Hippity Hop

This past Easter I decided to create some fun crafts for my family dinner: Bunny Ear headpieces, rabbit pins, some paper crafts for the "kids" and, instead of an Easter basket for my little cousin, a personalized cinch bag for his Easter egg hunt findings.

The head pieces were made out of felt and pink construction paper. The ears were simply cut, positioned then hot glued into place.

The rabbit pins (which reminded me of The White Rabbit) were made from white pipe cleaner and construction paper. The pipe cleaner was twisted into the outline of a rabbit head and ears and the paper was cut into circles and hot glued to the back of each outline. After, I glued pins to the back of each so that the family could wear them during dinner. I left each of the pins blank so that each family member could decorate the face of their own pin.


My pin...which I outlined after this picture was taken.

I had two paper crafts planned for the evening, but forgot the white paint, so creating bunnies on black paper by dipping our thumbs and forefingers into white paint and finger printing was out of the question.

Instead, my little cousin and I made paper chicks. You start with yellow construction paper, cut out an egg shape for the chick's body and trace a child's hands on paper. After tracing, cut the hands out and they become the chick's wings. Let the child decorate the chick with markers, feathers, and boggle eyes for a funny face. My little cousin opted for scribbling on the chick with pen...he did, however, get to use a glue stick...and, by some miracle, didn't stick it in his mouth. :)




My last Easter project was a personalized cinch bag for my little cousin. I was disappointed that there were no "boy" themed Easter baskets at the craft store. Instead, all that was available were pink baskets with butterflies or something glittered. So I bought a plain canvas cinch bag for $2 at Michaels and painted it my self.

I drew three different animated bunnies and eggs on the bag, with my cousin's name and the date at the bottom. I'm sure all the crafts I make for him will be piled in his closet only to be looked and awed at by my aunt when he's much older. At least my family will have fond memories of my going overboard for holidays.

Thanks for reading.

-Becky