instructions on making a paper or cloth racoon or coon skin cap
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1) Cut a strip of lightweight cardboard long enough to go around your head with two inches left over.
2) Fit the band around your head, then staple or tape the ends in place.
3) Place this cardboard band on a piece of cloth, brown paper sack, or butcher paper and draw a circle that is slightly larger then the cardboard band. Cut this out.
4) Spread glue around one edge of the cardboard band.
5) Lay the cloth or paper circle flat and place the cardboard band, with the glued side down, in the center. Pull the edge of the cloth over the cardboard and press it onto the glue (for the paper circle, cuts will have to be made at intervals along the circle in order for the paper to fit without crinkling). This makes the frame for the hat.
6) Cut the coonskin tail the size and shape you want it from a piece of cloth or paper. Glue the tail into place at the lower edge of the cardboard band. Let the glue dry.
7) Spread glue over the frame and cover it with cotton. Then do the same for the tail and let dry.
8) Paint over the cotton. Be sure to paint stripes on the tail.
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