Easy Paper Plate Crown Craft for Kids

Let’s turn paper plates into princess or prince crowns! This simple paper plate crown craft for kids has been a favorite of ours for some time. Partly because we love dress up and pretend play activities, which this craft lets you do when your crowns are dry! Any time we can do crafts that we can also play with, like our recent mask craft, my kids are over the moon. This crown craft for kids has been no exception.

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 Easy Paper Plate Crown Craft for Kids

Simple crafts that aren’t too complicated are my favorite. I don’t want to spend all day cutting out shapers and templates for crafts. I want simple and easy! Ha! This paper plate crown craft is exactly that! All I needed to do was cut the center of the paper plates and then the kids took over. It’s a craft that is also an open-ended art activity. Plus paper plates are a pretty frugal craft supply so your kids can make several! 

It doesn’t matter if you have boys or girls, this paper plate crown craft is such a hit! I just have girls right now in my home daycare but my nephew loves to come over and make a prince crown with my daughter! 

 Materials Needed Make the Crown Craft:

• Paper Plates
• Glue
• Paint
• Sequins
• Acrylic jewels

(We received our jewels for free from CraftProjectIdeas.com but you can buy these same ones online or at your local Wal-Mart store. They are well-made craft supplies and we love them!)

How to Make a Crown:

• Bend paper plate in half
• Cut vertically up the middle (3/4 of the way to the edge) of plate
• Unbend paper plate and cut horizontally across cut you just made (essentially creating a + in the center of the paper plate)
• Cut diagonally between each cut you just made (creating 8 triangular slices in the center)

After I cut the paper plate I mixed up some sticky paint by simply pouring some glue into a dish and adding a few drops of paint (watercolor works too) to the glue.  If your kids are older they could easily paint the crowns first and later use glue to put their jewels on but my toddlers still struggle with glue bottles a bit.

Drying Tip: If your kids go heavy on the sticky paint I recommend as the crowns are drying you check on them regularly and move the areas you cut around a bit to prevent the triangular sections from getting stuck together as they are drying.

When they are dry just bend up your triangle pieces and you have a beautiful crown to wear!

My daughter and the daycare girls have been having lots of fun with their crowns! They’ve had princess “snack parties” together and they just had to wear them to the park to show their park friends, plus the crowns have sparked endless hours of imaginative play.

Looking for more crown activities? Check out the beautiful princess crowns for kids over at Happily Ever Mom!

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