Paper Plate Crown
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Supplies Needed
- Paper plate
- Tempera or poster paint
- Paint brushes
- Scissors
- White glue
- Things to decorate your crown with: buttons, stickers, sequins, plastic gems, small pompoms, little bows, ribbons, foam or fabric shapes, glitter glue, etc.
STEPS
1Prepare a paper plate.
Start out with a paper plate. Ours is 8½ inches in diameter.
2Paint the paper plate.
a.) One color - for a traditional crown, paint the bottom side of the plate with a single color of tempera or poster paint. Yellow, gold, or silver are popular colors for a royal crown. You can also paint the plate to match a theme (e.g. red for a Valentine's day crown, pink or light blue for a princess crown).
Paint the flip side of the plate, if you like. You can use the same color or opt for a different shade.
b.) Multiple colors - painting the plate with multiple colors is a fun idea. This is a great option for a circus or carnival theme, or if you just want to make a fun colorful crown.
This is also a terrific activity for younger kids who love to doodle and play with colors. Besides paint brushes, use sponges, roller brushes, or fingers to paint.
3Fold the plate in half.
Once the paint dries, carefully fold your paper plate in half.
4Cut three slits.
The three lines indicate where you need to cut slits to divide the folded plate into 4 equal sections. Stop cutting each slit at least an inch from the edge of the plate.
5Make two more slits.
Unfold the paper plate. Make the final two slits along the crease. Your paper plate should now be divided evenly into 8 wedges.
6Fold up the wedges.
Place the paper plate bottom side up. Carefully fold up the wedges to tranform the plate into a crown.
7Decorate the crown.
Decorate your crown with glitter glue, stickers, plastic gems, sequins, buttons, felt or fabric shapes, foam or paper shapes, small pompoms, and all sorts of fun materials. Mine even has drinking straw pieces at the base!
If you painted your crown with multiple colors, you won't need to glue anything else. Just a few accents at the tips or base would do.
Attach a chin strap if the crown does not fit you well. Punch a pair of opposite holes at the base of the crown. Fasten the ends of an elastic string around the holes.
More Ideas
Make a sparkly crown.
Make a royal crown by painting the paper plate gold or silver. Decorate the crown with lots of sparkly stuff like plastic gems, sequins, rhinestones, beads, sparkly stickers, and gold/silver ribbons. You can also draw dots, lines, and shapes with glitter glue or cut out shapes out of tinsel paper or foil.
Craft a crown for St. Patrick's day.
Create a fun crown for special occasions such as St. Patrick's day. This Irish crown was painted green and decorated with paper shamrocks and lots of green accents. To make a paper shamrock, simply cut 4 green paper hearts of roughly the same size. Glue them together at the pointed base to create a four-leafed clover.
Make a Valentine's day crown.
Make a crown for Valentine's day. Paint the paper plate red or pink. Decorate with lots of hearts and other fun accents.
Create a spring-themed crown.
Make a lovely spring or fairy-inspired crown. We painted the back of the paper plate pink and the front green. Fabric and foam flowers as well as paper butterflies and leaves were added to highlght the spring theme.
Long strips of crepe paper were glued on one side of the crown to create a stream of colors—a perfect accent for a princess crown as well.
