How to Get Free Donuts - a Lot of Them - Tomorrow

Tomorrow - September 19 - is Talk Like a Pirate Day and Krispy Kreme is observing it by giving away free donuts.  If you ask for a donut "like a pirate", they'll give you one donut.  If you DRESS "like a pirate", they'll give you a dozen.  You may remember that we participated last year!  We came home with 4 dozen donuts, shared them with everyone we could find on our street and still had donuts to throw away in the end.

The dozen donut giveaway requires that you include at least 3 pirate-y items in your costume.  So here is a quick tutorial on how to quickly create a tricorn hat:

Dig through your trash to find thick enough paper to make a hatband.  I used a political advertisement.  Cut into strips and staple into a circle that fits your head.

Cut three hill shapes from the long side of  black, brown, or your favorite color construction paper.

Staple hill shapes around the circle.

Staple ends of hill shapes together.

Voila - you can stop here or...embellish!

For Caleb we glued on a skull and crossbones, but I like feathers.  To create a feather - cut a long tapered shape from construction paper and snip the edges to make look...well...feathery.

Be sure to leave the middle!

Staple feather into inside of hat - I cut one of the snips too deep and had to reinforce with a toothpick and tape.

Be Blackbeard - minus the beard...

or Captain Smollett.

Add an eye patch and a hoop earring and you've got yourself a dozen donuts!