A Moose, Some Silly Putty ... And A Desperate Plea For Help [closed]

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Note: This event ended on Friday, December 22. This question is now closed to prevent submissions of new answers.

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Due to a rather unfortunate series of events that can be directly attributed to a surplus of egg nog, the company that provides our hat rentals has requested that we immediately return them without refund. We can't really get into the particulars of what went down, but we did our best to explain to them that I couldn't have known that a moose would react that way to silly putty.

Because of this, we need your help. We need to come up with approximately 20 - 30 more hat designs. Sounds pretty simple, right?

There is one tiny caveat (from an email I received earlier today from Jay Hanlon, VP of Holiday Cheer):

... because of holiday vacation schedules, we're short on people, so our kids are going to be doing most of the work on getting the new hats into the system. The designs will have to be done using crayon, construction paper, finger paints, water colors, popsicle sticks, paste & glue and other sorts of materials. Let them know that we don't recommend silly putty if they happen to be working near a moose.

That's right, you'll need to make hats that exist in the physical realm, from materials that aren't generally thought of as being choking hazards, suitable for developers ages 3 and above.

You'll need to provide at least one photograph of your creation as an answer to this question in order to qualify to win a box full o' swag containing a T-shirt and stickers and at least some of the following items:

• Nalgene water bottles
• Notebooks
• Sharpies & Other SE/SO branded office supplies
• Stickers from various SE sites
• Whatever else might be haunting our warehouse

The top voted hats may or may not be used as the basis of secret hats near the end of Winter Bash this year, or as totally new hats next year. We just can't say. We're talking silly putty and a moose here people, everything is up in the air at this point. I accept full responsibility for this.

Here are the rules:

1. You must come up with a creation that represents (in some way) a hat, consisting of artistic mediums that are not run as computer applications and suitable for children 3+ years of age. You can use Photoshop or Paint, but you'll have to print it and make it part of something else.

2. You must upload at least one picture of your creation, and provide any background or context needed for others to appreciate its brilliance. We suggest including only the hat in the image (though background 'noise' is fine), remember that all contributions are CC-BY-SA.

3. All submissions must be family friendly and adhere to our be nice policy.

4. Employees (former and current) may submit an entry, but won't be eligible to win swag. I MEAN HOW MUCH SWAG DO YOU GREEDY PEOPLE ACTUALLY NEED?!

5. Answers must maintain an aggregate positive score to qualify. All answers that have a net zero or positive score at the end of the contest will win.

6. Contents of prize packages may vary, depending on availability of items; every effort to ensure equal value of all packages will be made.

7. You are responsible for the creation and execution of your design. If you fancy lasers and explosions and things get out of hand, it's not our fault.

Contest begins today, Thursday, December 14, 2017 and ends on Friday, December 22, 2017 at 20:00:00 UTC.

Want to join in on the fun? Get your smock, grab some clay & finger paints and get to designing!

_{Note: We're not really giving back all of the hats, we're just pretending to so we can have some formerly age-appropriate fun}

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Update:

Thank you all for the amazing submissions! Not only did you help make the holiday a bit brighter for everyone, you've inspired quite a few of next year's hats!

Everyone that submitted a positively scored submission will receive a care package (even if it went in a tad after the ending); we'll be reaching out to you soon. However, we're no longer accepting submissions.

Happy holidays, everyone!

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You should have received an email by now :)

We've contacted everyone eligible to get something, if you didn't get something and think we might have missed you, make sure you check your spam folder and if nothing is there, contact us and let us know. Seriously, though, please check your spam folder - Hotmail and others are notorious about tossing stuff in the bin even from trusted contacts if the same email is sent to more than a few people using it.

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Status

Quoting the comment by animuson:

Anyone waiting for their swag, please keep an eye out here for updates.

Answer 1

LEGO Stack Overflow Hat

Basically I made a life-size and wearable LEGO ball cap with Stack Overflow logo.

^{(Yes, it's 100% LEGO; I'm a purist. Angles achieved mainly by SNOT building via hinged plates.)}

Possible task to get the hat:

Pick-up-the-pieces: Edit a negatively scored question, that later gets a positive score.

But wait you ask, are LEGO pieces safe for little developers?

Well, LEGO says they are only a choking hazard for kids under 3, so we should be good:

Answer 2

For this hat, I wanted to put together something that reflects my experience on Stack Exchange. So, I looked at my top sites, the sites I've been using for the longest time.

I went in search of something that combined Movies & TV, English Learning, Meta, Cooking, Interpersonal Skills, and Arts & Crafts.

So, I started by looking for an iconic film hat and I found one that fit all of my needs:

This is Audrey Hepburn playing Eliza Doolittle in the film My Fair Lady. If you haven't seen it, you should really watch it, it's excellent. So, I used this hat and the fact that Eliza is a flower seller in the market to make this gingerbread hat:

• Movies & TV It's from an iconic film ✅
• English Language Learners - In the film Eliza is improving her English pronunciation. ✅
• Meta Stack Exchange - The colors of the flowers were inspired by the Stack Exchange Logo - shades of blue (see below). ✅
• Seasoned Advice - It's entirely edible - a gingerbread cookie hat with buttercream flowers. ✅
• Interpersonal Skills - Henry Higgins, played by Rex Harrison in the film, is seriously lacking in them and learns from Eliza as she learns from him. ✅
• Arts & Crafts - Well... this entire contest is an Arts & Crafts project! ✅

So, there you have it. And what do you get the hat for?

Eliza Doolots

Earn 200 reputation on each of your top six sites during Winter Bash.

And if anyone wonders whether it can be worn:

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Oh, and behind the scenes frosting image:

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Thanks to Brave Tart (Stella Parks) at Serious Eats for an excellent construction-grade gingerbread recipe and for introducing me to the concept of piping gingerbread dough. Without her, this probably wouldn't have been possible.

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If anyone wants more info on the process for creating this hat, I've created a bookmark for it in one of the cooking chat rooms where I walk through it with a bunch of photos. I'm going to warn you, though... the truths of the process are scary, so if you don't want to know how the sausage is made, don't go here.

Answer 3

I've made a Stack Overflow tin foil hat that from now on I'll be wearing everywhere with pride:

Possible use:

Tin Foil Hat - Protect the network from evil forces by raising 5 helpful spam / offensive flags.

Answer 4

Since Alexander O'Mara beat me to the Lego, I decided to go with cards instead.

I first tried a self-supporting card-tower helmet (I knew, like you do, that it was never going to work. I tried it anyway. I guess that is just how I am.) After total and totally expected failure, I scratched my head for something else.

This is what I got. Of course, cards are not so easy to build with, so it was a bit more challenging than using Lego. Here are the photos:

Possible uses:

As suggested by andrewtweber:

Trump Card, your opponent's answer received more of the popular vote but yours was accepted anyway.

Please note that the acceptance must occur while the other answer(s) has/have a higher score.

Or, failing that:

Trump card, your answer was upvoted higher than the accepted answer

All ideas are welcome, please suggest anything you think of.

Answer 5

This is the Stack of hats! Possibly awarded for, I dunno, Getting All Teh Otehr Hats!!!? *

Not the most comfortable to wear, and I definitely can't mosh with this stack on, but it's a very special stack for a reason...

Can you guess which position my Stack Exchange mod hat is in the stack? Bet you can't...

A wee addition: this is how it should look with my avatar:

*- Edit because of all the flak I got for suggesting getting all the hats was possible before getting the hat for getting all the hats. **

**- Recursion rules

Answer 6

Cleaning up the mess

Constructed from toilet paper and ribbons.

Earned by making 20 edits on one day.

Answer 7

The helmet of festive illumination

Which is simply this hat-shaped frame, with a several hundred Christmas lights interwoven into it :)

Answer 8

Great Old One

Simply looking upon the creature drives the viewer insane.

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Materials used:

• A jar of gluten-free, edible kids glue
• 1 non-edible glue brush
• Edible green glitter
• 1 dark green felt-tip
• Green paper, 6 A5 sized sheets and 1 A4 sized
• Storebought green paper strips
• Childproof scissors

I think that makes it completely childproof. It's easy to make, just cut out the shapes and glue them together. You might want to help your three-year-old make the curls.

Oh, and be prepared to handle night terrors for the next few weeks!

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How to earn:

• Flag 10 spam posts that get deleted

Or:

• Flag 10 rude/abusive posts that get deleted

Answer 9

Connection Maker

For finding 5 duplicate questions in a given day. (Connections...get it?)

Materials

• Cat6 (Straight and Xover)
• Tape
• Cardboard

Answer 10

Six Cornered Hat

Synonomous to the necromancer badge, since floppies are a thing of the past

Materials

• Floppy Disks
• Black duct tape

Answer 11

Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town Hat

Possible task to get this:

'Tis the season: Visit any site in the network every day between Dec 24th and Dec 31st.

Using all my talent with pointed-tip scissors and some help from a mother -- my wife --, I get to this StackOverflow Tree Hat. I hope you all enjoy it.

Happy Holidays!

Answer 12

My wife crocheted the following cap. When I wear it, I significantly more often observe people around me bursting into uncontrollable laughter for no apparent reason.

Yes, that’s an ear with an earring (made from light-reflecting yarn).

Possible uses:

• Confuse the Mods – Retract a custom moderator flag that has not been handled for one day.

     

  The confusion will be caused by people trying to write flags that look like they may be onto something but actually aren’t.

• Silly Elf Mohawk – Hack Stack Exchange to get yourself an exclusive hat.

   

  Alluding to this.

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Free swag from me

Sociological experiment: I will give one sticker (Stack Exchange, Graphic Design, or Academia) to you, if:

• You explicitly ask me for the sticker in person. Just commenting on the cap does not suffice.
• I did not award the sticker to somebody else before.
• It is still this winter (which I define to end on 01.03.2018).
• I did not know you in person before this.

You can identify me by the hat.

Answer 13

The Eyes Have It

I have many eyes. I see all...

Turn me around...

Possible trigger:

Be the first to view and comment on a post, which is later edited and becomes +2. 5 times.

Bonus SVG:

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Answer 14

How about a pi-rate hat:

Materials: warm hat, sharpie (black and silver), paper, scissors, tape.

A pirate hat might be awarded for having an answer accepted after another answer was initially accepted. In other words - "stealing" the green tick.

Or an upvoted answer that has double r in at least 3 words. That would make a good "secret" hat.

Note - as was pointed out in the comments, there is a "below zero" pun in there...

Answer 15

Work In Progress

Earn at least 250 reputation on a website without a design.

_{The hat is finished the name is Work In Progress :P}

The initials could be changed to whatever the site you have the hat earned from. I just put PCG so it wasn't blank, but the initials should be simple if this was used, no fancy logos!

The rest of the hats

Hats round 2

Note:

I said I would make 1 hat per upvote to this answer in the comments. This is limited to the amount of no design websites out there. I will be taking a few breaks from making hats so don't worry I will eventually catch up

Answer 16

So... in the past we've seen the somewhat controversial Hairboat and Hairboat's Revenge hats. In the spirit of continuing that tradition (perhaps to our own demise) I present you the following:

The Skeet Shooter

Trigger Actions

• Earned by commenting on one of Jon Skeet's posts or replying to a comment of his.
• As a safer alternative: Earn the hat by answering a question that Jon Skeet answers and get more upvotes than Jon Skeet.

Materials

It's pretty simple: an orange hunting cap and 5 skeets stacked in the style of the Stack Overflow logo. Use a chosen suitable material to create the "tilt" (I used crumpled paper).

Answer 17

StackOfFlower Hat

Consisting of:

1. A bunch of (possibly fake) flowers.
2. A metallic fruit bowl
3. A small white towel

Towel and flower signifies cleaning and beautify. Fruit bowls are for fruits (reps).

This is a hat for getting more than 15 reps in a day and performed at least one edit on self or someone else answer.

Answer 18

It ain't easy being cheesy

As per the time of the year and my (general) location, I decided to crank out the new Fondue pot and give it it's first spin in the real world, as a hat.

I present the It ain't easy being cheesy

One would be awarded this hat for

Post 10 comments that each earn 5 or more upvotes.

This hat was inspired by Sauron (as evidenced by the majority of my answered questions on my main site), my dinner plans tonight and a good ol' cheesehead (although I couldn't find a slice of Emmental cheese that big).

While heavy and ridden with pointy forks, this hat comes in a junior design where all the ends of the forks have been very helpfully been shortened and rounded out and made of a lightweight fondue pot.

Answer 19

The Freehand Circle Hat

Awarded for: Making a post that contains a freehand circle.

This deluxe model comes with handy ear grips that hold the hat in place better than should be expected of pipe cleaners. Advanced users can also attach The Freehand Arrow Topper ™ (not pictured). Comes in several colors, but everybody seems to want the red ones.

Also comes in cat (or small dog) sizes:

The nice thing about freehand circles is you can never have enough of them!

Oh, and if you can't see the freehand circle hat, please consult the following image:

See also:

• The Many Memes of Meta - The Freehand Circle
• Freehand red circles
• Is there a joke about "Freehand Circles" that I'm oblivious to?

Answer 20

The Moosestalker

Named after the headgear now eternally associated with Sherlock Holmes, and inspired by Stack Overflow's current moose crisis, the Moosestalker plays on the classic deerstalker design. It has two major differences:

• It is constructed out of paper, cardboard, staples and tape.
• It has prominent antlers on the side.

This prototype, hastily assembled between math problems, is wearable for someone with a slightly smaller head than mine. It works.

Suggestions for how to win this hat:

• Win three trophies bounties by the end of Winter Bash.

^{Note: Hat created before I was aware of Sherlock.}

Answer 21

Rubberducked!

I liked the idea behind the "Selfie" hat, however IMO a better theme would have built on the concept of "rubber duck debugging".

Self-answered a +2 question with a +2 answer.

Made with the help of a 5yo using rounded-tip scissors, construction paper, toilet paper roll remnants, a non-toxic glue stick, and the official Code Review ducky.

Answer 22

I present you this magnificent example of super-lazy artwork:

StackOverflow-in-a-box

You're a problem-solving machine! You took over the leadership in one of the tags.

Advantages:

• Cheap. make it out of discarded Christmas gift cardboxes.
• Traditional. The first use given to a box was (arguably) to carry things inside. The second, undoubtedly, was to be worn by the inventor as a hat.
• Instinctive. Childrens of all ages will certainly try to wear boxes as hats, and have a blast at it.
• Multipurpose: Cats can use it too.

Material list:

• 1 x head-sized box (An Echo Dot box was used on the following example)
• 1 x Printed StackOverflow logo
• 1 x Gray crayon/Sharpie
• 1 x Orange crayon/Sharpie

Building instructions:

• Paint printed logo
• Glue logo on box
• Put box on
• Profit!

_{(For historical reasons, the following is the original, idea-pitching image with a GIMPed overlay on top of the photo. Clearly a lesser creation.)}

Answer 23

The Party Hat

Ask a question on the 31. December between 22:00 and 23:59.

(Thanks for my friends daughter for providing the stars, for which she used her new glittery pens!)

Instructions

1. Get as sheet of paper and trace a semi circle using a compass.
2. Cut out the semicircle and colour it in a striped pattern.
3. Cut some colourful rubberbands open and tape them in place in the center of the semicirle (on the back side.)
4. Roll it up to a cone and use some tape or glue to hold it togeter.
5. Eat cake and complain about having to go to bed. (friends daughter)
6. Beg your parents to stay up a little bit longer. (friends daughter)
7. Colour some parts of the paper with glittery pens and cut them out, and use glue to glue them to your cone. (friends daughter)

Answer 24

This hat has a purpose:

This hat is 100% green:

This hat is useful:

(See why further down)

The hat:

My hat is made of bulrush leaves woven together, nothing else.

(I removed some background noise from this image but did not enhance it digitally)

Still fresh: You have been on this site for less than six months.

or

Still green: You have been on this site for less than six months.

Purpose:

I have noticed that it is really hard for a new user to get hats. It is easy to feel left out, and being a newish user myself, I have first hand experience of this. This is why I wanted to make a hat for new users, to make them feel welcome to the Winter Bash and to encourage them.

Why Green?:

1. This hat is for "green" users.
2. It is 100% eco-friendly, 100% natural, 100% biodegradable. It is made only of woven bulrush leaves, nothing else, not even string or thread. It is truly green in that sense.
3. It is really the colour green, every bit of it.

How is it useful?:

It is good for

• Stalking ducks
• Sneaking up on your neighbour
• Camouflage in general
• Being fun and non-toxic for everyone

Note: Established users can join a new site if they really want this hat

Answer 25

Rep Hunter

As fashioned by a grumpy cat:

Possible trigger:

Post 5 answers, all accepted, in a single day.

...

It is, (in case you didn't realise, and for posterity's sake in case the icon changes,) the achievements icon:

Some not-very-interesting work in progress pictures:

Answer 26

Top(bar) Hat

Materials:

• straw hat (easy way out) or wire frame to act as a base
• cardboard to build up the height and lay in a flat top
• duct tape to affix them together (no child-safe glue in my house was strong enough)
• a piece of cloth in as close to Stack Exchange blue as you can find
• a strip of black cloth
• a silver paint marker
• optional, not pictured: red LED and coin battery

Possible trigger:

Do all of the following on this site in $timeperiod: receive an answer to a question you asked, earn reputation from a question or answer, visit meta.

I omitted doing a review because not everybody has access. "Visit meta" is something that you do through the site switcher, which is why I chose that. We already have a hat for earning hats, so I left the snowflake out of it.

Optional upgrade: add a red LED to the review icon; you can push the pins through and connect the coin battery either on the back side of the cloth (if it's heavy enough) or on the other side of the hat. This gives you the "review thing is always red and attention-grabbing" version. For just "red" and not "attention-grabbing", a dab of red paint does the job.

Answer 27

This is the Good Fairy hat. You earn it by gaining a badge on at least four sites (in this example, music, parenting, travel and movies)

Answer 28

Thank you for the fun challenge! I decided to use it to design my very own Stack Overflow knitted hat.

The first version is a shallow cloche. So, the name of my hat:

SO goes Flapper

There are a few construction details which can be improved (design is always a matter of successive prototypes!) so I want to have a different version later. But as I don't know if I will manage it before the deadline, I am already posting this wearable hat as an entry.

The trigger

Flappers were the new modern women of the early 20th century. They dared to smoke, drive automobiles, and do other "manly" things. They also had their unique appearance - short (for the time) dresses, cut their hair into short bobs, and dismissed the opulence of their Victorian mothers.

To celebrate the short-and-to-the-point side of flapper culture, the trigger is

An answer of yours under 600 characters gets accepted while the question has at least one other answer of length > 600 characters.

Of course we like long and erudite answers, but frankly, writing a good short answer is even more difficult than writing a good long answer. So, if somebody manages to write a short answer that is better than the long ones, he or she deserves a hat.

How to make

As the hat still has construction problems, I will not post a pattern for this version. But I promise that, once I have a version which looks good, I will release the pattern under Creative Commons and post or link it from this post.

For curious knitters, here the basic construction idea: the hat crown is shaped with short rows. The orange part is intarsia. The brim is a single layer stockinette, and it does stay flat on its own, with a little help in the row before last and gentle steaming.

Answer 29

Waste Not, Want Not

Every year, charities that hope a little holiday swag will prompt year-end donations send me stuff. Like Christmas wrapping paper. Even when I ask them not to.

I'm Jewish.

So, an alternate use for the December bounty of paper goods, safe for even the most accident-prone child:

Possible trigger: earn a bounty and give a bounty, in the spirit of gift-giving.

Construction materials courtesy of Guiding Eyes for the Blind.

Answer 30

The Editcorn

Like edit and unicorn, nothing to do with the cereal .

Awarded for making exactly one edit on December 24.

It is literally (and figuratively too) a giant rainbow-coloured crayon that can be worn on one's forehead in order to make them a pretty editcorn.

Come on, you know you want one. Who hates rainbows and crayons ?

 How to make it and bask in its magnificence

The ideal would of course be with wood and pigments, but seeing as how I usually fare in court when letting young kids play with lathes, I would suggest paper, scissors and adhesive tape. Also, this does provide a good example of why knowing how to make a patron of a cone can be useful in real life (take that, my former students !).

Once the crayon is done, basically anything goes to attach it to your forehead, though I don't recommend soldering.

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