Total Time Needed: 1 Hour
Not only are these holiday hats a boatload of fun for your kids to wear, they're also a reminder of the historic voyage the Pilgrims had to take before they sat down to their Thanksgiving feast in 1621.
Materials
- Blue poster board
- Pen
- Scissors
- White paper
- Pipe cleaners
- Orange or brown poster board
- Pushpins
- Paper fastener
- Masking tape
- Red paper
- Glue
- Paper clips
Instructions
- To make each ship chapeau, cut a 28- by 7-inch headband from blue poster board. Draw and cut wave patterns approximately 2 inches deep along the top and bottom edges. Fold up the bottom waves so they point outward.
- Cut two white paper sails, one slightly larger than the other, and thread them onto a pipe cleaner. Cut a boat shape (ours was about 10 inches wide and 4 inches high) from orange or brown poster board and tape the bottom of the pipe cleaner mast to the back.
- With a pushpin, make a hole near the bottom center of the boat and another in the front center of the headband, just above the folded waves. Attach the boat to the waves with a paper fastener. Fold the fastener tips snugly against the inside of the headband and cover them with masking tape. Wrap the base of a red paper triangle flag around the top of the mast and glue it in place.
- Finally, fit the hat around your child's head and secure it with paper clips.
