Bunny Basket

Your kids will love waking up to this bunny basket on Easter morning. I'm Lee Woodruff at the craft table with Family Fun. It's so cute your kids will play with it long after the egg hunt is over. You'll need an empty half gallon cylindrical ice cream container, fake fur or plush felt, craft glue, and cardboard or poster board. You'll also need two large googly eyes, three large pom poms, one small pom pom, embroidery floss, rubber bands, a whole punch or scissors, and two brass paper fasteners. First, download printable bunny basket patterns and instructions from the Family Fun dot com website. Glue a piece of fake fur or plush felt around the outside of an empty half gallon cylindrical ice cream container, leaving some extra material at the top. Now fold over and glue down the excess. You can also line the inside bottom of the container with fur, if you like. To cover the bottom of the bucket, cut a circle of the fur, or felt, and glue that on as well. For the rabbits face, cut a head shaped with ears from cardboard, or poster board, and glue it between two matching fur or felt head shapes, fuzzy sides out. Glue two long pink felt ovals on to the ears. Then glue the head to the bucket using a rubber band to hold in place until the glue is dried. For each foot, glue a cardboard or poster board foot shape between two matching furs or felt shapes. Now glue two pink felt ovals to the bottoms of the feet, then glue the feat to the bottom of the bucket. For a handle, glue a strip of cardboard between two matching strips of fur or felt. Use a hole puncher scissors to make a hole at each end of the handle and on each side of the bucket, them attach the handle to the bucket with two bras paper fasteners. Finally glue on two large googly eyes. two large pom poms for cheeks, a small pom pom nose ,embroidery floss whiskers and a large pom pom tail and your bunny is ready for some egg hunt action.