Creative Monster Hat

We have the creative hat (one of our Maker Moms!) from the crafty and fun Room to Grow site sharing this adorable monster hat kids can help make. Thanks for stopping by Elisa!

we love to encourage imaginative play, and combine it with craft activities, with my kids and this foam hat is a great way for your child to bring out their inner monster.

The hat is very simple to make, all you need is foam, glue and a child. I have also included a downloadable template you can use to make the hat.

What you need:

Foam sheets  ( I used green , red, purple, black, white, and yellow) Download the template Here

Glue gun

Scissors

Elastic

Hole punch

instruction

1. Download and print out the hat template, cut out the pieces and trace around the shapes onto the foam. Then cut out the foam pieces.

2. To make the face glue the face pattern (pattern 1) onto the green foam hair.

3. Glue on the red circle eyes.

4. Glue the white circles onto the red circles, then the small black circles onto the white.

5. Attach the bottom of the head piece onto the other face piece (marked Face 2) with glue. You may need to hold it down until the glue sets.

6. Add some glue to the back of face piece 1 and push it back onto face piece 2. By gluing the back onto the cap it should naturally form a peak cap.

7. Add the yellow teeth by glueing underneath the rim of the hat, and attaching the teeth there.

8. Punch a hole each side of the cap with the hole punch, thread the elastic through and tie it securely with a knot.

Now your monster is ready to wear. You can use it as a simple and quick Halloween piece or keep it in the dress up box for those growly monster days.

for further information and detail tutorial, download this application now and you will have what you want.

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