Make it easy crafts: Patriotic mini wearable hat

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Patriotic mini wearable hat - recycled craft

Memorial Day and July 4^th is on its way and you can be prepared with a patriotic mini hat wearable! You can wear this little patriotic mini hat by with the handy hair clips under the brim at all your parties and events. And the best part of all is that you make it from an up-cycled Jell-O or pudding cup. The kids will love to make these little hats. You can optionally add some elastic string to the brim so the kids can easily wear them.

Supplies:

· Jell-O or pudding cup, washed and dried

· Acrylic paint in red and white

· Heavy cardboard or mat board in blue

· Star ribbon

· Red rattail ribbon

· Scissors or craft knife

· Corrugated cardboard piece to protect your work surface

· Paper plate to hold the acrylic paint

· Small paintbrush

· Hot glue gun and hot glue sticks

· Two alligator clips or optional string elastic

· Compass

· Blue sharpie marker

· Optional: string elastic and awl or nail

Instructions:

1. Paint white strips on the cup with the white acrylic paint and let dry. After the white paint has dried paint red stripes next in the spaces next to the white stripes. Let dry. After it has dried add another coat of both colors if needed.

2. Using the compass draw and cut out two 2 ½” diameter circles from the heavy blue mat board. In the center of one the 2 ½” diameter circles cut out a 1” diameter circle. This will fit over the cup to form the brim.

3. Use the blue sharpie to color the edges of the circle if they are white.

4. Fit the mat board/ cardboard brim over the painted cup and glue to the lip of the cup. Glue the smaller blue piece of mat board or heavy cardboard to the top of the hat.

5. Measure around the brim area and cut a piece of 1/4” wide star ribbon to fit around. Use the hot glue gun to attach. Glue rattail ribbon around the edge where the brim meets the hat to fill in any gaps.