To make a newspaper hat, you should fold a newspaper in half horizontally. Imagine a vertical line down the center and fold the top corners to the line to make a triangle. Tape the folds down. Now fold the bottom edges up and tape as needed to hold it in place. Next, decorate your hat with fringe, glitter and construction paper cut outs. This headpiece can be adapted for most any season or holiday.
You can make a sun visor out of a paper plate just by making one cut, decorating it, and securing it with elastic or yarn. Make a single cut to form a moon-shaped visor. Decorate as needed to correspond with a particular lesson or just for fun. Use a paper punch to make holes in each end of the visor, at the tip and bottom of the moon shape. Attach elastic or yarn and fit to the head size of the person who is going to wear it.
An easy headpiece can be made out of a paper bag. This hat requires that the paper be pliable, so you should crumple and straighten the bag several times first. Once the bag is flexible, begin at the open end and roll the edge up. For a tall hat, just roll a little bit. For a short hat, roll more. The rolled edge will make the brim of the hat. You can pinch the brim and tape it to help make it fit properly. Now it's time to paint it, add ribbon and glue on decorations.
A simple and versatile choice for a kid's headpiece art project is a construction paper headband. Just cut two strips out of construction paper, size pieces to the child's head, glue the pieces together in a circle and decorate. You can use thick strips and cut a zigzag pattern from the top to make a crown. You can use green construction paper, fringe the top to make it look like grass, and attach tissue paper flowers to chenille stems for a spring headband. This headpiece can be adapted for a variety of themes.