The Paper Hat Book Review

Complimentary product was received for free in exchange for an honest review

Hats are pure fun and the perfect item to cap off any costume or ensemble. The right headgear ensures complete transformation, especially on the head of an imaginative child.
The Paper Hat Book offers creative families 20 fantastic paper hats, all of which can be created quickly and easily from readily accessible papers: shopping bags, newspapers, comics, recycled story books, magazines, packaging scraps, and junk mail!
Artist and designer Alyn Carlson creates hats that are perfect for birthday parties, playdates, costumes, and everyday dress up. Each hat can be styled to perfectly suit the wearer by merely selecting the right paper and colors. The hat themes range from Floral Flappers to Viking Warriors, and from superheroes and pirates to beautiful butterfly hats

My thoughts:
This is a really great crafty book.  What kid doesn't like to make things especially hats?  And what parent doesn't like the idea of recycling paper (junk mail, scrap copy paper etc.).

With having twenty different paper hats to make, there is something in this book that just about any kid can find that they would like.  Alyn Carlson gives very detailed and pictured directions for each hat.  She also has a child pictured with the finished crafted hat in color.

My daughter who is ten had some friends over for a sleep over party, and we made some paper hats from this book.  I do think that adult help is needed to get started.  The girls didn't understand some of the illustrated directions.  The girls took their paper hats home the next day with them, and two moms inquired of this book and where they could get one.