Making a Christmas Flower Crown

Christmas Flower Crown - finish adding flowers and leaves around to the end of the base, tie off with the ribbon and cut off excess

This Tahitian craft uses banana leaves, fresh flowers, and plant leaves to make a beautiful crown traditionally worn there for Christmas. If you don't have the fresh plants used here, substitute ribbon for the base and use faux flowers. The steps to complete this project can be found below.

Craft: Christmas Flower Crown

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December 17, 2019

Christmas Flower Crown - young girl wearing the flower crown Here in Tahiti it is a tradition to make a beautiful crown to wear on your head for Christmas. Each year at this time the flowers are blooming everywhere and it is so beautiful. We go in our garden and pick a basket full of flowers and a few leaves to make a crown to wear on Christmas.

These crowns are easy to make and if you don't have fresh flowers you can easily make your holiday crown out of artificial flowers. My goddaughter came over for the weekend to see me and she wanted to make a holiday crown for school on Monday. The children wear crowns all year round, but Monday is a special day at her school and all the children will wear crowns to school this day.

Total Time: 1 hour

Yield: 1 crown

Source: My Tahitian sister taught me how to make crowns.

Supplies:

flowers
leaves
scissors
ribbon

Steps:

Start off by making the band that fits around your head. You can do this by breading some banana leaves together, using some leaves to make your base, or even braiding some ribbon together. Just make it the size for your head and not larger.

Christmas Flower Crown - braiding leaves for crown

Attach this together with a piece of ribbon.

Christmas Flower Crown - attach the ends with a piece of ribbon

Prepare all your flowers and leaves before you start. I normally put mine in colors to make it easier to make the crown.

Christmas Flower Crown - sort leaves and flowers

Hold the base in your hand and start off by taking a few flowers and laying them on the line of the base. The flowers will be off to the left to start off with.

Christmas Flower Crown - lay the flowers along the line of the crown, starting on the left, begin wrapping with the ribbon

Wrap the ribbon around the flowers to secure them to the base.

Christmas Flower Crown - wrapping ribbon to secure flowers to the base crown

Add more flowers right next to the ones you have already added, just move down a bit on the base. Wrap the ribbon around the flowers.

Continue adding flowers to the base of the crown. When you get a little ways around the base you can add a few of your cut leaves to the base.
Normally you will fold the leaves in half and place the leaf right under the flower. You want the leaves in the middle of the base so that you can see the leaf sticking out to the right and left side of the crown.

Christmas Flower Crown - begin adding leaves

Continue adding flowers and leaves to the base of the crown until you reach the end. Now cut off the ribbon and tie it off around the base of the crown. Put the crown on and enjoy. These are so beautiful and are so much fun to make. If you use artificial flowers you can use your crown as a decoration around your home.

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