How To: Origami Hat

Last week when I was up in Portland I swung through a Japanese Garden. It happened to be “kids day” or something like that there, and one of the activities was to make an origami hat out of newspaper. I had to get in on it. A friend happened to document the entire process so now I am sharing it with you.

Whoever can successfully make one of these newspaper hats and send me a picture of you wearing it to, laura@laustindesign.com. I will make a post using your pictures, and send you a surprise in the mail.

Check out the steps after the jump.

Take one piece of newspaper… fold it into a triangle and fold in that extra flap to make a perfect triangle

Fold the corners up to make a square.

Fold the corners to the opposite tip to create two triangles.

Fold down the tips of your triangles to create “ears”

Fold the top flap of your lower triangle, midway up the triangle with the ears.

Fold up the excess to create a brim.

Fold the remaining lower flap inside the hat.

Voilà.. an origami hat. Get folding.