If your child's Easter bonnet parade is coming up and you don't know where to start, we've got 7 brilliant, child-friendly ideas.

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Whether you need an Easter bonnet for a boy or girl, our 7 bonnet ideas are easy-to-make and feature a guide detailing how to make each one, plus links to buy everything you need if you don't already have it at home.

Most of our bonnets are really easy to make with our step-by-step instructions, but we've also included an extra-special Hot Air Balloon option which looks fantastic, but takes slightly more effort, if you fancy the challenge.

Make these easy Easter crafts with your kids at home — including paper plate chicks, loo roll bunnies, felt Easter eggs and much more! Discover our 15 easy Easter crafts for kids guide.

Here's our pick of the best easy Easter bonnet ideas for boys and girls for 2025

Bunny Rabbit Easter Bonnet | Hatching Chick Easter Bonnet | Giant Carrot Easter Bonnet | Floral Easter Bonnet with DIY Flowers | Giant Daffodil Bonnet | Grassy-Topped Chick's Nest Easter Bonnet | Hot Air Balloon Bonnet

1. Bunny Rabbit Easter Bonnet

5-easy-last-minute-easter-bonnets

What you'll need

How to make it

  1. Cover the top of the bonnet with PVA glue
  2. Stick cotton wool balls all over the top of the bonnet, leave the brim of the bonnet free
  3. Cut out a bunny nose from pink card
  4. Stick on googly eyes, the bunny nose and pipe cleaner whiskers
  5. Cut out a bunny ears shape from white and pink card and stick together
  6. Stick the bunny ears on the top of the hat
  7. Cut out leaves from the green card
  8. Stick the green card leaves onto the rim of the bonnet with PVA glue
  9. Stick Easter stickers or decorations on top of the leaves

2. Hatching Chick Easter Bonnet

Hatching Chick Easter bonnet and young boy wearing the bonnet

What you'll need

How to make it

  1. Cover the top of the bonnet in PVA glue
  2. Stick yellow tissue paper or crepe paper onto the bonnet until the top is covered
  3. Place two paper plates together and tape the top halves together
  4. Cut one of the plates in half horizontally with a zig-zag edge
  5. Spread glue on the top of the bonnet and open the 2 plates wide enough to place them over the hat and stick them in place
  6. Glue two googly eyes onto the bonnet
  7. Glue the other paper plate section that you cut out earlier underneath the googly eyes
  8. Cut out chick wings from the yellow felt/card and glue them to either side of the hat
  9. Cut out a beak from the orange felt/card and glue it to the front above the beak
  10. Decorate with Easter-themed decorations/flowers/pom poms around the rim of the hat

3. Giant Carrot Easter Bonnet

Giant Carrot Bonnet

What you'll need

How to make it

  1. Tape the 4 pieces of orange card together to make a large rectangle sheet of card (or paint 4 pieces of white card orange then leave to dry and tape together)
  2. Roll the card up into a cone shape (make sure it fits your child's head!)
  3. Secure the cone in place with tape or staples
  4. Cut off any excess at the bottom
  5. Cut the green tissue paper or card into 2cm-wide strips
  6. Staple or glue the green strips and green pipe cleaners around the rim of the cone
  7. Cut the orange tissue paper or card into thin strips
  8. Staple or glue the orange strips and pipe cleaners to the top of the cone
  9. Measure how much elastic you'll need to run under your child's chin, then cut and stick to either side of the rim of the cone
  10. Decorate the cone with Easter-themed decorations or stickers

4. Floral Easter Bonnet with DIY paper flowers

Floral Bonnet craft and young girl wearing the bonnet

What you'll need

How to make it

  1. Make the paper flowers by creating 2cm folds in white crepe paper, turning over for each fold
  2. Tie the middle of the folded paper with a thin elastic band
  3. Use scissors to round-out the edges of the paper
  4. Colour just the edges of the paper with a felt tip pen
  5. Pull apart the folded edges
  6. Repeat, using different colour felt tip pens to create different coloured flowers
  7. Glue the flowers onto a bonnet

5. Giant Daffodil Easter bonnet

Giant Daffodil Easter Bonnet

What you'll need

How to make it

  1. Create a large, petal template out of paper/card
  2. Lay the template onto yellow card and draw around it to make 14 yellow petals
  3. Apply glue to the centre of the hat and glue on the orange tissue paper
  4. Cut off any excess so the orange paper only covers the crown of the hat
  5. Glue 7 of the petals around the rim of the hat, sticking them to the base of the crown
  6. Slightly bend the next 7 petals and glue them in between the other petals
  7. Optional: glue another 7 smaller petals on top to add even more definition

6. Grassy-Topped Chick's Nest Easter Bonnet

Top of homemade Easter bonnet with yellow chicks, bird nests and yellow feathers

What you'll need

How to make it

  1. Cut yellow card to a length that will wrap in a circle around the crown of your bonnet, with its top edge a little higher than the top of the hat
  2. Tape it into place
  3. Cut green tissue paper into thin strips and place it on top of the hat within the yellow card
  4. Add the mini nests/twigs onto the green tissue paper and place the eggs/chicks on it
  5. Add yellow feathers around the rim of the nest
  6. Add a bow to the brim of the hat
  7. Optional: Add some Easter-themed decorations/stickers around the sides of the yellow card

A brilliant bonnet that takes slightly more effort...

7. Hot Air Balloon Bonnet

Hot Air Balloon Easter Bonnet

What you'll need

How to make it

  1. Inflate the balloon and tie together
  2. Glue ripped-up newspaper to the inflated balloon until it's completely covered
  3. Glue green tissue paper to cover the papier-mâché balloon
  4. Cover the balloon with green paint
  5. Once dry, tape a bow to the middle of the hot air balloon
  6. Stick red tissue paper to the inside of a wicker basket
  7. Shred green tissue paper
  8. Add the shredded tissue paper and decorative Easter eggs to the basket
  9. Using a hot glue gun, stick the papier-mâché balloon to the handle of the basket
  10. Using the hot glue gun, glue more shredded green tissue paper and Easter-themed decorations to the rim of the bonnet
  11. Glue the bottom of the wicker basket to the top of the bonnet
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