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Leaf Crown How To

October 18, 2016

Hello again, welcome back to kids crafty and our leaf crowns this week… now… ever since working on the “Get Crafty with Nature” ebook, we have been wanting to make some leaf crowns – Leaf Crafts  are fantastic for this time of year. Red Ted loves collecting leaves and autumn has such beautiful colours, that this really is the best time of year. This is a wonderful Autumn Craft for Kids idea and can be made whilst out an about in the woods or parks this autumn! If your kids are a little young – make them FOR YOUR kids. If they are older, they should be able to manage themselves. We do have a fantastic list of Autunn Crafts for Preschoolers for you to check out too!

Easy Leaf Crown made only from leaves - this is a fun activity to do whilst out and about and needs nothing but leaves! Who will be king for the day

The Book

Babar Loses His Crown (Babar (Harry N. Abrams))Babar Looses his Crown, by Laurent de Brunhoff.

If you are not familiar with the Babar series of books you really should give them a go. I think I may be a little nostalgic here, as I clearly remember them from when I was a little girl. We now have a couple of the Babar books – and the children are enthralled by them. There is usually an adventure and lots to learn. In this particular book, Babar goes to Paris with his family, when, oh no, his suitcase is accidentally switched with that of a “moustached man”… and his suitcase contains his crown. Babar is quite distressed at his grand opera visit that evening without a crown. So on the hunt they go all around Paris – a great little way to see the Parisienne landmarks.

The very first Babar book has quite text heavy so we often skim it a little as the children want to look at the next pictures. This one however is a shorter one with only 1-2 sentence per page. Great for small people’s concentration spans.As a cautionary note: the very fist book features Babar’s mother being shot and an old King eating poisonous mushrooms – explain that to a 3yrs old! None of that in this book.. and yet both books are much enjoyed by the children.

So.. should Babar’s crown not be found (of course it is)… next time he can make one:

Leaf Crown How To for Kids

We have a choice of video and step by step photos once again….

How To Make a Leaf Crown Video:

How to Make a Leaf Crown Step by Step Photos

Pip Squeak adores getting dressed up and loves wearing all sorts of crazy outfits. So I thought this would be perfect for her. Sadly not. She ran a temperature that day and the minute I placed the crown or her weary head started crying. Poor little thing. Hopefully we will be making more of these in the coming weeks and years. And maybe Red Ted will want to try and make one himself soon!

Which means you will have to be happy of a photo with teddy wearing it! (It looked SO cute on Pip Squeak… much nicer than on teddy *sigh*).

leaf crown

1) We used around 12-15 leaves, as our leaves were narrower (the width of an adult hand? But if you use those large beautiful maple or oak leaves or similar, you may only need 7-8?). And try and find leaves with a reasonable amount of “stem”. The first thing you need to do is remove the stem. I removed the stem one at time, so as not to loose them in the windy Autumn weather.

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2) Take the the leaves and fold about 1/4 to a 1/3 “up” and the place them inside each other. Our crown ended up very big – a bit more like an Indian headdress.. so fold it the leaves more if you want to make the crown smaller. Take one of the stems and “sew” the two pieces together (it is enough to literally just loop the stem in once. You can just about see the “stitch” in the second picture above. Take your next leaf and remove the stem. Fold over and attach…

leaf crown

3) Keep going until you have enough to fit around the child’s head. Secure the last leaf with the first leaf! And done!

leaf crown

4) We found some GORGEOUS red leaves and pinned them into the front of the crown, by just “inserting” them into the front 3 stitches.

Wear your crown with pride.

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Filed Under: Autumn, Kids Craft, Nature 44 Comments

Comments

  1. Brittany says

    November 9, 2011 at 7:00 am

    Thanks for hosting! I love the leaf crown!

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  2. Becky @creatively content says

    November 9, 2011 at 7:13 am

    Just wanted to say thanks for stopping by our recycled circle tree the other week. I am glad to have found your linky party I have following your blog through e-mail but didn’t realize you had a linky party for kids crafts, so am happy to join in. Placed your button in my pages. Much care to you and enjoy your kiddos today. 🙂

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  3. Red Ted Art says

    November 9, 2011 at 8:12 am

    Brittany – you are welcome!

    Becky – aaaah a pleasure, I love visiting all the crafts linked up and hooray for discovering the link up! Yes, it is kind of buried in my Kids Craft post! Sorry!

    Reply
  4. Little Wonders' Days says

    November 9, 2011 at 11:13 am

    The leaf crown is great!

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  5. Red Ted Art says

    November 9, 2011 at 12:01 pm

    Thank you 🙂 I just hope that the next one I make the children will wear!!!

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  6. maria says

    November 9, 2011 at 1:35 pm

    that’s a lovely crown and those red leaves are gorgeous!

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  7. Maxine says

    November 9, 2011 at 2:08 pm

    It’s brilliant! That’s this weekend’s craftiness sorted… Autumn queen, here we come! xx

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  8. Liz Burton says

    November 9, 2011 at 6:39 pm

    That looks so fabulous. Can’t believe you craft on the go – actually, I can believe that!

    Love how you’ve colour co-ordinated it to ted’s jumper! x

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  9. Red Ted Art says

    November 9, 2011 at 7:12 pm

    🙂 and yes, I neglect my child on the swing in order to make a crown, which she then doesn’t want to wear… *sigh* and isn’t Teddy simply dashing?!

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  10. Rachel says

    November 9, 2011 at 8:30 pm

    Ooooo, those leaf crowns are so fun!! What a fabulous idea!

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  11. Chris at Thinly Spread says

    November 9, 2011 at 8:53 pm

    Oh did she cry? Bless her! It is so beautiful too! 🙂

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  12. Red Ted Art says

    November 9, 2011 at 8:54 pm

    She was actually poorly… got her home quickly and shortly after getting home, she had high temperature… she is fine again now!

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  13. Mummy..Mummy..MUM!! says

    November 9, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    That is so cute! How do you think of all these things? xx

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  14. Minty says

    November 9, 2011 at 9:01 pm

    This is a great one! Love it: G is obsessed with collecting leaves at the moment, so we’ll actually have something to do with them when we get home from our walks! x

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    • Red Ted Art says

      November 10, 2011 at 9:15 am

      Minty – yes, perfect for us mums dealing with lots of collected leaves in the home!

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  15. Jacke says

    November 10, 2011 at 12:37 pm

    Wow. That’s impressive. It turned out gorgeous. Ps. I love Babar too!

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  16. Rashmie @MommyLabs says

    November 10, 2011 at 1:21 pm

    Love the leafy crown, Maggy. Simple yet so pretty.
    The Babar stories sound interesting! Incidentally, Babar was also the name of a Mughal emperor that ruled India once!

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    • Red Ted Art says

      November 10, 2011 at 2:20 pm

      Thank you Rashmie! And that really is interesting! It wouldn’t surprise me if that is who Babar is named after!!!

      Reply
  17. JDaniel4's Mom says

    November 11, 2011 at 12:35 pm

    This is an amazing crown! It makes him look like king of an indian tribe.

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  18. The Outlaw Mom says

    November 12, 2011 at 5:29 am

    What a cute idea. We have so many red leaves in our backyard, this would be a perfect use…you can never have too many crowns 😉 Thanks for sharing!

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  19. Red Ted Art says

    November 12, 2011 at 10:21 am

    Ooh red leaves will look BEAUTIFUL!

    And yes, JDaniel4’s Mom, I reckon this would make a great addition to any Cowboys and Indian’s game!

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  20. Mama Pea Pod says

    November 12, 2011 at 5:06 pm

    Thanks for linking up with us at the Outdoor Play Party, Maggy!

    Reply
  21. Joyce @Dinosaurs And Octopuses says

    November 12, 2011 at 9:19 pm

    We’ve never made one, but I’ve been wanting to! My son LOVES collecting leaves. He can be playing on a playground and see a leaf that he stops for. He always tells me “this is for my scrapbook” Lol. We need to make this! Thank you for posting. I’ve shared and stumbled!

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    • Red Ted Art says

      November 12, 2011 at 9:27 pm

      Aah bless him. They are adorable. Mine always says “Mummy, we have to basteln” (yes, mixing German and English, obviously we “craft in German” all the time… hence the word “basteln”)… have lots of fun and thank you for sharing!!

      Reply
  22. Aimee says

    November 17, 2011 at 3:33 am

    How creative is that? It turned out great! Thank you for sharing this with us on The Sunday Showcase Always great to have you stop by!

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  23. Trisha @ Inspiration Laboratories says

    September 22, 2012 at 2:50 am

    Such a lovely crown, Maggy! Too bad Pip Squeak wasn’t feeling well enough to enjoy it that day. I’m feature the crown along with some other nature crafts on the Sunday Showcase this week. 🙂

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  24. Red Ted Art says

    September 22, 2012 at 9:08 am

    Awe thank you Trisha for the feature!! And fear not.. we will making these every year!!!

    Reply
  25. Rebekah @ The Golden Gleam says

    October 5, 2013 at 7:07 pm

    Oh, my poor Pip Squeak. Is she more fond of leaf crowns now that she is older?

    Such a clever way to make a leaf crown. Thank you for sharing at the Outdoor Play Party.

    Reply
  26. Gude @HodgePodgeCraft says

    August 7, 2014 at 2:42 pm

    This is SO CUTE! Nonno bear would love one of these – I will have to get collecting 🙂
    #GetYourCraftOn

    Reply

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