With Easter plans officially scrapped, it is time to focus on decorating our house for the most festive, socially distant, self-isolated Easter possible. How are we going to do this? Easter bunny crafts.
My nearly four-year-olds and I spent the last week doing Easter bunny crafts to help get them excited for an Easter at home by ourselves. We made all of these bunny crafts using supplies that we already had at home. If you do not have all of the supplies, no need to fret. Improvise. For example, I wanted to use pom-poms for the nose of most of these Easter bunnies. But alas, we do not have any. Don’t have googly eyes for Easter bunny crafts? No worry, draw on eyes or find something else around your house (maybe a bottle cap?) as a substitute. We improvised, and our Easter bunny crafts are still adorable.
My kids had a lot of fun making these Easter bunny crafts (and lots of other things on the DC Moms 101 Indoor & Outdoor Activities While Social-Distancing List), which are all pretty easy and do not require too much setup or cleanup. We are displaying several of them in our windows, to try to spread some joy throughout the neighborhood. If our neighbors go on a bunny hunt, there will be plenty of Easter bunny crafts for them to find at our house.
Toilet Paper Roll Bunny
Supplies:
- Toilet paper roll
- White paint
- Paintbrush
- Glue (Elmer’s or hot glue)
- Construction paper for ears
- Scissors
- Piper cleaners for whiskers
- Pom-pom for nose
- Black marker for mouth
What should you do all of those toilet paper rolls? Reuse them for Easter bunny crafts! (Or, do this entire project in yellow and voila—you made an Easter chick.) The kiddos got a kick out of using toilet paper rolls too. Simply paint the toilet paper roll white, cut out ears, and get to gluing. Glue the ears, googly eyes, piper cleaner whiskers, and pom-pom nose. (We ended up using hot glue.) Finish the look with a mouth.
Footprint Easter Bunny Craft (Two Feet)
Supplies:
- White cardstock or construction paper (2 pieces)
- Scissors
- Pink paint
- Paintbrush
- Googly eyes
- Black and pink markers
- Wipes recommended to clean feet
Paint both feet pink and stamp those feet onto a piece of white cardstock. While the paint dries (and you wash the paint off those pink feet), cut a circle out of the other piece of cardstock for the bunny’s head. Glue googly eyes and draw a pink nose, whiskers, and mouth. Once the pink paint is dry, cut around the pink feet—leaving a white border—to create the bunny’s ears. Then finally, glue the ears to the bunny’s head.
Footprint Easter Bunny Craft (One Foot)
Supplies:
- White and pink construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- White (or gray) paint for the bunny’s body
- Paintbrush
- Pink crayon or marker for ears
- Small ribbon for the bow
- Pom-pom for nose
- Wipes recommended to clean feet
To create space for the white paper to serve as a frame, trim the pink construction paper approximately one inch on all sides. Then, glue the pink construction paper into the white frame. Next, it is time for the big show—paint a foot white (or gray) and stamp on the pink paper. Position the toes close to the bottom of the pink to leave room to paint white ears off the heel. After the paint dries, color the inside of the ears pink, draw eyes, and glue the nose and bow onto the bunny. For variety, the bow could be a bowtie around the bunny’s neck or a hair bow between the ears.
Cotton Ball Bunny
Supplies:
- Cotton balls
- Glue
- White cardstock (or similar)
- Colored construction paper for ears
- Scissors
- 3 pipe cleaners
- Googly eyes
- 1 pom-pom for the nose
My almost four-year-olds absolutely loved making this cotton ball bunny. (We paint and craft pretty often, but cotton balls were a next level thrill.) I cut out a circle on white cardstock for the bunny’s head and cut the ears from pink and blue. The kiddos glued the pieces together. They glued the cotton balls on almost entirely on their own. Using regular Elmer’s glue (no need for hot glue), together we added googly eyes, the bunny’s whiskers, and the bunny’s mouth. We did not have any pom-poms for a nose, but I trust that Peter Cottontail can smell just fine.
