Prince Crown

On carnival not only girls want to be a character from a fairy tale: here comes the crown for your little prince.

Prince Crown How To:

Material: 1 sheet of white paper
                small pieces of cellophane
                oil pastels
                glue stick
                adhesive tape
                double-faced adhesive tape
                glitter hairspray

• Make a pattern for the crown or feel free to order it here. Cut out carefully.
• Fold the rim in halve and glue together.
• Spray thoroughly with glitter hairspray.
• Glue the ends of the rim together, overlapping.
• For the gems cover small pieces from the cut-off paper with red oil pastel for a ruby and blue for a sapphire. Rumple and smooth again and then paint over the creases in darker shades of red and blue. Cut out circles a bit smaller than in the crown.
• To let the 'gems' be more 3D you can rumple small pieces from the cut-off paper and fix it on the back.
• Rumple small pieces of cellophane and cover the front of the gem, gluing them to the back with tiny pieces of tape.
• Put some double-faced adhesive tape onto the back of the gems and fix them on the crown, alternating the colours.

Carnival aside, how about throwing a motto party for princes and princesses? You might give every guest a crown as a welcome gift. Or, using the templates, you might let them do their personal (simpler) versions of crowns by decorating and painting them alone.