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Crown template
A landscape page with two crown strips and a glue tab that join into a headband crown. Pick one of four tops and decide whether jewels are printed for coloring.
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On this page
A paper crown is one of the oldest party crafts, and this version needs no pattern to trace. Print it, color it in, cut it out and glue the two halves into a ring.
What prints
The page is landscape and titled "Crown Template". Two strips are stacked on it, one above the other. Each strip has five peaks along the top and a flat bottom. Two faint guide lines run along each strip, one just under the crown's top band and one just above the bottom edge, to frame the pattern you color.
The top strip has an extra grey glue tab on its right-hand end, marked with the word "glue" and a dashed fold line. That tab is where the second strip overlaps. The instruction line says to color and cut out both strips, glue the grey tab under the plain end of the other strip, wrap the crown round the head and tape the second join to fit.
The settings
- Crown top: Points, Rounded scallops, Castle, or Tall points with balls. Points makes five triangles, scallops five arcs, castle a row of square battlements, and tall points makes five higher peaks each topped with a circle.
- Jewels to color: on by default. When it is on, each peak carries a jewel on the band, alternating circles and diamonds, and the points and scallop styles also get a small circle near each tip. With it off, the band is clear for your own drawings.
Fitting and gluing
Choose heavy card, roughly 65 to 110 lb. Print at 100%. The strips are made to reach around a child's head when joined, but there is no fixed head size, so the second join is left for taping once the crown is on. Glue the tab on the first strip, press the second strip under it, and hold for a minute. Then size the free ends and tape them with a strip of clear tape.
Color before cutting, since it is easier on a flat page. Metallic markers and gel pens look good on jewels. Children should use blunt-tip scissors, and an adult can help with cutting the points and with fitting.
Worked example: a birthday crown for a five-year-old
Tomás prints the Tall points with balls style, jewels on, for his niece's party. The five tall peaks make the crown look grand, and the balls on top need only a quick dab of yellow. He prints one sheet per guest, six in all, and sets out crayons.
Each child colors the diamonds and circles in a different shade and then decorates the band with stickers. He cuts and glues them while the party games start, then tapes each crown to size as the guests arrive. One shy guest asks for the Castle top instead, so he reprints that one with jewels off to leave room for her own drawings. Leftover scraps become shapes to cut out for the cake table.
Keep going
Pair the crown with a mask for a dress-up set.