1. Make a Hat for a Snowman With a Flower Pot
David Beaulieu
Need a snowman hat in a hurry? This method sacrifices looks a bit (you won't have an authentic-looking brim for the top hat), but it's quick:
Find an empty flower pot lying around your storage shed. I found one that was just about the right size for my project: 12 inches across at the rim, 8 inches across at the bottom. Because of the way it flares out at the rim, it does look a little bit like the brim of a top hat.
The flower pot was originally green. All I had to do to make it a top hat for a snowman was to spray it black (if you can find the right pot and it just happens to be black, you don't need to do any work at all!).
2. Make a Hat for a Snowman With Plastic
Go to a movie and buy a popcorn tub. Sounds like a strange instruction in a piece on how to make a hat for a snowman, right? But you'll bring home the tub and use it for the snowman hat's crown. Alternatively, scrounge around for a similar container.
Now find something for the brim of the hat, which you'll attach to the tub. Go rummage around in the garage in search of an old plastic lid or other flat, round item. Once you've found that item, put the tub in the middle of it and trace a line around it. That marks the inner edge for your brim. For the outer edge, trace a second line using a dish whose diameter is a few inches greater than the tub's.
Cut out the shape you just outlined and glue it to the tub. Spray-paint the hat black.
3. Make a Hat for a Snowman Using a Can
You can use the same technique to make a hat for a snowman as you just read above but simply use different materials. This third idea I mention will yield a smaller top hat and thus would be appropriate for a smaller snowman.
For the crown, use a small-sized coffee can; for the brim, an old Frisbee. Place the can in the middle of the Frisbee and trace a line, just as was suggested above. Using this mark as a guide, cut the middle out of the Frisbee. Now cut the curved edge off the Frisbee, so that you essentially end up with a flat, wheel-shaped figure.
Glue-gun the brim to the crown, and spray-paint the top hat black.
4. Tip for Stabilizing Your Snowman Hat
A top hat has been known to blow off of a person who wears one on a windy day, so you have to anticipate that a top hat might blow off of your stylish snowman, too. One thing you can do to secure a top hat to a snowman is to drill holes in the lower part of the hat, then gently push spikes through these holes down into the snowman's head, thereby anchoring the top hat.
Can't do that on a person. Chalk one up to the snowman!
