Getting a too-big costume hat to fit

Sue did a little costume hacking:

My son was a construction worker last Halloween, but all of our play construction hats were too big to stay on his head for vigorous trick-or-treating. I took one of my daughter's thin elastic headbands and attached it securely with strategically-positioned tape to the inside of the hat at four points (making a square shape). It worked perfectly.

How smart is that?

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Comments

[Daffodil]

Thank you! We have a too-big construction hat at our house that is giving me worries when it comes to wearing the construction worker costume to preschool. This sounds like a great idea -- certainly much better than the solutions I was coming up with.

[mamajud]

you can take an old knit cap and hot glue it to the inside of the helmet....i did it with a homemade r2d2 costume last year and used a decorated plastic bowl for the "head"....worked like a charm

[Hapa]

I love being reminded of the elastic diamond trick.

Back when I was a kid, this is exactly what we did to all hats that were part of a dancing costume.

In addition to making the hat fit more size heads, this also helps keep the hat on the head while tap dancing.

[Big GUM]

We had that same issue with my older son's Bob the Builder helmet (why do they make those things so big?). It's cold around here at Halloween, so we just put a hooded sweatshirt beneath his costume and put the helmet on over his hood; worked perfectly!

[Virgie]

No kidding! Whats up with the size of children's being so huge? I have yet to get a costume with a hat that fits for my kids. Anyway, thanks for the suggestions for adjustments!