2 easy guides on how to make a cool Santa's hat

✧ How to make a CHRISTMAS CAP ✧ Holiday season is coming! You have to be prepared! Learn how to make your own red Santa hat in two easy and quick ways...

Christmas is coming soon, and lots of people are anticipating fun celebration with their families. In this article, you will find out how you can make everyone’s holiday even more fun with hand-made Christmas cap. Once you get the hang of it, you will be able to make a beautiful Xmas cap not only for yourself but for all family members and friends.

Santa hat craft: how to make it on your own?

Christmas is the beloved holiday for both children and adults, and most people celebrate it together with family and friends. Starting from the late November, you will begin to find the Christmas stuff everywhere. You are probably thinking of creating your own Santa hat after seeing it in Christmas movies and advertisements. Today, you will find out the easy way of making a simple Christmas hat with minimal budget and only a couple of materials. Sure, the red Christmas hat can be bought at the market, but why spend money if you can make the hat yourself? Besides, it is much more fun if you do it with friends or teach your children how to make it.

Below are two different methods of making a beautiful Christmas hat with your own hands. Choose the one you prefer.

Making Christmas hat with a template

The first method requires you to use a template for your hat. If you wish to try this one, you will need the following things:

• Felt of red and white colour (or any other fabric similar to felt). The size should be minimum 22’’ x 14’’, or 55 x 35 cm.
• Needles and thread
• Paper
• Pencil and ruler
• Scissors
• Tassel, pompom or yarn ball for the top of the hat

Now we will show you the necessary steps for completing your project:

1. First, you should gather all the necessary things for the project that are listed above.

2. Then, take a piece of paper (we advise you to choose a strong one so it will not tear). With a pencil, draw a triangle. You should first draw height and then the base width according to the following dimensions: 13’’ or 33 cm for a child Santa hat, and 14’’ or 35 cm for an adult Santa hat. Though it is highly recommended that you measure the head first – it's possible that the person you are making the hat for has a larger head than average.

3. Then, draw an arc on the base of your hat which will cross the triangle’s span. You are advised to attach the pencil to a piece of string, and then tape the string to the top of the triangle. This way, the pencil will be touching the center of triangle’s base. You have to draw the circle with string and paper, and your arc will be ready.

4. You have created the pattern template! Now, you should cut it out of the paper.

5. The next step is attaching the template to the felt, and for that, you can use pins. The edge of the template has to be placed along the edge of the felt which is folded. For this step, you can either double the felt over the template and cut both of those pieces at once, or you can also cut out two separate pieces of felt – it is up to you and depends on whichever you find easier.

6. Then, the shape of the hat has to be cut out from the felt.

7. Afterwards, stitch the side edges together –the ones that are straight, not curved. You can sew those edges together or, as an alternative, glue them with special felt glue. This process depends on how many sheets of felt you have cut. If it is one folded sheet of felt, you have to sew or glue one side; however, if you have cut two pieces, you need to sew or glue them from both sides.When gluing the felt, you have to make sure it is completely dry and well-glued before proceeding to the next step.

8. Turn the hat inside out so it looks like a cone.

9. Add a base trim to your hat. There are a few different ways to do that. The easiest one would be cutting a band of the white felt (2’’ or 5 cm in width) and wrap the hat base with it. As an alternative, you can also cut the band from white fluffy fabric. It can messy, but the result will always look nice.

10. Then, as you adjust the white trim around the hat, you have to glue or sew it carefully.

11. Finish the hat by adding the white tassel, pompom, or yarn ball to the top of the cap. Make sure it stays stuck to the top so it will not fall off.

12. Congratulations, you have made a Christmas hat! Now you can try it on and feel the magical holiday spirit.

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Creating your own Christmas cap by measuring with a string

This method is a little bit different from the previous one, but still effective and quick. To make the festive hat with a string, you will need the following:

• 1 white fur
• 1 yard or 0.9 m of red felt or similar material
• Different craft materials for decorating your hat
• Needles (or sewing machine if you have one)
• Pinking shears
• Pins
• Red thread for sewing the seams of the hat
• Scissors
• String or twine (to wrap the hat around your head)

So, where to start, you may ask? Here is your step-by-step guide:

1. Get all the necessary materials for your hat together.

2. You have to begin with folding the material into the shape of a cone by bringing the upper left corner to the right lower one. Then, pin the edges so they stay in place.

3. Flip over your material and fold the pinned edges to the right, giving the whole piece of felt the shape of a cylinder.

4. Cut your felt – you are advised to start right where the corner meets the folded felt, which is about sixty percent below the cone top. In total, you will have to cut four layers.

5. Measure your head with a string and then mark it where you think it would be comfortable.

6. Adjust the white material to the red one, like in the previous method. You are recommended to cut approximately 6 inches or 15 cm (width) of white fur.

7. Then, sew the white fur to the bottom of the red material.

8. Turn your hat around and fold the whole fur over the red felt so it is visible. Make sure all the pieces look good together.

9. Afterwards, you can decorate the hat to your liking – add some decorative supplies or the name of the person this hat is supposed to be for. Just do whatever you wish. Although, you have to make sure that the glue is completely dry first.

10. Put on your new hat or give it to the person you were planning to present it to.

Additional tips for making a creative Christmas cap

• Choosing the right felt is important. The thicker material you use, the less likely it is that your hat will drop from your head. This happens with hats made of the thin material, and it does not look nice, also, it can be annoying.
• You can use the hot glue so your hat will dry faster.
• If you pick a soft fabric like velvet for your cap, it might have a nice glittery look. Not everyone likes this kind of effect.
• You don't have to stick to the colors that are suggested in this article. Making something with your own hands gives room for creativity, so you can choose any color you want instead of red and customize your hat in any way you like.
• Do not get upset if some steps seem difficult to you. Practice makes perfect, so try again – or ask your family members for help.

You have learned how to make a cute Christmas hat with two different methods. Hopefully, this information will be useful for those people who like making simple things with their own hands. Have a nice and happy holiday with your friends and family.

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