Spooktacular Halloween Witch Hat Craft Idea and Vignette
This DIY Witches Hat is Sparkly and Pretty
This hat is part of a witches vignette, like the other vignettes I created this year I chose to make it more pretty that scary. It has roses and sparkles and velvet and a cute curl at the top. It can be worn as a part of a fabulous witches costume, or attach it to a stand like I did for Halloween decor.
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Today I am also joining some very special friends for a Fall/Halloween blog hop, you will see there links at the bottom of this post.
This particular witches hat is part of a witches desk vignette so I mounted it onto a Styrofoam witch head and candlestick I found at the thrift store. I am sharing a step by step tutorial for creating the hat and will post the simple tutorial for the hat stand afterwards.
To make you own pretty witches hat you will need:
A dollar store witches hat
Polyester filling
A metre (yard) of sparkly tulle
Glitter embellishments ( I chose a skeleton because it was purple)
Shiny black fabric (Mine is from a coat liner)
Thread, needle and hot glue
Witch Hat Tutorial
Start by stuffing your hat, make sure it is very full. If you plan on wearing the hat, stuff it as full as you can while still leaving room for your head. Once you are comfortable with the amount of filling, cut a circle of material and hot glue it to the inside of the hat to protect your head from the stuffing.
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Take the tulle and fold over and iron creating a hem. With a measuring tape measure the circumference of your hat. Fold the tulle in half. Starting at the center, measure from the half the distance of the circumference. Gather the tulle in about one inch gathers.
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Once gathered loosely sew the gathering together. Do the same on the other side.
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Take the front center of the tulle and place on the front of the hat and wrap around to the back. Sew the tulle to the hat, don’t worry if the stitches show. There should be a tulle hanging down the back of your hat.
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Fluff the tulle on the front of the hat.
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To make the small front arrangement gather the tulle along the side and sew to gather it.
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Once it is sewn glue the embellishment on top.
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Once you have the front arrangement done, finish the larger arrangement on the back of the hat.
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For the large arrangement on the back of the witches hat, I made two rolled fabric roses using leftover black coat lining. Use any kind of florals you like. Placing them as shown.
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Witches Hat Stand
Craft stores have various kinds of styrofoam heads for Halloween, I was super fortunate and found the styrofoam witches head when I was searching for a large candlestick.
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Using some black chalk paint (Small jar of Martha Stewart brand) paint your witches head and let dry.

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Depending on the style of candlestick you have you can use a doweling set down into the candlestick and then into the head, or if the top of your candlestick is wider you can simply hot glue it into place.
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For this candlestick, I used a small piece of Styrofoam hot glue and toothpicks to create a small base that fit into the candlestick. Once that was done I used black hot glue to attach the base to the candlestick.
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A Witches Dresser Vignette
The remainder of this vignette is cute purchased items that I have gathered over the years. I purchased the spell books and cute sparkly witch shoes from Michael’s this year. Thankfully they were 60% off.

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Every witch needs a little black cat, don’t you think?

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All girls even witches appreciate fancy party shoes and I would give anything for a Spell to make husbands dance as much as you want them to, good rhythm is optional.
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Check out some of my fellow bloggers and friends Halloween/Fall posts. Grab a Coffee and enjoy.
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Thank you for sharing your fun witches hat! What a fun way to spice up a little black hat.
Your witches hat looks fantastic Leanna! Great job and so spooky 🙂
Leanna that is one gorgeous hat. If it wasn’t on that ugly witches head I’d be tempted to wear it. Love the look with the tulle and the purple flower in the back.
Thanks for sharing your creative and fun halloween hat idea. I love that you were able to same very inexpensive simple items and create something quite unique and spooky!! It’s perfect for the season! I may have to give this a try! xoxo Jodie & Julie
This has got to be the most elegant and eerie witches hat EVER! Pinned
This is so clever! I also love the added purple!
This is awesome! The bigger had made a huge difference! Enjoyed hopping with you! 🙂
Ok, I have to have that hat! It’s so sassy! lol That has to be the cutest witches hat I’ve ever seen! You are so creative and your posts always inspire me!
Oh my goodness!! This is so amazing!! I’m seriously in love with your diy witch hat.. love it all! Thank you so much for share this wicked diy. Happy Halloween!!
You are so clever Leanna! The candle sticks as a hat stand is just genius and I love your witch hat so much! It sure is for a fancy witch! 🙂
What a great post! I love your man and the gorgeous hat! You are so clever and the purple is the perfect accent to the black! Thanks so much for joining us this month with your creative Halloween craft!
Hi Janine. I am really enjoying this group of bloggers, they challenge me to create something different.
Oh, your witches hat turned out awesome Leanna!! Love all of the sparkly touches that you added and the way the tulle falls at the back!! Such a clever idea with the candlestick for a stand for it!!
The candlestick is really nice Sam. The top can flip over for either a large or tapered candle, which means it comes apart. I am able to separate the head portion off so its easier to store. Glad you like it.
That is very pretty but spooky.
I have had these hat and some real with brooms for a few years. It was fun to take one of them and give it some glamour.