Materials
- One gray kids top
- One tan kids bottom
- Dark brown felt
- Medium brown felt
- Black felt
- Yellow felt
- Poster board
- Green felt
- White felt
- Black marker
- Empty paper towel tube
- Black cardstock paper
- Clear tape
- Black string
- Small black pom pom
Tools
- Hot glue gun & sticks
- Paint brush
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Tapestry needle
Instructions
- Create the hat
- Draw a large rounded oval onto a sheet of poster board, and a smaller oval in the center that’s large enough to fit the child’s head.
- Cut along the drawn lines, being careful to cut the center oval out cleanly. This piece will be used for the top of the hat.
- Use this cutout ring and smaller oval to trace the same pattern onto dark brown felt. Cut two matching felt rings and one oval, and set aside.
- Cut a long strip of poster board for the sides of the hat, and cut a strip of dark brown felt to match.
- Cut short tabs along one long edge of the long strip. Fold and glue these tabs under the inner circle cut of the brim ring to attach it together.
- Glue the smaller poster board oval to the top of the hat.
- Glue the dark brown felt pieces that were cut out earlier, onto the hat to cover it.
- Cut a thinner strip of medium brown felt to make the hat band.
- Glue the band around the hat.
- Glue two long strands of black string to either side of the inner hat to make the hat ties.
- Thread the ends of the hat ties through a tapestry needle and push it through the center of a small black pom pom. The ties are now adjustable.
- Create the arm patches
- Cut out two shield shapes from brown felt.
- Cut out two green felt pine trees and glue them to each brown patch.
- Attach these patches to the upper arms with fabric tape.
- Create the name tag
- Cut a small rectangle from white felt.
- Use a black marker to write the child’s name onto the felt.
- Attach this tag to the left upper chest with fabric tape.
- Make the belt
- Cut a long strip of black felt that fits around the waist.
- Cut a rectangle belt buckle from a scrap of yellow felt & glue it to one end of the belt.
- Attach the belt around the waist with fabric tape.
- Create the binoculars
- Cut an empty paper towel tube in half.
- Use black cardstock paper & clear tape to cover each tube.
- Glue two strips of black cardstock to connect the tubes together.
- Glue black string to the binoculars to hold it around the neck.
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