I want to teach you how to make a DIY Faux Flower Crown wearing an I Love Plum B.A.E. tutu.
I Love Plum is a brand inspired by what little girls want in real life. They are creating the new essentials: easy-to-wear tutus and extras that take you from the playground to the party.
They’ve also have teamed up with nokidhungry.org to do their part in this ongoing crisis. They will be donating 5 meals for every item sold to those in need. What’s not to love about them? Now onto the DIY…
Create a DIY Faux Flower Crown
What You’ll Need:
• Silk flowers. I bought mine at Michaels.
• Floral Wire
• Floral Tape
• Scissors (possibly wire cutters)
1. Select Your Flowers
I bought my artificial flowers at my local Michaels and they were all 50% off! I purchased baby’s breath, purple daisy’s, purple peonies, and greenery.
You can’t go wrong with wild daisy’s apple bottoms, dahlias, berry spray, lambs ears, lilac, eucalyptus, etc. You’ll also want to choose flowers with varying sizes, textures, and colors. For each crown, I would get one or two large blooms and two or three smaller blooms to use as accents. In addition, choose a few stems of greenery and or babies’ breath to act as filler.
2. Make the Base
Measure the floral wire around the head. I simply measured my toddler’s head and trimmed floral wire (wrap around twice) and cut with wire cutters.
3. Trim Flowers
This can be tricky. You want to leave enough stem so that you can wrap the floral tape around the stem and then the wire. If you cut too short or just take the flower itself, it won’t stay in place on the crown.
4. Use Floral Tape to Wrap Flowers Around Crown
I start by wrapping the floral tape completely around the wireframe for a base. Start with the largest blooms (in my case the purple peonies) and place them where you’d like them. If your stems have wires in them, you can simply wrap the wires around the base of your crown. I think that is the easiest.
If not, use floral tape and wrap it multiple times around the trimmed stems of your blooms.
Next, add all the greenery/baby’s breath around the crown wrapping with floral tape. Cover your entire loop with greenery. Floral tape gets sticky as it stretches, so pull firmly to keep the flowers in place.
Then, add your smaller flowers. Keep the flowers facing one direction as you move around the crown. Also, keep flowers facing outward.
If you have a wild kid like me, reinforce the flowers with hot glue. You can also secure the crown on her head with bobby pins. If you have any gaps in the crown, simply fill with your filler flowers like baby’s breath.
Final Details
- Simply add wings (I found mine at Claire’s). They are also available for $1 at the Dollar Tree this year in purple and blue.
- I Love Plum Tutu (Harper is wearing the white B.A.E tutu, but many of their tutus will work well)
- One large flower with a stem for a wand
XOXO
Kenzie
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