Choose a stocking cap color that best represents your jungle animal. Choose yellow for jaguars and leopards; brown for certain monkeys, chimpanzees and tapirs; gray for elephants, gorillas and rhinoceroses; orange for tigers; and black for gorillas, bats and certain monkeys.
Use pieces of felt to create jungle animal ears. Make pointed triangles for cats, rounded ears for apes and monkeys and large ears for elephants, for example. Attach them to the stocking cap using a hot glue gun.
Make fur or skin features that represent your animal. Cut round spots for jaguars, and fur tufts for apes and monkeys out of felt, for example. Glue them to the stocking cap with hot glue.
Create a nose for your animal out of felt or buttons. Cut a long nose for an elephant, or wings for a bat, for example, and glue it so it hangs over the brim and along the child's nose. Cut out a half circle, twist it into a cone-shaped rhinoceros horn, then glue it together. When it's dry, attach it to the brim of the cap. Find a black button nose for an ape or monkey, then stitch or glue it on.
Make eyes for your jungle creature using white felt as the base and colored felt for the iris and pupils. Shape the eyes to best match your animal. For example, make small black eyes for an elephant or rhinoceros, wide eyes with a feline pupil for jaguars or tiger, or tiny button eyes for a bat.
Accessorize the jungle animal hat to enhance the appearance. For example, add pipe cleaner whiskers to a feline animal or draw creases on the elephant's trunk with puff paint. Glue mother-of-pearl sequins in various areas on the cap to make it stand out on stage.
Choose the color of stocking cap that matches your jungle animal. Green hats work best for some snakes, frogs and crocodiles; red or blue represents colorful birds; while brown works for some snakes and insects. Use white for just about any creature when you add colored felt.
Create your animal's features using felt and feathers. Stitch or glue feathers onto the cap to create the head crest of a bird, or glue diamond shapes from felt for a snake's scaly pattern.
Design a nose, snout or beak for your jungle creature using felt. Cut orange or yellow beaks out of felt and glue them so they hang down over the brim of the cap. Sew two small black buttons side by side for snake or frog nostrils.
Make eyes out of felt and glue or stitch them to the hat. Make reptilian eyes with long pupils for snakes, frogs and crocodiles. Round eyes of dark felt with a button sewn on top work well for birds and larger reptiles.
Embellish the jungle animal caps with other accessories, such as sequins glued on to reflect the spotlight on the stage. Add scales in puff paint for snake and crocodile skin, or glue lace around the edge of a bird cap to mimic the light, see-through look of feathers.