Provide a sheet of moderately thick brown paper, size from 18 inches to 2 feet, shape as in Fig. 1. Smooth it out perfectly flat, and double over as in Fig. 2. Turn it round with the fold from you, and mark the exact middle of the piece at A, Fig. 3. Then bring down both corners, and measure off on the edge B from the point A, Fig. 3. a distance equal to | the circumference of your head. Mark the point. Now turn the paper over so that the underside will be upper most, and bend the apex of the triangle back from the point just marked, as in Fig. 4. Fold over the Bides, Fig. 5 and 6, and with Scissors cut off the portion, C, below the dotted line, and also the points of the two lower corners of the pieces just bent over. Next unfold the paper; spread it out flat: you will find a square marked in the middle, and creases Leading there-from to the corners of the paper. Double up the material on these creases, so as to bring up the paper as Bides of a box, of which the middle square is the bottom, as in Fig, 7. Smooth the folds fiat, and your work will appear as in Fig. 8. Lastly, turn up the edges of the box all around twice, folding the paper on itself. Your cap is then complete, and if the measurement directed above was correctly made, it will exactly fit your head.

Making Paper Caps