Make Witches' Hats for Halloween

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Witches' hats as candy holders

These little witches' hats can be filled with treats to give away to neighbourhood trick-or-treaters, or handed out as Halloween party favours for grown-up friends. They are also cute as table or tree decorations.

Materials for witches' hats candy holders

Use heavy craft paper or cardboard to make the hats. You can either use black paper, or paint the sheets black on both sides when you've cut the circles. The hats are suitable for children to make, but younger children should be supervised or assisted with using a craft knife and fitting the base to the cone.

To make the hats

Draw a semi-circle against the edge of your sheet of heavy craft paper or cardboard, using a compass or circular template.

Measure approximately a 120 degree angle from the centre of the straight edge of your semi-circle, and draw a radius through 120 degrees. You can use a protractor to get the angle correct, but guessing slightly either side of 120 degrees will work fine, or, if you have a big enough sheet, you can simply draw a circle and divide it into thirds.

Cut out the bigger wedge and shape it into the cone of the witch's hat. Glue or staple into place.

Reset your compass to half the length of the radius of the semi-circle used to form the cone. Draw a full circle and cut out. This is the base or brim of the hat.

Candy holders

Cut about four tabs into the bottom of the hat cone, removing the paper between each tab.

Position the cone in the centre of the base circle and mark the positions and lengths of the tabs.

Use a craft knife to cut slits in the base circle to fit the tabs into.

Put a selection of candy in the cone and slot the base through the tabs of the cone to close the hat. Bend the tabs over to hold the base in place.

As a final touch, bend the tip of the cone of the hat in two places in opposite directions so that it looks slightly battered.

See instructions and illustrations here...

Full instructions for creating witches' hats

The same design can be scaled up to make party hats to wear, or make them out of foam and cover with fabric for a real witch's hat.

Create witches' hats for halloween: Detailed instructions for making witches' hats candy holders and head gear for Halloween or Harry Potter parties.

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prosperity66 prosperity66 Oct 28, 2009 @ 2:12 am

Great way to "recycle" a witch hat! I like unusual use of things...
Dom.

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Najwa Najwa Oct 2, 2009 @ 5:09 am

Amazing! i will make the witch hat for my pretanding game!my friends will love it!wooohooo!and how about witch accecories?

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EelKat EelKat Mar 29, 2008 @ 9:48 pm

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ToSquidoo ToSquidoo Oct 23, 2007 @ 12:15 pm

Elsa,

Nice site! I should be able to use the Witch's hat information for a "Black Hat" party I'm going to this Saturday....Thanks

Keep up the great work!

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EelKat EelKat Aug 19, 2007 @ 2:47 am

another great lens! Wow, you've got such great ideas. When I was 5 my mom made me a witch's hat (well a whole costum with gown and cape too), but even after Halloween I used to zip around the house in my hat and cape. I loved it! That was 30 years ago and I still where witchs hats and capes today!

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