Chinese students are getting creative in keeping to social distancing requirements, with one school making their children wear metre-long hats.

China Global TV Network (CGTN) shared photos of the pupils on their first day back at school on April 26 after spending months at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Teachers at an elementary school in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, assigned a special DIY project to students, asking them to make "one-meter hats" with their parents at home and wear them on the first day of school as a new way of enforcing COVID-19 social distancing," CGTN wrote.

The students can be seen wearing their creations, which are made out of cardboard and balloons used to create balloon animals.