How to make hats and headbands for fancy dress - pirate and pilot
You can order pirate hats and captain hats from the internet. Sources I found were in the USA, UK, and China. Ordering from overseas may take longer, unless you are a member of Amazon prime or are in a hurry and are prepared to pay.
Which is 'quicker'. Do you have time (now) to make, or time (all month) to wait?
If you have access to a printer in an office, home, or hotel, this is easy. Download the headband or hat from the internet. Lots of samples are available in craft websites and teachers' aids to other teachers and teachers' and parents' aids to other parents.
My main concern is the amount of black ink I am using up on my home printer. It costs money. You run out and delay important printing projects of agendas for meetings whilst you stop to change the ink. A headband uses less black ink than a full size hat.
Ideally, use a piece of black paper. Or buy a set of different coloured cars. Or save cards from various products using the plain white or coloured backs. You can then colour white paper with a felt tip pen, or with poster paint, or an offcut of fabric or a piece of disposable cloth.
Pirate Hats
A pirate hat is a three-cornered hat, known by its French name, tricorne. The black front has a white symbolic skull symbol in the middle. For added effect, you can place a one-sided black mask over one eye. The mask effect is a circle or square with added string. Better still, make the oval or rectangle slanting. You could use a pair of spectacles or sunglasses as a model to copy the shape.
Pilot and Captain Hats
I was looking for an airline pilot hat. You can get captain hats for aircraft, ships, and buses. These are offered in black and white. I liked jolly red. I searched for the cheapest Captain hat from China. The one I picked, on closer inspection, had the word captain mis-spelled as CAPTAN. Not good for my audience as I am teaching English pronunciation and spelling.
I had some other false starts. One craft site said click below to download the template. But the icon to click on was missing. I moved the screen to large, left, right, up, down, still no icon.
Wikihow gave a pirate hat, but not a pilot hat. My husband asked me, 'Why do you bother giving links to other websites in your post. Surely, every reader can find their own?'
I was thinking, surely I can research again if I want to come back to this project later today, a week's time, a year's time. No - it is a great time saver to have the right links grouped together. You can easily spend an hour or more hunting through dead end websites, not to mention getting distracted by the advertising. Wikipedia had a picture of a captain with a group of others, an a WWI bomber hat. So here are my favourite links. If and when I find more, I shall add them later.
Anyway, it is all fun of the day, a pleasing break from the news.
The other items I liked are:
A hook made from a red paper cup and either the broken off hook from a hanger, or a still unused hook for curtain tie-backs.
A parrot for the arm.
A white paper plate as a face on which to tape a pirate's hat. Handy if you don't have time or energy to keep changing your hats during a zoom talk. Also avoids the risk of hats falling off your head and ruffling your hair.
Useful Websites
https://www.coolest-free-printables.com/2015/03/19/cool-printable-pirate-hats/
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Pirate-Hat
https://www.vecteezy.com/free-vector/pilot-hat
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