Bunny Crafts and Games
With Easter this weekend, I wanted to share some simple bunny themed crafts and games. Hope they can be helpful and fun for your kids!
This file is best printed out onto regular printer paper, given to kids to color, cut, then paste onto toilet paper rolls.
The pattern should fit onto standard toilet paper rolls but if you buy the ginormous toilet paper rolls from Costco, you will need to trim the ends. There are bunny feet included that you cut, fold, and paste to the bottom of the toilet paper roll or you could keep it really simple and just make bunnies without feet.
We used this template to make bunny lanterns that we strung up around our house with clear fishing wire. You can choose any cardstock to make the bunny bodies. We liked this gingham pattern we found.
My kids made bunny balloons.
This file is best printed out onto regular white printer paper and given to kids to cut and attach to plain white balloons. You can use clear fishing wire to string them up around your house or just display on a bookshelf or even use for kids to play keepy-uppy.
This file is best printed out onto white cardstock, cut, and used as a template to trace onto white felt. This pattern is small enough to fit onto craft felt but I like the quality of felt that is sold by the yard better. I purchased a yard from JoAnns using a forty percent off coupon and my kids were able to make fifteen stuffies. That’s fifteen stuffies that they are so proud of for under five dollars.
You will want to fold your felt in half and cut through both sides at once so that you have a front and back side to your stuffie that perfectly match. Then hot glue the edges leaving the bottom edge unglued to stuff with Poly-fil (which you can purchase at any craft store or Walmart).
Next grab a Sharpie and draw on some eyes, a neckline, and inner ears.
Then add more detail! These are the four patterns I made for my kids but the sky is the limit when decorating them. You can add flowers or bows or any pattern to their sweater. Then hand over to your kids to color and decorate further with regular markers. You can also just hand the Sharpie over to your kids (if they are older) to really make it their own.
I made some bunny point signs and attached them to a few Easter baskets and my kids tossed their bunnies into the baskets, recording their scores.
I also hot glued some green felt to orange plastic easter eggs to turn them into carrots to toss into an inverted soccer cone. The huge bunny was made simply by draping our cutout of the Lorax which we used recently to celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday earlier this month with a yard of white fleece. Bunny ears were cut out using pink construction paper and white poster board. Finally the bunny eyes, nose, whiskers, and paws were cut out of black stiff felt and just placed onto the fleece. The felt naturally sticks without any adhesive.
We finally took down our cardboard gingerbread castle as our neighbor needed some moving boxes and turned the remaining boxes with windows into a chicken coop. I also printed out some signs for my kids to turn their play kitchen into a bunny cafe.
The signs are best printed out onto white cardstock, cut, and hung up using double sided painter’s tape. I cut up pool noodles into slices and made pretend carrot donuts with cream cheese frosting for them. More pool noodles that were used as flying broomsticks were taped at the ends to create hens’ nests which my kids filled with plastic eggs. The hens were made just from cardboard and paper plates. I used my kids’ handprints to create the feathers. My kids have enjoyed a lot of cooperative play here together, collecting and “cooking” eggs, and serving each other in their farm to table bunny cafe.
Lastly, my kids helped me to decorate our dining room in minutes using just white paper plates and painter’s tape. Two horseshoe shapes cut out of black construction paper and a heart cut out of pink construction paper completed our giant Easter bunny and helped to make our dining room ready for Easter dinner.
My greatest joy in creating with and for my children is seeing all their excitement and happiness. I also love finding ways to incorporate their current interests into their daily learning. Here are a few examples of activities my kids have had fun doing lately.
I added simple paper bunny ears to a small round cake pan and filled it with salt for my youngest daughter (4) to work on letter formation. More letter formation workbooks are available here.
I updated a busy book I previously made for her and she’s learned to write not only her own name, but the names of our other family members. More busy books are available here.
I created simple playdough invitations like this for my kids to unwind after school or to tinker with in the early weekend mornings while we are getting breakfast ready. More playdough mats are available here.
My oldest two revisited this math craft for some practice with triple digit subtraction with regrouping. More Easter math crafts are available here.
Your child may also enjoy:
Personalized Easter Coloring Pages
I create more printable activities for kids here with the goal of helping to grow kids who love to learn.
If you make these bunny crafts or play these bunny games, I would love to see it! Please use #sodangfun on social media, tag me @sodangfun on Instagram, or post to my Facebook page.
Wishing you and your family a wonderful Easter!
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