Around the World Craft: Paper Plate and Bowl Sombrero

This craft is harder for children to do, so, for the most part, I did the work and they decorated it. But it's hard, with two year olds, to do certain things, especially since the class ranges from 18 months to almost 3. So you can only set out crafts that all of the ages can do. But this one does turn out really cute and the kids will actually wear it.

The finished project, upside down so you can see the components.

 

 Here's the uncolored sombrero sitting atop the head of a teddy bear larger than the children.

 

What You'll Need:

• Paper plate, regular size (you can use styrofoam or paper, but I wouldn't try this with plastic)
• Paper bowl (I guess it would be considered regular size, but if you stack the bowl on top of the paper plate, it must fit the center and the rim of the plate must stick out around it)
• Hot glue gun (and liquid glue, if you want the kids to stick the pom-poms on)
• Pom-poms
• Foam stickers and/or regular stickers
• Watercolor and/or tempura paints and paintbrush
• Scissors 
• Markers

How to Make It:

1. Use the scissors to puncture a hole somewhere in the center of the paper plate. Cut the middle out of the paper plate so that you only have the outside ridge and the flat center is just a hole.
2. Leaving the paper plate rim facing the correct way a plate should (the edges should be pointing up and curve down to the center), hot glue the paper bowl face down to the rim (it should make a dome shape, not a dip shape). Allow to cool and dry.
3. When the hat is dry, hot glue pom-poms in even spaces around the rim of the hat. This can be done by the child if the hat is upside-down and they're using liquid glue, but it'll take longer to dry and the pieces are more likely to fall off. Allow the pom-poms to dry on before decorating.
4. Once all the other components are dry, you can decorate the hat with stickers, foam stickers, paints, and markers (though markers are difficult for children to use on the dome part of the hat).
5. If you use paints or glue anything else onto the hat, allow it to dry. Once it's dry, your child can wear it. Have a Mexican fiesta!