Creative inspiration: Duct tape hats

L. has been making headgear out of duct tape and having a ball with it (she was inspired to do this after taking a 4-H workshop). The only downside to this craft project for L. has been ripping the tape. She was sporting several band-aids over small blisters on her fingers from all her ripping action last week. But after seeing her many creations, it's no wonder her fingers have been sore. She designed a wide variety of hat styles for everyone in the family.

The top hat below is complete per L.'s standards with its special bow on the brim (although I was told it would look better with a pink or purple bow if she had that color of tape - I indulged the request recently with a couple of colored rolls from the craft store).

She made this one at her 4-H workshop, which had the purple colored tape available.

But this is my very favorite creation simply because it never would have occurred to me to make a sun visor for Dulce, the family cat.

 
L. posted a blog entry about making this hat and the highlight of her explanation was:

I decided to make my cat Dulce a duct tape visor with a chin strap so it would not fall off her head.

Yup, she spent some time working out this design to ensure it would not only fit on her cat's head but that the cat couldn't shake it off (and she's made several hats for her cat so Dulce is tolerant of modeling them). She also made her sister a visor - with flowers - to match.

Duct tape is not particularly cheap when you buy a bunch of different colors but she made all these hats with one regular roll of tape so it does last quite a while (she used recycled cardboard and/or piece of poster board as the base for some of these hats). But I think the entertainment value was worth the $3.50 I paid for that first roll of tape. Anyone else ever make projects with duct tape? L. got a few ideas from the Duct Tape Club but she was wondering what other kids like to make with the stuff.