Honk if You're Horny! Did I just say that?

Happy Halloween! Today I am going to show you how to make a proper hat for your work environment.

Any of you who know Alpha Man know that he really is a devil. Therefore, it is only appropriate that he wear horns for Halloween. He is, in many ways, a child at heart so I try to indulge him as much as possible plus he needs something to wear while he and Thing 2 go trick or treating in the neighborhood together. In the image below, you will see two hats. One is his hat from the place he used to work (it's tan), I had to remove the pieces from it to finish this project and the black one is the hat from the place he works now.

Normally, you would only need one hat but since this is a transfer, we had two.
You also need a hot glue gun, 2 circles of firm cardboard, slightly larger than the horn ends, 2 pieces of old fabric (I used a cut up holey sock from his drawer) and a pair of scissors. Oh! And my iPhone. I was actually making this as part of my flylady routine for the day, so I had to have the phone close by for using the timer and also the Pandora app. What did I ever do without that phone? I now carry the world at my fingertips.

Your first step is to cut a hole in the sides of the hat, a little smaller than the ends of the horns that rest against the head. This is because you not only need to allow for the glue but also for fraying the fabric so that it looks like the horns just shoved through, no longer able to be contained by a mere hat.

I'm sorry if my hands are dirty, I had just come in from working in the garden, pulling up the dead plants and thinking about putting in some Brussels Sprouts.
Your second step is to cut little snips around the edges of the holes and then pinch them over and over until you fray them out.

Next, take the hot glue and burn yourself with it a few times and glue the fabric to the back of the cardboard circle.

You need the cardboard for support and the fabric keeps the cardboard from rubbing around in the hair. While running the glue in a circle on the cardboard piece, burn yourself again just for good measure, then press the ends of the horns into the glue. By the way, we got those horns at Party City about 4 years ago. The paint is peeling so next year we will either repaint them or peel them completely.

Next, you insert and line up the horns inside the hat and at the a spot where the base joins the hat, you need to line it all the way around and (burn yourself!) press the fabric into it, taking care to make sure that the fray looks real.
Thing 1 took these pictures that have both of my hands in them. Didn't he do a great job? This, by the way, is the hard part and it's not hard.

Then you have the subject try on the hat. I done tol' y'all that he is a devil.

Now, some of you may be wondering what, if anything, happened to the other hat, the one from his previous job. We probably just threw it away, right? Oh, no. Not us! We did what any red blooded American family would have done. We torched it in the yard in a bizarre family ritual, complete with dance and chanting.

And Thing 2 roasted some marshmallows. Yep, that's a wire coat hanger, we like to do things fancy!

And that, as they say, is that. This is all that's left.