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Dinner Hats

Materials:

• Paper
• art supplies
• elastic thread or string
• food circulars
• masking tape
• hats (optional)

Directions:

It's customary in our part of the world to remove your hat when you eat. We'll break with tradition for this activity and encourage kids to make hats for everyone to wear at the dinner table.

The simplest kind of hat to make is the "dunce" or cone-shaped party hat. Your kids simply roll up paper into a cone shape, tape, trim, and add a piece of string or elastic thread for a chin strap. Before they roll the paper, they can decorate the hats with pictures from food circulars, food catalogs, and the like. If your kids plan to draw pictures on their hats, unroll the trimmed paper, have them do their drawings, then reroll and tape the paper into a cone. Your young haberdashers can also decorate stocking and other hats by affixing pictures of food with masking tape rolled and flattened.

The best part of the hat making is that your kids don't need a special occasion for wearing them. Perhaps today is chili day, so everyone wears bean-decorated hats on their heads-or bean to bean, you might say!