10 Fun Easter Bunny Craft Ideas + Curriculum-Aligned Activities for the Classroom

Creating Easter bunny crafts with your students is a fun way to welcome spring into the classroom, especially if you’re looking to bypass the religious nature of the holiday. You don’t even need to use the word “Easter” at all — just bunny or rabbit.

With that in mind, we’ve pulled together some of our favorite bunny craft activities for the classroom, created by the Teach Starter teacher team to make for a very “hoppy” kick-off to the spring season (hey, we had to). From crafts that help students better understand patterns to some Zentangle fun to enhance their ability to focus, we’ve got every class covered. We’ve even added a few curriculum-aligned bunny activities. So let’s hop to it!

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Easter Bunny Craft Activities

Design Zentangle Funky Bunnies

The funky bunny template is far and away a favorite here at Teach Starter — it even spurred us to create a half dozen more “funky” creatures for teachers to use throughout the year, from Uncle Sam for Presidents’ Day to a cute alpaca to decorate any day. These popular activities make use of zentangle patterns to spur kids’ creativity and double as a mindfulness activity.

Photo courtesy of second-grade Florida teacher Jess

Here’s some funky inspiration from second-grade teacher Jess of Florida! She had her students paste their finished funky bunnies on colorful paper to make a spring-themed bulletin board display. You can also use this template to make Easter cards!

Here’s how to do it:

1. Download our Fun Easter Bunny Craft template — it’s free! — and print it on white paper.
2. Trace the outline of the bunny with a black marker.
3. Choose either straight lines in each section or different patterns (It’s best for kids to start with pencil, then trace over their work with a marker after they’re satisfied).
4. Color the bunny’s sunglasses — the brighter, the better!
5. Cut out the sunglasses and each section of the bunny.
6. Glue each section of the bunny onto construction paper so that you can see a gap between each section. Glue the sunglasses over the top.

Photos courtesy of Emmanuel Emmanzer’s third-grade classroom in California (left) and  Martha Rawls Smith Elementary in Jessup, Georgia

You can also grab extra accessories for this bunny craft, and check out how classrooms around the US have put this bunny to work!

Create Leafy Bunnies

Photo courtesy of Australian prep teacher Lauren

Australian prep teacher Lauren got nature involved with her class’ cute Easter craft. On a nature walk with her students, the kids collected leaves and flowers to create these leafy bunnies!

Cut and Fold Paper Bag Bunnies

The humble paper bag can easily transform into an Easter basket! If you’re planning to hand out little goodies for your students, having them make their own baskets saves you time and gives your kids a fun craft to complete.

Put out some colored paper, pom poms – anything craft-related – then include some Funky Bunny Accessories for the cutest Easter craft going around.

If you prefer your students make more traditional Easter baskets, try this printable Easter basket template!

Paint and Decorate Easter Animal Pots

‘Tis the season for flowers and spring! Combine this adorable flower pot craft with a planting activity, and watch some seeds sprout out of the top of a chick or bunny!

For this activity, you’ll need:

• Small flower pots
• Construction paper
• Googly eyes
• Sharpie or permanent marker
• Feathers
• Pipe cleaners
• Paint
• Glue

First, choose the main color for your pot, and paint the outside. When it’s dry, glue on the googly eyes, and draw a mouth and whiskers (if you’re making a rabbit). If you’re making a chick, cut out a diamond shape using construction paper, and fold it in half to create a beak.

Fold the pipe cleaners to make a wing shape for the chicks, and cut out ear shapes with the construction paper for the rabbits. You can fill the pots with confetti, or you can use them for seed starters and create some excitement as your students watch their plants grow.

Go a step further with this activity and print out our free plant growth chart for your students to track their seedlings:

Guide an Easter-Themed Directed Drawing

Photo courtesy of Australian teacher Sarah

Australian teacher Sarah guided her students in a drawing lesson creating these cute Easter bunnies holding eggs! We love the personalities that come through each bunny in these examples.

Assemble a Bunny Mosaic Craft

Did you know the word mosaic comes from the Latin museum? You may not have time to visit an art museum this spring with your class, but setting aside an hour for our Mosaic Easter Bunny craft can help them practice counting and sorting, and hone those focusing skills while they’re at it.

Combine Easter Bunny Art and Writing

Photo courtesy of Year 2 Australian teacher from My Classroom Sparkles

Australian teacher from My Classroom Sparkles used our Easter Writing Craftivity templates with her students to use their creativity while also working on their informative writing skills. The writing prompt included is “How to Catch the Easter Bunny.”

Fold Paper Bunny Origami

We could go on for paragraphs about the benefits of origami for kids, but we know you’ve got classroom crafting to do! Let’s just say that origami can help your students with everything from learning to follow step-by-step directions to helping them build a growth mindset.

Our teacher team has put together a long list of origami instruction sheets to try this ancient art form in the classroom, but this time of year your kids will want to know how to make an origami bunny, and that’s exactly what we suggest you teach around Easter time!

Design Bunny Cup Decor

Do you have a ton of cups left over from classroom parties or parties at home? Put them to work in this bunny craft activity for kids using some standard classroom supplies.

• Glue
• Pompoms
• Pipe cleaners
• Construction paper
• Markers or paint

The cups act as the bunny’s face, and students can create ears with construction paper or form them with pipe cleaners. Feeling fancy? Add extra bits of fabric to your little artists’ supplies, and they can cut pieces to fit into their pipe-cleaner ears, gluing the fabric in place.

Pompoms are glued on as noses, pipe cleaners for whiskers, and eyes can be drawn or painted on. Simple, right? Best of all, this bunny craft can be made with the cup’s lip on the bottom or flipped over—let your students get creative!

Color and Fold an Easter Bunny Agamograph

Teach your students about the art of the agamograph with this fun Easter bunny craft! Created by an Israeli sculptor named Yaacov Agam, these fun art pieces also teach students about optical illusions.

 

All your students have to do is color each picture — making sure they match up the colors so that when it’s folder correctly (like a fan), the image matches up and is complete. If you choose to hang your students’ finished creations on a bulletin board, visitors, parents, and other students will see the images change from one to another as they walk by!

More Bunny Activities for Kids

Looking to go beyond the crafts? There are plenty of ways to bring spring into the classroom with a bunny focus that are curriculum-aligned too.

Teach About Mammals

Bunnies are mammals, after all, so why not put these spring animals into your science lesson planning? Kindergartners can label the basic parts of the bunny, second-grade students can discuss how a bunny’s physical characteristics help them meet their basic needs (e.g. legs for hopping, white fur to blend in with the environment, etc.), and your fourth-grade class can dive into the bunny’s place on the food web!

Consider reaching out to your local 4H office to find out if someone can bring a real bunny into the classroom to teach students more about how wild bunnies survive, what their habitats are like and what they eat!

Practice Grammar – Easter Style

Somebunny will learn their nouns, verbs, and adjectives with this fun parts of speech mystery picture! Print out the Bunny Mystery Picture during your Easter festivities, and give one to each of your students.

A coloring guide at the bottom of the page will help kids identify each part of speech. You can use this worksheet for fast finishers, a fun homework assignment, a lesson wrap-up, or as a station activity.

Fold 3D Bunny Creations

Talking about 3D shapes in the classroom? Create visual representations of the concept with this bunny craft activity — 3D bunnies! Print the 3D bunny nets, and have your students label the various attributes/features (faces, edges, vertices) to show their understanding of the subject.

Play a Funny Bunny Game

From Funky Bunny to Funny Bunny! Use this cute game in the days leading up to Easter.

Students take turns rolling a die and collecting bunny features along the way. When the game is finished, students can decorate their Funny Bunny any way they choose. This download includes a blank bunny template, game instructions, a set of Funny Bunny game pieces and a complete bunny example.