Last year, we did a little unit study on Mushrooms. Well, we always try to read about mushrooms every fall when it rains. Confession, I actually don't like eating mushrooms, but I love finding and looking at mushrooms. They come in all sorts of different sizes and are very unique in all their growing stages. Plus, they like a super organism that are natures top decomposers and help clean up toxins. So many cool things about them. 

Check out some of our favorite books about Mushrooms. It includes the Tales of the Mushroom Folk, which is the inspiration for this costume. 

Step 2:

Next make cross sections to make the top structure of the hat. We did 3 of them. Tape those to the base of the hat. 

Step 3:

Next you want to cut a circular shape with a hole in the middle the size of the base of the hat. Tape this to your hat base. 

Step 4:

Here is where your going to wrap your batting around your base hat shape. Stretch and try to make it smooth as possible. Flip it over and hot glue it to the base. 

Step 5:

Now we're going to take the red felt and wrap it around the batting. This part was a little tricky to get it smoothed out on the hat. But, we finally just let the folds happen and realize they add a mushroom charm to it. Flip it over and glue it to the base. 

For the bottom of the hat, you're going to take white felt and bunch it up as you go and glue it so it covers up the underside of the hat. This will be the gills of the hat. You can be precise or just go with it. We kind of just went with it instead of being precise and we love how it worked. Last, hot glue some white spots to the top. And you're done!