What You'll Need
Materials
- Scissors
- Black tulle netting
- White wide-brimmed straw hat (or spray-paint a regular straw hat)
- White spray paint (optional)
- Hot glue gun
- White seam binding
- Wire cutters
- Millinery bees
- Letter stencils
- Yellow paint pen
- Metal bucket with handle
- Duct tape
- Light-colored shirt
- Pair of painter's coveralls
- Pair of cotton work gloves with yellow accents
Instructions
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Cut a piece of tulle 16 inches wide and as long as the circumference of the brim of the hat. Hot-glue seam binding to one long edge of the tulle. Glue tulle to underside of hat brim, and cover with seam binding (to keep glue from seeping through).
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Remove wires from most of the bees. Glue wireless bees to tulle. Poke a few wired bees through the top of the straw hat from the outside; bend the wires at a right angle, and glue to inside of hat.
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Using letter stencils and paint pen, stencil "HONEY" on bucket; let dry. Tape more wired bees to inside of bucket.
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Wear hat with shirt, coveralls, and work gloves.