A crown made of paper, beads, autumn leaves is made quickly. From the article you will learn what icing is and how to make a sweet tiara from cake mastic. If a girl needs to dress up as a princess for a matinee in kindergarten or school, the main accessory will be a crown, which can be made from paper, mastic, beads and other materials with your own hands.
DIY beaded crown
Choose any of the options presented and go for it. See how easy it is to make a princess crown.
Here's what comes in handy for the job:
- 2 types of wire: thick section for the base and thin, on which we will string the decoration elements;
- pliers;
- beads;
- pearls;
- beads.
Measure the wire of a larger section along the head, cut off the excess with pliers. Make a circle out of it, fix it with a thin wire. Bend the second piece of thick wire in waves.
Attach it with thin wire to the base. This is the crown of a princess or queen you should get at this stage.
Next, string the beads onto a thin wire. Attach these jewelry to the base by placing a pearl or large bead inside.
Here is such a pretty queen crown.
If you do not have beads, but there are other materials, you can quickly make a decoration for a girl's head.
For it we use the following:
- various beads with a large hole diameter;
- cleaning tubes - 5 pcs.;
- nippers.
Having prepared everything you need, roll the 2 tubes together, giving them a rounded shape.
Now you need to cut the remaining 3 tubes as follows:
- the first - in half;
- the second - into 3 identical parts;
- from the third - cut off 2/3 of its length.
Fold each piece in half and fix them on the crown as shown in the photo. In this case, the longest tube will be in the center.
String beads on the decoration, and the princess crown is ready.
How to make a keychain with your own hands?
If you need a crown for a girl, but want to practice making a small piece of jewelry, then start by making a keychain. This thing will certainly come in handy. You will be able to take out the keys and admire the keychain, which will be made in a single copy.
Here is a list of what you need for such a needlework:
- beads of three colors;
- fishing line;
- wire;
- pliers or round nose pliers.
Before buying beads, check if it has a sufficient hole so that a wire of 2 turns can pass through it without hindrance.
Cut the wire to the desired length, string 18 red beads on it. Then pass its end through their holes, tighten the loop.
Cast on 18 more beads of the same color on this wire, also pass its free end through their holes, as a result, you will get such a figure of eight.
Place one circle of these small beads over the other. Tie them together with the ends of the wire, cut off the excess edge.
On the remaining one string 7 white beads, then one red, then again 7 white beads. Bend this segment to the opposite side of the ring, fix it.
Now, to the place where there is one red bead at the top, tie the cross to the cross 2 more identical pieces of wire. Since it is bent in half, you will get 4 more fragments of the crown, on each of which string 7 white beads, fasten the wire.
Tie another piece of wire to the crown of the crown and put 12 blue beads on it. If it is a keychain, then first pass the key ring and then secure the wire.
Here's how to make a crown so that it becomes a small decoration or also a keychain.
Read how, literally, in half an hour to make a brilliant head ornament.
Paper crown - master class
It's amazing how such an elegant piece was made from this simple material. Of course, in addition to this foundation, you will need something else, namely:
- gold wrapping paper;
- necklace made of imitation pearls;
- glue;
- decorative large stones in the form of hearts, rhombuses and small;
- glue gun;
- scissors;
- and, of course, thick white cardboard for the base.
Cut a strip of cardboard as high as the finished product. Attach it to the child's head, measure it, cut off the excess.
You can first measure the child's head with a flexible measuring tape, and then transfer the size to cardboard. Cut with an allowance so you can join the edges and glue. But don't hold them together yet. Place a cardboard blank on your work surface, draw a pattern that will be inside and on top of the crown. Cut along these lines. If you want the work to be perfectly neat, then first apply the drawing to the template, then attach it to the cardboard, cut it out.
This same template will help you create the desired curls from golden wrapping paper. Lubricate it from the inside out with glue, attach it to the cardboard blank, connect it. Glue the 2 pieces of the crown together and at the back.
Now apply the melted silicone from the glue gun to the bottom edge of the crown, position the beaded necklace in this place. If you don't have one, then use separate beads, gluing them at the same distance.
A glue gun will also help attach large and small pebbles. When the work dries up, you can put it on the head of a girl or boy. After all, this product can be created not only for a young lady. The king's crown for the holiday is also made.
The templates below will help you make the top cuts on your headdress so that they are neat and even.
Choose the outlines that you like best and make a template from them.
Mastic jewelry
The hostesses know that this sweet mass helps to decorate pastries so that they turn into works of culinary art.
At first glance, it seems that making such a cake is very difficult, but it is not. The cakes are baked from biscuit dough in a round shape. If you don't have one, a suitable sized oven pan will work. You can even bake it in a slow cooker, in a bowl.
Then the biscuit is cooled a little, removed from the mold, cut with a sharp long knife into 3-4 cakes. When they are completely cool, grease with butter cream, put in the refrigerator. You can buy mastic or make it yourself from marshmallow candies or powdered sugar. Food colors will help you achieve the desired shade.
Further, the mastic is rolled into a layer, sprinkling a rolling pin, the working surface with powdered sugar. After that, this piece is transferred to a chilled cake.
To keep the mastic better, grease the cakes with butter, not only to connect to each other, but also the top, sides of the cake. Cool it down. After you put the mastic on the baking, you need to roll it out with a silicone rolling pin so that it lies on the cake evenly and stretched out, and cut off the excess at the bottom. This confection has pink mastic decorations in the shape of rhombuses. Their seamy side is moistened with water and glued to the main layer, and then decorated with sugar pearls.
It is also not difficult to make a magic wand from mastic, as well as a crown. Such children's mastic cakes will become a bright and unforgettable moment of the holiday. Let's take a closer look at how to make a home cake decoration in the form of a crown. There are several ways to make it.
You will succeed in such a crown made of mastic, as in the photo, if you stop at this method. For him you will need:
- plastic bottle;
- cling film;
- brush;
- kandurin;
- mastic.
Cut off the neck and shoulders of the bottle, cover its outer sides with cling film.
Now sprinkle the board or table with powdered sugar, roll thin "sausages" out of it and immediately place them on the bottle. Place the first one in the form of a tiara rim, the rest form and decorate it.
When the plan is completed, you need to leave the crown to dry for 1-2 days, then cover it with canurin and lay on the cake.
Mastic jewelry on this topic can be made a little differently. For the second, you'll need gold food paint. Roll out the mastic into a triangular layer. We cut it with a knife so that the workpiece turns out to be of this shape and is even.
Now, with a glass, cut out the same round holes along the top edge of the crown, and using a small stencil - small circles. We decorate the crown with sugar pearls and leave it to dry well on a plastic bottle or jug.
What is icing and molds?
Very soon you will find out the answers to these questions and learn how to make peerless decorations from cake mastic. You will get such a product if you use icing. For it, you need to draw a crown yourself or download an image you like from the Internet.
After that, it is removed into a transparent file, and then the real magic begins. We roll sweet strings from white mastic and apply each fragment to the corresponding drawing in the file.
Now you need to carefully transfer the still straight crown to a rounded surface, giving it this shape and drying it for 1-2 days.
You can leave the tiara white or cover it with food paint, then you get a golden crown.
You can get acquainted with molds - special forms right now. They will help to make a crown of mastic, which will turn out to be very elegant, a cake with such decoration will look expensive, as if it was made by great professionals.
Here's a checklist of what you need for this creative work:
- silicone mold;
- glass wine bottle;
- glassine;
- food glue;
- mastic.
Take a bottle and cover it with parchment paper.
Place the pieces of mastic in the molds that are most suitable for the crown. In this example I used a mold to create a rose, you can use another one. Start laying out the elements of the diadem on glassine, holding them together with food glue.
After the crown is ready, it will remain with a brush to cover it with kandurin and dry it.
DIY leaf wreath
If you are walking with children in the autumn park, in the yard, invite them to make a crown. Such creativity will help children develop imagination, learn to love the surrounding nature, and grow as creative people.
Very little materials and equipment are needed, here's what:
- Maple leaves;
- scissors or pliers.
You can choose maple leaves to make a princess crown for an autumn ball, by color, or, conversely, take such that the tiara has red, yellow, green shades.
Spread the leaves in front of you. Use scissors or pliers to cut off the thick ends.
Now fold the sheet almost in half, 1–2 cm away from the central vein.
With the second sheet, pierce this folded edge in several places, as if stitching it.
Fold the edge of the second sheet in the same way and sew on the third.
Then also fold the third sheet to the second and "sew" it.
Proceed there with all the other basic elements. Usually 6–7 leaves are enough for a child.
Fix the leg of the last leaf in the first, and the crown for the queen of the autumn ball is ready. It's time to start the holiday!
You can also make a more magnificent head ornament.
Here's how to make a wreath from autumn maple leaves. In addition to them, you will need:
- thin willow twigs;
- wire;
- ribbons.
Fold the willow twigs into a ring. Secure with wire.
This wreath of leaves is woven in the same way as from flowers - the first petiole bends around the base, then the second is woven, and so on.
When all the branches are covered, you need to connect the petioles of the first and second leaves with wire or thread and fix. This wreath of autumn leaves can be worn on the head or hung on the door as a decoration. Then you need to make a loop.
Here's how to make a leaf wreath or home decoration. Videos will introduce you to other interesting ideas right now: