Easter Bonnet for 2 year old DD - HELP!

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Her nursery have asked that we make/buy one for next Thursday. They've suggested we don't buy them as they definitely won't win the competition with a bought one!

I haven't even seen an easter bonnet since I was in primary school - some 20 odd years ago

Please please can someone tell me what I need to do! I'm soooo rubbish at this type of thing and I don't want to let DD down.

Any ideas re: materials, shape etc. would be gratefully received...

[wringing hands and begging emoticon]

Find a generic hat and put on spirng things Pictures of bunnies, daffodils, chicks
those little yellow chicks you can buy Poundland usually do boxes for a £1.
Bunny ears
Straw - shredded yello / painted yellow paper
Daffodils made of card amnd eg boxes
Eggslil fingers This site has some lovely eggs to colour. Your could colour them and get DC to stick them on. To make them bigger I cut and paste them into word.
Print out pictures of spring flowers.
HTH

I made one last year. Cut a band of card to fit round your dd's head.
Cut 2 strips of card. Attach one to the band front to back, and the other side to side so that if the band was round your dd,s head, the card strips would go over and across the top of her head.
Stuff a couple of sheets of tissue paper inside the crown of the hat so it shows through the gaps in the card. Make lots of tissue paper flowers (ie scrunch pieces of tissue paper together - dd can do this!) and stick to the card strips.
Make a brim and attach it to the hat band. Decorate with mini eggs, yellow chicks ("THe Works" usually sell them) and more tissue paper flowers (you can also buy wee nests from baker ross which are great!) Tie a ribbon round the hat band and there you go!
My dd won the prize for hers last year!

For a girl it is much easier IMO. For my DD for the last two years I have recycled hats that were at my GreatAunts when we were clearing the house - they were just old lady straw hats. I sewed some padding around the inside of the brim to make them fit DD's head rather than sitting on her nose! Then I either fixed on a ribbon or use the ribbon that was already there, went to the poundshop and bought a bunch of artificial flowers. Using wire cutters or scissors I seperated each flower from the main stem and threaded them through the ribbon.

So my suggestion is:
get an old lady straw hat from charity shop/family member
get artificial flowers from pound shop
combine

I did a cardboard and tissue paper hat for DS when he was little - more work involved!

I got a straw hat from £ land yesterday. Also a pack with tissue paper, stickers (eggs, rabbits etc), and also a pack with little pompoms & pipecleaners that you make into little flowers, bunnies etc.

Blimey - what great ideas! Am leaning heavily towards the old lady hat and flowers with other homemade easter type stuff stuck on!

Can I use fresh flowers like daffs [arts and craft thickie emoticon] ??

My competitive streak is sneaking in and I want to do something really different so that DD will be the winner

You can but I imagine they will be fairly droopy by the end of the day. Find out what time judging will take place!