Easter Crafts!

Bunny Mask! Make a bunny rabbit mask wearing an Easter bonnet from paper plates and tissue paper.

Materials needed:

• 3 white paper plates
• Toilet paper tube
• Pipe cleaners
• Construction paper - pink, black (multi colors for making paper flowers)
• White foam paper - make bunny teeth
• Purple tissue paper for making Easter bonnet
• Scissors
• Glue
• Hole punch
• Elastic

Instructions: 

• Cut out a triangle from a paper plate where your bunny nose would be located on your bunny mask.
• Take another paper plate, draw a bow shape on a paper plate and cut it out. The leftover pieces are in the shape of bunny ears.
• Cut out a tear shape in pink paper and glue them into the inside of your rabbit ears.
• Measure and draw and cut out the eye holes. Add bunny eyelashes with black construction paper. Cut out a 1 X 2-inch rectangle, then cut lashes into it. Curl them with a pencil, and then glue them to your rabbit masks above your eyes.
• Attach your bunny ears on top of the rabbit mask with a stapler.
• Make an Easter bonnet - cut half of a paper plate, wrap with tissue paper, then fold the ends in and staple the brim of your Easter bonnet to the face of your Easter mask.
• Draw paper flowers into construction paper with different colors. Add a yellow center to your flower. Glue them to your hat to close the gap between your bonnet and the head of your rabbit.
• Make a bunny nose - Cut out a 1-inch piece of toilet paper tube. Wrap and glue it with pink construction paper.
• Add whiskers to your bunny nose - Poke three holes in either side of your tube. Cut your pink pipe cleaners in half. Lace them through the holes to add the rabbit whiskers to your mask.
• Add buck teeth to your bunny face mask - cut out a 1 X 2-inch rectangle from white foam paper. Use a marker to make a line through the middle. Glue it to the bottom of your bunny nose.
• Glue the rabbit nose to the face mask just above the triangle opening.
• Punch two holes into the side of your mask and tie elastic band through each hole.
• Now you have a great bunny mask!

Bunny Easter Card – Make an Easter card with your child’s hand that can be formed into the shape of a bunny rabbit.

Materials needed:

• Blank white card or card stock folded into a card format
• White card stock or sheet of white paper to trace the bunny shape with kids hand
• Construction paper - pink for ears, black for whiskers, multiple colors for Easter eggs
• Pink cotton ball
• Glue
• Scissors
• Decorative edging scissors

Instructions :

• Make a background for your card. We took green construction paper cut out the same size as the front of the card, edged it with scissors, then glued it into place.
• Make a paper bunny rabbit from your child’s hand - traced the hand onto white paper. Cut the middle finger off and folded the thumb and pinky in and glued them into place.
• Glue the paper bunny to the middle of the card.
• Above the arms, add a face to your bunny with funny eyes, a cotton nose and strips of black paper for whiskers.
• Cut out two egg shapes and glue them to the bottom of the card and over the bottom part of your bunny rabbit made from paper.
• Decorate your Easter eggs with glitter glue or paper or whatever you would like.
• Add a greeting card message such as Happy Easter to the top of your card.
• Now you have a cute Easter bunny card that preserves your child’s hand outline for years to come and will make grandma and grandpa happy!
  
  

Castle Easter Basket - How to make princess castle Easter baskets from a soda bottle bottom and toilet paper rolls.  Great for hunting eggs or filling with Easter treats fit for a princess.

Materials needed:

• 1 Recycled 2 Liter Soda bottle
• 4 Recycled toilet paper tubes
• Silver tissue paper
• Construction paper - pink
• White card stock
• Metal fasteners or stapler

Instructions:

• Cut the top off of a soda bottle and clean it.
• Cut a strip of silver tissue paper that is about 6 inches wider than the height of your cut out bottle of soda.
• Wrap and tape your wrapping paper around the bottle. Fold the bottom into the base and tape in the middle like a present.
• Fold the top part down and tape into place.
• To make the turrets for your castle, wrap four toilet paper tubes with your silver tissue paper.
• To make the tops for your castle turrets, cut a pink 8.5 X 11-inch sheet of construction paper into four squares and cut them out. Wrap each around making a cone. Add glue to the top of your tube and push the turret into it until it sticks.
• To make your castle Easter basket handle, cut out and 11-inch strip of card stock paper. Wrap it with silver tissue paper. Cut out a pink strip to decorate it up. Then either use metal fasteners or a stapler to attach it to your basket.
• Cut out an oval door with the pink paper and glue it to your castle.
• Lastly, a responsible adult should use a hot glue gun to attach the turrets to the castle on all four corners.
• Now you have a castle Easter basket for your little princess to collect Easter eggs or to fill with candy.
• Just add some Easter grass!
  
  

Bunny Easter Basket – The bottom of a clear soda bottle serves as the body of a bunny for this cute and fun Bunny Easter Basket.

Materials Needed:

• Recycled 2-liter soda bottle
• Small white paper plate
• White Easter grass or shred white tissue paper to make the body of your Easter bunny
• Construction paper - pink for bunny ears, black for bunny whiskers
• Pink cotton balls - 1 for the bunny cotton tail and rabbit nose
• Card stock - to make the Easter basket handle
• 2 Metal fasteners
• Funny eyes
• Black marker - to make the bunny mouth
• Scissors
• Glue

Instructions:

• Take a soda bottle, remove the wrapper, and cut the top off. wash and clean the inside of the soda bottle to a make a clean base for your Easter bunny basket.
• Make the bunny head - take one paper plate and cut the center out.
• Take another paper plate and draw the outline of a bow tie on it and cut it out. You should have two bunny ears.
• Overlay a sheet of pink construction paper over each ear and trace the outline of the inner ear. Cut out the pink piece and glue it to the white paper plate bunny ear.
• Use a stapler to attach the bunny ears to the face of the bunny rabbit.
• Finish the bunny face - glue on funny eyes, cut out three strips of black paper to make the whiskers. Glue the whiskers to a small pink cotton ball. Draw a mouth and glue the cotton ball where the nose would go.
• Cut out a strip of pink paper (about 1 inch thick). Use edging scissors for added decoration. Glue it to the rim of your soda bottle basket.
• Now make your Easter basket handle - cut out an 8-inch strip of card stock. Glue a strip of pink to it.
• Attach the basket handle - mark where you want the handle to attach to the basket with a pen. Use a safety pin (adult supervision required) poke a hole through each side of the basket and then through each side of the handle.
• Poke a metal fastener through each handle and then into the eater basket so you will have a moving basket handle.
• Tape or glue the bunny face to once handle below the movable part.
• Tape or glue a cotton ball to the opposite side to make the bunny rabbit cottontail.
• Fill your Easter bunny basket with white Easter grass. And now you have a cute Easter bunny basket of a white bunny rabbit!

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