Easter is coming in a couple weeks! Even if your family doesn’t celebrate it, the holiday lends itself to some wonderful crafts of cute bunnies, chickens, eggs, and playful colors.
Check out some of these crafts for you and your kids. Use them to decorate your home or Easter celebration!
1. Sock Bunnies
Supplies
- Child’s sock ($1 from Target dollar section)
- Scrap felt
- Scissors
- About 1/2 bag of rice
- Glue
- Pom-pom
- Rubber band
- Ribbon
Instructions
- Fill the sock just before the heel.
- Tie the top off with a rubber band, and tie a ribbon around the center to separate the body from the head.
- I cut lots of different felt faces before I settled on just one.
- Cut the ears, rounding them.
- Since the heel was pink, it made the pink ‘insides’ of ears that bunnies have!
- Glue the pom-pom on the back
Supplies
- 4 spoons
- 1/3 cup chocolate chips
- 12 mini chocolate eggs
- Chocolate sprinkles
Instructions
- Melt the chocolate either over a double boiler or on the microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring between each interval.
- Dip a spoon in the chocolate, coat it, and let the excess drip off.
- Set on parchment paper and put three eggs into the middle.
- Sprinkle the chocolate sprinkles around the eggs.
- Do the same with the other spoons and let them cool completely in the fridge.
- You can either eat them directly or eat the eggs off and stir the spoon into coffee.
Supplies
- Paint same chips
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Hole punch
- Waxed cotton string
Instructions
- You can use this to print and cut out an egg template.
- Pick up paint chips from a hardware store. Home Depot is best because the Behr chips have four colors per card.
- Cut them in half, eliminating all white except for the line between the two color shades.
- Trace the egg on the back of the card (so there wouldn’t be any residual pencil marks on the front) and then cut them out.
- Punch two small holes in the top of each egg with an extra small hole punch and threaded them onto a piece of waxed cotton.
Supplies
- Child-size headband
- 8-by-16-inch piece of pink felt
- 6-by-6-inch piece of white felt scissors
- Pinking or scalloped shears (optional)
- Hot-glue gun
- Hot-glue sticks
Instructions
- Measure the width and length of the top of the headband, add 1/2 inch to all sides, and cut a strip of pink felt to cover.
- Glue the felt strip onto the top of the headband, wrapping the extra material around the headband’s edges.
- Measure the underside of the headband, and cut a strip of pink felt to fit.
- Glue the strip to the underside, creating a backing that covers the edges of the top felt.
- Print out our bunny-ears template, and cut out both shapes.
- Trace the outer-ear shape onto pink felt twice, and cut along scalloped edge (or cut out with pinking or scalloped shears).
- Trace the inner-ear shape onto white felt twice, and cut out with regular scissors.
- Glue each pair of ears together with hot glue, and let dry.
- Crease each ear vertically down the middle, and press.
- Fold up the bottom flaps on either side of the notch, and attach to headband with hot glue, pulling notches closed so ears are slightly bent. Hold until glue sets.
Supplies
- Envelopes
- Pink construction paper
- Glue
- Colored pencil
- Pom-poms
- Bunny ear template
Instructions
- Seal the flap of an envelope, and draw bunny ears on the sealed side, as shown below. You can draw your own or use our bunny ear template.
- Cut along the line through both layers of the envelope.
- Flip the envelope over; what was the side of the envelope becomes the bottom of your treat holder.
- Cut pink construction paper to make eyes and insides of ears, and glue them on the front of the envelope. Use colored pencil for mouth; glue on a pom-pom nose. Fill with yummy Easter sweets.
Written by Doodle Pants Team
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