Homemade Flower Crown

In the fall I acquired some beautiful red and orange fake flowers that until now I hadn’t had the opportunity to use for crafting. My initial inspiration was an autumnal flower wreath but I decided to use the flowers to hand make a flower crown instead and loved the results. The supplies I used were: fake flowers, jewelry wire, crystals, ribbon, and a hot glue gun. The final product featured alternating red and orange flowers with crystal accents.

I started my flower crown by measuring my head with jewelry wire and using enough wire to wrap around my head three or four times. In retrospect, I should have made it slightly bigger than my actual head because I didn’t account that the hot glue/flower backings would slightly decrease the circumference of the headband but the crown still seated well on my head in spite of this. I wrapped the wire around itself loosely for one circumstance or the circle and then tightly with the remaining wire such that the final product was well secure so that it wouldn’t unravel and looked as pictured below.

(Left) Wrapped wire as crown base. (Right) Synthetic flowers to be used for the crown.

I dismantled the flowers by taking of the outer sheath from the stem and cutting at the bottom of the stem with jewelry cutters (which cut through metal a lot better than scissors). I did it this way because if I had simply plucked the flowers off the top, they would have fallen apart because they wouldn’t have had the central stick to hold their structure together. I attached the flowers to the crown using a hot glue gun. Because I am impatient, I used canned air to make the hot glue dry faster (I got the idea from watching people use “chilling spray” in baking competition shows). To do this, I allowed the hot glue a little time to set them sprayed with canned air from a distance getting closer to the glue as I confirmed that the air was not moving the glue because it was sufficiently set. I did this for each flower in the crown. I then added leaves from the one of the faux flowers to give an even more crown-like shape. I used diamond, star, and butterfly shaped crystals to give the crown some sparkle. After all the glue had sent, I wrapped the wire in ribbon to both make it beautiful and more comfortable to lay on my head. I used light and green ribbon and twisted it around the wire in a braided fashion, beginning and ending in bows. To make sure the ribbon didn’t come undone, I set the bows with butterfly crystals affixed with hot glue. And voila! Beautiful homemade flower crown 🌺 🌸 🌺