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Making Easter Bonnets |
Easter Bonnet #1 - Moderate
Supplies
Heavyweight tissue paper or colored paper
3/4-inch masking tape
Double-sided tape
Thick white glue
Silk Flowers
Foam Eggs
Paint and/or stickers for foam eggs
How To Make It
- With help from a friend or parent, place paper over your head and wrap masking tape around the brim. Roll the corners towards the center, securing the edges with double-sided tape.
- Decorate your foam eggs with paint or stickers. You can use crepe paper too!
- Glue silk flowers and decorated eggs on one side of the hat.
- Let glue dry completely.
Easter Bonnet #2 - Easy
Supplies
Paper Plate
Styrofoam Soup Bowls
Stapler
Glue
Crayons or Markers
Decoration Supplies (your choice)
Ribbon
How To Make It
- Cut the center out of the paper plates.
- Staple styrofoam soup bowl to paper plates to form the top of the hat and brim.
- Decorate your hat anyway you want. Try using artificial flowers, ribbon, foam eggs, nests, birds, bunnies, bees, crepe paper, etc...
- Attach a length of ribbon to each side of the bonnet with the stapler.
- Put Bonnet on your head, tie a bow with the ribbon under your chin.
Easter Bonnet #3 - Very Easy
Supplies
Old or new straw hats
Ribbon
Artificial flowers
Fabric glue
How To Make It
- Glue ribbon around the brim of hat.
- Decorate your hat with flowers (why not add some bees, birds, nests, eggs and/or bunnies)
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