Easter Crafts

Easter Crafts

Making bunny rabbits with cotton balls News paper or toilet paper and wire. It’s amazing how realistic these bunnies can appear once they’re finished. Besides the basic instructions to making them, there is many ways you can complete the bunny. Be creative and use your imagination, the finished bunny is all your own. You could go all out and purchase little eyes, material (faux fur), or what ever you want to design and make your perfect bunny creation from any store that sells craft supplies. As long as you have the basic structure of the bunny, you can complete it any way you’d like. I am giving instructions below on how to make the simplest and less costly bunny for your Easter craft project. I hope you and your family enjoy this project as much as my family and I do and we wish you the best of the Easter holiday.

· Supplies needed for project: Cotton balls, Craft wire, News paper or toilet paper (shredded), Food coloring or dye (if you would like to color the bunny), scissors, Glue or Paste, Fishing line (for whiskers), and yarn (to create face) or whatever you would like to use, and a medium sized bowl.

· Step one: Shred the news paper or toilet paper into your bowl, add small amounts of a water and paste mixture and blend with your hands like your making/kneading pizza dough, until its thoroughly mixed at a sticky consistency yet, still able to separate portions for shaping the structure of the body.

· Step two: Roll and mold an oval shaped body base, slightly flatten the bottom (stomach) area of bunny for stability purposes, set aside and let dry. Cut your thin metal wire strips to a length that will penetrate at least half way through the bunny’s body base, allowing excess in a length that will penetrate half way through the head piece of the bunny. Roll and mold a smaller egg shaped bunny head base, set aside and let dry. Roll and mold 4 small hot dog shaped leg mold pieces, set aside and let dry. Cut 2 more metal wire pieces for attaching the legs to the bunny body, allowing enough length to penetrate the leg mold almost to toe, then go through one side piercing through the other side of the bunny body base, and allowing enough length to penetrate almost to the toe of the second leg mold. Do the same with the other 2 legs. Keep in mind when deciding the size of your molds, they will dry to around half the size. Once the head and body base and legs are assembled, take a paint brush and paint the paste/glue over the entire bunny.

· Step three: Take each one of you cotton balls and cut them in halves or thirds, the long way. Begin pasting the cotton ball sheets to the entire bunny base, set aside and let dry. When completely dry, gently comb over the cotton to get a rabbit hair affect. Then roll and glue a piece of cotton ball to the rear end of the bunny to create the tail.

· Step four: If you didn’t purchase little eyes from a craft store, it’s O.K, just take two small pieces of cotton, soak them in the color dye you would like the eye’s to be, allow to dry, roll into small tight balls and glue onto the bunnies faces. From there, how you want to do the finishing touches to your bunny is up to you. Be creative and have fun with the project. I’m sure it will be a craft project every one will love.