How to make a witch hat

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Part 2 of 3: Making the brim
Part 3 of 3: Finishing Touches
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1 Prepare the required materials. Making a witch hat is easy enough and only requires a few materials.Before getting started, prepare the following:

black foamiran for crafts;
twine;
scissors;
wire;
Scotch;
black ribbon;
material for decorating the brim of a hat, such as feathers or faux fur;
decorations in the form of plastic spiders, buttons or bows.

2 Measure and cut out a part for making a cone from foamiran. Take a string and attach one end of it to the corner of the foamiran sheet. Then stretch the string to the desired height of the hat. Use twine to draw an arc at the bottom of the cone. The cone can be as high as you like.

After you draw an arc on the lower edge of the cone, cut the part along this line. As a result, you will get a triangle with a rounded base.
To make the edges of the foamiran part more even, you can use not scissors, but a craft knife, but this is not necessary.

3 Cut off a piece of wire. Next, take a wire and cut a piece that is slightly shorter than the height of your cone. In order not to be mistaken with the dimensions of the wire segment, you can first measure the distance from the tip to the base of the cone part or attach a wire to it and only then cut it off.

4 Glue the wire along the center of the taper piece. Attach the wire to the center line of symmetry of the cone, as if you were dividing it in half. One end of the wire should be at the tip of the cone piece, and the other at the middle of the base. Next, take a piece of tape slightly longer than the wire and stick it over the wire.

Make sure that after gluing the wire, you have a little space from its ends to the edges of the foamiran. Otherwise, it will stick out of the tip of the hat or stab you in the head.
Cut off any excess tape when you glue the wire to the cone piece. The tape should not protrude beyond the edges of the foamiran.

5 Secure the cone with tape. You will need to take a couple of additional pieces of scotch tape and stick them on one sidewall of the foamiran part, in order to then connect its edges and fasten the cone. First, take one piece of tape and stick it on one of the straight sides of the cone piece, then glue another piece of tape there with a slight overlap so that its sticky edge protrudes.

Next, twist the piece into a cone and stick its second flat side to the tape to fix the shape of the cone.
Make sure the wire and tape are inside the cone when you hold the edges together.

Part 2 of 3: Making the brim

1 Determine the size of the margins and cut out the appropriate round piece. To make the brim of the hat, take another sheet of foamiran and attach the end of the string to the center. Then, holding a pencil at the other end of the string, draw a circle on the foamiran. This circle will later become the brim of the hat, so it should be large enough.
- Once you've drawn a circle, take your scissors and cut it out. Try to cut the foamiran as evenly as possible, as any jagged edges will be very noticeable.
2 Use a construction or regular hair dryer to smooth out the foamiran. Once the circle is cut, place it on a table and use a hot air stream from a construction or regular hair dryer to smooth out any curved edges. If your foamiran is even without it, then you do not need to smooth it.
- You can also put a couple of heavy books on the foamiran and leave it for several hours or overnight to smooth it out.
3 Cut a circular hole in the center of the large circle. Next, fold the circle in half, aligning the edges of the part. Make a notch in the center of the fold towards the edges of the circle. The goal is to cut a small circular hole in the center. After that, make eight small cuts around the perimeter of the inner circle to give the detail a little more flexibility.
- Remember that the inner circle with notches should be large enough to fit the hat over your head, but not too large or the hat will be too big for you.
4 Try on the brim of your hat. Try on the brim of the hat to see how well it fits on your head. If they are too tight, the center hole can be enlarged. If the hole is too large, then you will have to make new hat brim from another sheet of foamiran.

Part 3 of 3: Finishing Touches

1 Use the tape to hide the longitudinal seam on the crown of the hat. Before joining the tapered crown and brim of the hat, you can hide the longitudinal seam of the taper with black tape. Use hot glue to secure the tape.
- Make sure the glue gun is hot enough before working with hot glue and sticking the tape to the crown.
- Keep the glue gun close to the foamiran while applying the glue. Otherwise, the hot glue may partially solidify even before you apply the tape to it.
2 Glue the brim of the hat to the crown. You also need hot glue to glue the brim of the hat to the crown. To do this, apply glue to the inner side of the crown along the bottom edge, and then press the flaps of the central slot from the round part of the margins to the glue.
- Make sure that the position of the cone and the margins is centered during the hot glue application.
- If you want to decorate your hat, you can glue feathers or faux fur at the junction of the crown and brim. Use hot glue to secure the decorative pieces at the base of the cone.
3 Bend the tapered crown of the hat to your liking. Once the hot glue has hardened and the hat is ready, the crown can be folded if desired. The wire inside the cone will allow you to bend it or give the hat a wrinkled look.
- Try bending the cone in two or three places to make the hat look pretty worn.
4 Add other finishing touches to the work. The hat can also be decorated with other objects, such as plastic spiders, a bow, or buttons. Choose what works best with the rest of your outfit.
- Attach the jewelry to the witch's hat with a drop of hot glue.