ANZAC Slouch Hat Template – Paper Craft and Write

Use this Slouch hat template for your students to learn about the significance and history of a slouch hat. 

The slouch hat paper craft involves cutting and colouring in a hat that resembles the traditional Australian army slouch hat. This craft activity requires cutting and folding along the dotted line to show the side of the slouch hat that flips up. Once the students have finished creating their paper slouch hat they can complete the writing task that goes with the slouch hat. 

The following questions need to be researched and answered:

• What is the ANZAC slouch hat?
• What was the ANZAC slouch hat designed to protect soldiers from?
• Why is the ANZAC slouch hat an important symbol of Australian and New Zealand military history?
• What is the difference between the ANZAC slouch hats and normal slouch hats?

Your students will become experts in the meaning behind the Australian slouch hat.

✂️ Give Them the (Safety) Scissors 

This template makes for a bonus cutting skills activity, depending on your students’ ages and abilities. 

With adult supervision, cutting skills help students work multiple muscle groups and their brains, plus:

• strengthen finger and hand muscles
• build dexterity and fine motor skills
• improve hand-eye coordination
• develop focus and attention.

And all of these skills are necessary to use a pencil and a fork; button a shirt and tie shoes; write, type, and swipe.

Scissor skills are brain and muscle skills! 

Download & Print

Download and print the PDF on thick card to ensure durability of this craft.