Easy Easter Craft for Kids: Recycled Coffee Creamer Easter Bunny Rabbit

It is fun and easy to recycle a coffee creamer container into a fun and hop-hop-happy Easter Bunny craft for kids. This free Easter craft idea is made with a recycled plastic bottle, and other free and cheap arts and crafts supplies. This is an easy craft for children of all ages.

Easy Easter Craft for Kids: Age Appropriateness:

This easy Easter craft for kids can be done by any child who can safely use Elmer's glue with supervision. Toddlers may need help, and should do fine with this craft, as long as they have help with the glue. Preschoolers will love this easy Easter craft, and it will be quite easy for them.

School-aged children and even middle school children can also make this easy Easter craft. The older the child or the crafter, the more complex and intricate the design will be on the Easter Bunny body.

Recycled Coffee Creamer Easter Bunny Rabbit Materials

1. A recycled plastic coffee creamer plastic bottle containers (example: the containers made by Coffee Mate and International Delight) that has been rinsed out. This easy Easter craft can be made with or without the cover, so don't worry if you don't have the cover.

Note: The coffee creamer plastic bottles can be the pint-size or the quart-size bottles.

2. Brown, white and black tissue paper or tissue paper scraps

The mentioned colors will give you a realistic-looking bunny. Another option is to use more festive Easter colors and colors associated with spring, including pink, green, pale yellow and baby blue.

3. One cotton ball

One cotton ball is all you need for the tail. More than one cotton ball can be added.

4. Two pipecleaners

The black or brown pipecleaners will be for the Easter Bunny's whiskers.

5. Two pieces of construction paper

This easy Easter craft uses one sheet of dark construction paper and sheet of pink or white construction paper, to make the ears and the nose.

Easy Easter Craft for Kids: Supplies

Elmer's Glue
one cheap craft paint brush

Easy Easter Craft for Kids: Prepare the Craft Materials

Adults Only: Use a pair of scissors to cut the plastic packaging off of the bottle.

Step One: The first fun part of this easy Easter Craft for kids is to tear up the tissue paper into different shapes. The tissue paper can be small square pieces, or strips, or any other size or shape that can be easily handled by the young crafter.

Tip: For toddlers, keep the strips big enough to grasp, but not small that they will be tempted to put the tissue paper in their mouth.

For older kids, they can use scissors to cut out more precise shapes.

Step Two: Cut out one long corn on the cob shaped piece of paper out of the dark construction paper to make the first ear. Place the ear near the top of the container neck to see if it is the right size for the recycled Easter bunny.

Place the shape on top of the other side of the sheet to cut out the second ear.

Cut a similar shape, but smaller from the pink or white construction paper. This piece can be glued to the larger paper, making the inside of the ear. Do this for the second ear as well. Set aside.

Step Three: Cut out a small triangle for the nose out of the same dark construction paper you used for the outer ear. Set aside.

Step Four: Cut out Two big black circles for eyes, with smaller white circles to glue on top. Glue the white circles onto the black circles and set aside.

Make the Recycled Coffee Creamer Easter Bunny Rabbit

Step One: Take the Elmer's Glue and draw a couple of squiggly lines on the recycled coffee creamer bottle.

Step Two: Place a piece of tissue paper on top of the glue area, and move it around, spreading the glue under the tissue paper. Place another piece of tissue paper on top of the glue on the bottle. Add more glue to the white portion of the recycled plastic coffee creamer bottle.

Be sure to layer the tissue paper, and used different colors.

Squeeze some glue onto the paper, and brush it into the tissue paper.

Continue until the entire bottle is covered.

Step Three: Finish Up or Make More Layers

Toddlers and other young children may be done at this point. Help them attach the ears, the nose, the eyes and the whiskers with more glue.

Note: If you kept the cover of the recycled plastic coffee container, it can be incorporated to make the head of the bunny. It can also be covered in tissue paper.

Step Four: Layer the Tissue Paper

Older kids can continue on by gluing on top of the tissue paper and adding more tissue paper, creating a layered effect on there recycled Easter Bunny.