Here is a project that I use to do with 2nd grade - I now do it with 1st! I use newspaper for the hats so that the students can actually wear the hats. Start off with a square type piece of paper - luckily the newspapers in my current town re-sized their papers to be almost square. If your newspapers are more rectangular you will need to make them square-ish. At the very end I go around and tape the front folds of the hat since newspaper doesn't hold folds too well and the students get frustrated when they unfold.
Start with a square piece of paper. |
Fold corner to opposite corner making a triangle. |
With the long side of the triangle away from you - take the side corner to the bottom corner. |
Repeat on other far corner. |
Take only the top layer from the bottom and fold to the top point. |
Repeat for other side. |
Take the top later again and pull up and over to the side to make wing-tips. |
Repeat on other side. |
Take only the top layer from the bottom and fold halfway up top triangle. |
Fold the part that is hanging below the triangle up and over - makes a rectangle type shape. |
The main part of the hat is complete. |
Fold the last part of the bottom triangle into the inside of the hat. |
Hat is ready to be decorated! |
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