How to Make Silly Hats
Kids love goofy, silly things, and making a silly hat is a fun, rainy-day project that can be created from minimal supplies. Grab some yarn, a package of googly eyes and craft pom-poms, and you can whip up some silly hats in about an hour. Get creative, and let the kids experiment with different-colored pom-poms once they have the hang of the craft objectives. Have a contest, and see who can make the silliest hat. Making silly hats is a fun school or Sunday school project as well.
Things You'll Need
- Baseball cap (mesh fabric)
- Knit cap
- Googly plastic craft eyes (any size is fine)
- White craft pom-poms, 1 inch or larger in diameter (50 count)
- Large red craft pom-pom, 1 inch or larger in diameter
- Red yarn--skein
- Glue gun & glue sticks
- Scissors
- Black wide-tip permanent marker
- 12-inch-diameter ball or balloon
Instructions
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Silly Face Baseball Cap
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Cut 100 ten-inch pieces of red yarn with the scissors.
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Poke the red yarn through the holes of the mesh fabric on the back and sides of the cap in a random pattern, and tie each piece in a knot inside the cap so that the yarn can't come out through the mesh. Tie the yarn in a knot on top of the hat so it can't slip out through the inside.
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Glue two googly eyes to the outside front of the cap in the "eye" spots (not on the brim).
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Glue the large red craft pom-pom between the googly eyes. This is a nose.
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Draw a mouth on the brim of the hat. It can be a smile (half C) or a surprised mouth (capital O) or any type of mouth you want to draw.
Goofy Eyes Knit Hat
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Stretch the knit hat over the ball or balloon to give it a head shape so you can work with the hat more easily.
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Use the glue gun to glue googly eyes to 30 to 50 white craft pom-poms.
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Glue the craft pom-poms all over the knit cap in a random pattern spaced at least 1 to 2 inches apart so that the knit hat is covered with the white pom-poms with googly eyes.
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Tips & Warnings
One neat addition to a baseball cap is to glue one of those goofy Groucho Marx-type eyeglasses with funny nose and mustache to the front of the baseball cap. You can add black yarn hair to the top of the mesh cap the way you tied in the funny red yarn hair.
Always supervise children when using glue guns because some brands reach very hot temperatures and may lead to burns.
