Throne

A princess needs more than a simple chair to rest. Discover how to change an ordinary folding chair into a bedazzled throne.

Folding chair
Slipcover
Feather boa
Two pieces of white sticky felt
Pink sticky felt
Two gold pipe cleaners
Safety pins
Four gold doilies
Star stickers
Glue
Scissors
Black marker
Paper plate

REMEMBER THAT IT'S IMPORTANT TO ALWAYS WORK UNDER ADULT SUPERVISION. SOMETIMES WE USE THINGS THAT CAN BE HARMFUL, LIKE SCISSORS, SO DON'T EVER ATTEMPT TO MAKE THESE CRAFT PROJECTS ALONE.

1. Place your slipcover over your folding chair.
2. Time to make the back cushion for your throne. Trace half of your paper plate onto the back of a piece of white sticky felt and cut along the traced line to give it a curved edge at the top. Make sure you trace your lines onto the back so that no one will be able to see them on the front.
3. Now you can decorate it. Take a piece of pink sticky felt and draw a heart shape on the back. Make sure the heart shape is small enough to fit inside your white sticky felt cushion. Cut the heart out.
4. Take your gold doily and cut out a small section of the outer pattern. This will be a crown that you can attach behind the heart to make a royal crest.
5. Peel the back of your heart off and stick your small crown to it gold side down. Turn over the heart and stick it to the front of your white felt. You can decorate your crown and the rest of your felt cushion if you’d like with paint, glitter, jewels, etc.
6. To decorate your heart, take a pipe cleaner and bend one end into a spiral shape. Once you’ve sized it to fit inside the left half of your heart, cut off the excess at the other end and bend the end into a smaller spiral to give the pipe cleaner an “S” shape. Repeat this step with the other pipe cleaner to make a reverse “S” shape to fit inside the right half of your heart. Glue them into place and set the whole thing aside to dry for about an hour.
7. To make the seat of the chair, take your paper plate again and trace half of it onto your other piece of white sticky felt, then cut along the line. Decorate it however you want.
8. Once both of your cushions (back and seat) are dry and finished, you’re going to edge them with your remaining 3 gold doilies to make them look fancier. Take each doily and cut it in half. Remove the backing from both pieces of white sticky felt and stick a doily half along the top, left, and right edges of each one.
9. Stick the back seat cushion, line it up with the seam of the slip cover and stick to the middle of the back of your chair. Then line the seat cushion up with the bottom of the back cushion and stick it to the seat of your chair.
10. Using safety pins or glue, attach your boa the edges of the chair’s back and seat. Now your ordinary chair is a throne fit for a princess!