DIY Turkey Trot Hat
Who needs a DIY Turkey Trot hat? Apparently I do!
I didn’t know I needed a turkey trot hat until last week when my cousin announced via text message that we would be doing a turkey trot over Thanksgiving Break.
Our entire family is coming together for Thanksgiving at the beach in Florida. It will be my parents, my brother/his wife/my niece and nephew, my cousin and her husband and three children, my other cousin and her boyfriend, my aunt, and my grandpa. In other words, the whole gang!
I asked my cousin how to sign up for the turkey trot, and it was explained to me that it wasn’t an actual thing. We are just going for a walk as a family on Thanksgiving and calling it a “turkey trot.”
“Are we doing costumes?” I asked?
One contingent of the family decided to make tshirts. My family and I decided to opt for hats. (Well, I kinda cajoled them into the hat idea, but they are definitely on board.)
Here’s what we came up with:
How to Make a DIY Turkey Trot Hat
Step One: Purchase all the supplies: a brown baseball cap like this one, 1 sheet of soft felt (red, orange, white, and black), 1 large sheet of stiff felt (red, orange, yellow), and 2 brown pipe cleaners for legs.
Step Two: Cut out the pieces. I cut a triangle out of the orange felt for the beak. I used a ranch dressing lid to trace a circle on the white felt for the eyes, and I traced a penny onto black felt for the pupils. Then I made a squiggle shape for the gobble thing. (What are those called?) Finally, I cut out rectangles from the stiff felt and shaped them into feathers.
Step Three: I used a hot glue gun (with only one minor injury) to glue on the gobble thing first, the beak second, and the eyes third.
Step Four: I fanned out the feathers and then sewed them on the back of the cap with a straight line from my sewing machine. It was awkward to get that much thickness under the thingamabob (perimenopause much?), but it worked out just fine.
Step Five: Use brown pipe cleaners to shape three toes and attach the legs to the back strap of the cap.
Clearly I feel very proud of myself or else I would not be writing a whole post about it! I had a really fun time trying to puzzle through how to DIY a turkey trot hat. I was so worried the feathers wouldn’t stay up, but the thick felt helped a ton. Also, I’m excited to have a comfortable costume to wear year-after-year (hopefully this makeshift turkey trot idea becomes a family tradition!).