Easter hats/bonnets

Every year at Nursery they have an Easter hat competition.  The girls enjoy this and together we come up with a creation.
Last year A was still small at 3 so I made the hat. It was simply a wide strip of card fixed to fit her head, then a flower shape cut out that was larger than the diameter of her head. I then cut small rectangles of card and used them to attach the the flower to the inside of the card band.
After that was done I left A to decorate it.  She used straw on the top and added small little fluffy chicks picked up from the local pound shop, then cut out ovals and decorated them to resemble easter eggs and flower shapes.

My proudness went she won and received a chocolate egg for her efforts!

This years she was adamant that she wanted to include her bunny teddy. It took abit of working out of how we could attach teddy to a hat so that we wouldn't fall off. In the end we came up with the idea of Bunny popping out of a flower pot.
I found a plastic flower pot that was about the same size of her head and cut off the bottom. My thought was to use this as the hat but it wouldnt stay on so I attached the flower pot to a straw hat we had. If you did use the pot as the hat then add some black duct tape round the cut edges to stop any sharp edges and give a more comfortable fit.

I attached the pot by making small holes round the edges and using thread sewed the hat to the pot. We covered this with 'grass' ie crunched up tissue paper. We used Sellotape to attach the bunny to the pot then again used more grass!  It was someone else's turn to win this year but everyone was very impressed.