Fly Mushroom Hat

We are going to make nice FLY MUSHROOM HAT. Good for carnival, party, festival.

We#ll need

2 large square cardboard sheets

1 one small sheet

Red color tube

Pack of cotton wool

Tube of glue (PVA)

Adhesive tape

Pair of scissors

Pack of clips or clothespins

Tassel

Paperweght

White print paper

Pen

Needle and thread and straightedge

Good mood

Taking large sheet of cardboard and draw circle ( size of circle depends how big your hat is going to be)

Instead of using dividers, I used combination of pen, thread and needle. (its really hard to find divider with r=40 sm)

Make sure that line is clearly visible. Use scissors to cut circle.

Cut straight line from edge of circle to centre ( Because cardboard is quite stiff, I cut little triangle)

Try to form cone by dragging edges. Cardboard is hard and stiff, so use your palm to make cone. Use tape for temporary fixation, when you are pleased with result. Apply glue, clips or paperweight to fix it.

Take small sheet of cardboard and role it into tube. It will make cb softer and will be easy to manipulate later on.

I used little cheat as doll head (otherwise you may need use your own head or ask somebody to be model) We need find out size of our mushroom leg)

About how size of sheet, its really matter a) how big is your head

b) height is about 8sm to sit on head and rest depends how big do you want make fields of hat. I did it 8sm +37sm= 35sm)

At this point we may have already fixed cone, so let put it on another large square sheet and using pen, lets draw another circle. That is going to be internal part of mushroom hat.

Using scissor cut it off.

Bend of cardboard trying to find middle. Our next step is cut of enough of space to put into hole our mushroom leg.

We will get nice topper, but we are not going to stop at this point and will follow step 6!

Take cylinder out and make camomile.

Work edges camomile with glue and fix it with internal part.

Use paperweight.

Here we have cone attached to our internal part. Using glue and clips ( with some clothespins)

Please, dont worry if something doesnt look perfect! We are trying to imitate nature. And nature doesnt have straight lines!)

Using brush and red color, lets make it colorfull!

Breaking cotton wool into small pieces and apply on our mushroom head. You may use glue or just apply it while color is fresh.

Beautiful!

Bend white print paper into harmonic and glued it to inner size of mushroom head.

If necessary works edges with glue and cotton wool.

Surprise your friend and enjoy with result!