How To Make Halloween Hats to Wear

Read all of the steps before starting.

Step 1: Choose a pattern and print it

Choose a hat to make. Download and print the pattern for that hat's decorations.
Choose a pattern that prints in color or select the black&white pattern and use your creativity to add color and designs.

Witch Decorations

B&W - Colored

Wizard Decorations

B&W - Colored

Clown Decorations

B&W - Colored

Halloween Hat Bands

Colored

Patterns are Adobe PDF files. The Adobe Reader is available for free.

All of Aunt Annie's project patterns are designed to be printed on standard letter size paper (8.5"x11" or A4). When printing from Adobe Reader you may need to select Auto-Rotate and Center or Choose paper source by PDF page size to ensure the best fit.

Step 2: Cut Decorations

Cut out each decoration on its black outline. Make as many decorations for each hat as you like. Some people like a hat covered with decorations and others like ones with just a few.

Project extra: Make several party favor hats quickly with the fancy Halloween hat bands. Print, cut and glue these decorated bands around a black, white or orange cone hat.

Tip: For more creativity use the black&white pattern. You can either color the decorations with crayons or markers before cutting or trace the cut decoration patterns onto colored paper to cut out. You can use any colors you like for the decorations. Silver and gold are nice for the wizard's stars and moons. On the clown's hat you might use several different colors of dots.

Step 3: Make Cone Shape

Take a piece of construction paper 12 by 18 inches (30 by 45 cm). Roll the paper into a cone and size the base to fit the child's head. Be sure not to make it too big or it may slip and cover the child's eyes. Tape or glue the overlapping edges in one or more places. Cut off the extra paper at the base of the cone.

Use black paper for the witch's hat, green, white or red for the clown's hat, and gray, silver, or white for the wizard's hat, but you can use any colors you like.

Tip: If you don't have a 12 by 18 inch piece of construction paper, glue two or more pieces of 9 by 12 inch construction paper together. In fact, you can glue two pieces of computer paper together along their long edges. This will make a hat big enough for most children.

Step 4: Decorate Hat

Glue the decorations to the hat. Use any arrangement you like. You might use the triangles to make a border on the bottom of the clown's hat or glue the stars in a spiral around the wizard's hat. Use your imagination!

Optional: Add a chin string to help keep the hat on the child's head. Punch a hole on either side of the hat. Make the holes stronger with pieces of tape on both sides of the paper. Tie a 16 to 18 inch (40 to 45 cm) length of string to each hole, and tie them together under the child's chin.