These whimsical bunnies are inexpensive and fun to create. Add your own bows, buttons, or other embellishments to make each one unique.
Approximate Time: About 1 hour
Supplies:
- 2 toilet tissue cardboard tubes
- 1 cardboard paper towel tube
- 4 mini pom poms
- black permanent marker
- various colors of craft foam pieces or felt
- hot glue gun and glue sticks
- scissors
- ribbon and fabric scraps
- 4 different colors of acrylic paint
- light pink acrylic paint
- paint brush
- 2 small buttons
Instructions:
- One 4 inch toilet tissue tube will be used for the mama bunny.
- Cut the other two cardboard tubes as follows to create 3 bunny bodies and 8 bunny ears.
Toilet tissue tube:
- cut two 1.5 inch bodies
- cut two 1/2 inch ears
Paper towel tube:
- cut a 4.5 inch piece for the dad's body and cut six 1/2" ears
- Paint each tube, inside and out, and a set of matching ears to go with each body.
- Use scissors to trim tops of ears to make them pointy.
- Run a line of hot glue inside the ear and press it (circle of cardboard) closed to flatten it.
Hot glue the ears to the top inside of the cardboard tube body.
- Use pink paint to paint a line on each ear.
- Glue on mini pom-pom noses and cut bows from felt and attach.
For girls, attach bows up by the ears and for boys at the bottom front of the body.
- Use a Sharpie to add eyes and whiskers.
- If you like, cut a simple apron from white felt for the mom.
Cut out a small carrot from orange and green felt and glue to the apron.
Glue apron in place. Glue 2 buttons to the front of the dad.
By Rachel's Mom from Wilkesboro, NC
