Easy Easter paper bunny ideas + Bunny design patterns
As spring gently unfolds, simple, mindful crafts can bring a sense of calm and creativity to your home. These Easter paper bunny ideas use simple shapes and free bunny patterns to cut out of paper and use in different ways. Using gentle colours in old wet-on-wet paintings makes them especially nice.
Perfect for slowing down and enjoying the season, these paper bunnies are as meaningful to create as they are beautiful to display.
Wet on Wet Painting:
Wet-on-wet painting is a gentle and calming way to paint. You start by making the paper wet with clean water, then add soft watercolour paints while it’s still damp. The colors slowly spread and blend into each other, creating smooth, flowing shapes.
Instead of trying to paint something perfect, the focus is on enjoying the colours and watching how they move. It’s a peaceful, creative process where every painting turns out naturally beautiful and unique.
Easter bunnies paper concertina:
These paper bunny concertinas are so simple to make and look so beautiful.
You can make these using a wet-on-wet painting you previously made. In my family, we have so many wet-on-wet paintings that we use them for all sorts of things. I think these paper bunny concertinas look especially nice on wet-on-wet painted paper, but on nice coloured paper, they also look nice and are easier to cut. The wet-on-wet painting is thicker, so it’s a bit trickier to cut.
*Use the Bunny concertina pattern.
Materials:
- Wet-on-wet painted paper or coloured paper.
- Bunny Pattern
- Scissors
- ruler
- pencil
Print the Bunny concertina design pattern, or draw your own.
Mark the sides (as shown in the picture) of the bunny pattern on your page, making sure that the fold is right where the nose/leg, or tail is; if not, the pieces will be detached.
Choose a wet-on-wet painting to cut your bunny mirror.
First, mark the top of the bunny design on the page and cut it.
Then mark the side of the pattern and fold the paper in accordion fold. (see picture).
Attach or trace your pattern and cut, making sure that the nose, front leg and tail come right up to the edges of the paper so they are not cut, or they won’t join together.
Once cut, remove the bunny design pattern and open✨
This is another bunny design pattern, and I am using a thinner colour paper.
Do the same as above: mark your paper, fold it in an accordion fold, attach or trace your bunny design, and cut.
Make sure the nose, hands and legs come right to the edges of the paper,
Bunny hanging for Easter decorations
Using the same bunny design patterns in different sizes, you can make this beautiful roof hanging for an Easter morning decoration.
*You can use the Easter bunny decorations pattern for these ones.
Materials:
- Wet-on-wet painting or colour paper.
- Bunny patterns
- Scissors
- String, About (80 cm)
- Glue
Choose a nice coloured paper or a wet-on-wet painting to cut your bunnies out of.
Cut two sides of each bunny design, or fold the paper and cut.
Put glue on the inside of one bunny cutout, stick a piece of string the length you want for hanging, and glue the other pattern onto the string.
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Easter table decoration:
These are a lovely surprise for children on Easter morning.
*You can use the Easter bunny decorations pattern for these ones.
You can print the pattern directly on coloured paper and cut it up, or use the bunny design patterns or use a design of your own.
Cut and stick onto a wooden stick (like wooden toothpicks or skewers) with sticky tape, then pinch them into buns, cupcakes, or anything you like.
Bunny Egg Holders:
A very simple idea to use as egg holders on the Easter table.
*You can use the small Easter bunny decoration pattern for these.
Draw or trace the bunny pattern on the coloured or wet-on-wet painting paper.
Using the same paper, cut a strip about 2cm wide and 20 cm long.
Measure the egg you are going to use for this holder and cut accordingly, leaving enough overlap to glue it together.
Use strong glue to join the strip.
Where the two strips end, add more glue to glue the cut bunny.
And that’s it!
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