As seen in Vogue, Harpers Bazaar and The Sunday Times Style magazine).
A bird headdress neatly solves the problem of what to do with the STACKS of used exercise books your child brings home at the end of term:
Sentimental parents wrap them in tissue and store them in the attic until the end of time
Minimalist parents ditch them in the school’s recycling bin, never even taking them off the premises.
But smart parents chuck them in the garage with last year’s newspapers and bring them out again just before Glyndebourne, Royal Ascot or Henley to be upcycled into fashion’s latest must-have!
Read on and save a fortune on milliner’s fees…
1 Take some used A4 card or the cover of an old A4 exercise book and cut out the body of the bird.
2 Using a longer length of card (approx 50cm long) cut a wide strip, fit it to the head and secure the ends with sellotape to form a ring (like a basic Christmas cracker hat) that rests comfortably above/on the ears.
3 Use your dry and scaly, liver spotted hand as a template, and draw round it on used card, paper and plastic bags which are roughly the right colour for your bird.
4 To save time, fold the packaging once or twice first so that you get 2 or 4 hand shapes out of every cut-out (no mean feat with blunt school scissors…)
5 Attach your hand shape cut-outs to back half of the bird template overlapping a bit as you go.
6 Add a beak and draw eyeballs.
7 ‘Swan about’ in your avant-garde headwear.
at Royal Ascot
