How to make a pirate hat

The easiest way to make a hat of a pirate from unnecessary wide-brimmed hats. Perhaps, long ago you brought it from sea travel, maybe you have in the country is still gathering dust grandfather's headgear – any, with a wide brim. First of all, the hat will be painted in black color. It can make an ordinary gouache or paint for fabric. For straw hats is also suitable aniline dyes for fabrics. After the headpiece is dry, it will need to be decorated. Important detail pirate hat – skull and crossbones. They should be cut from white paper and glue to the hat or to pin a stapler. Also for decoration you can use a satin black ribbon that you want to pin around the hat base fields, feathers or large glass stones that mimic precious stones.

If the finished hats on hand you have, make it out of construction paper. To do this, cut out of paper two identical parts shaped like an inverted boat, paint them black. From white paper cut out the skull and bones and mount them on the front part of the future hat. Cut a strip of paper, equal in length to the circumference of the head plus 3-4 cm for bonding and put a ring on it to secure the ends. Glue to a strip of the details of hat front and back, join the edges with glue. Allow the product to dry.

In that case, if the hat you need to do as quickly as possible, you can simply fold it out of the paper. Surely, you remember how to make boats out of paper: pick up the newspaper turn, fold on fold. Put the billet fold up and fold down the top corners to the center to make an equilateral triangle, with additional openings. Fold the bottom edge on the outside of the hat, tuck the corners and secure the workpiece with glue so that the hat is not subsequently reversed. It remains only to paint the hat in black and sticking to her skull and crossbones cut from white paper.