How to Make Your Own Cowboy Hat for Toddlers
A cowboy hat is one of the most popular accessories for toddlers who like to pretend being in the wild west. You can easily find cowboy hats at retail stores or for sale on the Internet, but if it does not fit your child's head, or if your child does not like the color and design, you have to create a custom-made hat. A cowboy hat can be made using easy-to-find materials, including newspaper, paper tape and cardboard. Work together with children on this craft, to help them improve their motor skills, and to ensure they like the hat's design.
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Things You'll Need
- Newspaper
- Cereal bowl
- Paper tape
- Scissors
- Butter knife
- Ruler
- Thin cardboard
- Tempera paint
Instructions
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Place a small round cereal bowl facing down on a flat surface. Remove five single pages from a tabloid-format newspaper, and place them over the cereal bowl to create the hat's crown. Use paper tape around the bottom of the crown to keep the shape.
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Remove the newspaper from the bowl. Cut out the excess paper from the sheets so that you are left only with the crown.
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Press the crown's top, across its diameter, with a butter knife to form the distinctive crease on the cowboy hat.
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Measure the diameter of the crown's opening. Draw two concentric circles on a sheet of thin cardboard. The inner circle's diameter must be equal to the crown's diameter, while the outer circle must be 3 inches larger. Design the circles by hand, as they don't have to be perfect.
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Cut across the circles' circumference with scissors to create the hat's brim. Match the openings of the brim and the crown, and use paper tape to stick the brim's bottom with the crown's inside.
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Roll the left and right side of the brim, toward the crown's base. Unroll them immediately so that the tip of the brim's left and right side point upward.
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Color the hat using tempera paint of acrylics. These types of paint ensure maximum opacity, allowing you to cover the letters and pictures of the newspaper crown, and give the hat a realistic look. Allow a child to undertake this task, decorating his hat as he desires.
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