By Elisabeth
I am currently dealing with a small obsession over nature-inspired crowns. Using this tutorial, I whipped up these flower-crowns a few days ago. Needed materials include wire, floral tape, scissors (all things that are good to keep in the art box), and flowers! I found both the wire and floral tape at Goodwill - so don't be shy about looking for craft materials second-hand! They only took about 5 minutes to make, which was nice because I had a couple anxious little flower fairies ready to go out flying.
The creative possibilities for this are endless. A few autumnal blooms (native to North America) that would make amazing crowns are: aster, goldenrod, perennial sunflower, Mexican sage, and witch hazel. Other than that, just go out in your yard, head out on a walk, or go check out your local farmer's market to find some beautiful blooms for this project.
Here are a few more inspiring flower-crown images for your inspirational pleasure!
Elisabeth Stone About the Contributor:
Elisabeth Stone is a young mom and passionate environmental activist. She blogs about her personal life at Manic Mrs. Stone. Connect to her Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest
I wore one for my Wedding (our 2nd anniversary is the 25th sept) may have to make one with penny to celebrate.
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I'm planning on making one of laurel leaves (my name is Lauren,) for our handfasting one day. (Probably on one of our marriage anniversaries.) Thanks for this!
ReplyDeleteI adore this!! My daughter probably wouldn't keep hers on her head for more than a few seconds, but...I'm making one anyways. Thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteThese would be a perfect craft for the kids at our autumn gathering this weekend, thank you for sharing - fab that they are so quick to make, I want one too! I'm a sucker for nature inspired crowns too - at the moment my favourite is to just make a crown out of willow branches leaves entact - of which there is a supply of plenty down by the river near here. love and sunshine x x x
ReplyDeleteI made a few flower crowns of my own out of headbands and felt, it took around 10 minutes each and I can't wait to make more!
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