Please please help me make an Easter Bonnet & egg.

zebidee1

I love my kids with all my heart, but try as I might...I'm just not a 'crafty' type of Mum and I know I let them down in this department.

The eldest ones are all grown up now so they dont care anymore, lol but the youngest would love to have a proper Easter bonnet for the school parade (and not just the recycled lampshade that I covered in yellow crepe paper and stuck a nest on top with yellow chicks for my son's Easter about 10 years ago ). She'd also like a 'really, really, good egg' so she can enter the best dressed egg competition. I did a Scottish man one year with a wee kilt that I thought was really good.......but it seems I was the only one. :rolleyes: :rotfl:

I have no ideas and and even if I did, I wouldn't know how to go about making something anyway. I'd absolutely love her to feel she had a good chance this year, even if she didn't win anything. She's looking to me for inspiration, the poor soul.

Please can anyone help with suggestions or step by step instructions about how to make good things? Normally I panic the night before but if we start now, she might just have something half decent by next Thursday.:rolleyes:

Bless all of you in advance who take pity on me. :rotfl:

doraexplorer

if any use to you they have easter bonnet kits in poundland for a £1 .

eggs, we did humpty dumpty one year , putting egg on a box to look like a wall. another good idea is to decorate it like a bird and put it in a box to look like a bird cage.

its like a big competition here too but more between the mums rather than the kids.

i will have to do 2 this year as my little one is in nursery.

godd luck and heres hope we both win !

fiscalfreckles

Our school does a decorated egg every year, I and dread it - especially as they get older and have really difficult themes!

However, our most successful egg, a few years ago, was a fish.We (!) just painted an egg with shiny paint (various colours, it was a rainbow fish!), added some fins & tail made from tin foil, googly eyes and put it in a jam jar, decorated with green paper "seaweed".

Very simple and it got 2nd prize!

This year, my DD has to do "Modern Art".:huh:

Just remembered a hat we did one year, which was Easter bunnies, you fold up a piece of card like a concertina and draw the silhouette of a bunny on the first one, cut out as though you were making paper dolls, colour in or decorate each bunny then fasten into a circle, like a crown.

Good Luck, everyone and...

:easter_os

snowmaid

Here are 2 ideas.

Good luck



http://www.4ormore.co.uk/projects/april03.htm
http://aww.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=27017

i_wanna_save_money!

The mums at my daughters school are very competetive about the easter bonnets too. One good one a couple of years ago was someone did some eggs as Egg Factor (X factor). It was really good , she had three eggs behind a card desk dressed as simon, louie and sharon, and then a x drawn on the 'floor' and another egg as a contestant. Very original I thought.

flutterbyuk25

Awww this thread has brought back many happy memories of easter bonnet parade in primary school :A

We were rather poor when I was young (lol i'm only 25!), not that I was aware of it. But my easter bonnet was a pink sun hat - material was bit like straw if you know what I mean! and me and my mum would glue on those little yellow fluffy chicks onto it and make mini easter eggs from scraps on tinfoil. This would get rolled out every year and I loved it, even though it got a bit squashed towards the end of it's life :rotfl:

Good luck with making it

x

3plus1

zebidee1 wrote: »

I love my kids with all my heart, but try as I might...I'm just not a 'crafty' type of Mum and I know I let them down in this department.

Trust me, your kids won't care if you don't help them make things, as long as you provide crafting materials for them to play with and coo in admiration of anything they make when they're finished and show you.

zebidee1 wrote: »

the youngest would love to have a proper Easter bonnet for the school parade (and not just the recycled lampshade that I covered in yellow crepe paper and stuck a nest on top with yellow chicks for my son's Easter about 10 years ago ).

How about blowing up a balloon to the rough size of her head (if you're not sure, err on the side of making it too big than too small) and then using a papier mache technique to cover the top of the balloon? This will give you the head shaped bit of a bonnet. Papier mache is really easy - you just need old newspaper and some wallpaper paste (pick it up in B&Q). Plus it's messy and fun so your youngest will do the 'hard work' for you with minimal supervision needed. Do a good few layers to keep it strong.

Once it's all dried (leave it overnight - longer if time allows), pop the balloon and trim the bottom of the head bit to fit your youngest's head as best as possible. (Won't be an exact match - children aren't identical to balloons, funnily enough.) You can get your DD to do all the sticking, but you should do the cutting bit because it's the tricky bit for grown ups.

Take a big piece of card, plonk the papier mache creation in the middle and draw round. Then draw a bigger circle around it. This is going to be 'brim' of the hat, if I've got my words right. Pardon my English, it gets a bit rubbish towards the end of the week when I'm tired.

Cut around the edge of the big circle. You'll now have one big circle with a head sized circle in the middle. Looking at the circle in the middle, draw another circle inside it, maybe two inches smaller than the circle already there. Confused yet?;)

Cut out the new little circle and you'll have a big doughnut shape with a little edging hoop in the middle. Make little snips in the hoop to make tabs, fold these up and use them to tape the doughnut to the papier mache thing. Lots of tape. Inside and out. (Masking tape is quite good for this.)

Put down more newspaper, give your child some paint and let them decorate.

You can pick up little chicks for cheap in your nearest pound store - that might provide some Easter inspiration. Possibly buy some garlands or fake flowers and take those to pieces? I mean, for all of the decoration stuff, leave that to the child. Just provide lots of safe things to stick down and some glue.

You might need to buy some ribbon and securely attach that to the hat to keep it on your DD's head - it's never going to fit exactly. The ribbon can count as decoration anyway.

zebidee1 wrote: »

Please can anyone help with suggestions or step by step instructions about how to make good things? Normally I panic the night before but if we start now, she might just have something half decent by next Thursday.:rolleyes:

Definitely start early. You'll be less stressed that way!

zebidee1

I love you all! Lol. This is just a flying visit to see if there were any more replies and I'm on my way out the door so dont have time to read right now. Just wanted to say thsnks v much. will read soon and thank u all later.

celyn90

I love the fish and the bird in the bird cage ideas, they are both really cool (I resisted the urge to say eggcellent).

They had bonnet kits in the Works quite cheaply - which might give you a base to start with that you can decorate.

fiscalfreckles wrote: »

This year, my DD has to do "Modern Art".:huh:

:easter_os

Pickled egg - and say its a Damian Hurst Or drop it onto a sheet of paper from a height, spread it around a bit so it looks like something Jackson Pollock did.

Or make it a little messy bed - Tracey Emin

You can cook them in a square mould too - to make a cube shaped egg - do several with some food colouring, stack them up to look like a Mondrian painting.

whatatwit

Celyn, I love the Damien Hurst pickled egg.
On the 'Hurst' theme, I suppose you could stick little jewels on to make it like the jewelled skull, or, how about slicing it in half like the cow he did?

I like the fish idea for the egg, or how about an 'Elmer' egg,you could give it a trunk and colour it into little blocks.
(Rainbow fish and Elmer are 2 of my daughter's favourites and she is 14)

moggitymog

We used an old straw hat decorated with netting, ribbon and tissue paper flowers last year, it looked fab.