Showing posts with label Paper Hat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paper Hat. Show all posts

Friday 24 December 2021

Paper Ghandhi Cap

This an extremely easy to make origami hat

Use a piece of A3 paper for child versions (bottom cap of the image below)

For the adult version that fits me, I cut down a piece of A2 to 495mm x 355mm

You can find many tutorials on youtube or elsewhere just search for Paper Gandhi Cap and it will find half a dozen.










 


Thursday 21 May 2020

The Cone Head


The Cone Head

The picture below makes me think I should have a fishing rod and be sitting by a pond as a gnome.


A piece of paper wrapped into a cone and held together with a couple of pieces of sellotape needs no origami skills.  


The cone can be painted, a brim added to make it into a witches hat, a D put on front for dunces cap, good fun for very young kids or quick fancy dress wear.

As you can tell I spent nearly a minute making this hat.


Saturday 11 January 2020

Basic Origami Hat


The most basic of all origami hats involves 5 simple folds and makes a kind bicorn like, hat as below



This was made using a sheet of A2 sugar paper, A3 would make a child-sized hat.
The paper needs to be rectangular, not square.

(newspaper works just as easily)


Fold the paper in half (the fold line is across the shorter size)


Position the fold at the top 


Then fold the corners in so they meet in the middle as below


Fold the top layer of bottom edge of the paper up, over the folded corners


Then turn the paper over and fold the remaining edge up


That's it your done you now have a hat.





Saturday 21 July 2018

Bad Scholars Hat

Dunce's hat



The dunce's hat was given to children in Victorian schools as a punishment to pupils who were disruptive, clowned around and did not want to learn.


The hat was traditionally a tall white cardboard cone and painted with a big D or the word dunce.


As well as wearing the hat the children were made to stand in a corner and left to be mocked by their fellow pupils.


I'm not sure this tactic or punishment actually worked as I suspect the children made to wear the cap did not care, were made class heroes, but even more likely they probably had some actual real learning difficulty which the Victorian teachers had no way of understanding or were trained to deal with.


Monday 11 December 2017

Its a Cracker


The cracker hat is usually made of thin tissue paper and shaped like a crown.


These hats have fallen out of most Christmas crackers since the early 20th century, along with mottos, love notes, gifts and many a bad joke.


The first Christmas cracker was based on a novelty bon-bon developed by a London confectioner Tom Smith which made a bang when opened, he and his company eventually developed this into the gift delivering item we know today as the Christmas Cracker.

Tom Smiths sons who took over the business when he died eventually where the ones who introduced the hat into the cracker.