How exactly, I keep being asked, does one make a tiny hat for a dinosaur? Specifically a Christmas one? Well, I'll tell you.
Start by cutting two felt circles, one red, and one white.
Now, cut both circles in half. Cut the inside of the white halves out too.
Glue the white to the red like this. You are making two hats here, by the way. That will stop squabbles amongst your dinosaurs.
Now, the tricky part. Run glue along the straight edge, and fold the half circle over. Clamp the two edges with a clothes peg, or some kind of clip.
Interesting step here. You will find that glue doesn't really work on felt. Maybe I was impatient, but I couldn't get any kind of sticking to happen.
So now, we discard all the felt, and switch to a much more forgiving medium, pretty coloured card stock.
Punches do a good job here. I'm using a 3/4 inch ("big") and a 1/2 inch punch ("small").
Punch a big circle of red, and puns OUT a small circle of white.
Use the nifty trick of punching the big punch around the hole left by the small one. That gets you a ring of white card.
Glue the white ring onto the red card, and cut in half.
Roll one of the hats around a pointy tool. Here, I have used a pointy tool. You should choose something pointy.
Overlap the tiny cone you have made, and glue the overlapping bit. A tiny enough clip will come in handy here.
Your tiny hat is ready! Put it on your dinosaur, and arrange the dinosaur in some kind of terrarium. Merry Christmas!
