Plastic or paper Easter grass (paper staples more easily)

Foam cutout Easter shapes, if you have them, or construction paper and/or foam sheets to create your own

Pipe-cleaners in kid-friendly colors

Anything else in your grab bag of crafting supplies, such as pompoms, stickers, small beads, buttons, fabric, or Easter-themed paper

Cut and measure

Using the ruler and a pencil or pen, mark off your foam sheet into three sections: Two sections need to be 5 inches wide by 18 inches long, leaving the third piece, which will be 2 inches wide by 18 inches long.

Cut your foam sheet into these three sections.

Staple the two 5-inch-wide sheets of foam together to create one sheet that's almost 36 inches long (the overlap will make it shorter).

Put the smaller foam piece aside. This will be your basket handle.

Wrap the length of foam around the child's head to get an approximate diameter for the basket. Leaving two or three inches to account for stapling, cut the foam.

Decorate

Lay the "basket" length of foam in front of the crafting child and show the child where the center of the hat will be when it's on her head and explain that this is the section to focus on.

Allow the child to decorate her hat as she sees fit. This may include markers, stickers, foam shapes, beads, pompoms or other supplies. Some things are best stapled, others glued.

After the band is decorated, oooh and aaah over the child's superior artistic skills.

Help the child staple green "grass" and other decorations, such as pipe cleaners, to the hat.