Sun Hat Summer Vase

Update your summer décor with a sun hat summer vase! It’s the perfect inexpensive project to make a gorgeous centerpiece for your table or to place on your shelves in a vignette!

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Sun Hat Summer Vase How-To

Tips and Tricks

Printable Sun Hat Summer Vase Tutorial

In case you didn’t know, lavender is very easy to grow and care for. It’s hearty and requires little maintenance.

That’s why I want to add more to our front garden.

Then you can cut some and dry it for a gorgeous floral arrangement for your home.

This sun hat summer vase is the perfect place to display those beautiful arrangements. It’s super easy to make and when you use dried or faux flowers, it’s super easy to keep clean too.

Sun Hat Summer Vase Materials

• Dollar Tree Sun Hat

• Scissors

• Hot Glue Gun

• Dollar Tree Fishbowl Vase

Step 1 – Unravel Sun Hat

First, start by unraveling the sun hat. To do this, start pulling at the outer edge and it will become undone in a long strip. Unravel almost all of the brim of the hat.

I used the excess leftover from How to Make a Basket from a Dollar Store Sun Hat to make this vase.

Step 2 – Trim and Attach Sun Hat Strip to Vase

Next, place your vase upside down on your work surface and wrap your strip around the bottom of the vase. Make sure that it slightly overlaps and then trim the the measured piece from the long strip.

The bottom piece will be the toughest to get on the vase but have patience.

Add a small strip of the hot glue to the vase and press the measured strip of the sun hat to the vase. Be sure to protect your fingers because the glue comes through the small holes in the hat material. You don’t want to burn your fingers. 

Step 3 – Continue Covering Vase

Once you have the first piece on, flip your vase over so that the opening is on the top. It is easier to add the rest of your strips this way.

Keep measuring the strips and adding them until you reach the top.

I added some extra glue to the top so that it would stick better but also leave a little extra on the top so it looked more like a basket.

Step 4 – Style and Enjoy

After your sun hat summer vase is finished, add some pretty florals and enjoy your new home décor.

Tips and Tricks

• If you have trouble getting the brim of your hat to loosen, you can also cut into it and then it will start to unravel easily.

• You can use live flowers in this vase because the decoration is on the outside. However, be very gentle when cleaning it because you don’t want the decoration coming off.

• Lightly dust the outside of the vase to keep clean. Do not get the outside wet and don’t scrub it.

Printable Sun Hat Summer Vase Tutorial

Yield: 1 Vase

Sun Hat Summer Vase

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Update your summer décor with a sun hat summer vase! It’s the perfect inexpensive project to make a gorgeous centerpiece for your table or to place on your shelves in a vignette!

Materials

• Dollar Tree Sun Hat
• Scissors
• Hot Glue Gun
• Dollar Tree Fishbowl Vase

Instructions

1. First, start by unraveling the sun hat. To do this, start pulling at the outer edge and it will become undone in a long strip. Unravel almost all of the brim of the hat.
2. Next, place your vase upside down on your work surface and wrap your strip around the bottom of the vase. Make sure that it slightly overlaps and then trim the the measured piece from the long strip.
3. The bottom piece will be the toughest to get on the vase but have patience.
4. Add a small strip of the hot glue to the vase and press the measured strip of the sun hat to the vase. Be sure to protect your fingers because the glue comes through the small holes in the hat material. You don’t want to burn your fingers. 
5. Once you have the first piece on, flip your vase over so that the opening is on the top. It is easier to add the rest of your strips this way.
6. Keep measuring the strips and adding them until you reach the top.
7. I added some extra glue to the top so that it would stick better but also leave a little extra on the top so it looked more like a basket.
8. After your sun hat summer vase is finished, add some pretty florals and enjoy your new home décor.

Notes

• If you have trouble getting the brim of your hat to loosen, you can also cut into it and then it will start to unravel easily.
• You can use live flowers in this vase because the decoration is on the outside. However, be very gentle when cleaning it because you don’t want the decoration coming off.
• Lightly dust the outside of the vase to keep clean. Do not get the outside wet and don’t scrub it.

Doesn’t this sun hat summer vase look awesome?! It’s also the perfect project to use up the excess from making this basket from a dollar store sun hat. Double score!

Remember to check out growing your own lavender too. I am the worst with growing things and my lavender is the one thing that is thriving.

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