Easter bonnets are one of the easiest craft projects that you can do with your children over the holiday period. The hats base can be made from just about anything, including pie plates, paper, cardboard and an old felt or straw hat. The idea is to decorate the base with flowers, ribbons, eggs and other colourful adornments to make beautiful Easter hat creations, like the one in the picture below.

Photo: pointytoeshoecrew

Remember an Easter hat does not have to be as outlandish as the one above, a few ribbons and flowers will suffice. Its design depends on how your child wants his or her hat to look and how much time and effort your child puts into creating it.

There is no set standard for bonnets. Easter hats come in a variety of different shapes, colours and sizes, from very simple designs like the one seen below to the more complex ones like the one pictured above.

Each hat is as unique and different as the child who makes it, and that is what makes them so special.

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If your school or church does not have an Easter parade that your child can participate in, perhaps you can gather your child’s friends or some neighbourhood kids and have an Easter parade of your very own.

Have each child create their own Easter bonnet and then encourage the children to march through the neighbourhood in their beautiful Easter attire singing the most famous Easter song of all, “In my Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, I’ll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade.”

Children love to make things when then are given an opportunity to show it to the world and what better way to do that then while marching in a parade?

It does not take much preparation or experience to create Easter bonnets, you simply need to create a hat and decorate it. Decorations for bonnets include things like paper and plastic flowers, coloured eggs, ribbons and other Easter adornments.

Here are some Easter bonnet inspirations for you and your child to consider making for this Easter holiday.  Perhaps once your child has his or her hat, they will want to parade around in it.  You will never know until you give it a try!

I love this elegant paper flower hat from twirlingbetty and I think anyone can easily make this.

This hat below is a really neat bird’s nest on a paper plate base from lottielulu.

Sarahmumof3′s straw hat is so cute with its animal adornments that It does not need anything else to make it special.

What will your hat be made of and what will you decorate it with?  I have not decided on what I will do quite yet, all I know is that it will have some green and purple because those are my favourite Easter colours.

Show us your Easter bonnet and we will post it on our social media for the world to see.