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Easter Sodding Bonnet

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GeorginaA · 02/04/2004 12:17

Great. I am the least artistic person I know, and there's a notice outside ds' nursery that I have to make an Easter Bonnet for him to wear on Tuesday.

Can anyone show me a "How to Make Easter Bonnets for Pointless Nursery Special Days for Dummies" guide on the net, or even better, volunteer to make it for me

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Northerner · 02/04/2004 12:18

For boy or girl?

kiwisbird · 02/04/2004 12:18

Put ears on his Nike cap?
Honest thats what I did
Crap huh

marthamoo · 02/04/2004 12:20

Make a crown out of cardboard, cut out egg shapes and get your son to help decorate them, then stick them on. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

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GeorginaA · 02/04/2004 12:20

Boy, northerner.

kiwisbird, I like your style

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Northerner · 02/04/2004 12:25

Oh yeah you did say ds in your original post sorry!

Old top hat or bowler hat with eggs stuck on rim?

michellefromlakeland · 02/04/2004 12:40

hey who had to make the pheasant?
tha should be ont he top ten threads

katierocket · 02/04/2004 12:48

it was JanH wasn't it - work of bloody genius

katierocket · 02/04/2004 12:51

god bless the bbc

making easter bonnet

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GeorginaA · 02/04/2004 12:54

bloomin' 'eck that looks a bit elaborate, katierocket Does look good, although still tempted by stapled ears on hats at the moment Thanks for the continuing ideas, folks!

I can just see ds wearing his hat for ooo.... 5 seconds... before throwing it off and stomping on it... sigh

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katierocket · 02/04/2004 12:56

err, yes but quite easy instructions - I only glanced at it before I posted but come on georgina - where is your competitive parent spirit?

TheCODERATOR · 02/04/2004 12:57

Oh I had this problem G and I bought a green Bowler hat (reduced from ST patricks day) at the party shop, stuck some green shredded tissue around it and bunged a couple of chicks ont he top

katierocket · 02/04/2004 12:58

no no
repeat after me
"bonnet, bonnet, bonnet
win, win, win"

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GeorginaA · 02/04/2004 13:01

My competitive parenting spirit is the gin bottle, kiwisbird

Yes, I know I should make an effort. I have these visions of sending ds in something half dead and very homemade looking while every other parent has gone to great lengths!!!

Oh why oh why couldn't it have been a "bring in a cadburys creme egg day" - I could have done that

Oooo... coddy - sounds impressive! Hmm... I might need a wander around some shops. Haven't even got plain cardboard in the house - that's how crap an artistic mummy I am! I rely on the nursery to do artistic stuff with him. I can read to him, play cars for hours, just don't expect me to do anything more artistic than rolling out some playdoh once in a while!!!

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GeorginaA · 02/04/2004 13:01

um katierocket even. Must have been hitting the gin early

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dinny · 02/04/2004 13:01

Grrrr, I too have to make a bonnet for dd's Easter Parade at nursery. Am thinking straw hat with feathers and mini choc eggs on it.

TheCODERATOR · 02/04/2004 13:03

No its really not impressive buy tha hat some tissue (you buy it sgredded) and some chicks
nO I remember that I got one of those split gift egg things and the chick came out of that!

katierocket · 02/04/2004 13:15

actually secretly I am rubbish at these things - fortunately DP is very creative so I can leave this kind of frightening stuff to him.

dinny · 02/04/2004 13:24

same here, Katierocket!

bossykate · 02/04/2004 13:25

hi georgina, no, no, no - i am the least creative person ever....

i took an existing hat of ds's, covered it with green tissue paper (took 3 layers), decorated then with "nest" on the crown made from thin gold gift ribbon stuff with little chicks in the middle, wider gold ribbon around the crown etc.

it was pretty easy to do and looked pretty good, even if i say so myself

nutcracker · 02/04/2004 13:29

Thankfully dd's school and dd2's nursery have decided to spare us the bonnet drama this year.
Last year i brought a straw hat from the pound shop, stuck ribbon round it with chicks on the top and mini eggs perched around the outside, oh also made some flowers for it. Can't you tell that i'd recently bought a glue gun .
I thought it was brilliant, and the one that won was rubbish IMO.

Jaybee · 02/04/2004 13:45

It was me that had to do the pheasant - it is now hanging from ds' ceiling!!

What about a bird's nest hat - old basket with bits of straw weaved into it or stuck to it - line the basket with more straw. Fix the whole thing to an old hat or plastic flowerport that fits the head. Stick some plastic eggs and chicks in the nest and that't it.

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GeorginaA · 02/04/2004 16:38

Okay, now I feel pretty stupid. I reread the notice and it said the easter parade was 11am (i.e. the morning session of nursery). Ds doesn't go until the afternoon session, so I think that means we don't have to do one?!!

embarrassed blushy type of smiley

sorry all - hopefully this thread has been useful to the other easter bonnet makers.

enjoying her reprieve

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Moores · 21/03/2006 13:46

Hi guys, I'm new on this chatline and have a seven year old son and only this week to make a bonnet. Any ideas please which won't make him look a complete idiot! :O)

Fauve · 21/03/2006 13:57

Oh, surely you'll just go ahead and make one for fun, GeorginaA Grin I spent 25 minutes this morning looking through the three fancy dress bags we keep for donkey's hooves. Dd did want to go as the crucified Christ - complete with cross - but has been persuaded that a donkey is less likely to be viewed as blasphemous. I did have to find a picture in a Bible to convince her of the donkey's Easter relevance.

Welcome to MN, Moores, ummm, I think sticking ears on an existing hat (as described below) would suit most 7-year-olds - donkey or rabbit, whichever he likes Smile

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