Easter bonnet idea: How to make a hatching chick bonnet

Hatching chick Easter bonnet: how to make it, step by step

You will need:

Yellow tissue paper
Scissors
Yellow hat
PVA glue
Sticky tape
2 paper plates
Yellow felt or card
Orange felt or card
2 googly eyes
Straw or shredded brown paper
Pom poms (optional)
Decorative flowers (optional)

Step 1: Make the tissue paper base

Cut the tissue paper into strips. Cover the top of the hat in PVA glue, then stick the strips of tissue paper over it until the top is covered in tissue paper.

Step 2: Create the eggshell with paper plates

Place 2 paper plates together, so that the sides you'd put food on are facing each other. Secure the plates together with sticky tape – but just over the top halves of the plates (so you can still open them up at the bottom). Then cut one of the plates in half horizontally with a zig zag edge.

Put the section you cut off to one side. Spread glue on the tissue-paper-covered top of the hat and then open the 2 plates wide enough to place them over the hat top and stick them in place. Trim down the section you cut off earlier, still with a zig-zag edge, and glue it around the base of the hat top.

Step 3: Add wings, a beak and eyes

Cut out 2 wings from the yellow felt or card, and glue them either side of the hat top.

From the orange felt or card, cut out a beak shape and glue that onto the front of the hat top. Next, glue the googly eyes above the beak.

Step 4: Make a nest and add decorations

Spread glue around the base of the hat top/chick and stick down straw or shredded paper to make the nest. You could also add flowers and pom poms, as shown in our picture. The flowers used here are on a thin wire and have been threaded through the hat. You can also buy craft sunflowers which, like the pompoms here, can just be stuck down with PVA glue. Leave overnight to allow the glue to dry fully before wearing.