DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Winter
Crown or Hat
Nothing better than being a cool kid in a paper hat during the winter. You can make tissue flowers to decorate it -- but you can also use markers, stickers or glitter to create your own wearable masterpiece! Of course, Kaitlyn loves, loves, loves tissue flowers so that's always what we have on ours!
Read on for the instructions and templates for children to make a simple construction paper crown the kids have fun making, decorating and wearing!
Materials:
- blue construction paper,
- 2 white pipe cleaners
- pencil,
- scissors,
- tape,
- printer,
- paper
- Optional: stickers, markers, glitter or gel pens to decorate
Tissue flowers:
- white tissue paper,
- white thread.
Instructions:
- Print template of choice.
- Color as necessary (if using the B&W version).
- Cut out the template pieces
- OR freehand cut 4 winter shapes from construction paper.
- Cut 2 or 3 strips of construction paper about 4" wide and as long as you can make them.
- Tape the pieces end to end to make a really long piece.
- Wrap around the child's head to measure how long you need and trim off the excess (don't tape into a circle yet).
- Make 5 or 6 tissue paper flowers and tape to the front of the crown:
- stack 3 or 4 squares of tissue paper on top of each other (size should be about 4"x4").
- fan fold (accordion fold) the tissue paper.
- tie tightly in the center with a piece of thread.
- separate the layers one at a time.
- roll a piece of scotch tape to attach the flower to the front of the crown (long construction paper strip).
Wrap the pipecleaner around a pencil to make a 'spring'
with it. An adult can wrap the first couple loops
and then hand it over to the child to finish.- Straighten about 1/2 inch of the top and bottom of the spring (so it's easier to do the taping).
- Repeat with the other pipecleaner.
- Tape a snowflake onto the top of each pipecleaner. Flip over and glue or tape the 3rd and 4th snowflake onto the back of the 1st and 2nd (to sandwich the pipecleaner in between the snowflakes).
- Tape both pipecleaners to the long piece of construction paper so they either sit at the front of the head or the sides of the head.
- Tape the construction paper ends together to form a crown and put it on!
Printable Craft Templates:
- After printing, close the template window to return to the main page.
- If the template doesn’t fit on one page, adjust your printer margins:
• In most browsers: Print → More settings → Margins → Minimum
• Or use Page Setup / Printer Setup in your printer dialog
Template (color) or (B&W)
Printable version of these instructions
