My eldest and I collaborated on a little cosplay project. She needed a crown for an English project (they are reading Julius Caesar by Shakespeare), but wanted to do the diamond circlet from Zelda Breath of the Wild so she could use it again at Halloween. She did not want to do it all in wire and have it get caught in her hair, so we raided the craft room for parts. We found non-woven colored fabric that I originally purchased to make mask filters. Surprisingly, this stuff does not take glue well. We ended up layering Modge Podge with leaf cutouts with a wire in the middle of the sandwich, and leaving it to dry on wax paper; when dry it held together and we could trim the extra dried glue.

I did order clear tear drop rhinestones, but the frames are made of yellow Playdoh because it dries hard after a couple days. The “berries” are wood beads (that were in my stash) painted with yellow acrylic paint. It makes painting beads easier if you put them on a wooden skewer first, by the way. The crown is gold colored aluminum wire (yup, from the stash). I did use the crafter’s panacea, hot glue, very sparingly (so as to not catch hair) to keep everything in place.

Not a perfect replica, but it is light and easy to wear.