Paper Plate Winter Hat Craft
This fun paper plate winter hat craft makes the perfect winter craft for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and more.
For this fun hat craft, you will need a paper plate, scissors, paint, a glue stick, and white construction paper. It is a simple craft that only takes about 10 minutes from start to finish (not counting drying time if desired) and works on fine motor skills. Each winter hat turns out so unique and cute once finished.
For more fun winter crafts for preschool be sure to also check out these adorable arctic animal crafts for kids.
Winter Hat Craft Tips for Success
- This fun craft is perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners. Depending on the age of children you work with you may need to give a little more directions and assistance.
- Toddlers will need you to pour the paint and let them paint as much of the hat as possible. Direct them to try to fill in all of the white space but know that they might not be able to at this age. Stripes may be hard at this age.
- Preschools and Kindergartners can fill in all of the white space. Kindergartners (and older preschoolers) will be able to follow the direction of painting on stripes if desired.
- One paper plate will make two hats. Cut straight down the middle of the paper plate. Then to give it a more hat-like appearance cut a slight semi-circle curve into the bottom of the hat.
- You can choose to rip white construction paper to create the bottom “fur” of the hat as well as the top “pom pom.” This is the route that is less expensive and uses fewer materials. You can also choose to glue cotton balls to the top and all along the bottom strip to make the fur and pom poms. You may need to use a glue bottle to get them to stay.
- We let our paper plates dry completely before adding on the fur and pom pom parts of the hat. Then we easily glued them on. You can add them when your hat is still wet but this may be a little messier. You may be able to skip the glue and just stick it down onto the wet paint while drying if you do it this way.
- Kids will love being able to make their own hats. You could have them try to make their actual hat, add on stripes, polka dots, stars, a solid color, or any other hat designs they desire.
Winter Hat Craft for Kids
Materials:
- Paper Plate
- Paint
- Paintbrush
- White Construction Paper (or cotton balls)
- Glue Stick
- Scissors
Directions:
- Cut your paper plate in half. Cut a slight curve on the bottom of the paper plate to give it the hat-like appearance.
- Paint the whole back of your paper plate. You can paint with a solid color, stripes, a pattern, polka dots, stars, etc…Paint it with whatever design you want on your hat. Let it dry.
- Using your fingers rip out a long white paper strip (on both sides and ends) on the side of the bottom of your paper plate or just slightly longer. Rip a very slight curve into the bottom side.
- Glue your paper strip to the bottom of your paper plate hat.
- Rip a medium sized white circle from white construction paper and glue it to the top of your hat for the pom pom to complete your winter hat craft.
For more fun Winter clothing crafts for kids be sure to check out this fun ice skate craft or set up this super fun “The Mitten” themed sensory bin.
