Rabbits

media type="custom" key="12442730" Making rabbits, bunnies, Easter bunnies...you name it! We actually made Easter rabbits using two paper bowls, decorating them and then stapling them back to back so we had a hollow inside! We stuffed lollies into the bowls and the children had cute paper rabbit 'bags' to carry their loot home.


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** What you will need: ** *Click on the word.doc below to get the Easter rabbit template to photocopy. This is for the head and limbs. Note what you else you need from the picture. ** NOTE: ** You will see the oval shape on the folded A4 paper - this makes the head. The children must fold this in half so that it will eventually makes a small pocket to be stuffed with paper. *Crayons, scissors, stapler and staples, glue, coloured paper for eyes, nose, mouth and whiskers.

** What you need to do: ** 1. Colour all the photocopied parts and paper bowls. 2. Make the head - cut on one of the dark line ends and follow right through to the other end. Cut out and then staple up along both short sides. Leave the long side open so they can stuff the 'head pocket' with rubbish. Staple the hole closed. 3. The children can cut out eyes, nose, mouth and whiskers to glue onto the stuffed rabbit head. 4. Glue the ends of the legs and arms to the rim of one of the paper bowls. 5. Staple the rim of the other paper bowl to the first paper bowl. 6. Staple the head to the top of the paper bowls. 7. Turn the rabbit over so you are looking at its back. The teacher, using a retractable cardboard knife, will cut 3 sides of a square on the bottom half of the back bowl (like a door opening down). 8. Glue a coloured paper muffin cup (or stretched cotton ball) on this 'door'. This is the door that the children can drop the lollies into the rabbit's tummy!