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angelmum
angelmum | March 2007

Help!!!! Easter Hat Parade

I just read in my sons newsletter I have to make him a easter hat for the parade hmmm little thing I forgot about... I don't have an artistic bone in my body, does anyone have any ideas or websites or something.... anything to help me.... or would someone like to do it for me lol  I can't even come up with an idea, I don't want him to be one of those kids with the most pathetic hat in the parade HELP!!!

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ClayCook
March 2008 | ClayCook
Re: Help!!!! Easter Hat Parade

wow - popular topic - 12000 visitors! :)



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Jessgore
4.00 (Good) | March 2008 | Jessgore
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Grab an old cap, some colored  paper and some easter eggs, and cotton wool... LOL

take the cap wrap a peice of colored paper around the bit that sits on the head to make a kind of bowl.. Stick some some cotton wool in the bottom then add easter eggs....  Then cut out some bunny ears and staple one either side of the bowl like paper... Then on the viser part of the cap cut two bunny like teeth bits of paper and stick them to the front of the viser part. IF old staples work well. Or just use some good glue, or sticky tape, although staples and glue are better options.. Then you could also either pick up the googlely eyes and stick two on the front just of the bowl like thing...

Oh and draw or get some of those pip cleaners to put wiskers on as well...

Have fun..



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      Jessgore
4.00 (Good) | March 2008 | Jessgore
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YOu could hard boil some eggs and get your son to paint them... Or put a pin prick in either end of the egg and blow the egg out of one of the holes and then paint them, color them, wrap them up in tin foil... Or sit them in some water with a bit of food coloring for a bit...
Good luck



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renaekav
4.00 (Good) | March 2008 | renaekav
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Hi, Just in case you would like another quick solution.... Try using a bicycle helmet as a base. Many cardboard hats can be difficult to keep on an active childs head. You can temporarily tape cardboard or a soft toy bunny to a bike helmet for a fast yet effective eater hat. Last year my child drew and coloured in bright colourful easter eggs and stuck them around his helmet. Pipe cleaners are also easy to thread through the holes of the helmet for great imaginative designs and most importantly.... it won't fall off your childs head!


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gemmalarkin
4.00 (Good) | March 2008 | gemmalarkin
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Hi. My sister just phoned me to tell me the


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yasmin78
4.88 (Excellent) | March 2007 | yasmin78
Help!!!! Easter Hat Parade
For Ethan's first parade I got a cheap straw hat, some small easter eggs, stickers and glitter glue. We stuck the eggs on with superglue (to stop the kids from pulling them off as well as to hold them in place!) and decorated every empty spot with different coloured star stickers and the glitter glue. He looked great!


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      angelmum
4.38 (Good) | March 2007 | angelmum
Help!!!! Easter Hat Parade
I like that one, and the others but in this heat I don't think the eggs would last real well lol oh I'm going to have to come up with something


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wolonfab
4.53 (Excellent) | March 2007 | wolonfab
Help!!!! Easter Hat Parade
last year for my kindie boy i found a rabbit that had big floppy hairs.....

I cut off the ears and the hands..... I gave my son the hands to wear....... he also had big floppy ears after i added elastic ...and drew on a pink rabbit nose...he had a basket full of little easter eggs...... he looked like a cute little curly haired bunny rabbit...... and he was also very  original......

i love my kids standing out though.....thanks for taking me back..... I miss those times and forget them too easily...Luckily i got pics to use for his 21st in yrs to come....hehehehehe



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Ngairi
4.88 (Excellent) | March 2007 | Ngairi
Help!!!! Easter Hat Parade

Help!!! angelmum you just reminded me I have to do the same for my youngest. Haven't had to do that in a long time.

Lundev, I did a similar thing at Christmas with the old Akubra and candy canes and decos, but hadn't thought to use it for Easter. I will now.

Thanks Leisa

 



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angelmum
4.88 (Excellent) | March 2007 | angelmum
Help!!!! Easter Hat Parade
Thanks guys xxxx


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Tink1976
4.83 (Excellent) | March 2007 | Tink1976
Help!!!! Easter Hat Parade
If he has a sun hat you can customize that with little fluffy chicks and eggs!


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      chrissypops1968
March 2008 | chrissypops1968
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Hi, thanks for the links, they are very useful.  i need to make a boys bonnet or hat. 



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      angelmum
4.00 (Good) | March 2007 | angelmum
Help!!!! Easter Hat Parade
Thank you Im sure I will find one on these sites xx


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Lundev
4.86 (Excellent) | March 2007 | Lundev
Help!!!! Easter Hat Parade

I have a great idea!!!

Its a good spin on an old idea....

You know how they hang corks off a hat .......well get some bright coloured ribbon and hang eater eggs off a hat..all the way around....then get the child to do some pictures of eggs with bright colours and cut them out and stick them on the hat to jazz it up!

it would look great!!!

You would just staple the ribbon to the hat and then stick the ribbon to the eggs with tape!

See how you go!!!

 



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