Time to make DIY Asian Paper Hats. We have been busy creating, organizing, and preparing for our Chinese New Year celebration. Now that we have some background on it, and have shared it with the kids, we are on full force mode on decorations. We are working on crafts. We already shared with you our paper fortune cookies DIY. Today it is about gearing to Celebrate Chinese New Year With DIY Paper Hats. We are talking about the conical hats. As always, we bring you quick and easy ideas that you can do with the kiddos.
About the Asian Conical Hat
The conical Chinese hats are originally made of straw and worn by the peasants. The wide slanted brim was made so to protect against the sun and the rain. A fun fact about these hats is that you can submerge it in water and wear it to cool down! This is so clever! You will keep cool until the water evaporates.
On to the DIY Asian Paper Hats
DIY Asian Paper Hats
Materials:
- 12 inch construction paper or stronger rounds. One per person
- stapler
- scissors
- 15 inch ribbon strips.
Directions:
- Cut a straight line from the edge of the circle to the middle of it. Don’t go over the middle point of the diameter of the circle.
- Next, layer one end over the over. You will do this with about a sixth of the entire round.
- Staple the overlap at the bottom.
- Now, get your ribbon ready. We used two strips of ribbon 15 inches long each. Staple them on opposite sides of the hat.
- Staples should not pose a problem at all, but just to be on the cautious side, we put a piece of tape over all the staples to avoid any accidental scratches.
There you have your Asian conical peasant hat! You can also choose to cut out a triangle of the round as a step after our #1. This means that you will have to glue the edges together. We are more about instant gratification, and this is why chose the staple route.
The dimensions considered for these hats were based on 3 – 8-year-old head sizes.
Cool mom TIP: you may want to decorate with gold accents or Chinese writing. Do so before you move to step #2 it will be easier.
More Chinese Cultural Celebration Ideas
We chose red paper to make the hats since it is the color of good luck in most Asian cultures. Now, I have to hurry and stuff our lucky red envelopes with their lucky pennies!
Curious about what we are doing for our Chinese New Year Menu? It is all in that link.
Do you craft with your kids to Celebrate Chinese New Year? Will you try making these easy hats?
Celebrate Chinese New Year With DIY Paper Hats – Part 2B Crafts
Easy and fun DIY to celebrate Asian culture, Chinese Lunar New Year, themed parties, and even homeschooling!
Materials
- 12 inch construction paper or stronger rounds. One per person
- stapler
- scissors
- 15 inch ribbon strips.
Instructions
- Cut a straight line from the edge of the circle to the middle of it. Don't go over the middle point of the diameter of the circle.
- Next, layer one end over the over. You will do this with about a sixth of the entire round.
- Staple the overlap at the bottom.
- Now, get your ribbon ready. We used two strips of ribbon 15 inches long each. Staple them on opposite sides of the hat.
Notes
Staples should not pose a problem at all, but just to be on the cautious side, we put a piece of tape over all the staples to avoid any accidental scratches.
My buena idea Tatty les voy a hacer a mis hijos para celebrar el año de la cabra!
That hat is the cutest thing. My boys would love those.
Such a fantastic idea and way of celebrating!
Me encanta esta serie de DIY´s por el año nuevo Chino, gracias por las ideas!
This is so cute and something I could have my daycare kids do. They would love it and would love to make those fortune cookies!
Super cute idea! I think you could even decorate with those paper hats!
This idea is too cute!!! I might have to just try this with my kids, thanks for sharing!
Super linda idea!!
I think this is such a cool idea. My kids personally don’t like the already made fortune cookies, but they like the fortunes inside. I think they would love getting to make their own.
how cool are those love the idea!
This looks like a really simple and easy DIY craft for Chinese New Year. I love the little hat, it’s so cute.
Awww… me encanta el gorrito de chinito! Lo tengo que hacer para mi Pequeña, muchas gracias por la recomendación! Saludos y
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Those are so cute!! I know lots of adoptive families who celebrate this holiday would love this idea.
So easy and so cute! I’ve never seen hats like this! Love them!
How cute! And they look so easy to make!
Oh, how fun! My kids used to want the hats like this! They would have been all over this craft.
These hats are really neat. It would be fun to see the decorations the kids add.
These look awesome! I would love to celebrate Chinese New Year this way, who doesn’t like paper hats right?
What a cute and easy way to help celebrate the Chinese New Year 🙂 x
This is such a cute idea to do for Chinese New Year, especially with the little ones!
What a cute craft for Chinese New Year. It is so colorful. My daughter would love to make one
What a cute little hat craft. I think it would be a lot of fun to decorate one with gold glitter and embellishments!
Those are cute hats. I love seeing how everyone is gearing up for the Chinese New Year.
I totally forgot about Chinese new year. What cute hats those are.
Still time! I hear it is a 15 day celebration!