Hats Throughout History

Art 207-05, Group 3
Names: Tracy Murphy, Kerry O’Brien, Laura Carmon, Lindsey Martin

Objectives

• Students will learn a brief history of hats including uses and origins
• Students will learn that there are many types of hats for many purposes
• Students will learn how to create a hat from paper

Students Materials:

1. Large white paper (As large as possible)
2. Stapler
3. Glue
4. Scissors
5. Markers
6. Colored construction paper
7. Decorative Materials (i.e. feathers, yarn, tissue, ribbon)
8. Recycled Paper to cover tables

Teacher Materials:

1. Slides of hats throughout history
2. Information about the history of hats and a list of their uses
3. Examples of paper hats to make

Vocabulary:

• Vikings
• Sombrero
• Cylinder
• Thebes
• Brim

Procedures:

Introduction

• Discuss a brief history of hats and their purposes
• Show slides of various types of hats
• Show an example of how to make the hat project

Decorate large white paper how hat should look

Roll, wrap, cut, and staple into hat shape

Add on all finishing touches and decorations

Closure

• Discuss what students learned from hat project
• Discuss again the uses of a hat

Suggestions and/or Comments:

• Make sure students understand simple ways of folding paper into cylinder hat.
• Make sure they do most of artwork before the hat is folded or made.
• Make sure to walk around and help students

Resources:

The Hat Bible’s History of Hats.
http://www.hatsuk.com/hatsuk/hatsukhtml/bible/history.htm
Microsoft Word’s Clip Art File

Cultural Background:

The first hat that was probably worn was an animal skin cap, to cover the head from harmful weather.

One of the earliest hats that we know was worn was shown on a wall in a tomb painting in Thebes. It was a painting of a man wearing a straw hat.

The ancient Greeks were the first to use the idea of a brim on their hat.

Men actually wore hats before women did. It wasn’t until the late 17th century that women began wearing the same types that men did.

Hats began to be very decorative with things like feathers, ribbons, and flowers around the earlier part of the 19th century.

There are so many uses and purposes for hats.

• To show status
• Part of a uniform
• Shade from sun
• Reasons of hygiene
• Enhance height
• Protection
• Convey a message
• Head warmth
• Religious reasons
• Accessory to clothing
• Hide hair or lack of it
• To attract attention

Summary of Children’s Artistic Development
Third-Fourth Grade: Guidelines for Case Study Research
Dept. of Art and Art History CSU Chico

I. Third-Fourth Grade:

The Gang Age
9-12 years
The Dawning of Realism

II. Drawing Characteristics

Great awareness of details
Self conscious of own drawings
Greater awareness of physical environment
Events are characterized rather than drawn naturalistically
No understanding of shade and shadow

III. Space representation

Disappearance of base line and emergence of the plane
Overlapping of objects
Beginning of interrelationships between objects
Sky now corners down to horizon
Attempts at showing depth through size of objects

IV. Human Figure Representation

Rigid schema no longer prevails
Greater awareness of clothing details
Less exaggeration, distortion and omission of body parts to show
emphasis
Body parts retain their meaning when separated
Greater stiffness of figure