How Do You Make A Beer Box Cowboy Hat?
The highlight of fraternity parties and Halloween haunts everywhere. You may ultimately be ashamed that you know how to do this, but, for some reason, it does impress people. And makes for a good, temporary cowboy hat if you don’t have one. This for costumes only, mind you. If you try to pull this off in public and without irony, you are either completely insane or completely awesome. Unfold all three beer boxes so that they’re flat pieces of cardboard. Wrap your head in measuring tape to get its circumference and divide that number in half. You’ll use this measurement–your head’s diameter–as your primary tool when constructing the hat. Using that diameter, cut an oval–a little more than half as wide as it is long–from the center of one of the three unfolded beer boxes. Cut a long strip in the second cardboard box that is the width of your head’s diameter, plus an inch on either side. You’re going to wrap this around your head and mark where it meets. It should be tight, but comfor
