Materials
Corrugated paper
scissors
pencil
cardboard
red, yellow, and purple construction or wrapping paper
gold or silver shiny paper or aluminum foil
1" pompoms
bright colored yarn, ribbon, or rickrack
white glue
stapler
Instructions
1. Cut corrugated paper into long strips, 24" long and 3" wide, for headbands.
2. Draw the outline of a jester hat (see illustration on the next page) on a piece
of cardboard and cut it out to make a pattern.
3. Encourage the children to trace the jester hat pattern on the reverse side of a
piece of corrugated paper and cut it out. Decorate the hat with construction
paper or wrapping paper.
4. Help the children cut out several diamond shapes from shiny paper or foil
and glue them on the hat.
5. Encourage the children to decorate their jester hats by gluing a pompom ball
on each hat tip and their choice of trim to the bottom edge of the hat.
6. Glue or staple the headband to the hat.
7. Staple the headband to fit the size of the child's head.
