Sesame Street Themed Party Hats

These were so much fun to make. We made two types of hats one style for our guests that had a variety of characters and one special hat for our birthday girl that is Elmo and fuzzy. Our origial plan was to just do the Elmo hat but looking online for ideas I just could not resist doing this easy set I found.

The first set was super easy to put together all you need is:

Plain multi-color party hats (variety pack of 8 only $1.99)
Tape
Scissors
Character faces printed on regular copy paper

Set up was easy as you can see, the project is self explanitory (cut face and tape to hat, we rolled the tape), clean up was a cinch, and the turn out was amazing! This part of our project did not offer much creativity but my toddler was happy attaching the faces to the hat.

We lined the hats up and she told me one by one who each character was and even used their voices. Toddlers love to be Cookie Monster!

Before even starting the second hat I am irritated with the boa feathers all over my house. Lesson learned pay the extra dollar for the better stuff. The cheap stuff is not the same in this case. But we must move on! This project is a little advanced for a toddler, probably me too, so she will create her own hat without a pattern (Elmo). Allowing her to create her own hat is better open ended play.

We used the leftover hats from the multi-pack, glue, scissors, felt(white and black), puff balls ($3.99 but will get lots more use), and boa feathers ($2.99). To make the Elmo hat you will use the glue to attach the pieces; 2 medium size white circle, 2 small black circles, orange nose, mouth, and ring of boa at top and bottom of hat. You will need to allow hat to dry over night. A splash of hair spray keeps feathers together. For the toddler end allow her to select scrap pieces etc, to design her own, you can put a dab of glue on a paper plate to allow her to "do it herself".

D is for done!