Using cardboard tubes from paper towels or lavatory tissue, you may make this enjoyable and vibrant household of bunny rabbits together with your children! A enjoyable and simple recycled child’s craft!
Cardboard Tube Bunny Rabbit Family
Ahh bunnies! They’re so cute, and cuddly, and colourful… ? Well, this cardboard tube bunny rabbit household is anyway. These bunnies don’t must be an unique Easter craft however their fairly colours remind me of jelly beans!
This cardboard tube bunny rabbit household is such a cute technique to reuse cardboard tubes. I’ve much more cardboard tube crafts for teenagers and in addition animal crafts for teenagers which might be enjoyable to craft up together with your kiddos as properly.
What you’ll want
Get full checklist of provides and instructions within the printable model on the finish of this submit.
Paint (I used the next Folk Art colours, you should utilize no matter sort of acrylic craft paint you favor):
How to make a cardboard tube bunny rabbit household
Cut the cardboard tubes as follows. You will find yourself with 5 child our bodies, 2 grownup our bodies and 14 ears.
- Paper towel tube – Cut a 4.5″ piece for dad, a 4″ piece for mother and 5 half″ ears.
- Toilet tube #1 – Cut two 1.5″ our bodies and two half″ ears.
- Toilet tube #2 – Cut two 1.5″ our bodies and two half″ ears.
- Toilet tube #3 – Cut one 1.5″ physique and 5 half″ ears.
- Paint every tube, in and out, and a set of ears to go along with every physique.
- Run a line of scorching glue contained in the ear and squeeze it closed to flatten it.
- Use scissors to trim the tops of the ears to make them pointy.
- Hot glue the ears to the highest within the cardboard tube physique.
- Use pink paint to color a line on every ear.
- Glue on mini pom-pom noses and lower bows from felt and connect. For women, connect bows up by the ears, and for boys on the backside entrance of the physique.
- Use Sharpie so as to add eyes and whiskers.
- If you want, lower a easy apron from white felt for the mother. Cut out a small carrot from orange and inexperienced felt and glue it to the apron. Glue apron in place. Glue 2 buttons to the entrance of the dad.
Expert Crafting Tips
- Some persons are uncomfortable utilizing lavatory tissue rolls, particularly these in a day care setting. Paper towel cardboard tubes are the identical diameter, simply longer, and work equally properly.
- To simplify a few of these steps, skip the apron on mama bunny and the buttons on daddy, and you may as well use pink felt triangles (or development paper) for the noses. Wiggle eyes will work too as an alternative of a marker. I do use a scorching glue gun on this mission, so please supervise kids carefully or use a quick-drying glue equivalent to Beacon’s instant grab glue.
I hope you get pleasure from making your lovable cardboard tube bunny rabbit household! It makes an superior Easter craft that the youngsters will love to assist with.
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Cardboard Tube Bunny Rabbit Family
This cardboard tube bunny rabbit household is a enjoyable Easter craft to make together with your children. Choose vibrant and cheery colours to signify Spring!
Supplies
- 3 cardboard rest room paper tubes
- 1 cardboard paper towel tube
- 7 miniature pink and/or orange pom-poms
- felt in varied colours for bow ties and hair bows
- black Sharpie marker
- white orange and inexperienced felt for apron (non-compulsory)
- 2 buttons non-compulsory
Paint
- Pink Melon
- Medium Orange
- Pink Balloon
- Medium Blue
- Daffodil Yellow
- Purple Lilac
- Lime Green
Instructions
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Cut the cardboard tubes as follows. You will find yourself with 5 child our bodies, 2 grownup our bodies and 14 ears.
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Paper towel tube – Cut a 4.5″ piece for dad, a 4″ piece for mother and 5 half” ears.
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Toilet tube #1 – Cut two 1.5″ our bodies and two half” ears
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Toilet tube #2 – Cut two 1.5″ our bodies and two half” ears,
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Toilet tube #3 – Cut one 1.5″ physique and 5 half” ears.
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Paint every tube, in and out, and a set of ears to go along with every physique.
-
Run a line of scorching glue contained in the ear and squeeze it closed to flatten it.
-
Use scissors to trim tops of ears to make them pointy.
-
Hot glue the ears to the highest within the cardboard tube physique.
-
Use pink paint to color a line on every ear.
-
Glue on mini pom-pom noses and lower bows from felt and connect. For women, connect bows up by the ears and for boys on the backside entrance of the physique.
-
Use Sharpie so as to add eyes and whiskers.
-
If you want, lower a easy apron from white felt for the mother. Cut out a small carrot from orange and inexperienced felt and glue to the apron. Glue apron in place. Glue 2 buttons to the entrance of the dad.
Expert Tips & FAQs
- Some persons are uncomfortable utilizing lavatory tissue rolls, particularly these in a day care setting. Paper towel cardboard tubes are the identical diameter, simply longer, and work equally properly.
- To simplify a few of these steps, skip the apron on mama bunny and the buttons on daddy, and you may as well use pink felt triangles (or development paper) for the noses. Wiggle eyes will work too as an alternative of a marker. I do use a scorching glue gun on this mission, so please supervise kids carefully or use a quick-drying glue equivalent to Beacon’s instant grab glue.
This submit was initially printed on this weblog on March 10, 2011.