Use fresh flowers and contact paper to create paper DIY crowns and necklaces for kids with this easy tutorial.
Updated April 2025
These beautiful DIY flower crowns and necklaces are so easy to make and yet so lovely.
With just paper, contact paper, and flower petals, you can create a beautiful, wearable piece of art. It’s a simple, mess-free way to bring nature into playtime and let kids explore their creativity.
They are the perfect anytime activity! Kids can make them to celebrate summer, for pretend play accessories, as a party favor, or just for fun!
Here’s how we did it.
DIY Crowns for Kids
MATERIALS
- Posterboard, cardstock, or heavy paper
- Drawing tool, such as a pencil
- Scissors
- Utility knife, such as X-acto
- Self-healing cutting mat or piece of cardboard
- Transparent contact paper
- Flowers
- Tape
- Hole Punch
- Yarn
INSTRUCTIONS
- Draw the crown shapes
First, draw the crown shapes onto poster board or other sturdy paper. Be sure to leave large inset sections where the flower decorations will go.
Cut out the crown. We find that scissors work best for the outside of the crown and an x-acto knife is better for cutting out the insets.
- Add contact paper to the crown
Pull the paper backing off a piece of contact paper and lay on the table, sticky side up. Press the crown to the contact paper then cut away the excess contact paper from the outer edges.
- Decorate the crown with flowers
Press flower petals to the contact paper, creating a bejeweled, stained glass effect.
- Cover with contact paper
Cut small pieces of contact paper to overlap the inset sections of the crown and press over the flower petals.
- Fit the crown
Wrap the flower crown around your head and tape in place. You can also use a hole punch and yarn to secure the crown around your head.
- Admire your new DIY crowns
Aren’t the crowns just beautiful? We love the ethereal stained glass effect!
These crowns are perfect for flower princesses and princes, fairies, elves, and anything else your child can imagine.
We had some leftover circles of card stock after making our crowns, so the kids made flower necklaces, too, using the same technique. A hole punch and some yarn turned them into necklaces worthy of any flower princess.
These are so beautiful, you may want to make one of these DIY flower crowns for yourself as well.
More Stained Glass Flower Ideas
- 12 Flower Crafts for Kids
- How to Set Up an Invitation to Create Using Flowers
- How to Do Flower Printing
- How to Make Pictures with Flowers
- How to Make a Flower Suncatcher
- How to Make a Flower Stained-Glass Window
Want even more creative ideas?
Check out our Spring Creativity pack!
Let creativity blossom with this fun bundle of art activities perfect for Spring!! This 40-page printable eBook is full of coloring pages, drawing prompts, games, and more!
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