Make an Easter Bunny Garland
While decorating eggs with their friends, Chris and Martin Kratt start to wonder what the real Easter Bunny looks like. Could the real Easter Bunny be the snowshoe hare? Or maybe it’s the jackrabbit? As they look for clues, they recognize that — while the animals are similar — they have different traits that keep them safe in their environments.
Together with your child, create Easter Bunny art inspired by snowshoe hares and jackrabbits! Then, explore what rabbits or hares live in your area. Could they be the real Easter Bunny?
Materials
Directions
Using a white or brown paint sample strip, draw the shape of a snowshoe hare. Snowshoe hares have white fur in the winter and brown fur in the summer, so make sure to make one in each color! The snowshoe hares also have two very long hind legs and two short ears.
Using a brown paint sample strip and black construction paper, create a jackrabbit hare. Jackrabbits have very long ears with white or black tips. They also have really long, strong legs. Jackrabbits are really big hares and can run fast!
Cut the bunnies out of the paint sample strips. Make as many as you’d like of each rabbit or hare to create a decorative garland for Easter.
Use a mini hole punch or scissors to cut out three circles from the black construction paper to create eyes and noses for the bunnies. Glue these onto your bunnies.
Punch holes in the tops of the bunnies.
Add color to your garland by creating Easter eggs out of different colored paint sample strips. Punch holes in the tops of the eggs.
String the bunnies together with the Easter eggs to create the garland decoration. Happy Easter!
Explore Further
In the end, Koki helps the friends decide that the real Easter Bunny must be the rabbit or hare that lives in your area. Help your child learn about the different species that live near you and decide together which one may be the real Easter Bunny!
This craft was inspired by Jenni Swenson of the blog The Vintage Umbrella. Jenni is a mom to three teenage girls and two Scottie dogs. She teaches preschool and loves every minute of it. Passionate about children's art, her motto is, "The messier, the better!" Jenni appears frequently as "The Craft Lady" on her local television network.
Photographs by Nikki Brooks.
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