How to Make a Sparkly Pipe Cleaner Crown with Cookie Cutters

 Carolyn J. Braden • 3 Minute Read 

How to Make a Sparkly Pipe Cleaner Crown with Cookie Cutters

How to Make a Sparkly Pipe Cleaner Crown with Cookie Cutters

On my Pinterest page, I kept seeing some cute pipe cleaner crowns in my feed but could never find a good tutorial. After doing some research, I learned you can form many pipe cleaner shapes using simple cookie cutters! After I figured this out, the possibilities for what I could do with pipe cleaners was immediately expanded. Read on to learn how to make sparkly pipe cleaner crowns.

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My LOVE and LIGHT pipe cleaner crown

Car Crafting + Motion Sickness

I made this sparkle pipe cleaner crown in the car during a road trip. I like to craft in the car as reading in the car often makes me feel nauseous. If you get nauseous during long trips in the car like me, having something to eat and distract your mind can help. Motion sickness is real…just ask my dog Minnie Pearl! She’s gotten better at her motion sickness, and getting her a dedicated pet car seat helped. Read more about pets and motion sickness on the VCA Animal Hospital website.

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I made this in the car as a car craft

I created many rhinestone travel car crafts in 2024 (see my simple car crafts article here) and in 2025, I opted for less glue and more pipe cleaners and learned crafting definitely helps me keep my motion sickness away. Read more about Motion Sickness here on the Cleveland Clinic’s website.

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The completed sparkle pipe cleaner crown

Try this easy car craft inspired by my amazing niece: DIY Emergency Kit for Teens. Get it via my 1-minute video below or via my YouTube channel @carolynjbraden:

Sensitive Skin Note

One thing I noticed after making this easy pipe cleaner craft was that the sparkle pipe cleaners I used can be a bit itchy on sensitive skin. If you have sensitive skin or are making a sparkly pipe cleaner crown for someone with sensitive skin, try making one with a regular soft chenille pipe cleaner.

 I also like these pipe cleaners:

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I made a wand to match my crown

Why Make This?

I see this being an easy an inexpensive crown to make and wear for a parade, a cute photo shoot with your friends or family, or it’s fun to wear around the house or anywhere for kids and adults! You can make it in many shapes, it’s inexpensive and an easy summer craft idea.

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The craft materials

Now for the project. Here’s what you need:

Sparkle pipe cleaners (read my note in the article about sensitive skin, 200 for $9.99, Amazon)

Cookie Cutters (I used Wilton 2-inch star and heart cookie cutters I already had, similar to this $7 twelve piece cookie cutter set on Amazon)

Optional:

I craft in the car using these plastic food service trays from Amazon lined in this non-slip drawer liner. It keeps things even and captures messes. The pipe cleaners do shed a bit when you work with them.

How-to:

Wrap a pipe cleaner around a cookie cutter and use your fingers to shape it. While it was still on the cookie cutter, I twisted the “beginning” of the pipe cleaner (one end) to the left-over part of the pipe cleaner to close the shape.

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Molding the pipe cleaner

I then slid the shape off the cookie cutter and it will look like a shape with a long stem coming off the SIDE. I practiced wrapping my pipe cleaners around the cookie cutters, always having the “end” or “stem” come off one side

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Twisting the pipe cleaner shape together

I repeated this with 10 pipe cleaners. I estimated the amount I would need for my head size, and I was correct. It was a little large on me, so I could have gone with 9. Creating with an odd number of pipe cleaners is better for a multicolor crown or a single-color crown.

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I made hearts and stars for one of my crowns

Even number pipe cleaner crowns allow you to do a bi-color crown like my silver and gold version. A child’s head would need even less pipe cleaners. Hair thickness should also be taken into consideration for whoever you make this for.

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The completed pipe cleaner shapes

After having my pipe cleaner shapes made, I took two and threaded one of the “ends” through the second pipe cleaner shape. I wrapped the “end” carefully around the second pipe cleaner shape until they were connected. IF you bend your shapes while doing this, you can put the pipe cleaner around the cookie cutter again to reshape it.

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Attaching the shapes together

I continued to connect the shapes until the crown fit around my head.

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Attaching more pipe cleaner shapes

I made a rainbow pipe cleaner crown (as I made it in June, which begins Florida rainbow season and it’s also Pride month) and one in silver and gold. You could do all stars, all hearts or different shapes all together.

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Finishing the crown

If you made this craft, let us know below and share your experience and how you made yours!

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Carolyn J. Braden is the owner of Carolyn’s Blooming Creations is a regular contributor and editor for CBC. She has been featured in numerous media publications such as InStyle Magazine, on HGTV, on Bustle.com, and more. She is the author of the books Georgia McMasters in Amethyst Lake Cemetery, How To Be Yourself: 3 Ways To Help You Being You, and the illustrator for the children’s book Bridging Connections. She is a former classroom teacher that now dedicates her life to educating others on how to live their most healthy, creative and happy life. Learn more about her visiting our About Us page.