We love these adorable card easter bunny decorations! They look fab as a stand-alone decoration or as part of some fun spring/Easter themed bunting. All you need is a few basic resources, and you can make your own adorable bunny too!
Here’s what we used
Coloured card (pink and browns)
Googly eyes
A pen
Scissors
Glue
How to make our card easter bunny decorations
Take two pieces of A4 card, fold them in half as if making a greetings card and then cut them in half along the folded lines to give you four equal rectangles of card.
Take your first rectangle and make a small fold approximately 2cm high into the bottom, then turn it over and fold it again the same amount.
Continue this process until you have accordion folded the whole piece of paper till the end.
Repeat the previous two steps with the remaining three rectangles so that you have four folded strips in total.
Take one of your strips, fold it in half. Spread some glue in between the middle section and stick the two halves together. Then repeat this step with the other three strips.
Place the pieces in a circle and then glue them all together
Now take your extra piece of paper and cut out a circular shaped head and two long thin ears. Glue the ears onto the circle.
Now add the facial details such as a nose, two googly eyes, inner ears and a simple hand drawn mouth with whiskers, glue the rabbits head onto the paper decoration and optionally add a little tail to the back. Your super cute bunny decoration is finished! If you’d like to hang your decoration up you can simply tie a length of yarn into a loop and glue it into the folds on the back
We just love this free printable bunting! I initially made it as some cute diy Easter decor, but my daughter loved it so much that it ended up in her room. I just love the pastel colours and it’s perfect for any spring/country theme and will look great in any room or on a market stall!
Here’s what we used
Our FREE bunny bunting printable (available at the bottom of this page
Thick paper or white card to print on
Scissors
Yarn
Hole punch
Instructions for assembling our free printable bunny bunting
Print your bunny bunting out onto card or paper. If you wanted to give your bunting a little extra protection, you could always laminate your printed pages. Once you’re happy and you have your desired amount of bunnies, simply cut them all out.
If you’re making the pom pom tail bunnies, prep your bunny pom pom tails and glue them in place on your bunnies. You can find a simple guide to making pom poms with and without a maker right here.
Take the hole punch and punch a hole into each ear at roughly the same height as can be seen in the image above.
Cut off a good length of yarn and begin threading the bunnies onto it by threading through the back on one ear and then back through the front. Continue until you have all your bunnies spaced out on your yarn. Your super cute bunny bunting is ready to display!
These simple tissue paper butterflies are just beautiful! We usually love making these as a fun summer themed craft. This year, however, i found this super cute heart print tissue paper at our local village shop, and i thought how lovely it would be to make a valentines Day version with the kids. They were so pleased with their butterflies that they asked if we could make them for mothers day too!
Here’s what we used
Patterned tissue paper
Plain tissue paper
A wooden Peg
A pipe cleaner
Googly eyes
Scissors
Glue
How to make our tissue paper butterflies
Take your patterned tissue paper and cut out a rectangle to make the large outer part of the wing. The rectangle that we used here measures approximately 18cm x 24cm
Now we’re going to take our tissue paper and accordion fold it by folding a section approximately 1.5cm and folding it upwards..
Then flipping over the tissue and folding it the same amount on that side. Continue this process..
Until you reach the end and are left with one long folded strip of tissue paper.
Now we’re going to take our plain tissue paper and cut out another rectangle this time, making sure it’s slightly smaller than the last. Our plain rectangle measured approximately 14cm x 20cm
Repeat the same process with this strip as with the patterned one and accordion fold the plain tissue paper all the way to the end.
You should now have two folded strips, as you can see above
Take your scissors and trim both ends of both folded tissue paper strips into a round c shaped curve.
Place the plain paper wings centrally on top of the patterned paper wings and then pinch the centre to flatten the middle together. Clip the peg onto the centre of the wings and then carefully and slowly fan the wings out on either side. Gently adjust the peg if necessary to shape the wings and pull them in the right direction
Once you’re happy with your wings, take your pipe cleaner and roll the end into a spiral on both sides to make the antennae
Clip the antennae into the mouth of the peg. You could optionally glue them in place if you’d like them to be a bit more secure. Finally, add two googly eyes onto the peg to make its face, and your super cute tissue paper butterfly is finished and ready to gift or play with!
Valentines Day is right around the corner and today, we’re getting ready with yet another love themed craft! These cute little paper plate love birds are really simple yet fun to make. My children and I each made our own little pair of birds using two colours and we just love how they turned out. This cute little craft idea is great for primary aged children who love to make.
Here’s what we used
Paper plates
Paint
Coloured card
Feathers
Pipe cleaners x 2
Glue/glue gun
Scissors
Paintbrush
How to make our paper plate love birds
Start by taking your paper plate and cutting out a section around 1/3 of the size of the paper plate. Round off one of the corners slightly to make the smooth edge of the lovebirds head.
Use your paint to cover and colour the paper plate to make the body of your cute little love bird. Pop it aside to dry.
Once dry, take your coloured card and cut out a smallish heart. Glue the heart central on the paper plate body with its point facing upwards toward the head to make the wing of your bird. Now cut out a triangular beak and glue it down in position on the front of the bird’s head as you can see in the picture above.
To make the eyes cut out a white circle for the outer eye and then a slightly smaller coloured circle for the inner eye. Glue the two pieces together, and then glue the eye down onto the bird.
Now we need to make the legs. Take your first pipe cleaner and twist three equal bends into one end as above.
Twist the loose end onto the main piper cleaner just above the bends that you just created to make the leg. Repeat this process with your second pipe cleaner and then twist the two together.
Glue the legs in place on the back of the birds body and then add some tail feathers to the back. Your little love bird is finished. Now all that’s left to do is make them a little lovebird friend!
My kids absolutely love making pom poms but more often that not they can’t decide what to do with them once they’ve made them. We had several lying around the house and i decided to come up with a cute way to display them. The gorgeous and fluffy pom pom bunnies that we made were just perfect and especially cute to have out in preparation for spring and easter, which cant come soon enough!
At the bottom of this page you can find our small pink bunny free to download and if you’d like to support my blog then you can find both styles of bunny in large and small sizes on our store!
Here’s what we used
Our free printable bunny (Available at the bottom of this page) OR if you wish to support my blog you can find both our bunnies in two sizes available on our store here
Yarn
Scissors
Glue gun
Hole Punch
how to make our fluffy pom pom bunnies
Start by taking your yarn and wrapping it around your fingers over and over until you have a thick wad on your hand. For the large bunnies we wrapped around 4 of my adult sized fingers and my 8 year old used his whole hand. For the smaller bunnies i used three fingers and he used four. The amount of times you need to wrap the yarn depends on the thickness of it, you just need to make sure you have a good amount to make a fluffy pom pom.
Snip your wad of yarn off at the end and then gently slide it off of your fingers and place it gently onto a flat surface in front of you with the two holes on either side.
Take a short length of yarn and tie it around the centre of your wad of yarn as you can see above. You need to make sure you pull the yarn very tight otherwise your pom pom will likely full apart during the next steps and you’ll have to start all over!
Snip open all the loops on either side of your pom pom directly in the middle of each loop. you’ll end up with a big fluffy pom pom that will likely look very messy and uneven, Simply trim down your pom pom until you are fairly happy with it’s shape and size.
Next you’ll need to take your printed template and carefully cut out the bunny that you have chosen to use. The bunny we have used in this example is the smaller pink bunny which is available for free. Once you have your bunny pop a small amount of glue onto it’s belly and stick your pom pom down in place. Glue down the sides as needed then give your bunny a moment to dry. Finish trimming down your pom pom and snipping off any unwanted strands.
Take your hole punch and punch a hole between the bunny’s ears. Now snip of another length of your yarn and tie the two ends together to make a loop. Thread one end of the loop through the hole and then thread that end of the loop through the middle of the other end and pull it tight until it’s secure around the top of the bunny.
your super cute pom pom bunny is ready to display or gift – we just love these little guys!
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