MAKE! Carnival Headdress

Create wonderful summer carnival headdresses in this Make! tutorial.
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Once you have finished decorating your headdress, glue (and staple if you can) the two ends of the headband together. You might want to check your measurements again to check it will fit your head.
Step 8: Fit the Headband
Once you have finished decorating your headdress, glue (and staple if you can) the two ends of the headband together. You might want to check your measurements again to check it will fit your head.
a hand holding up a paper cutout with colorful feathers on it's head
Step 7: Attach Headdress to Headband
Position the headdress over the centre of the headband and glue them together (using staples for added strength if possible) Cut out colourful shapes from magazines or coloured paper and decorate the headdress.
Make a wonderful summer carnival headdress in this Make! tutorial.
Make! Carnival Headdress
Make a wonderful summer carnival headdress in this Make! tutorial.
someone cutting up some blue tissue paper on top of a wooden table next to a pair of scissors
Step 3: Feathers
Make these out of recycled plastic bags, newspapers or magazines. You will need 7 short feathers and 9 long ones. Fold paper or plastic bags and cut half a feather shape on the fold. Then cut into the non-folded side to ‘feather’ it. Short feathers are 14cm long and 6cm wide (3cm when folded). Long feathers are 24cm long and 8cm wide (4 cm when folded).
a piece of paper that has been cut out to look like an animal's head
Your template
Download this template to help create your head band.
Cut a strip of card 4cm wide by 55cm long. Fit the headband round your head and mark the overlap. This will give you the correct size for your head, but do not cut the card or stick it together just yet!
Step 1: Headband
Cut a strip of card 4cm wide by 55cm long. Fit the headband round your head and mark the overlap. This will give you the correct size for your head, but do not cut the card or stick it together just yet!
someone is making a paper flower out of cardboard
Step 2: Headdress
Cut the main headdress shape out of card. You can either print out the templates or copy it from the picture. (See the headdress template at the end these instructions.)
scissors, rulers and pencils on a wooden table
Step 4: Feather Spines
Cut card into long strips 0.5cm wide (15cm for the short feathers and 25cm for the long ones). These are the ‘spines’ of the feather.
some pink and blue feathers sitting on top of a wooden table
Step 5: Stick Feathers and Spines Together
Open the feather out. Centre a card ‘spine’ vertically and fix with sellotape. You can shape the feather by gently running your thumb along the spine to curve it.
Turn the headdress over. Attach the shorter feathers in a fan shape using either sellotape or staples. Make sure the ‘spines’ face the front. Then attach the longer feathers in a fan shape over the top of them, using either sellotape or staples. When you turn it over again the short feathers will be in front of the long ones.
Step 6: Attach Feathers to Headdress
Turn the headdress over. Attach the shorter feathers in a fan shape using either sellotape or staples. Make sure the ‘spines’ face the front. Then attach the longer feathers in a fan shape over the top of them, using either sellotape or staples. When you turn it over again the short feathers will be in front of the long ones.
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