How to make a felt crown, ideas and templates
Making a felt crown is a nice and creative way to spark imagination and bring a little magic into everyday play. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make three different felt crown designs for children, each with its own unique style—from simple and classic to playful and decorative. Using soft felt,wool, carded wool, and felt pieces.
With easy-to-follow tutorials + templates, these crowns are perfect for dress-up, birthday parties, or rainy-day activities. Whether you’re crafting for your own kids, a classroom, or a special gift, these DIY felt crowns are beginner-friendly, customizable, and as enjoyable to make as they are to wear.
Waldorf birthday crown
In some Waldorf kindergartens, on a child’s birthday, the teacher will bring out the birthday crown and cape for the birthday child to wear that day. And she will also read a lovely story about how the child came to be in the special family that the child comes from.
You can still create this tradition at home; we do it in our family until the child turns 9! So it’s nice to have a crown we use every year, and only for that, so it’s a special crown!
What you need:
For the crown, you need good quality felt, 100% wool felt is best, because not only does it feel good, but it’s also more natural than synthetic felt, and your crown will last much longer! But it is more expensive.
You will also need materials for decorating. For these crowns, I use roving wool, wool, and pieces of felt and wool. These, of course, are just to inspire you; the beauty of making these crowns is that they are unique for the child they are made for.
I make them all by hand sewing, but depending on your design, you can use a sewing machine.
I have PDF templates for you to download, but you can also just draw them yourself.
Crown 1:
I just love how this crown came out. Decorating with wool is almost like drawing the crown’s decorations.
This crown is a lovely addition to the dressing-up box!
Materials you need for this crown:
- 2 pieces of Wool felt
- Crown template
- Needle & thread
- A piece of elastic or pieces of ribbon
- Wool
- Felting needles & felting foam or sponge.
How to make the crown:
Cut the paper crown template, pin it to one of the two pieces of felt, and cut it out.
Then use the piece you just cut, pin it to the second piece of felt, and cut it out.
Keep the two pieces of felt pinned together, and using a blanket stitch, start stitching from one end.
When you reach the other end, insert one cm of the elastic between the two pieces of felt, and sew it with a backstitch or running stitch.
Then continue with a blanket stitch.
When you reach the other side, measure your child’s head. If you don’t have a child to measure, 27cm of elastic should fit most children.
Sew the elastic to close the crown.
Decorating the crown:
To decorate with wool, design with the wool first.
Use a thin (size 40) felting needle to attach the wool to the crown.
A beautiful crown ✨
Crown 2:
This is a very simple and easy crown to make, and it is great for spring crowns. The decorations are made with wool roving and needle felting.
Materials for this crown:
- Wool felt for the felt crown pieces.
- Crown template (optional). You can just cut the felt about 28 cm long and 4cm wide
- Needle, thread and scissors.
- A piece of elastic or pieces of ribbon
- Carded wool, different colours to decorate.
How to make the crown:
You can use a template, or just measure the 2 pieces of felt and cut them.
Sew the two pieces together using a blanket stitch, leaving the ends open to attach the elastic.
Insert 1 cm of elastic between the two pieces of felt, then sew it using a running stitch or a backstitch.
Decorating:
You can felt flowers or whatever you like using different colours of roving wool and a thin ( size 40) felting needle to attach them.
You can felt a birthday number in front of the crown. And the great thing about needle-felting the crowns is that you can easily pull the number out and needle-felt another one next year!
Crown 3:
This crown is a great one for a birthday crown.
This crown is made with one white felt piece for one of the templates, and the second piece of felt is 5 pieces of felt sewn together.
Sew pieces of felt and needle felt wool on top.
Because it is a larger crown, it has two elastics sewn into it.
You can gently pull out the number and attach a new number to suit the birthday child.
Variations:
- If you want a neater finish, decorate the front piece of felt of the crown before joining together the two pieces of felt. Do this also if you are using a sewing machine to sew the crown decorations.
