Sock Bunny
As someone who inexplicably keeps a bag of mate-less socks around, just in case, this first Easter craft immediately appealed to me. In fact, I made mine using all supplies that I found around the house. This required making a few changes; I used an adult sock and filled it with dried split peas that I had lying around. I also styled my bunny a little differently. I used sticky-backed felt for my eyes, nose, whiskers and inner ears, and embroidery floss for the mouth. Below are the instructions from FamilyFun.com.
Sock Hop
Until we figure out where missing socks actually go when they vanish from our laundry baskets, here's a way to get some use from the singleton left behind.
Materials:
Spoon or funnel
Dried lentils
Child's sock
Rubber band
Ribbon
Scissors
Felt
White pom-pom or cotton ball
Tacky glue
Instructions:
To make your own bunny beanbag, use a spoon or a funnel to add dried lentils to a child's sock, filling it up just past the heel. Close the sock with a tightly looped rubber band.
To create the head and neck, tie a ribbon around the sock just below the heel.
Use scissors to cut the sock's cuff into two ears, rounding the edges to give them the right shape.
Cut a nose, teeth, and eyes from felt. Attach the facial features and a white pom-pom or cotton ball tail with tacky glue.
Bunny Ears
I love to make headbands. I’m also oddly obsessed with making animal ears for myself (I was Hello Kitty for Halloween). For bunny ears, I made 2 versions: one with white paper, a pink marker and some tape that took about 5 minutes, and one out of felt and a headband that took considerably longer. Since I made up my headband version, I’ll briefly explain what I did in case anyone else cares to make this more “advanced” version (modeled here by Family Center intern, and good sport, Samantha).
For supplies, I again used things I already had:
Sticky-backed felt, 1 sheet each of white and pink
White material with multi-colored polka dots
A pink headband
Instructions:
I stuck the polka dot fabric to the sticky side of the white felt (setting aside some strips of white sticky felt to use later to attach the ears to the headband).
Then I sketched and cut out a template for the size and shape ear I wanted.
I traced this template twice onto the white felt/polka dot material and cut them out.
I did the same to cut out two inner ears from the pink felt.
Then, to attach each ear to the headband (after deciding on placement), I used a strip of white sticky felt from back to front, around the headband, and then reinforced with another strip of sticky felt going horizontally all the way around the base of each ear.
Lastly, I stuck the pink inner ears to the front of the bunny ears.
Voila!
Bunny Ears for Kids Keep the kids happy and hoppy this Easter with this easy-to-make bunny ears craft.
Materials:
White poster board
Pink construction paper
Scissors
Pencil
Tacky glue or school glue
Tape or stapler
Easter stickers, optional
Markers, crayons, or colored pencils; optional
Instructions:
Cut a strip of poster board about 2" wide by about 24" long.
Cut out 2 ears out of poster board each about 8 1/2" long x 3 1/2" wide.
Cut out 2 smaller ears out of pink construction paper.
Glue the pink ears inside the white ears.
Glue the ears inside the band, positioning to fit behind the child's head.
Let the child decorate the head band with stickers, markers, crayons, or colored pencils if they wish.
Tape or staple the band to fit the child. Cut off any excess
Spring Chicken Greeting Card
Making cards is a great way to share your crafts with others! Here is one that I made following instructions from www.freekidscrafts.com. I turned mine into a birthday card for my mom by writing “Happy Birthday, Spring Chicken!” inside (cruel, I know, but she really liked it). A few changes I made: I cut the beak out of orange construction paper, used a piece of a yellow craft feather for my chick’s hair and made my card from purple construction paper instead of blue. Paper fasteners turned out to be harder to find than I’d imagined… I eventually found mine at A.C. Moore in the scrapbooking department.
Materials:
Elmer’s Glue
Sheet of Blue Construction Paper
Sheet of Yellow Construction Paper
White Poster Board
Paper Fastener
Scissors
Marker
One pair of jiggly eyes
Instructions:
Cut out a pair of matching ovals from white poster board.
Cut out a chick from a sheet of yellow construction paper. Make sure that the chick will fit within the dimensions of the egg shape you just cut out. You can make a simple chick shape by drawing a shape that resembles the number "8", with a small top half and a larger bottom half.
Glue on a pair of Jiggly Eyes. Paint a beak on the chick using Elmer's 3D Washable Paint Pens™. Let the glue and the paint dry completely.
Center the chick on one of the white ovals. Glue the chick in place.
Cut of the upper half of the second white oval in a zig-zag pattern so that it looks like a crack. Glue the bottom portion of the egg over the chick, matching up the edges to the black oval.
The chick's head should be showing above the jagged edge.
Lay the top piece of the cracked egg over the chick's head. Fasten it to the lower portion of the egg with a paper fastener. The top portion will act as a hinge, opening and closing.
Fold a sheet of blue construction paper in half to make a greeting card.
Glue the egg and chick to the front of a greeting card.
Write a message inside of the card and give it to someone special!
Hopefully this has given you some good craft ideas for Easter. When searching the internet, I found so many adorable crafts, it was hard to pick just a few. Many of the websites listed in this article had a lot of other great ideas that I’m dying to try, but in an effort to finish this before Easter, I’ve had to force myself to stop. I hope you enjoy making these crafts as much as I did. Happy Easter and Happy Crafting!
