A Teensy Hat

My lovely daughter, Savannah, is quite crafty. She also has her own unique style. You may have caught that by the fact that she makes, wears, and sells stuff like THIS:

 

Why yes, that is a koala hat.

But when your best friend is taking you to your very first rock concert for your 16th birthday, AND it's to see Adam Lambert, well, we need to glam it up a bit, don't we? And I think this would also be fun for a lot of those costumes you're planning for next month, hint hint HINT.

So gather your gear! To make our teeny tiny top hat, you'll need:

Some flexible plastic, like a report cover. We used the box from my new bluetooth.
Scrap cardboard, like the box pictured
A fabric covered hairband. Ours were 3 for $1 at Dollar Tree

Scrapbooking paper

Some lace trim

2 different bits of ribbon

A fake flower (Not pictured above, we apologize, it was a last minute epiphany)

A protractor

A marker

Mod Podge

Hot glue

Scissors

First, take the plastic and make a cylinder 4 1/2" high. Hot glue the seam

This of course is the stove pipe portion of your hat.

Then roll your cylinder over the scrapbook paper and mark it. You can probably tell we didn't do a lot of fancy measuring for this.

 Cut the paper to size.

Grab your decoupage medium.

Slather the wrong side of the paper.

And then roll your plastic cylinder over it.

Next, trace the circumference of the cylinder on the plastic. Add an inch and cut out the circle

Make little V shaped notches in the circle down to the line you traced.

Now fold that extra bit of plastic down. 

Fit those little tabs inside the cylinder.

Run a bead of hot glue around the seam to secure it.

Trace the circle onto your paper.

Cut it out and Mod Podge it over the plastic.

Note: we did not decoupage over the paper. Savannah wanted a more matte finish.

 Now get your cardboard.

We eyeballed an exaggerated size brim for the hat and used a protractor to get a perfect circle.

Because when you have 3 math geeks and a husband who teaches math, you have crap like that just littering the house.

 There we go.

 For the brim, we're using the black side of the paper. Trace two circles and add a little extra to one of them when you cut them out.

Mod Podge the cardboard and the larger circle together.

Smear a little more of the medium around the edges and fold the excess paper over.

Now MP the smaller paper circle over this.

Hot glue the hat together. Now for the fun stuff.

We took a little red ruffled lace trim out of the stash and glued that on as a hat band.

We then snipped the stem off a glittery poinsettia and added that to the mix.

This is the Glam Nation Tour, after all.

Some shiny red satin to accentuate the top.

Next, we glued two lengths of the red lace to the hair band.

And we hid the seam with some red and black satin ribbon.

Not girlie enough. How about a bow and some ribbon streamers?

 Maybe a little felt heart and a rhinestone? Around here, over the top is our motto. Once you're happy with the amount of glitz, hot glue the hat to the band. We then took a U shaped household repair needle and did a couple of stitches through the hat and around the hair band just to make sure this was surviving excited teenager flailing.

Total cost? Well, we had all of this. I'd estimate less that $4 easily though.

Baby daughter outrageously decked out for a concert? Pretty priceless.

If you liked this project, you can vote for it over at Fireflies and Jellybeans! It made the final 10!