Easter bunny decorations
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
Pop up Easter chicks
These adorable pop-up Easter chicks are perfect for a bit of last-minute crafting at home. All you need is a bit of card and a few other basics to make your own little hatching egg. We had so much fun making these, and I just loved how even though we were all making the same thing, they each turned out so different!
Here’s what we used
- Coloured card
- Pens
- Lollipop sticks
- Sticker eyes
- Scissors
- Glue
How to make pop up easter chicks
Start by cutting out two identical easter eggs from your card. To make this easier we simply folded our piece of card in half and cut out two at the same time.
Now it’s time for the fun part! Use your pens or decor of chosing to decorate the easter eggs and make it look fabulous! This is a great opportunity to practise creating patterns with younger children.
Now take your decorated egg and cut the top of it off using a zigzag pattern to make it look as if the egg is hatching and cracked.
Flip the decorated egg over and add some glue along the two sides but make sure to leave a gap at the bottom so that the popsicle stick can fit through. I’ve added some lines to the egg in the photo as a reference.
Take your second plain egg and glue the bottom of the decorated egg onto it, making sure to allign the two pieces.
Now we need to make the cute little chick to go inside your egg! Start by cutting out a little yellow circle
Cut out two little leaf shaped wings and glue them either side of the chick’s body. Add a face by giving it two eyes and a little triangle beak.
Now take your chick and stick it onto your popsicle stick. Take the top section of egg and glue it onto the chick’s head as if it were a hat.
Push your chick down into the egg and thread the popsicle stick through the little hole that you left in the two eggs earlier on. Your pop up Easter chicks are finished and ready to hatch! Aren’t these just the sweetest!?
Easy Easter chick craft
I love a craft that’s quick and simple to make, and this easy Easter chick craft doesn’t disappoint! It’s a great Easter activity for younger children with shorter attention spans such as preschoolers. All you need is a few simple materials, which makes it joyfully budget friendly, too. We think these are just perfect for group crafting or a quick home activity!
Here’s what you’ll need
- Yellow card
- Orange card
- Googly eyes
- Glue
- Scissors
- Feathers
How to make our Easy Easter chick craft
Start by simply taking your yellow card and cutting out a circle of your chosen size to make the chick’s body.
Cut out two equal strips of orange card to make the legs. Continuously fold each strip one way and then the other to give you two springy legs as you can see in the picture above.
Glue the legs onto the bottom of your circle. Then, cut out two little feet and glue one onto the end of each leg.
Next, cut out two yellow leaf shapes to make the wings and then glue one on either side of your Easter chick’s body.
Take a small square of your orange card and fold it in half. Cut out a triangle with a wide base with the base being along the fold line so that you end up with a folded diamond shaped beak. Glue the beak onto the chick’s face, and then add two googly eyes.
Add any other details such as a cute little tuft of hair or some feathers, and once you’re happy, your super cute and easy Easter chick craft is finished! We just love these.
fluffy pom pom bunnies
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!
