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Easter Bonnet Making Ideas for Children

Are you making a children's Easter bonnet and need some craft inspiration?  If so, we hope that this page of Easter bonnet making ideas will help you.

The ever popular Easter bonnet competition need not fill you with dread.  We're sure that you will be buzzing (or perhaps bunny hopping?!) with crafty ideas when you see our suggestions below.

We make the assumption that children will be making these but with adult supervision - if kids are making them on their own you will need to adapt the ideas according to their age and abilities.

Buying Easter Bonnets

We sell a range of Easter bonnets for various head sizes.  We give the circumference of head that these will fit in our product details, please check these before buying. 

It is also worth remembering that this measurement relates to the inside of the hat.  You will want this to set on top of the head and not around it - so if it's too big it will be over their eyes and not ideal on the Easter bonnet catwalk!

Easter Bunny Bonnet

Our Easter bunny bonnet is very simple but is extremely effective.  In fact we think it's terrific, if we may be so immodest!

We have made the bonnet using one of straw bonnets with a long section of A3 white foam as the band around the hat and attached everything to the band.  By doing this you will be able to slip this off after Easter and reuse it next year!

We have then cut out jumbo ears and a tufty fluffy bit for the front (sorry, the best description for this we can come up with!) from the rest of the white foam sheet.  Then, adding pink foam sections for the inner ears and a little twitchy nose.  You will obviously need a lot less pink foam than you'll need white foam.

Then, depending how wide you made your foam band, you will need either 40mm googly eyes or 30mm googly eyes - we'd suggest a wider band and 40mm for the best result.

Finally, add you jumbo white pom pom tail, nothing smaller than 50mm wide though - if you don't want to use a ready made pom pom, you could make a woolly pom pom...

You could adapt this craft idea to make it as a headband, without the bonnet, by making the foam band wider.

The best adhesive for this is our tacky glue, this isn't immediately dry but is immediately much tackier than normal glue and also dries quicker.

If you are buying our two part carrots for your Easter egg hunt you could add one of these.  Alternatively, you could make a carrot from orange and green foam sections. 

~ Craft Supplies for an Easter Bunny Bonnet ~

Straw bonnet
White A3 foam sheet
Pink foam sheet
Large white pom pom
40mm googly eyes (or 30mm)
Two part plastic carrot (or orange foam and green foam)
Tacky glue

That's all folks!  Simple.....

Mini Easter Rubber Ducks Bonnet - No Crafting Involved!

This Easter bonnet is very simple for our non-crafty customers.  It is made using our mini Easter rubber ducks (make sure you use the mini ones though) and Easter paper shred.

We have simply attached the ducks with foam sticky pads and then pushed the pastel paper shred in behind them.  Finished!

Not only can the bonnet be reused next year but the ducks can be taken off and used in the bath too....

If you have ducks left over, you will find they snuggle nicely inside our range of standard two-part plastic Easter eggs.

 ~ Craft Supplies for a Mini Easter Rubber Ducks Bonnet ~

Straw bonnet
Pastel paper shred
Mini Easter rubber ducks
Foam stick pads

Easter Chick Bonnet Craft

How cute is this little chap!  This is a lovely alternative idea for an Easter bonnet and is really bright and cheery too.

To enable reuse of the hat we have wrapped a bright yellow foam band around on of our straw hats.  This has been cut from an A3 sheet of yellow foam.

Then we have cut a yellow egg shape from the same foam sheet for the chick body and attached this to the band.

Using a small sheet of orange foam, we have cut out some feet and a beak and attached these to the body.  This is followed by 25mm googly eyes, fluffy yellow feathers and some black pen details for the features.

Finally, we have added some Easter paper shred around the base as a final nest-like touch.

As with our Easter bunny bonnet, we have used a tacky glue to attach the component parts.  This is the glue that we recommend for all foam crafts.

 ~ Craft Supplies for an Easter Chick Bonnet ~

Straw bonnet
Yellow A3 foam sheet
Small orange foam sheet
25mm googly eyes
Yellow fluffy feathers (not quill feathers)
Pastel paper shred
Tacky glue

Traditional Easter Bonnet Craft

The Easter bonnet shown in the picture above is probably more traditional in style.  There are so many ways that you could adapt this but to give you some inspiration we will explain what we have added to our bonnet.

To start we have made a green felt trim, to go around the straw bonnet, using a sheet of green felt and a self adhesive ribbon.  You'll be able to cover up any joins with embellishments.

Then we have made felt flowers using felt offcuts, mixed pom poms and green pipe cleaners.  Followed by butterflies made in the same way.  These will bounce around on the pipe cleaner when the hat is worn....

Then we have embellished this with chenille chicks, two-part plastic eggs, ladybirds and iridescent shred.

We have used tacky glue throughout this project - because it is immediately tacky and relatively fast drying it makes it ideal for 3D craft projects like this.

 ~ Craft Supplies for a Traditional Easter Bonnet ~

Straw hat
Green felt
Felt offcuts
Mixed pom poms
Green pipe cleaners
Sticky ribbon
Two-part plastic eggs
Chenille chicks
Ladybirds
Iridescent shred
Tacky glue

Easter Bunny Visor Bonnet

This is a variation on the bunny bonnet above, using a foam sun visor instead of a straw bonnet.

If you are making this for a boy you could use a white visor - not many little boys will want to wear a pink hat!

You will need a foam sun visor, foam sheets for the ears, teeth and nose and 25mm or 30mm googly eyes.  The whiskers can be made with thin strips of foam offcuts.

 Other Easter Bonnet Craft Ideas

Economy Easter Bonnet ~ Simple and cheap but very effective - get the kids crafting to make tissue paper flowers, crepe flowers or "egg box" daffodils with coloured foam petals and arrange around the rim of the bonnet.

Deluxe Crafty Bug Bonnet ~ Scrunch up green tissue paper to make a "bed" around the rim and nestle some of our Easter crafty bug rabbits, chicks and sheep into these.

One for the Boys! ~ Rather than using a straw bonnet, why not use a plastic flower pot as the base?  You could then get them making some ugly bugs with mixed pom poms, craft foam, pipe cleaners and googly eyes - snails, spiders, ladybirds, bees etc.  Secure the bugs to the pot with a good strong glue or double sided tape.  Depending on the size of pot you buy, you may just be able to set this around the head or may need to secure it with elastic.

Making Hats with a Group of Kids ~ Straw bonnets are likely to be too costly to use for groups of kids.  Why not base your crafts around an Easter crown making project?  You could use ready cut card roll or one of our precut crown blanks, embellishing these with anything (and everything!) in bright spring colours.

Easter Craft Kits & Supplies for Kids

At littlecraftybugs.co.uk we sell a huge range of kids Easter craft kits and craft supplies.

Our range of themed craft kits include childrens Easter bunny crafts, Easter chick crafts and spring lamb crafts too.  Our kits are all packed for either home or group crafting and our group kits are packed for groups ranging in size from 6 kids to 100 kids.

In addition, our Easter craft supplies include everything from foam and card to pipe cleaners and pom poms - again, packed in different ways for both home and group Easter craft projects.

Easter Egg Hunt Supplies

Why not take a look at our huge range of Easter egg hunt supplies? 

We probably sell one of the largest ranges of eggs and accessories available in the UK.  This includes two part plastic eggs, egg hunt baskets, egg hunt fillers and other associated items.

Our two part plastic eggs are available in many pack sizes, ranging from small packs of 12 eggs for Easter egg hunts at home up to packs of 1000 eggs for group egg hunts on a larger scale.