What you will need for this project
- Velour Witch Hat in Adult Size
- Recycled plastic tub for frozen strawberries, cottage cheese, or other tub about 5″-6″ across the mouth.
- Hot Glue Gun and Glue
- Scissors
- Artificial Flowers
- Trim of lace or braid
- Black thread & Needle
- Spool of Wired Ribbon
- Plastic hair comb
- Fruit Bag net that looks like hat netting
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So, I was kind of impressed with the quality of this velour witch hat from the 99c Only Store, and thought I’d try to convert it to some other sort of hat, partly because I’ve had luck with having my Costume Class Students turning a bunch of black feather covered witch hats into a series of c.1900 “Edward Gorey” style mourning hats as a class project inspired by having those fairly fancy looking witch hats get dumped by a store in November to less than $1 each. I checked to see if the hat was in fact adult sized in the head…
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