Wacky Cone Hats

10-1-2015 -- This was an art project that Lauren did in Brightly Beaming Resources' (Step 2: Letter of the Week) home school curriculum for the "h" sound as in "hat", we choose to make "cone hats". I did a search for cone hat crafts for kids and saw several ideas. I really like the look of the "monster" hats. I like how cute and fun they look with their uneven eyes and crazy looking mouths. Here, we made these wacky faced cone hats with 3 kinds of funny looking expressions. 

For our hat patterns, we used these hat templates from firstpalette.com. They have 2 kinds of hat templates: Birthday Hat & Cone. We use the Birthday Hat template with an opening at the top that Lauren can put in crepe papers as a topper. For the eyes, nose, and mouth of our hats I made and drew them myself. You can view the template here.

We used pink, yellow, and green construction papers to print the birthday hat template in. Lauren taped the crepe paper toppers at the top opening of the template. She also glued the eyes, nose, and mouth on the hats. Then she drew in additional brows and lashes to complete the look of the hats.

Lauren's completed "Wacky Cone Hats" (as you can see in the picture above) looked colorful and funny. They look really cute and fun to wear too. Making a cone or party hat is definitely a fun and easy craft for kids to do, they can choose the colors and make any kind of characters they want for their hats too.