Chef Hat Crafts
Nothing says chef like a tall, white toque, or chef's hat. The hat gives a professional look to any chef's outfit and helps children feel official as they help out in the kitchen. Create a chef's hat with poster board and tissue paper, or use your crafting skills to decorate and personalize a purchased fabric chef's hat.
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Paper Chef's Hat
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To create a poster board and tissue paper chef's hat you can adjust to fit, gather white poster board, three sheets of 20- by 30-inch white tissue paper, tape, glue and paper clips. Cut a poster board strip 26 inches by 3 1/2 inches. Tape the tissue paper together at the short edges until you have one long sheet. Begin in the center of the strip and tape the tissue paper to one long edge of the poster board. Gather the tissue to the left and right, taping every inch. Cover half of the strip. Wrap the strip around your child's head and cut to fit, reserving two inches for glue. Glue the edges together, using paper clips to hold it in place until dry. Flip the hat over and reach into the underside, gathering the loose edge of the tissue paper along the empty half of the hat. Tape the paper in place along the strip and at the sides where the edge of the paper meet.
Sponge Painted Hat
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Decorate a hat for an adult or a child with bright, painted images. Choose a foam stamp design that matches an apron, hobby or favorite cooking ingredient or method. Consider red crabs and lobsters, gray frying pans and pots, fruits and vegetables, or bottles of wine. Dip the stamp in fabric paint until it's fully coated. Press the stamp against the band of the hat using even pressure. Continue until you have completed the desired design. Add details like shadows, edging, stems, eyes and labels with a small paintbrush. Allow it to dry.
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Rhinestone Hat
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Help your superstar chef make a statement in the kitchen with a sparkly rhinestone chef's hat. Use a tool designed for adding rhinestones to clothing to decorate the band of the hat, or adhere the rhinestones with fabric glue. Plan the design on a flat surface, and attach the stones. Try covering the band with stones of different sizes in the same color, or create a rainbow with stripes of differently colored stones.
Food Hat
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The shape of a chef's hat lends itself to re-creating food such as a mushroom or cupcake. Paint the underside of the poof at the top part of the hat black with dark grey stripes. This is the part that hangs slightly over the band when worn. Add a small amount of "dirt" specks on the band with dark and light brown paint. Paint the top of the poof with a mushroom color. Try two or three shades of brown for portabella, or red with white polka dots for a playful poisonous mushroom hat. For a baker, paint the band of the hat in a favorite cupcake liner color. Dye or paint the poof pink for strawberry frosting or brown for chocolate. Add painted sprinkles or sew on metallic craft puffballs.
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