Hat Trick
Recycle a childhood activity by making newspaper hats!
Submitted by
Andrey Ragozin
Andrey Ragozin
Sunday paper still lying unread on the coffee table? Don't throw it out! Have your child make a hat out of it! She'll make a real fashion statement. Black and white is totally in!
- Your child's head
- Newspaper
- Masking or duct tape
- Embellishments:Paint, pom-poms, stickers, ribbons, feathers, glitter, buttons, fabric swatches, gems, the works!
- Scotch tape
Let your child pick out a section to turn into a hat. The Sunday style section is a smart choice, although the funnies make for a colorful sombrero!
Have your kid open up three double sheets of the paper.
Place one sheet on her head. Place another on her head in the opposite direction. And place the third over them, in between the other two.
Have your child put her hands on top of her paper-covered head and then wrap the tape around your child's head twice.
Pull the hat off. Have your child mush and roll up the edges and tape with the Scotch tape to create a brim.
Let your kid pick her favorite color and paint her new fashion statement. Then invite her to decorate the hat with the various embellishments. A pom-pom-festooned rim? A ladies-who-lunch ribbon tied in a bow? Or whatever else she can think of off the top of her head!
Voilà! Your kid's got a one-of-a-kind headpiece. Now that's one smart hat!
- If only you could assimilate the information in the paper by plopping it on your head. I mean, really, who has time for the news anymore? Unless you get the siblings to do this activity together, leaving mom and dad some time to actually read—or at least skim.
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