Make a Bunny Basket
How to make a Bunny Basket, it is traditional for children to leave a basket out the night before Easter for the Easter bunny to fill with candies and treats. Now you can greet the Easter bunny with a basket that is as cute and cuddly as he is. Help your child to decorate this cotton bunny basket.
Difficulty: Easy
Things You’ll Need:
- Basket
- Craft glue or hot glue
- Cotton balls
- Large googly eyes
- Black pipe cleaner
- White felt
- Pink felt
- Scissors
- Easter themed ribbon
- Select a basket that is rectangular or oval. Pick an inexpensive wicker basket that has no embellishments.
- Use tacky glue or a hot glue gun to glue rows of cotton balls to the basket. Start on the bottom and work your way to the top. Glue the cotton balls close together so that you can’t see the basket through the cotton.
- Cut out 2 ear shapes from the white felt. Cut out 2 smaller ear shapes from the pink felt. Glue the pink felt to the white felt. Attach the ears to the front of the basket with glue.
- Cut out a small triangle from the pink felt. Glue the triangle upside down to make the Easter bunny nose.
- Attach large googly eyes with glue just above the nose. Form a pipe cleaner into a curved W shape. Glue the W under the bunny nose with the middle of the W touching the bottom point of the triangle.
- Tie a ribbon around the handle of the basket.
