Super Easy Easter Bunny Vase Craft

Easter crafts. Aren’t they wonderful?

They’re pastel. Springy (as in the season and not as in flexibility). Full of colorful eggs, flowers, bunnies, and fake grass.

And when those Easter crafts are easy and inexpensive, it’s like you’ve hit the Easter bunny jackpot! Whoop whoop!

That’s what this Easter bunny vase craft is all about. Easy and cheap.

Here’s a list of things that you’ll need. It might look like a big list but I bet you have most of the stuff already. Here it is:

• Drinking glass (from a dollar store or your kitchen cupboard — whichever you prefer)
• Can of pink pastel paint
• One sheet of pink craft foam
• One sheet of white craft foam
• Scissors
• Black Sharpie pen
• Hot glue gun

You might notice that there are googly eyes in the picture. Don’t pay attention to them. I’ll tell you why in a minute.

First of all, let’s chat about the age of kids who can do this craft. I would say kids around nine- or ten-years-old. They would have the ability to spray the paint smoothly (so that there aren’t ocean waves of paint oozing down the sides of the glass) and to draw the bunny face.

Okay. Paint your glass with several light coats of spray paint. (If you do light coats you won’t get those nasty ripples of paint.)

If you happen to have empty food jars (salsa, pickle, or jam jars), you could use those instead of a drinking glass. But then you’d have the area where you screw on the lids. Which I wasn’t thrilled about. I didn’t want to deal with them. (That was me being lazy.) That’s why I used a drinking glass.

Let’s talk a moment about spray paint. Over the years, I have used lots of different brands of paints. Some that were cheap. Some that were not so cheap.

For this project, I used a paint that was a primer plus paint combination. It cost about $3.50 and I absolutely loved it! I was extremely happy with how well it went on and how pretty it looked.

Please don’t use the eighty-eight cent paint. You’ll be much happier with your end product when you spend a little bit more money on your spray paint.

But, I know what it’s like when you have to be cost-conscious. So, do what you’ve got to do.

Oh. And, don’t use an old can of white spray paint that has been hanging around your house since the dawn of time. Even if it isn’t dried out, the color will not really be white. It will be more yellow-white. Don’t ask me how I know that.

Next, use a black Sharpie pen to draw on your bunny eyes, nose, mouth, and whiskers.

You’ll notice that in the picture my bunny vase has googly eyes.

Well! Now is the time to talk about googly eyes on your bunny vase.

Don’t use them!

When I set the glass down on the cupboard, those googly eyes looked down. They looked weird.

I jiggled them this way.

I jiggled them that way.

They kept looking weird.

So I pulled them off.

Then I drew the eyes with the Sharpie. I did the happy dance. Those eyes looked MUCH better!

(I totally forgot to take a picture of the vase with the eyes drawn on. You’ll just have to see what they look like in the finished pictures.)

Next, use my bunny pattern below to cut out the ears. Right click on it to save it.

Print out the pattern. On a piece of paper, trace around the outside of the pattern. This will be the bunny’s outer ear.

Then trace around the inside line for the bunny’s inner ear.

Use the pink craft foam and cut two pink outer bunny ears.

Use the white craft foam and cut out two white inner bunny ears.

Put some hot blue on the back side of the white inner bunny ears.

Firmly press the white bunny ear onto the pink bunny ear.

Glue the bunny ears to the glass.

And voilá! You are finished!

Put some spring flowers in your Easter bunny vase and enjoy!

I also made a white Easter bunny vase. (If one bunny vase is good, two are twice as good, eh?)