Make a bonnet with blooms

Make colourful bonnets with flowers perfect for a spring celebration. Pick your favourite flowers, play around and plan a design, and enjoy wearing your own creations.

You’ll need summer hat with a wide brim a length of wide ribbon in any colour florist wire, raffia or twine fresh flowers from your garden

Steps

1. Cut a variety of your favourite flowers, herbs and twigs in different colours, and sizes from your garden. Remember to leave some with a longer stem. Get mom or dad to help you handle the garden clippers, they are very sharp!

Play around with the flowers and greenery by making small bunches, and arranging them in a row to find a design you like.

Cut some stems shorter and leave others long to give the spring bonnet a whimsical look.

Tie your flowers onto the ribbon with florist wire, raffia, or twine.

Tie the ribbon with your flower design around an old summer hat with a wide brim to create a beautiful spring bonnet ideal for a garden party.

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Learn more about gardening and the lifecycle of plants with these books:

The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle

This is a tale of a seed that survives many unkind conditions to bloom and become a beautiful flower. It is a simple lifecycle of a plant that can be used to describe human life too.

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Little Gardener: A guide to gardening for kids by Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi

This book is a perfect guide filled with lots of activities and games about gardening, the different types of plants and tool types. It’s a great read for kids who are in the process of starting a garden or even those who know a lot about gardening.

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