Fantastic suggestions for Easter Bonnet Competition

[SPARKLER1]

Both dds have Easter Bonnet Competitions to enter this year. I need some great ideas please. I'm not very arty so suggestions would be gratefully receieved.
TIA x

[BettySpaghetti]

We did one last year for DD.
We used an old straw boater style hat as the base and wrapped a cardboard strip around it and over the top (to make a sort of frame that you can stick the decorations to, to avoid ruining the hat IYSWIM).
We then stuck tissue paper flowers and leaves onto the cardboard and stuck mini eggs on. Around the brim of the hat we suspended lots of those little fluffy yellow chicks (in the style of those Aussie hats with corks dangling down!).
Simple and no artistic genius needed!

[SPARKLER1]

Thanks BS. Anymore for anymore?

[Whizzz]

I saw some wide brimmed straw hats for 1.99 in HObbycraft as a starter - they would be easy to decorate with paper flowers / chicks etc.

In the past I have made 'thunderbirds' shaped hats (oval shape, if you see what I mean?!) and decorated to look like a rabbit one year & a duck another !

[SPARKLER1]

Thanks Whizz

[NotQuiteCockney]

Last year, I made the hat myself, out of card - big donut shape for the brim, then strips to make the crown. We then stuck chicks and stickers all over it.

One thing I'm unclear on with these - are the kids supposed to make them? Or the adults?

[MrsBadger]

two I've done successfully:
boater-shaped hat (but made of cardboard) with a 'slice' cut out of the crown, decorated to look like an Easter cake on a plate, or even a simnel cake, plastic knife glued to brim.

fez-shaped hat (cardboard again) with a hollow in the top of the crown (would never condone use of a Kentucky Fried Chicken Family Bucket but is the right shape). Cover in glue and roll in straw, hay or All-Bran to simulate bird's nest. Glue plastic chicks, decorated blown or plastic eggs etc to top.
Can also do nest using turban-type arrangement of brown fabic round any old hat, but gluing All-Bran is more fun!

[SPARKLER1]

PMSL @ glueing all bran!!!

[MrsBadger]

don't knock it - one craft activity where the kids can eat the bits and you know they're not only non-toxic but healthy

[SPARKLER1]

- very true.