Hats make tea parties stylish and memorable.
Tea parties are a time for traditional enjoyment, and a time to show your style with hats. You can make hats from simple items that you buy from craft stores, or you can integrate lessons of recycling into your event when you use items that you find around the home.
Instructions
Making A Paper Bowl Hat
1. Set out bowls of sparkles, tissue paper, stickers, fabric scraps, feathers, glitter and silk flowers. Provide your guests with glue so that they can use these items. Purchase artificial feathers and flowers for decoration. Be certain that you do not use real feathers in your hats, and that you buy feathers that are clean and sterilized so that bird lice does not infest the feathers. Avoid dried flowers because these crumble and lose petals. Purchase fabric or silk flowers. Buy floral wire, ribbon and a hot glue gun to help you affix the decorations to the hats. Have a hot glue gun available for heavier items. Give your guests pipe cleaners to affix the tissue papers.
2. Poke two holes on opposite sides of paper bowls. Put one pipe cleaner through each hole, land make loops of the pipe cleaner ends that are inside the hat. Thread a headband through the pipe cleaner loops and twist the pipe cleaners to secure the bowl to the headband. Prepare the bowls and pipe cleaners before the party if you are going to have a large gathering.
3. Layer two strips of tissue paper of 23 inches by 10 inches in size, and pinch the tissue in the middle. Use one pipe cleaner to twist and secure the gathered tissue paper in the center. Repeat these actions with a second set of pipe cleaners and tissue paper on the other side of the hat. Fluff out the paper tissue flowers so that these are not flat against the bowl.
4. Decorate the hat with the fabric scraps, glitter, sparkles and whatever else you want. Let the glue dry on the bowls and wear the hats to the tea party.
Newspaper Hats
5. Lay three to four newspaper sheets over another person's head. Do not use single sheets, but be certain that you use the two sheets join together. Mold the paper around the person's head, and spread the sheets each way around their head.
6. Wrap masking tape around the other person's head four or five times. Keep the developing hat form above the ears so that the hat will not stick on the person's head. Roll the edges of the newspaper up and inward toward the head.
7. Take the hat off the person's head. Decorate the hat with paint and let dry, or simply use decorations such as artificial flowers.
8. Shape the hat over a kitchen bowl or balloon as an alternative to using a live model. Dip the newspaper into water-thinned glue for papier-mache before shaping the hat over the bowls. Let the hat dry, remove and then decorate the hat with paint or other decorations.
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