Utilizing cardboard tubes from paper towels or rest room tissue, you may make this enjoyable and brilliant household of bunny rabbits along with your children! A enjoyable and simple recycled child’s craft!
Cardboard Tube Bunny Rabbit Household
Ahh bunnies! They’re so cute, and cuddly, and colourful… ? Nicely, this cardboard tube bunny rabbit household is anyway. These bunnies don’t should be an unique Easter craft however their fairly colours remind me of jelly beans!
This cardboard tube bunny rabbit household is such a cute option to reuse cardboard tubes. I’ve much more cardboard tube crafts for teenagers and in addition animal crafts for teenagers which are enjoyable to craft up along with your kiddos as effectively.
What you’ll want
Get full listing of provides and instructions within the printable model on the finish of this put up.
Paint (I used the next People Artwork colours, you need to use no matter kind of acrylic craft paint you favor):
Tips on how to make a cardboard tube bunny rabbit household
Lower the cardboard tubes as follows. You’ll find yourself with 5 child our bodies, 2 grownup our bodies and 14 ears.
- Paper towel tube – Lower a 4.5″ piece for dad, a 4″ piece for mother and 5 1/2″ ears.
- Bathroom tube #1 – Lower two 1.5″ our bodies and two 1/2″ ears.
- Bathroom tube #2 – Lower two 1.5″ our bodies and two 1/2″ ears.
- Bathroom tube #3 – Lower one 1.5″ physique and 5 1/2″ ears.
- Paint every tube, in and out, and a set of ears to go together 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.
- Scorching 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 fasten. 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.
- For those who like, lower a easy apron from white felt for the mother. Lower 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.
Knowledgeable Crafting Ideas
- Some persons are uncomfortable utilizing rest room tissue rolls, particularly these in a day care setting. Paper towel cardboard tubes are the identical diameter, simply longer, and work equally effectively.
- To simplify a few of these steps, skip the apron on mama bunny and the buttons on daddy, and you may also 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 venture, so please supervise youngsters carefully or use a quick-drying glue resembling Beacon’s instantaneous seize glue.
I hope you take pleasure in making your cute cardboard tube bunny rabbit household! It makes an superior Easter craft that the children will love to assist with.
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Cardboard Tube Bunny Rabbit Household
This cardboard tube bunny rabbit household is a enjoyable Easter craft to make along with your children. Select brilliant and cheery colours to symbolize Spring!
Provides
- 3 cardboard bathroom paper tubes
- 1 cardboard paper towel tube
- 7 miniature pink and/or orange pom-poms
- felt in numerous colours for bow ties and hair bows
- black Sharpie marker
- white orange and inexperienced felt for apron (non-obligatory)
- 2 buttons non-obligatory
Paint
- Pink Melon
- Medium Orange
- Pink Balloon
- Medium Blue
- Daffodil Yellow
- Purple Lilac
- Lime Inexperienced
Directions
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Lower the cardboard tubes as follows. You’ll find yourself with 5 child our bodies, 2 grownup our bodies and 14 ears.
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Paper towel tube – Lower a 4.5″ piece for dad, a 4″ piece for mother and 5 1/2″ ears.
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Bathroom tube #1 – Lower two 1.5″ our bodies and two 1/2″ ears
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Bathroom tube #2 – Lower two 1.5″ our bodies and two 1/2″ ears,
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Bathroom tube #3 – Lower one 1.5″ physique and 5 1/2″ ears.
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Paint every tube, in and out, and a set of ears to go together 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.
-
Scorching 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 fasten. 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.
-
For those who like, lower a easy apron from white felt for the mother. Lower 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.
Knowledgeable Ideas & FAQs
- Some persons are uncomfortable utilizing rest room tissue rolls, particularly these in a day care setting. Paper towel cardboard tubes are the identical diameter, simply longer, and work equally effectively.
- To simplify a few of these steps, skip the apron on mama bunny and the buttons on daddy, and you may also 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 venture, so please supervise youngsters carefully or use a quick-drying glue resembling Beacon’s instantaneous seize glue.
This put up was initially printed on this weblog on March 10, 2011.