Handicraft Magazine Spring 2014 | Page 28

28 Kids’ corner Make your own cowboy hat Why not make this makeshift origami cowboy hat with your kids or maybe your nephew or niece? Maybe you want to make it for practice in paper craft instead? Nikki White illustrates and explains how to make a cowboy hat out of a small square piece of paper. Start off with a 15 x 15cm square piece of paper. You can buy special origami paper on the internet or in craft shops, or you can cut an A4 piece of paper. Then carefully fold this diagonally, as shown above. After this, you should end up with a triangle shape, shown in Stage B. Then fold point 1 over to meet poi