Knock, knock, Easter 2023 is here. For school parents and children, it’s time to make Easter hats for the annual Easter Bonnet Parade. If you’re looking for DIY Easter hat ideas, we’ve rounded up 10 of the most popular ones, from the super impressive and detailed to the simple and easy to whip up the night before. These easy-to-make Easter bonnet ideas for boys and girls will help you get inspired and create a craft masterpiece ready to help children stand out at the school Easter Bonnet Parade.

10 DIY Easter Hat Making Ideas

01 Angry Bird Easter Hat

Photography: Maureen Curran

Little Angry Birds fans will adore this yellow Angry Bird Easter hat. This cute idea uses a bowler or trilby hat with a yellow cardboard top hat and cardboard decorations cut out.

Materials You’ll Need:

• A bowler or trilby hat
• Yellow feathers
• Cardboard or paper
• Orange cardboard or felt
• Pom-poms
• Glue sticks
• Scissors

How to Make the Perfect Angry Bird Easter Hat

1. Prepare a bowler or trilby hat, and completely cover the brim with yellow features by gluing them on.
2. Fold a large piece of yellow card or paper into a cone, ensuring the bottom is big enough to fit over the crown of the hat.
3. Secure the cone shape with sellotape, then attach it to the hat with glue.
4. Create your Angry Bird’s nose using orange cardboard and its eyes and eyebrows with card or felt.

02 Minecraft-themed Easter Hat

Photography: Giggleberry Creations

This Minecraft-themed Easter hat is sure to impress your kid, who is a Minecraft fan. They will definitely stand out at the Easter hat parade!

Materials You’ll Need:

• Recycling cardboard
• Premade Minecraft Creeper head
• Styrofoam box
• Green cardboard
• White cardboard
• Foam or plastic craft Easter eggs
• Multi-coloured electrical tapes
• Paint
• Hot glue gun
• Scissors

How to Make the Perfect Minecraft Easter Hat

1. Get a Minecraft Creeper head online or take some recycled cardboard, and then draw the Minecraft squares on it.
2. For an Easter bunny look, add green cardboard ears and white cardboard teeth.
3. Paint some foam or plastic craft Easter eggs with some bright colours.
4. Cut the multi-coloured electrical tape into tiny squares and turn each painted egg into a Minecraft character.
5. Use a hot glue gun to stick them to the Minecraft Creeper bunny.
6. More easy Minecraft-themed rabbit hats with a Styrofoam box.

03 Delicate Easter Princess Crown

Photography: Now That’s Peachy

The ultimate Easter hat for any little girl has a stunning look and keeps with the Easter theme of new life and new beginnings. This would work well for your first school Easter parade and is perfect for next year, too. Head over to Now That’s Peachy for a closer peek at how to make this pretty princess Easter hat.

Materials You’ll Need:

• Premade bird
• Wide headband
• Soft tree branches
• Small hard branches
• Foam eggs
• Pink tulle
• Easter decorations
• Felt or foam
• Needle and thread
• Stapler
• Glue sticks
• Spray paint

04 Stylish Feather Easter Hat

Photography: Little Big House Tales

Get ready for some feathery fun! The stunning feather crown is cool and perfect for all the Easter kings and queens at the Easter Bonnet Parade.

Materials You’ll Need:

• Headband
• Webbing fabric
• Sticky tape
• Glue sticks
• Staples
• Threads
• Blue feathers
• Foam or plastic Easter eggs

How to Make the Super Stylish Feather Easter Hat

1. Create a headband by utilising webbing fabric material.
2. Determine a suitable length that will fit your child’s head comfortably.
3. Fasten the ends together with tape, glue, staples, or thread.
4. Intertwine feathers within the webbing headband.
5. Affix foam or plastic Easter eggs to the headband with glue.

05 Delicious Carrot Straw Easter Hat

Photography: Kate’s Creative Space

Give your Easter celebration a nostalgic feel! The DIY Easter hat is a perfect combination of your grandpa’s old straw hat and some red carrots. Don’t underestimate the power of carrots, as they can add a pop of colour and texture to your Easter bonnet!

Materials You’ll Need:

• Twine or ribbon
• Straw hat
• Small carrots
• Glue sticks

How to Make the Delicious Carrot Fedora

1. Take a piece of card, and create a loop to fit your child’s head
2. Measure the same length of the twine or ribbon as the card loop
3. Attach several small carrots by gluing them to the twine or ribbon and the straw hat
4. For optimal results, cut the carrots in half so that they have a flat side to adhere to the brim of the straw hat.

06 Bumblebee Easter Hat

Photography: Now That’s Peachy

This cute animal Easter hat has everyone abuzz with excitement! It has a few bumblebees added for little boys or girls to proudly wear to the parade. Now That’s Peachy has the free tutorial to help you stay busy by making this bumblebee Easter hat.

Materials You’ll Need:

• Premade bumblebees
• Small toy rings
• Thin wire
• Sequins
• Paint
• Stapler
• Glue sticks
• Hot Glue Gun

07 Playful Chicks Easter Eggs Hat

Photography: WWD

Start working on creating this eggscellent hat! The simple decorated hat with 24 Easter eggs, several plush toy chicks, and two egg cartons is an amazing choice for boys and girls. A hot glue gun helps keep everything in place.

Materials You’ll Need:

• Craft chicks
• Egg cartons
• Foam or plastic Easter eggs
• Hot glue gun
• Elastic band

How to Make the Fluffy Chicks and Egg Carton Hat

1. Prepare a bunch of egg cartons or use glue to connect small egg cartons.
2. Use a hot glue gun to keep each foam or plastic Easter egg in the hole, and stick the craft chicks on the eggs or the edge of the cartons.
3. Stack up the egg cartons with chicks and eggs in between and glue them tightly together.
4. Add an elastic strap to wear easily.

08 Spring Pompom Easter Hat

Photography: hobbycraft

If you want to be noticed in a sea of headwear, you have to up the ante a bit! This spring-inspired DIY Easter hat is created with a large brimmed hat, two ribbons, and folded tissue papers in a fun assortment of colours. Just make sure you use strong enough glue or tape to secure all elements in position.

Materials You’ll Need:

• A wide-brimmed beach hat
• Multi-coloured tissue paper
• Glue sticks
• Sticky tape

How to Make the Giant Pompom Easter Hat

1. Get Mum’s large beach hat with a wide brim that serves as the foundation.
2. Take lots of tissue paper in different bright colours.
3. Make the pompom by folding the tissue paper in half, and then concertina fold it.
4. Glue or tape the folded end of the tissue paper to the side of the large beach hat.
5. Gently stretch the tissue paper out to form the pom-pom shape.
6. Repeat the above process as needed until it achieves your desired look.

09 Paper Mache Cracked Egg Easter Hat

Photography: photoblog

The sparkly egg shell hat is a hit with so much fun! It’s suitable for any age or interest as you can paint it with your kid’s favourite colours, add your own theme, or stick with more traditional Easter decorations such as chickens. This idea on Pinterest appears to be using an old hat with a cardboard top hat in the shape of a cracked eggshell glued to it and finally painted in a variety of colours.

Materials You’ll Need:

• Cardboard or paper
• Makers
• Paint
• Glue sticks
• Scissors

10 Cute Easter Bunny Party Hat

Photography: The House That Lars Built

A dainty and delicate Easter hat that your bunny will love to wear. This is so exciting at the thought of your little bunny wearing the cute Easter bunny hat for their school parade.

Materials You’ll Need:

• Pastel cards
• Twine
• Markers
• Glue sticks
• Sticky tape
• Scissors

How to Make an Adorable Easter Bunny Hat

1. Make a cone out of a piece of pastel card.
2. Create whiskers with long, thin pieces, and then make eyes and noses for the bunny by using simple circles and triangles, and then use glue sticks to attach them to the face.
3. Draw a simple mouth with a black marker.
4. Use a scissor or knife to cut slits in the side of the hat, and then cut out the ears.
5. Slide the ears in and attach them inside with sticky tape.
6. Tape the twine to the interior sides of the hat.

Hope you have a happy time with your child at their Easter Bonnet Parade! If you’re also searching for fun ways to enjoy Easter celebrations with your children, including chocolate-free Easter gift ideas, you’ve come to the right place.

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Conclusion

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