Easter Bunny Craft for Kids & Update on Chicks & Farm Life
Easter may be early this year, but don’t let it stop
you from creating a fun Easter craft with your children. We just completed an art workshop with
several children creating the Bunnies in a Pot centerpiece. We had a great time!
Below I share step by step how to create this easy
craft. You may already have many of the
supplies around your home.
First gather your supplies:
- Toilet paper rolls
- Wooden skewers (with sharp points cut off for the little ones)
- Clay flower pot
- Floral foam
- Craft felt; white stiff felt, pink felt
- Pink & white construction paper
- Googly eyes (or you can draw your eyes on)
- Craft paint; various spring-like colors of your choice
- White pompom or cotton ball
- Easter grass
- Glue ( I used Mod Podge)
I primed the toilet paper rolls and clay pot with gesso but
this is not a necessary step.
Next, I dipped my skewer into the glue and placed it
inside the toilet paper roll and let dry.
While the skewers dry into place, paint your clay
pot however you like.
Once the clay pot is dry, cut the floral foam with a
small knife to fit snugly inside the pot.
I brush a bit of glue at the bottom to secure it firmly.
Once the glue on the paper rolls and skewers are dry,
paint them in various colors and designs.
Easter bunnies do not have to be just white or brown. Try pink, purple, blue and green-have fun with
it. Add polka dots or stripes.
It helps to hold the to-be bunny by the skewer while
painting and once done, stick it into the floral foam to finish drying.
While
everything dries…cut out bunny ears from the white felt. We used a stiffer felt so the ears would
stand upright. This felt is available at
most craft stores and in a variety of colors. Cut out the inner pink part of
the ears and glue to the white felt.
Draw two side by side circles about the size of a dime for the bunny
cheeks. Draw in where the nose would go
and color black. Cut out and lay
aside. Cut out small rectangles from
white construction paper for the teeth and glue to the back of the bunny
cheeks. Draw a small line down the
middle to indicate teeth.
Glue on face components: eyes & cheeks and draw in whiskers if you
like. Glue bunny tail on back where skewer
is placed.
Arrange bunnies in pot to your liking and add Easter
grass to cover the foam.
Yeah! Now you have a fun Easter centerpiece and if
kids get bored, they make great puppets!
Happy Easter!
Chicks & Farm Life
Update.
The chicks are growing at an amazing rate! They arrived on the 10th via the
mail. This is the box they arrived in:
It’s amazing to open that box and see those 27 little cuties in there. Their combined body heat keeps them warm and the yolk from the egg they just hatched from sustains them for up to three day without food or water. Born on the 8th, they have made a quick trip to their new home.
Here are a few of their arrival day pictures:
Feeding frenzy fun:
A fuzzy Arucana breed checking out the camera:
This is Sweetie. She loves to be in my hand, just like my Penelope loved to do when she was a chick. There is always one in each brood that bonds closer to us humans than the others. Sweetie is a Black Australorp breed.
Our free “exotic chick” compliments of Murray McMurray Hatchery is a White Crested Black Polish. Yeah! I always wanted a chick with a pompom on its head. These free chicks are usually a rooster, so Andy has named him Lynyrd Skynyrd (in homage to “Free Bird”). Welcome Lynyrd! Eventually Lynyrd's body will be all black with a long all white wig-like feather crest.
After just a few days, they have already sprouted the beginnings of small wing feathers and tails. They also quickly lose their baby fuzz on their faces.
In between snowstorms, we have started to dig post holes for the second chicken coop. Birgitte and hen Penelope decided they should help.
And to inspect the collected eggs.
Penelope may be all grown up, but she still enjoys a little snuggle and sitting on my lap
I couldn’t be
happier!
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