Boys Easter Hat!?!

rsdiscos

This task is so much easier with girls!!
I need some inspiration for an easter hat - pictures would be great purlease!!!
Thanks melissa

dizzie

Hi Melissa,

We parents do get our creative talents challenged sometimes don't we? Have never had to do Easter hats for boys (we had cake competitions instead - which my lads won a few times (but only because my handiwork was so naff that the school probably thought the boys did it all without any help!:o )

But back to ideas for Easter hats...what type of things is he interested in?

For a sports theme, maybe one designed on the Rugby World Cup...hat with flattish top painted green with white lines for rugby pitch markings and straws for goal posts. Little yellow chickens stuck on top as players, plasticine shaped into an egg/rugby ball shape stuck on too. Little banner on front side "Rugby World Cluck"...another on the back saying "Egg-cellent try" or maybe "Chick scores a Fry" or equivalent play on words.

floyd

Something like a straw boater would work quite well, love the idea of chicks playing rugby!

squidge60

if you have a shop called The Worx nearby they have yellow cowboy hats (seem to be amongst the easter bonnets).hth

mirrorimage0

we got a yellow baseball cap for our boys and bought the yellow packagiing straw stuff made a nest and put easter chicks in it from the pound shop and mini eggs

bluenose1

squidge60 wrote: »

if you have a shop called The Worx nearby they have yellow cowboy hats (seem to be amongst the easter bonnets).hth

I bought one of those, they were only £1.25.

clairg_2

I've got the same problem, but i'm going to make a top hat looking hat without a top on and put some daffs or tulips in it so they pop over the edge, saw it on a kids programme and it looks cool Good luck xx

siren13577

How about a top hat?
My OH and I made a top hat with a 'nest' on top and in the middle of the nest was a chocolate egg from the poundstore, around the outside were chicks also from the poundstore and tissue paper flowers around the brim. We got A4 black card and measured my DS's head and used around two sheets to get the right side, we then cut a brim using a bowl as a template, it was the same size as our son's head, leaving tabs on the brim so we could attach it with glue to the upright part of the hat, we repeated this with the top part of the hat but it was just a round circle with tabs we attached to the hat. The brim was the last thing we attached to the actual hat, we did the top first and then the brim. We used pva glue to attach the egg and straw, we just stuck the egg on, with pva and some double side adhesive tape, straight onto the foil and built the straw up around it. We then attached the chicks with more glue and the same with the flowers of scrunched up tissue paper, he looked really great and it actually won a prize at school. DS was chuffed because he got to eat the egg afterwards.

HopeElizzy

rsdiscos - I have complete sympathy as I have the same dilemma!:rolleyes:

Poundland have yellow cowboy hats which I think I'll get and just decorate with straw and eggs. I did think about using my ds' Fireman Sam hat in the hope that he would actually wear it when the time comes. The only problem with that is it's plastic and I don't think I'd be able to find a way to attach anything to it!

Here's the one I'm hoping to use on this page.... here

huskydog

if you have a Home Bargins nearby , they have lots hat making kits for boys. They were only £1.99 and included felt shapes and cut out for boats, pirate hats and other things. they also had straw hats and accessories to make a bonnet for girls- £1.99 also.

rsdiscos

Thank you for all your suggestions.
As he is in year 1 this is the third hat we have made and I wanted to make sure they weren't too much the same.
We made a top hat style in nursery out of card and covered in paper mache he painted it in pearlised pastel paint ala Jackson Pollock and printed out egg designs which he coloured in adding some crepe paper etc.. that was good
Last year we modelled a papaer mache cowboy hat again painted and added a ribbon border fluffy chicks and a basket of chocolate eggs - the older kids judged the infants and he won!! bless.:T
I have had a scouted round the pound shops and found the yellow straw cowboy hats, plastic eggs, chicks of different sizes and some cute birds nests- thank you for the suggestions - by the way I made a search on ebay - someone is selling easter bonnets for between £10 -£15 !!!!:eek:
you could use pictures for some inspiration!! Melissa