Easter Bonnet Ideas for 2yr old little boy

Mummy_Jo · 9 March 2007 at 5:18PM

Help!

I'm taking my little boy to an Easter Bonnet parade this Easter and I have decided to make it myself - yummy mummy and all that. Only I'm no desperate housewife (well maybe in the literal sense) and I don't know where to start.
I've bought crepe paper and tissue and glue and glitter and I need an idea or I'll just keep buying materials hoping than I get some divine inspiration and something comes to me. So,what would you make for a little boy? I remember having an Easter Bonnet as a child but it was covered in flowers - very girlie. Sexist I know but he very much a little boy and I would hate to be a source of embaressment to him when he is older. I would like to make him something that he would find good maybe even interesting.

Any ideas?

Valentina2 · 9 March 2007 at 5:35PM

How about collecting some small twigs and making a nest on top of a bonnet then you could paint some eggs with your little one and put those in the nest, along with maybe some small chicks?

morganb · 9 March 2007 at 5:40PM

Valentina2 wrote: »

How about collecting some small twigs and making a nest on top of a bonnet then you could paint some eggs with your little one and put those in the nest, along with maybe some small chicks?

What a great idea.
How about a Pirate Easter Bonnet???

jo1967 · 9 March 2007 at 5:48PM

I made an "Easter Bonnet" for my son when he was 3 - the hat bit was like half an egg which had a chick coming out of it. I made the chick with paper maiche (sp?) then son & I screwed up yellow tissue paper & glued on to make it a chick. :icotbaske

I think you have to take the term "Easter Bonnet" lightly, that gives images of proper hats with daffys on etc!! Think more on the terms of "spring headgear"!! :rotfl:

Let us know what you decide!

Gingernutmeg · 9 March 2007 at 5:49PM

What about a boiled egg? You could make a 'hat' shaped like half of an egg, which could sit on top of your son's head and perhaps be held on with some ribbon or elastic - or you could make a sort of 'egg-cup' shaped top hat and put the egg in that. You could cut the top to look like a broken egg-shell, and fill it with white and orange crepe paper, and maybe make a cardboard 'spoon' to either sit in the top or be carried by your son. You could make it look more eastery by painting a pattern on the shell, or I saw a really nice idea on the Martha Stewart website where they had put blades of grass in the egg-cup before they put the egg in it - it looked really eastery but not too girly.

Nneave · 9 March 2007 at 9:43PM

I was thinking of doing my daughter a Cadbury's Creme Egg to look topped, so you can see the chocolate and fake goey centre. I thought I'd come up with a brilliant idea, until I did a search on google and saw several!

Or maybe a 'top hat' with an Alice in Wonderland theme, cards, rabbits etc. You could probably print some images off the internet if you are more technical than me.

Good luck.

mookiandco · 9 March 2007 at 11:27PM

When I was little my mum made me an easter bonnet using a straw boater. she then made a teddy bears picnic on top, with little teddies, chicks, food made out of modelling clay, flowers and trees. I won an easter bonnet contest with it!!

Mummy_Jo · 10 March 2007 at 5:43PM

Thanks for all the replies. I think I'm going to try and make a mix of Valentina's and Jo1967's ideas. I've been to Hobbycraft today and bought a plethora of things that looked good but I'm not sure that I needed them. I've bought a straw hat that fits him and I'm going to try and make a nest around the head bit, then I'm going to make a papier mache egg to sit in the nest.

I'm not really sure what I'm doing but I've got a few weeks if things don't quite work out.

Thanks for your help guys.

Jo

loopylass · 10 March 2007 at 6:26PM

i done this with my daughter years ago got a straw hat and made a nest straw and twigs got a little yellow chick from either card shops woolies or charity shops and used a real egg shell and put chick inside egg shell so it looks like its just coming out also you can scatter broken egg shells in the nest and i also put an empty whole egg in the nest and i glued everything down in the nest so it didnt roll about

Natters30 · 21 March 2008 at 2:46PM

I don't mean to sound like a party pooper, but why not lay old newspaper on the table, spread out materials and you and your little boy go mad together sticking and cutting.I have organised easter bonnet parades and find that the best hats are those actually made by the children themselves. Otherwise it merely because a competition amongst the parents. Just have fun!
Happy Easter!!

jpwhittle · 21 March 2008 at 9:19PM

one at my little boys nursery was great on thursday. it was a knights helmet a fully over the head one with the eyes cut out. then it had a nest with birds in the top. it won first prize as it was so unusual it was really good though and a proper little boys bonnet.

Easter Bonnet Ideas for 2yr old little boy

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