DIY Birthday/ Buzz Lightyear Crowns

During my quest for all things Buzz Lightyear, I found a really cute birthday crown idea at Cutesy Crafts. She wanted people to buy the pattern online, but I just based what I made off of the picture. I kept looking on Pinterest for more Toy Story ideas for the birthday party, and I also came across a picture from Etsy of a Buzz Lightyear crown which was made by The Lazy Owl. I make both crowns with this tutorial, but when I mention “she” or “her blog”, I am referring to the post on the Cutesy Crafts site.

STEP ONE: (Blue Crown) She mentioned that her crown was 5″ wide, so I first cut a piece of wax paper that was 5″ by 24″. I then “eye-balled” it when cutting the design. It turned out okay! 🙂 I used this template with white and light blue felt. The felt was what I had from a leftover project, and it was blue for boy. Yippie! 🙂 Works for me! I pinned the template to each piece separately and cut. I didn’t trace this template. After they were cut out, I placed the colorful felt piece onto of the white felt piece, but left the white showing. I would eventually sew them together like this.

**(Buzz Crown) I did the same pinning and cutting, but I chose a lime green felt and white felt.**

STEP TWO: I used an insulated coffee mug to trace a large circle on a piece of wax paper to make a template. I just found something around the house that would fit nicely into the space at the center of the crown. You could also trace this onto felt; it was the perfect size. I ended up making two grey circles for the blue crown.**If you are making the Buzz crown, cut two of these in white.**

STEP THREE: Then, I put the circle template down on a piece of paper and traced. After that, I made a zig zag design around the circle to make it resemble the blue crown’s white center circle. It also looks like a sun. After cutting this out, I traced it on to white felt and cut it out. **I didn’t do this for the Buzz crown.**

STEP FOUR: Next, I cut out a number 4 with my Cricut paper cutting machine. I used the Cricut Classic Font and chose “chunky” for the setting. I also made the number 2 1/2″. It fit perfectly within the circle, so I flipped it over and traced it first onto (Blue Crown) light blue felt and then onto (Buzz Crown) purple felt. I cut them out and laid them on top of the circles.

STEP FOUR and a HALF: **I only did this for the Buzz Crown. I took a baby spoon, because it had the right shape and traced the handle onto red, purple and dark green felt for the “buttons” on Buzz’s spacesuit. I also took a quarter and traced it onto red felt for the “other button” on Buzz’s spacesuit.

Here are the two crowns before sewing, before Velcro, before being done.

I continued to follow Cutesy Crafts’ instructions for what she did and voila! We were ready for a party! I continued to make these for other people, but instead of putting a number in the center, I stitched the first initial of the child’s name.