Step-by-step guide to create your own Easter bonnet for less than £5
HATS off to these ideas for decorating an Easter bonnet.
For less than £5, your little ones can make heads turn.
A simple bonnet is cheap to buy from most supermarkets and kids will be brimming with ideas for how to decorate them.
Add colourful items you have around the house or splash out on a few inexpensive buys.
Hobbycraft has bonnet-making kits featuring cheery flowers, farms, unicorns or butterflies for £3.
You just need to buy a hat separately.
You can buy a bonnet with a pack of decorations, including mini chicks, pom-poms and feathers, for £1.99 from Lidl.
Or give your creative side a head start with these Hatty Easter ideas.
NEST EGG
MAKE a nest on the top of a hat with a bunch of shredded yellow paper.
Stick it on with PVA glue, then add cute chicks and coloured craft eggs.
FLOWER POWER
WATCH an online tutorial to learn how to make tissue paper flowers or take a look at thecraftpatchblog.com/tissue-paper-flowers.
Make a bunch then stick them all over a cheap and cheerful bonnet.
COLOUR ME BEAUTIFUL
FIND colour-in Easter printables online and go for broke with your brightest pens and pencils.
Crayola.com has a good selection of pictures to colour in.
Then cut out the shapes and stick them all over a bonnet or paper crown.
SHEEP CHEERING
COVER a hat in loads of white cotton wool so that it looks like a big fluffy sheep.
Cut out a black sheep face and ears from black paper, add a pair of stick-on googly eyes and stick the face to the fluff.
Hop to it
CUT out some large bunny ears from cardboard.
Paint the middle of the ears pink, then the rest grey.
Secure the ears to a bonnet or headband.
If you’re using a hat, you can add card or pipe cleaner whiskers to the brim and a pair of big bunny teeth.