Objective:
The students will create their own hats.

Materials

• A wide variety of art supplies - construction paper, pieces of fabric, feathers, cotton balls, markers, etc.
• Glue, stapler

Procedure

1. Allow the students to be as creative as they wish to design their own special hat.
2. Assist the students, if needed, in securing a base for their hat with a stapler.  Younger students may need a basic hat design already made for them, which they can decorate on their own.

Other Lesson Ideas

1. Make newspaper hats.
2. Use any of the following links to make one of the hat crafts: Top Hat, Pilgrim Hat, Clown Hat, or Hat Crafts.