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DLTK's Holiday Activities for Kids
Graduation Cap Craft
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Materials (for a full sized cap to fit a child):
- sheet of poster board in appropriate color (school colors)
- scissors
- ruler
- stapler
- OPTIONAL: wool in an appropriate color (school colors)
Directions:
- You can use white poster board and paint it an appropriate color, but I
find the board curls a bit when painted. You're better off purchasing
the poster board in the color you need.
- Measure out two equal sized squares onto the poster board. The
squares should be about 12" across.
- Cut out the squares.
- Set one aside. On the other square snip triangles out of the
corners to form a sort of cross shape as shown in the image to the
right.
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- Fold the sides of the cross (see yellow dotted lines in image)
- Staple the edges together where they meet (see yellow circles in the
image)
- Repeat with the other sides to form a "cup shape" that the
child will wear on their head.
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- Staple or glue the square on top of the cup shape to form your grad
cap.
- OPTIONAL: Make a tassel with wool:
- wrap a piece of wool around a 3 1/2 inch disk, your hand or a
piece of cardboard about 20 times
- Tie a long piece of wool (about 24") through the loop
- remove wool from base and tie a 4" piece of wool around the
loop you've made about 3/4" down from the top
- Snip the ends at the bottom to form the tassel.
- Staple or tape the tassel to the cap
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Templates:
Template (color)
(B&W)
1/3 the size you'll need for a child, but you can
use it to make a cap for a teddy bear or use it to follow along when you're
measuring
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