Good evening again friends.
Today was a very difficult day since I left for the last minute this work for my son's school, to decorate the school for carnival they asked each child to bring a “crazy hat” I really didn't know what that was until I looked on the internet and saw that they are basically hats with different decorations, they are usually quite colorful and extravagant, I didn't know what theme to do it with so I thought of something that my son and I like a lot, I asked the teacher if the theme was free and she said yes, then I got down to work, we chose to do space, I thought of placing stars, planets, and even an Alien, an idea that in my mind seemed simple but the truth was not, I started at 9 am and finished at 8 pm, I don't know if it was worth so much effort but I felt very entertained putting this hat together, tomorrow my son will have to deliver it, I was going to make this hat during the weekend but I was very undecided with the theme we would use, finally I did it even though I almost lost my back all day sitting doing this hahaha, I also clarify that this tutorial will be mostly about the hat since everyone decorates it as they like, also I didn't take pictures of all the exact steps of the creation of the alien and the planets since I honestly got to a point where I got lost and improvised too much and forgot to take pictures, however, you can do it with any theme.
MATERIALES
- Cartón
- Tijeras
- Silicon caliente
- Lápiz
- Foami a tu gusto
- Decoraciones a tu gusto
MATERIALS
- Cardboard
- Scissors
- Hot silicon
- Pencil
- Foami of your choice
- Decorations of your choice
Proceso/Process
I started by taking a thick cardboard and making a big circle, I didn't measure it since I made it using the lid of a pot, then I made a smaller circle in the center and cut out the silhouette, I also started to cut out the circle in the center and well, for all this process I was using scissors and 3 knives since the cardboard was too hard hahaha.
In the center circle I started to cut strips with the scissors, then I took another piece of cardboard and rolled it to give it a tube shape, folded it and glued it to the base of the hat with the help of the STRIPS I cut earlier.
I cut out another circle to cover the top of the hat, glued it and started to line it, this time I used black frosted foami to line it since the theme I chose was space, I felt that this foami would help me to give it that shine we see in a starry night sky, the hat was too big for the size of the foami sheet, that's why I had to glue it in parts.
Basically this is how a hat is made, the decoration is already separate and at this point was where I started to improvise, I used a soda bottle to simulate a spaceship, I cut it in half and did the same as with the cardboard, cut strips around the edge, I really had no idea what I was doing hahaha, I took cardboard from a cereal box which is a more manageable cardboard than the previous one I used and I was gluing pieces until I made a kind of ship, which I painted black, then I drew an alien using acrylic markers and cut out and glued this silhouette on a cardboard to give it more stability, under the alien I placed a foami base so it would not fall and then I glued it there.
As I did not have silver paint that would be ideal for painting the ship, I used a silver acrylic marker and spent almost everything painting the entire ship, put the black base for the color to grab much better and so it was, then paste the spaceship at the tip of the hat, also drew some stars and cut them to paste and decorate the hat, as I did with the planets, practically the entire solar system covering all around the hat.
Final
It's amazing how fast the day went by making this, I also had to take some breaks to prepare lunch and do other things around the house, even so I really liked how it turned out and I also learned to make hats in a more efficient way, a long time ago I made one and it was horrible hahaha and well you know, you can make it of many things, I saw decorations of monster games and movies, it's super fun but quite exhausting.