A PAPER HAT PARTY

Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)

A PAPER HAT PARTY

If you want to have an extra-specially jolly Christmas' party, make it a paperhat party, and have a little competition amongst’ your guests to see who can fashion the prettiest hat or cap from coloured crepe paper, in half an hour. Each child must have a couple of . big sheets coloured paper, a packet of pins, and a pair of scissors. Perhaps some kind grown-up Will help you to make a basin of paste, and you can dole this out in saucers, one between two children. It’s a good plan to let the children work in pairs at the hat-making, and be judged together. This will be much

more fun than if .on alone. ‘ . Provide some sheets of newspaper, JOO, so that first attempts can be made on something that won’t-matter. The Star Cap is the-easiest to-make.- A big triangle of paper is rolled into a cone, and the edges'are secured with paste. Spots and stars of contesting, paper can be pasted on for.a trimming,, and a pointed brim .‘stitch nt - ;

complete a very pretty cap. (Figure 1). To. make the: Witch’s hat shown -f infigure two, cut a piece of paper big enough to roll round for the high crown, and paste the edges; a small circle of paper to fit the top is sewn or pasted on, and a big circle makes the brim. (You cut away inside the circle of course, so that the hat will go on the head), A band and bow of contrasting paper will Complete the hat." \ Figure three shows a jolly Red Indian head-dress. A paper band goes round the forehead, and the paper feathers ip different colours are- pasted to this. The feathers should be made double and stuck together, so that .they’ll stand UP,. Figure four Is a Chinese cap, made ' from a circle pasted to a head-band in a ■ ■ ...

contrasting colour; You easily slope the lower edge ■' to’ Wby 'pinching the paper here and ’.J’ Figure five shows -a . fierce Pirate s hat, Tc'make this, fasip.6n”< tittle:cap—grainsi A, B,ahow»tti<?’ stages.'pf msnufatture—and 'then/ paste the skull-and-cross-bones in front. , ■ : Figure six shows a pretty petal Cap also made like the one in the diagrams, ’ With;' pointed petals., pasted on top. . ' J