Ski Cap. Safari Hat. Straw Hat. Trucker Hat. Books to Read for National Hat Day.
Red Hat Green Hat By Louise Gikow. The 500 Hats Of Bartholomew Cubbins by.
NATIONAL HAT DAY January 21st
National Hat Day is set aside to wear and enjoy a hat of your choice and style. Isn't it great that hats come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and styles? There's one to fit every size head and personality. Often, hats are used to make a statement, or to promote a cause or a product. Some hats (Aka helmets), offer safety protection. Some hats keep your head warm. National Hat Day is not intended to just keep you warm. It’s a chance to make a statement and to display you favorite headgear. We suggest you wear a number of different hats over the course of the day. Did you know? More body heat is lost from your head than other parts of the body. So, wearing a hat goes a long way towards staying warm on a cold winter's day (or night). Celebrating National Hat Day: Wear a hat, of course! Make funny hats out of construction paper. Take everyone to buy a new hat. Change hats all day, or just wear your favorite on throughout. Ask everyone to share why their favorite hat is so special to them. Talk about famous hats, like Abe Lincoln's or Groucho Marx's. Hats to Wear for National Hat Day Cowboy Hat Castor Hat Birthday Party Hat Fez Hat Bowler Hat Beret Hat Fedora Hats Army Cap Furry Hat Hard Hat Knit Cap Derby Hat Beanie Hat Riding Cap Books to Read for National Hat Day Red Hat Green Hat By Louise Gikow. The 500 Hats Of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr. Seuss. The Cat In The Hat by Dr. Seuss, The Hat by Tomi Ungerer What a Hat By Holly Keller A Hat for Minerva Loise By Janet Morgan Stoeke Aunt Lucy Went to Buy A Hat By Alice Low. A Three Hat Day By Laura Geringer. Pictures by Arnold Lobel. Do You Have A Hat? By Eileen Spinelli. Which Hat Is That? By Anna Grossnickle Hines. Hetty's 100 Hats Story by Janet Slingsby. Mrs Honey's Hat by Pam Adams
Jesters hat Sailor Hat Skull Cap Ski Cap Safari Hat Straw Hat Trucker Hat
Under My Hood I Have a Hat By Karla Kuskin. Bad Cat puts on his top hat By Tracy-Lee McGuinness-Kelly Mr. George and the Red Hat by Stephen Heigh Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) By Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard. Who's Under That Hat? By David A. Carter Who Took The Farmer's Hat? By Joan L. Nodset. Mr. Frumble's Biggest Hat Flap Book By Richard Scarry Bamboo Hats and a Rice Cake By Ann Tompert.
The Mouse, the Cat, and Grandmother's Hat By Nancy Willard. Old Hat New Hat By Stan & Jan Berenstain Pajama Sam: The Magic Hat Tree by Gina Gold. Blue Hat, Green Hat By Sandra Boynton My Lucky Hat By Kevin O'Malley The Magic Hat By Mem Fox Jennie's Hat by Ezra Jack Keats.
When Everybody Wore a Hat by William Steig, The Hat By Jan Brett Zoe's Hats By Sharon Lane Holm Little Red Cowboy Hat By Susan Lowell. Milo's Hat Trick By Jon Agee Abe Lincoln's Hat By Martha Brenner.
MAKING CRAZY HATS! Crazy Clown Hat What You'll Need: Paper grocery bag, Red acrylic paint or spray paint, 2-one-inch foam ball, Green chenille stem, Construction paper or card stock (yellow, orange, green), 2 yards orange ribbon, 1-1/4 inch wide, Paintbrush, Serrated knife, Scissors, Craft glue Directions: Fold a green chenille stem so one side is longer than the other. Poke the folded end through the top of the bag, and push it into the foam ball. (Use scissors to poke a starter hole in the bag if necessary.) Cut two flowers out of yellow paper, two orange circles to fit in the center of the flowers, and two green leaves. Glue the pieces onto the ends of the chenille stem to make flowers. Wrap the orange ribbon around the hat, just above the brim, and tie it into a bow in front. Abraham Lincoln’s Hat Supplies needed: Black construction paper, Toilet paper tube (1 tube makes two hats), Scissors, A pencil, Glue, Tape Directions: Cut a toilet paper tube in half, making two short tubes. Cut out a 2 inch by 6 inch rectangle of black construction paper. Trace a circle on black construction paper, using a tube as your guide. Draw four small rectangles around the edges of the circle. Cut this out (this will be the top of the hat). Trace another circle on a piece of black construction paper, using the tube as your guide. Draw a larger circle around this circle, about 1/2 inch outside the first circle. Cut out along the larger circle (this will be the hat's brim). Continuing with the brim, cut a series of lines through the inner circle. Fold these triangular pieces upwards. Glue or tape the triangular pieces of the hat's brim inside the half toilet tube. Now, for the top on the hat, use the circle with tabs. Fold the tabs where they meet the circle. Put the small black paper circle on the top of the hat, taping the rectangular tabs to the tube. Place the rectangle of black paper around the central part of the hat. Glue it securely. Easy Fleece Hat Materials Needed: 1 26" x 26" Piece of Fleece (Approximate), Needle/Sewing Machine and Thread, Scissors Instructions: Measure around the head of the person who will wear the hat; add an inch to this measurement. Cut a piece of fleece as long as your measurement plus the 1" by about 26". Lay the fleece flat, fold up one side so piece will be 26" tall by half the width of the measured head plus 1". Line up both long edges. Make sure the right side is in when you fold the fleece. Sew long edges together forming a long tube, leaving about a 1/2" seam allowance. (You can easily sew this by hand using a needle and thread and a straight stitch). Now, fold up one end of the tube and match up the two raw edges. The raw edges should be on the inside. You Fit the folded edge on your head and the raw edges will stick up. Cut a piece from the scrap fleece about 2” x 8". Gather the raw edges along the top of your hat and tie the 8" piece of fleece around it like a pony tail. Finally, use the scissors and cut 1-inch wide strips in the raw edges to make it look like a big pom-pom. Trim the fringes down so they are 3" - 4" long.
Flower Power Sun Visor Materials needed: 9-inch paper plate, Purple paint, Purple glitter spray, Craft foam (yellow, pink), Sparkle poms (2 purple, 1 yellow), 2 silver glitter chenille stems, Scissors, Craft glue or low-temperature glue gun and glue sticks, Paintbrush, Pencil Instructions: Make a cut in the rim on one side of a paper plate, and cut an oval shape from this slit around the center of the plate, closer to this edge than to the others. Make the oval a little smaller than you think it should be to fit around your head. (You can always go back to enlarge it, but once it's cut you can't make it smaller.) Cut off the rim around the back and the sides, leaving it intact at the front of the visor. Cut the paper plate to fit your head. Glue the cut in the back of the visor back together, adjusting the size of the hole if necessary. Let dry. Paint the top and bottom of the visor. Let dry. Spray with glitter if desired, and let dry. Draw three flowers on craft foam; cut out. Glue the flowers to the front of the visor, and glue poms to the centers of the flowers. Let dry. Coil silver chenille stems around a pencil to form spirals. Remove the pencil, cut each spiral to the desired length, and glue them onto the visor. Let dry. Basic Newspaper Hat Materials needed: Newspaper, Transparent tape, Trims (such as pom-poms or tissue paper fringe) Instructions: Fold one sheet of newspaper page in half horizontally. (If you want to make a large hat, use two newspaper pages, and fold it in half vertically.) With the fold at the top, fold the top corners in to the center. Tape the points down. Fold up the bottom edges. Tuck in the corner edges and add tape to hold them in place. If you want, trim your hat with pom-poms or tissue paper fringe. Put your hat on and wear it with the points at the front and back or to the side.
Paper Plate Bonnet Craft Materials Needed: Paper Plate, Ribbon and/or Lace, Artificial Flowers, Hot Glue Gun and Glue Sticks, Stapler, Hole Puncher, Scissors Instructions: Punch two holes about 1-inch from the edge of the paper plate, directly across from each other. Cut two pieces of ribbon about 24-inches long. Thread one end of each piece of ribbon through each hole you punched so that the end is on the back side of the plate. Staple the ends to the plate near the hole. You will use these ribbons to tie the bonnet to your head. Turn the paper plate upside down on your work surface. The back of the paper plate will be the top of your Easter bonnet. Decorate the back of the paper plate using artificial flowers, ribbon, lace, or anything else you want! If you don't have any artificial flowers, you can try making your own flowers. Pilgrim Hat for Girls Materials Needed: 12 x 18 Piece of White Paper, White Ribbon, Stapler, Scissors Instructions: Fold the piece of paper in half the long way, then unfold it so you can see the crease. Now fold up one side of the paper so the edge is even with the crease (folded up along the dotted line on the image). On the other side of the crease, cut two slits, evenly spaced going almost all the way to the center crease. Now poke a hole on each end of the folded half of the paper portrayed by the dots on the image. Cut 2 pieces of ribbon, about 15-inches long, and tie one end of each ribbon to the hole you poked. The folded section will be the front/brim area of the hat and the ribbons can be tied under the chin or left hanging at the side of the head. The 2 outside flaps are brought together under the middle flap - Staple these 3 together and this will form your finished bonnet! 60 Second Hat (Easiest with 2 people) Materials needed: Large piece of paper such as gift wrap or newspaper, Masking Tape, Ball or Bucket
Instructions: Place paper centered over ball or upside-down bucket. Press paper with hands around bucket or top half of ball to shape. Hold in place while second person wraps large pieces of tape around to make hat band. Remove from ball or bucket. Decorate. Decoration Ideas: Use a 9" playground ball, fancy gift wrap, and silk flowers for tea party attire. Brown kraft mailing paper for a hobo's hat. Use a sand bucket and newspaper; paint it black and adorn with a foil buckle for a pilgrim's hat. Bright gift wrap and a paper flower will make a great clown's hat. DECORATING YOUR CRAZY HAT Places as Hats - Places are a good inspiration for crazy hats. You can build your favorite building, monument, or even bridge on top of a regular hat by using foam, paper mache, or other building tools. Whatever you use, make sure that it is well anchored to the hat and that it is light enough for you to wear it. An interesting idea for a hat featuring a place is the solar system, which can be built on a knit cap using floral wire, some foam balls and a little paint. Flowers - Flowers can also be used to make crazy hats. Rather than just placing a single, neat flower on the brim of your hat, make it so that several flowers are sprouting up all over your hat, coming out at interesting angles or grouped together to look like a floral arrangement. You can also spray paint or dip the flowers in glitter or paint colors to give them a unique appearance. Food - Food as the subject for a crazy hat is always fun. Whenever possible try to use fake food for your hat decoration as it will last longer and be easier to use than real food unless you intend the hat to be edible. Create a breakfast tray with fake food for your head. Or go a step further and make your hat edible by covering a fedora with your favorite wrapped hard candies or building a layer cake out of wrapped chocolate bars. If you are using real food to decorate your hat, secure it to the hat with tape or Velcro--anything that will stick but is non-toxic when used with wrapped candies or food. Stuffed Animals - Using stuffed animals to decorate your crazy hat can create a kind of animation on top of your hat. You can attach the stuffed animal to almost any kind of hat using Velcro or by simply tying it securely, which works best on baseball or trucker hats. Animate the animal by changing its position or by adding floral wire to hold up its head or arms. Sports Themes - One of the most common reasons for having a crazy hat is to support your favorite sports team. Creating an uncommon, sports-themed crazy hat can be done using toys that are miniature versions of sports balls that will fit more easily on a hat than their larger counterparts. Another crazy hat idea is to use paper mache to create a parade float on top of a wide-brimmed hat for your sports team. Your hat can also be the center of attention at your sports party by taking a wide brimmed sturdy hat, such as an undecorated sombrero, and cover it with your team's colors. Affix small serving bowls to the brim of the hat and your hat can serve chips, pretzels, candy and other lightweight snacks. When using the serving hat, it is best to not put dips, meatballs or other liquid or heavy foods that can easily shift and fall over on the hat brim. HAT GAMES Hat Toss Set out some hats and have toss each hat towards a goal line. Which hat got the closest? Or – Set out a large hat upside-down.Toss poker chips into the hat. How many went in the hat? Drama – have a variety of old hats available to use for creative drama. Use the hats when acting out familiar stories or make up stores that the hats themselves inspire. What Hat Do I Wear? - Have girls draw a self portrait of their face and cut it out. Have each girl design a hat that represents themselves (an interest, hobby, personality, trait) and would remind
others of that person. Put the hats in a box. Pull them out one at a time. Allow girls to match the hat with the person and place it on the correct face Witch's Hat Ring Toss - Supplies: 2 or more Witch’s hat, light up necklaces Tape the bottom of each hat to a piece of wood. The wood should be smaller than the hat so you can’t see it. Using 6 glow in the dark necklaces divide the group into two teams and place the witch’s hats 5, 8, 10 or 12 feet away from the throwing line. Each line is given 3 rings each and told that each player will have 3 tries to toss a ring around the witch’s hat. The goal is to get everyone on your team to toss a ring on the witch’s hat before the other team does this. If you complete the task on your first or second or third you are done, now get the thrown rings and give them to the next person in line. If however you throw all three and miss then you need to collect the rings, give them to the next person in line and then go back to the end of the line. Continue until the first team one team has everyone place a ring over the witch’s hat. Musical Hats - This is rather like musical chairs but instead use hats. Girls will stand in a circle and in the center on the floor, place a box full of hats – enough for each child minus one. Put on the music and let the kids dance around. As soon as you stop the music, each child has to rush and put on a hat from the box. The child without a hat is out of the game but let them have a small favor to avoid any tears. Hip Hop Hat Relay - Split the kids into teams and give each child a paper cone hat with a piece of elastic on to secure it on their head. Each team selects a CAP–tain!! who stands several feet away from his teammates. On the whistle each team member must hop on one leg to the captain, and place his hat on top of the captains and then hop back to his teammates. Then the next person goes. When the captain has all the hats on his head, he must hop back to his team, distribute a hat back to each person. First team to finish is the winner. Hat Attack - on a table line up a stack of different hats, Give each girl 3 small balls and see how many hats she can knock off. Winner is the person who knocks down the most balls. HAT SNACKS Cat-in-the-Hat Cookies Ingredients: Round Crackers, Marshmallows, White Chocolate, Red Icing, Wax Paper Instructions: Place the white chocolate in a microwave safe bowl and melt it. Stir until smooth. Start off by dipping a round cracker in the white chocolate, tapping off any extra. Place it on a piece of wax paper. Before the chocolate cools and hardens, place a marshmallow on the center of the cracker so it looks like a white top hat. Once the chocolate cools and hardens, the marshmallow should stick. Pipe the red icing into rings around the hat. Also spread some over the top of the hat. If icing stripes seem to run, place them in the refrigerator to set icing more quickly Edible Pilgrim Hats Ingredients: (one for each child) round tea biscuit cookies or vanilla wafers, large marshmallow, jelly bean Instructions: Dip cookie and marshmallow in melted chocolate "glue" together to make hat place jelly bean as hat buckle ENJOY! Witches hats Ingredients: Take a fudge stripe cookie.
Instructions: Put a hershey's kiss on top on top of cookie. You may want to cover it all with chocolate frosting. Tiny Witches Hat Ingredients: Bugle Brand Snack Chips, Round Snack Crackers, Can of Aerosol-Style Spray Cheese Instructions: Spray the cheese carefully around the edge of the round end of the Bugle brand chip. Gently press the cheese covered edge onto a round cracker. You now have a little snack that looks like a witch's hat! If you prefer, you can us spreadable cheese along with or instead of the spray cheese. Clown Hat Ingredients: 1 Sugar cone per girl, white frosting, Trix cereal (approximately 2 cups per girl), 1 Red raspberry per girl, 1 Plastic knife each, 1 Large paper plate each, Instructions: Each girl will turn their cone upside down. Place the round circle opening of the cone onto the paper plate. Place a dollop of frosting on each plate, and provide each girl with a plastic knife. Gently spread the white frosting over the cone - from top to bottom, so that the cone is covered completely. Use the Trix cereal to create a pattern along the bottom circle of the cone - where it rests on the plate. Choose 3 more pieces of cereal to use as decoration on the clown's hat. The pieces can be all the same, or be another pattern. Place the 3 additional pieces of cereal on the front of the hat - running from the bottom up to the top. Place the raspberry at the top point of the hat. Insert the point into the crater of the berry.
