How to Make a Mad Hatter Easter Bonnet

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Celebrate your annual Easter Bonnet Parade in style by creating this fantastic Mad Hatter inspired bonnet. Bright colours and bold patterns are a perfect match to capture a vibrant and flamboyant character. The Grass Top Hat is the ideal base for creating a miniature world within your bonnet. The Easter Craft Pack has all you need to make fun and colourful Easter bunnies for a magical and whimsical addition. Use Foam Sheets and the free downloadable templates to create these amazing handmade hat elements.

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How to make

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Print the template onto cardstock and cut out the lines to make a sturdy template.

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Use pencil to trace the elements onto foam sheets and cardstock, cut around with scissors and with a help of a scalpel to remove the shapes inside.

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Glue all the foam and cardstock elements together with tacky glue.

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Cut out a feather from purple foam. To give a more realistic look, cut small slits on both sides to imitate the vane.

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Cut a rectangle from purple felt and a few black spots to make the spotted bow tie. Cut a small black felt rectangle to make the middle of bow tie. Glue the bow tie together with hot glue gun.

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Cut various stripes of 1,5cm from white and black foam; trim the stripes to 2cm pieces. Cut two bands of cardstock and apply doubled-side tape to all surface. Stick all the small black and with rectangle onto the cardstock to make the checked pattern.

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To make the funky Bunny you will need one big, one medium e three small pompom felt balls and chenille stems. Use the stems to make the paws and ears; don't forget to bend over the end to avoid sharp edges. From black foam cut out the eyes and the bunny whiskers. Cut a tiny pink triangle to make the nose.

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Remove the cord from the fillable egg and fill the inside with various size felt pompom, use hot glue gun to adhere.

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After all elements are made, fix to the Grass Top Hat with hot glue gun. Attach some Daisy felt flowers to the final touch.

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