Still searching for a last minute Halloween costume? Try making this bubbly propeller hat from Project Kid: Crafts That Go! Then throw on a trench coat and you’re Inspector Gadget!
What You’ll Need:
- One 6-inch-diameter paper bowl
- Pencil
- Paint
- Paintbrush
- Thin twine or string
- Scissors
- Six 1-inch buttons
- 4 bubble wands
- 1⁄4-inch hole punch
- Elastic cord
- Paracord (available from Michaels.com)
- 2 empty bubble solution bottles
- Hammer and nail
- Colored duct tape
What to Do:
- Poke a hole in the bottom center of the bowl with a pencil. Paint stripes, dots, or zigzags on the bowl to decorate.
- Cut a 12-inch piece of string. Thread the string up through one buttonhole, then through the handle of the first bubble wand, then through another button, and so on until you’ve made a stack of five buttons and four bubble wands, with a button on the top and on the bottom.
- Go back down the stack, threading the string through the opposite hole on each button as you go down.
- Insert the two string tails into the hole on the painted side of the bowl. Thread the tails through two holes in another button and tie a knot to secure.
- To make a chin strap for your hat, punch a hole on either side of the bowl and knot a piece of elastic cord through both holes. (Make sure it’s tight enough to keep the hat on but isn’t uncomfortable.)
- Cut an approximately 5-foot-long piece of paracord and tie the middle of the cord around the bottom button of the propeller, where it meets the bowl. (Adjust the length of the cord according to the arm length of the child.)
- Have an adult use a hammer and nail to punch holes in the tops of both bubble solution bottle caps. Thread the end of one of the cords through the hole in one cap; knot on the underside of the cap. Reseal the bottle. Repeat with the second bottle and cord.
- Decorate the bubble bottles with tape, then suit up in the apparatus to take flight.
Excerpted from Amanda Kingloff’s Project Kid: Crafts That Go! (Artisan).
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