Easter bonnet with grassy-topped chick's nest: step-by-step guide
This bright, colourful Easter hat is bursting with chicks and eggs and feathers. Follow our easy step-by-step video and picture guide to make it at home with your child
If your child is partial to the look of cute chicks (and who isn't?) this grassy-topped chick's nest hat could be just the Easter bonnet ticket for them – especially as it's so easy to make.
Although we have specified particular decorations, you can of course use different decorations, depending on what you can get hold of (see Where to buy everything you need for this bonnet, below) and what you can find around the house. If you haven't got tissue paper, for example, use normal paper or newspaper. And if you haven't got ready-made Easter chicks, you could cut chick shapes out of card and colour them yellow.
Huge (Easter) hat tip to Naomi from our MadeForMums Community who made this Easter bonnet with her daughter Eliza and helped us demonstrate how simple a craft it is with her step by step video guide (above) and picture guide (below)...
Grassy-topped chick's nest Easter bonnet: how to make it step by step
You will need:
- A hat
- Yellow card
- Scissors
- Glue or sticky tape
- Green tissue paper
- Mini nests or twigs
- Mini Easter chicks and/or mini eggs
- Yellow feathers
- A bow (fabric, ribbon or tissue paper)
- Easter egg stickers (optional)
- Other Easter decorations (optional)
Step 1: Create the nest shape
Cut your card to a length that will wrap in a circle around the crown of your hat, with its top edge a little higher than the top of the hat. Glue or tape it into place.
Step 2: Make the tissue-paper grass
Shred the green tissue paper and place it on top of the hat. Flatten it a little into place.
Step 3: Add the nests
Pop your mini nests or twigs onto the green tissue shreds and place your eggs or chicks in it.
Step 4: Top with feathers and more chicks
Tuck yellow feathers around the paper rim of the big nest, and pop some extra chicks or eggs onto the tissue paper around the mini nests or twigs.
Step 5: Attach the bow
Using glue, add a bow made from fabric or ribbon or tissue paper to the brim – wherever you think it would look best.
Step 6: Decorate with stickers and other Easter touches
Place some Easter-themed stickers around the sides of your yellow-card nest or cut Easter-egg shapes out of card, decorate them and stick them onto the sides of the nest or around the hat brim. You could also add simple tissue paper flowers to the brim (simply scrunch the tissue to give a petal effect).
And now you're done!
Where to buy everything you need for this bonnet
- Plush yellow mini Easter chicks, £4.93 for a pack of 10
- Baker Ross coloured fluffy mini chicks, £3.95 for a pack of 12
- 100 sheets of coloured tissue paper, £8.75
- Robelli Easter bonnet craft set with hat, chicks, shredded tissue paper and bunny decorations, £12.99
- Easter bonnet decorating kit, £3.29
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Pics and video: Naomi Crawford. Video edit: Emily Longman Wall.