DIY Flower Crown- a Creative Guide

I love spring. Mostly because that means it's almost summer.
The best thing about spring besides the weather is the beautiful flowers. And what's the best thing to do with something lovely? Wear it, of course!
Here's a guide to making your own fun floral headwear.

What You'll Need:

• Fake flowers
• A headband, if possible matched to your haircolor
• Glue gun
• Scissors
• Needle nose pliers 
• Cute fabric (optional)
• Beads or gems (optional)

What To Do:

There are a lot of options with this project, so let this serve as more of a guide than an a step by step how-to. Be creative!

Start with a pile of flowers.  I selected a variety, but all in the same color family. More colors could be fun too. These are mostly roses, with some lilies and smaller bright wildflowers thrown in. All of these flowers are from the dollar store. 

Good luck keeping kitty out of them

Get your headband all ready to go. I used a headband that I don't wear anymore. It had some jewels attached to it so I removed them. 

My old headband

Now it's time to fire up the glue gun. While it's warming up. Pull the flowers off their stems. Using the scissors, trim the bottom of the flowers. Try to make them as flat as possible by trimming close to the petals. If you like, set aside some leaves.

Trim the green plastic down to make it flat, but don't cut it all away or the flower will fall apart.

Not all the flowers can be flat on the bottom, but still trim the plastic down as much as you can.

You can modify the flowers before adding them to the headband if you like. This is when you would use gems or beads to add to the flowers.

Using the hot glue gun, I attached some of the jewels from the headband inside the flowers.

I also glued some of the smaller flowers inside the large ones.

This is when you can use fabric also if you like.

Pick a cute fabric, and try to get it away from your kitten

I made a bow with a large piece of the fabric and some hot glue

Small squares of fabric can be made into little flowers by putting a dot of glue in the center,
pinching the glue with the pliers (so you don't get burned) and twisting the fabric.

Start on one side of the headband, and attach pieces using the hot glue. Use pliers for some things so you don't get burned!

If you made a bow, attach it to one side of the headband, if not just start with a flower

Keep adding flowers. Be sure to fit them close to each other so there aren't any gaps.

You can add leaves too, but make sure not to neglect the back side of the headband. 

The finished piece at my best friend's bridal shower!

Tea party. Everyone wore hats. I won for "most beautiful" hat.

 I made a second one as well to wear for a more casual event or even an every day outfit. This one is just flowers and leaves on a black band. 

From the front. Some fabric flowers in this one too!

The back view. Lots of leaves!

What it looks like on.

I hope you enjoyed this post. Have fun and be creative making your own flower crown! 

Thanks for reading!

Xoxo