Lions hats must replicate the exact look of the manes of a lion. You need to add in colors, frills and a lot of thin strips of either paper or ribbon in order to make the headgear similar to the billowing manes of a lion. Remember that the face of a lion is completely decked out in thick tufts of hair. Your headgear too must use differing hues of brown in order to come close to the actual look of a lion face. You could use paper to make the frills or flowing manes as it is the easiest to mold and curl up. Painting paper is also easy making it the ideal choice for quick crafting of a lion head band.
For the actual hat, you can either use a half cap or a bandana to serve as the base for attaching paper or ribbon manes. Alternatively, you could create an entire headgear with hair that sticks out from all sides of the face. Usually, preparing a lion hat for kids needs no extra appeal as a simple bandana shall suffice.
To begin with, take a full size bandana and then fold it into a triangle. This is no different from how you would wear a bandana. The extreme edges should become your surface for attaching colored paper strips that you can staple on or stick on using glue.
Next, it is time to prepare thin paper strips. Here you have a choice to either use tissue papers or normal paper. Tissue papers have the advantage of mimicking a naturally wavy motion but normal paper can withstand more stress and should stay on the hat longer. If you use tissue then take care that you do not shred them when cutting. To prepare the strips, take 10 or more sheets of tissue or paper and cut them vertically no more than 1 inch in width.
For perfect looking curls, you can take one side of each strip and curl them up. The other side shall be either stapled on to the bandana or glued on. Do not forget to make extra curls on a few paper strips so that all of them look real when put together.
To populate the bandana start from the widest edge of the hat and fix glued strips of curled paper one by one. Carefully attach each strip so that it just overlaps with the adjacent strip covering up the entire bandana. Moreover, you could attach a few strips slightly above each strip to manipulate the lock length.
For a better filling, start adding paper pieces behind the front row such that the entire bandana gets filled up. By the time you are done filling up the bandana with paper pieces, you should have no place left bare. Also, add in variation in colors by using tan tissue paper and brown tissue paper.
A piece of advice when making lions hats for kids, a normal size bandana may not fit their tiny heads. You might have to cut it into the right size before applying paper strips. Also, at the end do try it on the wearer and add in more strips where necessary.
For the actual hat, you can either use a half cap or a bandana to serve as the base for attaching paper or ribbon manes. Alternatively, you could create an entire headgear with hair that sticks out from all sides of the face. Usually, preparing a lion hat for kids needs no extra appeal as a simple bandana shall suffice.
To begin with, take a full size bandana and then fold it into a triangle. This is no different from how you would wear a bandana. The extreme edges should become your surface for attaching colored paper strips that you can staple on or stick on using glue.
Next, it is time to prepare thin paper strips. Here you have a choice to either use tissue papers or normal paper. Tissue papers have the advantage of mimicking a naturally wavy motion but normal paper can withstand more stress and should stay on the hat longer. If you use tissue then take care that you do not shred them when cutting. To prepare the strips, take 10 or more sheets of tissue or paper and cut them vertically no more than 1 inch in width.
For perfect looking curls, you can take one side of each strip and curl them up. The other side shall be either stapled on to the bandana or glued on. Do not forget to make extra curls on a few paper strips so that all of them look real when put together.
To populate the bandana start from the widest edge of the hat and fix glued strips of curled paper one by one. Carefully attach each strip so that it just overlaps with the adjacent strip covering up the entire bandana. Moreover, you could attach a few strips slightly above each strip to manipulate the lock length.
For a better filling, start adding paper pieces behind the front row such that the entire bandana gets filled up. By the time you are done filling up the bandana with paper pieces, you should have no place left bare. Also, add in variation in colors by using tan tissue paper and brown tissue paper.
A piece of advice when making lions hats for kids, a normal size bandana may not fit their tiny heads. You might have to cut it into the right size before applying paper strips. Also, at the end do try it on the wearer and add in more strips where necessary.
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