Fashion and Digital Art

3rd Friday February 2013 Hat Making Activity -Prep

For the coming third friday, we are having a participatory hat making activity and I couldn’t be more excited about it. Haley and I are working together on this project and in our first meeting, Stacy took us on a tour around the basement storage of MAH. Here on the table, there is all the stuff we found in the basement and we are trying to figure out creative ways to use them for this activity. 

Eventually making a few sample hats, we figured out the materials we need for the hat making station for the event. We had lots of fabrics and laces in the museum that we decided to use for decoration. Along with those, we also decided to buy tissue paper, feathers, pompom balls and decorative paper. As for the base for the hats, we are going to provide pie tins, different sizes of paper bowls and some paper top hats that we already had in the museum.

To make it a little easy for the participants, we decided to spray paint the paper bowls. They look a lot nicer when they are painted in bright colors, aren't they?

Here is our little to do list before the event. We decided to put up three tables for bases, fabric decorations and paper decorations. We'll make two big banners, three small ones for the tables and prepare all the materials in the buckets and baskets the day before the event. 

It is only a few days to the event and still a lot to do. Stay tuned for more updates. ;)