flowers, look through this list of flower nature crafts for a few ways to make fresh flower crowns.
Fake Flower Crown DIY Craft Materials and Recommendations:
Gather the craft supplies below before making flower crowns. I recommend reading through the instructions before getting started so you know what to expect. I also recommend using a glue gun with glue sticks to make flower crowns because the glue will dry fast enough to put the crown on immediately.
That said, glue guns are hot and dangerous tools. When making flower crowns with kids, especially young children such as toddlers and preschoolers. Please ensure they are supervised and know how to use a hot glue gun safely.
Or use craft glue or glue dots to make flower crowns with kids, but please ensure the glue is dry before placing the fake flower crown on someone’s head if you use either of those alternatives. Another thing you can do is add a bit of felt (or another type of fabric) to the inside of the crown on the other side of the craft glue or glue dot to ensure it doesn’t stick to anything.
DIY Flower Crown Craft Supplies:
- Floral wire–bind or vine wire covered with paper
- Scissors or wire nippers (cutting floral wire will dull regular scissors)
- A glue gun with glue sticks, glue dots, or craft glue
- Multicolored ribbons (optional)
- Soft measuring tape (optional)
- Faux flowers with and without leaves–choose at least one of the fake flower craft options below:
- Small Felt Flowers (I used these to make the flower crown in the video tutorial below.)
- Felt flowers with leaves
- Satin ribbon roses
- Felt roses; 3D rosettes with leaves
- Assorted felt flowers for crafts
- Rolled 3D felt roses, felt flowers, and succulents kit
- Red and pink rose die-cut applique flowers
- Blue, yellow, and cream roses die-cute appliques
- Pink, yellow, and cream die-cut applique rosettes
- Or use other faux flowers of choice. (Or look for fake flowers for crafts at Dollar Stores and Dollar Tree Stores.)
- Faux leaves (optional):
- Small 2-sided padded velvet felt green leaves
- Assorted felt flower leaves
DIY Flower Crown Step-By-Step Craft Tutorial
This step-by-step tutorial teaches how to make fake flower crowns using faux flowers crafted from felt, satin, silk, and various fabrics. As mentioned above, my daughter and I have discovered over the years that there are many ways to make a flower crown with different types of fake flowers. In other words, there is not one way to make them, there are several little variations you can try with the directions below.
Please read through the step-by-step flower crown DIY how-to instructions before making flower crowns to get an idea of the simple ways to fashion a fake flower crown. Understanding the steps involved before starting this flower craft makes it easier to make a more informed choice about the materials you would like to use. For the same reason, I recommend watching the DIY flower crown step-by-step video tutorial posted below the directions before getting started. For another fun flower craft for kids and adults, try making fingerprint flower magnets.
1. Cut a section of floral wire for the headband or Crown:
- Please note that the floral bind wire recommended in the craft supplies above has several color options including the light coffee wire shown in the photographs. You can also purchase brown, deep green, red, and white to make the floral headband. All color options look gorgeous when made into flower crowns. Choose the floral bind wire in the color that suits your needs, the occasion, or what you like best!
- Use scissors (or wire snippers) to cut two and a half to three feet of the floral wire covered in paper.
- You might need to cut a little more or less than three feet, depending on the flower crown size needed.
- For example, a baby or toddler will most likely need less, while an adult with a large head circumference may need more.
2. Twist the floral wire into a crown, headdress, or headband sized to fit the wearer:
- Fold the section of floral wire cut in step one in half.
- Place two fingers between the floral bind wire at the fold.
- Wrap the floral wire around both fingers and twist it 2-3 times to create the first loop, as shown in the flower crown DIY video tutorial below.
- Remove your fingers and place them on the other side of the first twist or loop.
- Again wrap the floral wire around two fingers and twist the floral wire 2-3 times.
- Please watch the flower crown video tutorial below to see these steps in action.
- Make more loops by twisting the floral wire around your fingers until you reach the desired crown length.
- Measure the circumference of the crown of the wearer’s head with a soft measuring tape or use the floral wire crown itself to measure the size needed to make the crown.
- Once the crown is the desired length, place the two free floral wire ends through the first loop and twist it between the first and last loop to finish it, as shown in the video tutorial below.
- And finally, cut away the remaining floral wire.
3. Cut ribbons for flower crown (optional):
- Cut lengths of ribbon for the homemade flower crown.
- Use only a few ribbons or colors, as many as you like, or none.
- Please choose colors that are the same as the flowers or that complement or contrast them in some way, as shown in the flower crown photographs for this post and the DIY video tutorial below.
- You can cut ribbons as long or as short as you like, depending on the person’s size, hair length, and personal preference.
- We cut most ribbons for our flower crowns about one and a half to two and a half feet long, and they looked lovely!
- Tie the ribbons with a knot at one end to make them easier to attach as a single unit, or leave them separate depending on style and preference.
4. Glue felt, satin, or other faux flowers to the flower crown:
- Please read through each of the bullet points below before attaching any flowers to the headpiece:
- First, determine how you would like to arrange the felt, satin, or faux flowers on the DIY crown.
- One way to make a felt flower crown is to glue a flower to each twist point in the floral wire crown, as shown in the video tutorial below.
- Depending on the type and size of your fake flowers, you can also glue them on the crown headpiece in any way that looks good. Some larger faux flowers, for example, look best sitting inside the floral wire loops and glued accordingly.
- We’ve discovered that gluing a flower over or to the final twist point in the floral wire headpiece to secure it is a great place to start attaching the faux flowers to the crown.
- After making several felt flower crowns, we’ve also learned that it’s easier to attach ribbons underneath one of the flowers to the twisted floral wire headpiece than to do so after the crown is completed.
- In other words, it’s best to glue the ribbons to the headpiece underneath one of the felt flowers before it’s completed but it can be done afterward if you prefer or forget. So this is also something to consider before getting started.
- Adding felt leaves is optional but looks gorgeous on some felt flower crowns, as shown in the photographs of my daughter wearing the blue felt flower crown with green leaves.
- First, determine how you would like to arrange the felt, satin, or faux flowers on the DIY crown.
5. Attach ribbons to the flower crown (optional but recommended):
- Glue or tie colorful ribbons to the back of the homemade flower crown.
- As mentioned in step 3 above, we recommend gluing the ribbons to the flower crown underneath one (or more) of the fake flowers so they hang between the flower and the headpiece.
- Or, bunch them together and glue them to the inside of the floral wire headpiece or tie them around the crown however you wish.
- You can see an example of a flower crown with ribbons my daughter made in the photograph of her below.
Flower Crown DIY Video Tutorial
Watch the step-by-step flower crown craft tutorial below and use the instructions above to learn how to make flower crowns with fake flowers.
Floral Crown Crafts for Kids and Adults
We hope you enjoyed learning to make flower crowns with fake or faux flowers with the DIY tutorial above. You can even make a matching flower lei necklace (as shown in the photograph above) to go with it with our step-by-step craft tutorial. Click the link above to learn how!
Flower crown crafts are fun to make for weddings, May Day, spring or summer fairs, the summer solstice, summer camp, school dances, a birthday party, or any other festival or special event. The step-by-step instructions also make assembling flower crowns that last longer than the day you make them possible.
You might also enjoy making paper flower crowns with our printable templates or DIY felt flowers on twig stems. Check out the other flower craft ideas on the list below. Or pop over to see a list of flower art projects and painting ideas that kids and adults of all ages can make at home or in the classroom. Happy flower crafting!
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