Graduation Cap ◼

Aloha · May 30, 2020, 10:15pm

Today we are quarantine celebrating the virtual graduation from kindergarten. We didn’t have a graduation cap, so last night we measured his head circumference which I think was 22 1/2 inches, did some pi r squared math, made a circle, then a box, then a couple of copy and pastes, two rectangles with smaller boxes glued to the end as finger joints, some non-messy to clean up living hinge, late night spray painting, and assembly today. I think it came out pretty ok for a makeshift cap.

Now if I had made finger joints for the living hinge to fit into the top of the cap, that would’ve been extra points, but I just wanted to knock this project out.

If you are interested in this please make it, improve it, post some pictures!

I used 1/8 inch ply.

gradcap.zip (26.0 KB)

dklgood · May 30, 2020, 10:16pm

Congrats to your grad.

Aloha · May 30, 2020, 10:16pm

Thanks!

arh2 · May 30, 2020, 10:29pm

Congrats! That’s a very celebratory design!

Aloha · May 30, 2020, 10:40pm

As always it was fun to make, and luckily it worked on the first print due to the timeline

rbtdanforth · May 31, 2020, 10:38am

Congratulations from one who graduated from Hanahauoli preschool 67 years ago.

Aloha · May 31, 2020, 4:48pm

That is close to work for me.

grottfam · April 30, 2021, 10:54pm

This is adorable! Thank you so much for sharing! Do you by chance remember approximately how long it takes to cut one of the caps?

Aloha · April 30, 2021, 10:55pm

I don’t remember. Thank you!

grottfam · April 30, 2021, 10:57pm

No problem! Thanks again!