Hats Off to Peace Project

Baseball caps, top hats, cowboy hats, derbies and wizard hats...each style is a cultural statement made by the wearer. Add a sports logo, national flag, patriotic colors and the statement becomes more personal. Students at the Loysville Youth Development Center in Pennsylvania spent time designing symbols for their own personal cultural identifiers, writing in their journals, and creating hats to reflect their individual culture. These pictures show the basic steps to the construction and decoration of some of the hats that were created to reflect each student's cultural identity.

Read the full story behind the Blanket the World with Peace Project

Read the Lesson Plan for this project by BJ Berquist

See the list of cultural identifiers generated by the students

Year 2 Project: See Student Journal Responses to their Hat Project

Step 1 - tape crown	Step 2 - trim crown	Step 3 - tape cut edges
Step 4 - attach brim	Step 5 - Gesso	Step 6 - Paint
basic hats	derby	Puerto Rico Hat
tall hat ribbons	lakers	RIP
tall hat	tall hat finished	stars and stripes
stars and stripes 2	crown	USA
family	NFL	cowboy
Ribbons	Warrior for Peace	Peace Warrior
	Blanket the World With Peace Project display at the PA Department of Education