Scary witches’ hats are a wonderful option for treating others or gifting as party favors on Halloween.

They also serve the purpose of table or tree decorations. These hats can be made using various materials but the most essential requirements are heavy craft paper or cardboard, craft knife and black paint. Children and adults both enjoy making these crafts and use them for treating or scaring during Halloween.

To make these exciting hats, draw a semi circle on the sheet of heavy craft paper or cardboard. Make this semi circle using a compass, circular template or a bangle. Measure about 120 degrees angle from the center and draw a radius through 120 degrees. Make use of the protractor to have the exact angle measurement. Go for bigger size caps, by cutting a bigger circle from the sheet of paper. Cut the sheet of paper along the drawn semi circle using a craft knife or scissors. Cut the semi circle from the heavy craft paper, shape it into a cone. Shape the paper in such a form that resembles a witch’s hat. Glue or staple the paper at the required points or ends.

Once you are done with the cone shaped hat, draw a full circle on the piece of paper. To draw this full circle, reset your compass to half the length of the radius of semi circle. Cut the full circle and use that sheet of paper for making the base of the hat. This completes the witch’s hat.
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Halloween is much more than just costumes and Trick or Treating. This is a festival of joy and entertainment especially if you have younger children at home.

From making masks out of paper to preparing scary decorations, there is multitude of fun Halloween crafts that you can do with your tiny tots.

The most popular crafts include goodie boxes, ice cream stick pumpkins, paper bag pumpkins, pumpkin carvings, face masks, witch’s hat, haunted house, ghosts, spiders, flapping bats, cat patrol and milk jar.

The most popular craft is the Jack-o-Lantern, a craft that originated from the ancient ceremony of feasting and welcoming the dead by the living. Most of the people during those days made face masks that resembled their deities and spirits. This blend of festival and art of making faces paved way for traditional pumpkins carved as Jack-o-Lanterns.

People in the earlier times also used skulls and bones to store relics of their ancestors. They used celebrate a festival of reincarnation and invited their dead relatives and ancestors to the festival celebration by placing their skull. There was a time when people used to keep relics of their ancestors in the form of heirlooms and their bones, such as skulls, and used to honor them on celebrations and festivities and invite them to join their parties and festivities. This made the craft of pumpkin and Jack-o-lantern more popular in later years. Times may have changed now but the spirit of Jack-o-lantern remains. Children still enjoy them at parties.