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Cardboard Tube Crafts for Kids

Cardboard Tube Bunny Rabbit Family

Author by Amanda Davis on April 1, 2025 Updated on April 1, 2025

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This cardboard tube bunny rabbit family is a fun Easter craft to make with your kids. Choose bright and cheery colors to represent Spring!
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Using cardboard tubes from paper towels or bathroom tissue, you can make this fun and bright family of bunny rabbits with your kids! A fun and easy recycled kid’s craft!

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Cardboard Tube Bunny Rabbit Family


Ahh bunnies! They’re so cute, and cuddly, and colorful… ? Well, this cardboard tube bunny rabbit family is anyway. These bunnies don’t have to be an exclusive Easter craft but their pretty colors remind me of jelly beans!

This cardboard tube bunny rabbit family is such a cute way to reuse cardboard tubes. I have a lot more cardboard tube crafts for kids and also animal crafts for kids that are fun to craft up with your kiddos as well.

several cardboard tube bunny rabbits

What you’ll need to make cardboard tube bunny rabbits


Get full list of supplies and directions in the printable version at the end of this post.

supplies for making cardboard tube rabbits

Paint (I used the following Folk Art colors, you can use whatever type of acrylic craft paint you prefer):

  • Pink Melon (dark pink)
  • Medium Orange (bright orange)
  • Pink Balloon (light pink)
  • Medium Blue (bright light blue)
  • Daffodil Yellow (bright yellow)
  • Purple Lilac (light purple)
  • Lime Green (bright light green)
boy holding cardboard tube bunnies

How to make a cardboard tube bunny rabbit family


Cut the cardboard tubes as follows. You will end up with 5 baby bodies, 2 adult bodies and 14 ears.

  1. Paper towel tube – Cut a 4.5″ piece for dad, a 4″ piece for mom and five 1/2″ ears.
  2. Toilet tube #1 – Cut two 1.5″ bodies and two 1/2″ ears.
  3. Toilet tube #2 – Cut two 1.5″ bodies and two 1/2″ ears.
  4. Toilet tube #3 – Cut one 1.5″ body and five 1/2″ ears.cardboard tubes cut into sections
  5. Paint each tube, inside and out, and a set of ears to go with each body.boy painting cardboard tubepainted cardboard tubes
  6. Run a line of hot glue inside the ear and squeeze it closed to flatten it.gluing cardboard
  7. Use scissors to trim the tops of the ears to make them pointy.cardboard tube cut on corners
  8. Hot glue the ears to the top inside of the cardboard tube body.adding ear to head
  9. Use pink paint to paint a line on each ear.painting pink on ears
  10. Glue on mini pom-pom noses and cut bows from felt and attach. For girls, attach bows up by the ears, and for boys at the bottom front of the body.
  11. Use Sharpie to add eyes and whiskers.drawing faces on cardboard tubes
  12. If you like, cut a simple apron from white felt for the mom. Cut out a small carrot from orange and green felt and glue it to the apron. Glue apron in place. Glue 2 buttons to the front of the dad.apron cut from felt

Expert Crafting Tips


  • Some people are uncomfortable using bathroom tissue rolls, especially those in a daycare setting. Paper towel cardboard tubes are the same diameter, just longer, and work equally well.
  • To simplify some of these steps, skip the apron on Mama Bunny and the buttons on Daddy, and you can also use pink felt triangles (or construction paper) for the noses. Wiggle eyes will work too instead of a marker. I do use a hot glue gun in this project, so please supervise children closely or use a quick-drying glue such as Beacon’s instant grab glue.
a family of cardboard tube bunnies

I hope you enjoy making your adorable cardboard tube bunny rabbit family! It makes an awesome Easter craft that the kids will love to help with.

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Cardboard Tube Bunny Rabbit Family

This cardboard tube bunny rabbit family is a fun Easter craft to make with your kids. Choose bright and cheery colors to represent Spring!
Age Group: Kids Crafts
Project Type: Easter
Author: Amanda Formaro

Supplies

  • 3 cardboard toilet paper tubes
  • 1 cardboard paper towel tube
  • 7 miniature pink and/or orange pom-poms
  • felt in various colors for bow ties and hair bows
  • black Sharpie marker
  • white orange and green felt for apron (optional)
  • 2 buttons optional

Paint

  • Pink Melon
  • Medium Orange
  • Pink Balloon
  • Medium Blue
  • Daffodil Yellow
  • Purple Lilac
  • Lime Green

Craft tools

  • Scissors
  • Hot glue gun

Instructions

  • Cut the cardboard tubes as follows. You will end up with 5 baby bodies, 2 adult bodies and 14 ears.
  • Paper towel tube – Cut a 4.5" piece for dad, a 4" piece for mom and five 1/2" ears.
  • Toilet tube #1 – Cut two 1.5" bodies and two 1/2" ears
  • Toilet tube #2 – Cut two 1.5" bodies and two 1/2" ears,
  • Toilet tube #3 – Cut one 1.5" body and five 1/2" ears.
  • Paint each tube, inside and out, and a set of ears to go with each body.
  • Run a line of hot glue inside the ear and squeeze it closed to flatten it.
  • Use scissors to trim tops of ears to make them pointy.
  • Hot glue the ears to the top inside of the cardboard tube body.
  • Use pink paint to paint a line on each ear.
  • Glue on mini pom-pom noses and cut bows from felt and attach. For girls, attach bows up by the ears and for boys at the bottom front of the body.
  • Use Sharpie to add eyes and whiskers.
  • If you like, cut a simple apron from white felt for the mom. Cut out a small carrot from orange and green felt and glue to the apron. Glue apron in place. Glue 2 buttons to the front of the dad.

Expert Tips & FAQs

  • Some people are uncomfortable using bathroom tissue rolls, especially those in a day care setting. Paper towel cardboard tubes are the same diameter, just longer, and work equally well.
  • To simplify some of these steps, skip the apron on mama bunny and the buttons on daddy, and you can also use pink felt triangles (or construction paper) for the noses. Wiggle eyes will work too instead of a marker. I do use a hot glue gun in this project, so please supervise children closely or use a quick-drying glue such as Beacon’s instant grab glue.

This post was originally published on this blog on March 10, 2011.

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Amanda Davis is the crafty, entrepreneurial mother of four children. She loves to bake, cook, make kid's crafts and create decorative items for her home. She is a crafting expert and guru in the kitchen and has appeared online and in print publications many times over the years.
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  1. Dorothy Boucher says

    February 20, 2014 at 6:13 pm

    lol these are cute but i thought they where bunny hats hehe @tisonlyme143

    Reply
  2. Karen M. Thomas says

    March 24, 2013 at 3:20 pm

    Simply put…ADORABLE! Just what I was looking for, something I could make with my daughter too. I believe I can actually do this. No doubt my little one can master it :) Thanks Amanda, have a wonderful, blessed Easter!

    Reply
    • Amanda Formaro says

      March 30, 2013 at 8:13 am

      Thanks Karen, have fun and Happy Easter!

      Reply
  3. Marie says

    March 19, 2013 at 8:30 pm

    So adorable! I know I have a lot of toilet paper tubes that get thrown out all the time. These would be a cute project to use them for!

    Reply
  4. Victoria says

    April 4, 2012 at 11:00 pm

    I love this!! The little family is so adorable. I shared this on my blog here: http://www.vixenmade.com/2012/04/10-easter-crafts-for-kids.html

    Reply
    • Amanda says

      April 6, 2012 at 4:40 pm

      Thanks so much for the shout out Victoria!

      Reply
  5. Jamie B says

    March 4, 2012 at 5:47 pm

    LOVE your little TP bunnies!! I hope it’s okay, I just did a Easter crafts round-up and couldn’t help but feature your cute bunnies. You can see it here:

    http://jamiebrock.hubpages.com/hub/Easter-Crafts-Round-Up-20-Super-Cute-Easter-Crafts

    Thank you so much for sharing!

    Reply
  6. Julie Anne says

    April 15, 2011 at 10:06 pm

    I have started saving my toilet paper rolls and paper towel rolls… so excited to find more fun crafts to do with them! :)
    visiting from CSI project

    Reply
  7. Joanna says

    April 15, 2011 at 3:10 am

    Hi there! I love this idea…it's so darling…and I was hoping that you might add it to my Easter and Spring Linking Party to share with my readers. If you are interested, you can go here http://bakedbyjoanna.blogspot.com/2011/04/easter-linking-party.html to enter. Thanks!

    Reply
  8. Amanda says

    April 10, 2011 at 12:29 pm

    Thanks so much everyone! Hope you and your kids have a blast! :)

    Reply
  9. Domestic Goddess says

    April 10, 2011 at 12:25 pm

    I'm a "pweeee-skewwwww" teacher and these would be so much fun for my kids to make. Thanks for the inspiration! Your blog is full of ideas that I know I'm going to use in my classroom.

    Reply
  10. Veronica says

    April 6, 2011 at 5:49 pm

    Love the idea!! Amazing!! I´ll share this on my blog (is a blog in spanish, so I´ll be traslating the instructions, ´cause I think is just sooo pretty!! Thanks for this tutorial and fantastic Idea.
    my blog is mamifashion.blogspot.com

    Reply
  11. RedTedArt says

    April 1, 2011 at 7:38 am

    Featured these on Easter Get Crafty today :-)))))

    http://www.redtedart.com/2011/04/01/easter-get-crafty/

    Maggy

    Reply
  12. mylittlegems says

    March 24, 2011 at 11:08 pm

    We loved these- so we made our own version! Come over and see- (I'm about to post it:))
    sharla @ My Little Gems
    http://www.mygratitudeattitudes.blogspot.com

    Reply
  13. Jenette says

    March 23, 2011 at 4:24 pm

    I love it! Thanks for the great idea! Off to make these with my little guy!

    Reply
  14. creativejewishmom/Sara says

    March 17, 2011 at 6:30 am

    adorable Amanda, thanks so much for sharing on Craft Schooling Sunday together wit the rest of your great projects!

    Reply
  15. Alison@Oopsey Daisy says

    March 16, 2011 at 3:07 pm

    These are so, so cute! I just featured you on my Wednesday's Wowzers today:

    http://oopsey-daisy.blogspot.com/2011/03/wednesdays-wowzers-talk-about-eye-candy.html

    Thanks for the inspiration!!

    Reply
  16. RedTedArt says

    March 16, 2011 at 1:45 pm

    Aaah how cute and love how you used all of the paper tube!!

    Fab!

    Maggy

    Reply
  17. Stephanie says

    March 16, 2011 at 12:50 pm

    Adorable!!!!! I'm definitely making these this Easter! Thanks!

    Reply
  18. Rhonda @ Dollar Store Crafts says

    March 15, 2011 at 2:59 am

    So adorable! I'll be featuring this on Dollar Store Crafts this week :)

    Reply
  19. Tina says

    March 14, 2011 at 5:13 pm

    what a sweet idea

    TFS
    tina
    pretty paper posies

    Reply
  20. Regina @ Chalk In My Pocket says

    March 14, 2011 at 1:54 pm

    How sweet! I just found you via a link party and know my daughter is going to love making these.

    A great way to use recyclables too!

    Cheers!
    Regina
    http://www.chalkinmypocket.com

    Reply
  21. Julie says

    March 14, 2011 at 10:55 am

    I love this! I'd love for you to link up at Inspire Me Mondays @ Singing Three Little Birds.
    http://singingthreelittlebirds.blogspot.com/2011/03/inspire-me-monday.html

    Reply
  22. Michelle says

    March 14, 2011 at 3:36 am

    This is adorable and so festive!! I am a follower and I am having my first ever linky party for kids activities and I would LOVE if you would come link up this project! Hope to see you soon!
    Michelle
    http://delicateconstruction.blogspot.com/2011/03/very-first-made-by-little-hands-linky.html

    Reply
  23. Christina @ The Tattered Tag says

    March 14, 2011 at 3:06 am

    So thrifty & cute!! I have a ton of these tubes saved, thanks for sharing such a fun craft idea. I invite you to link to my blog bash K.I.S.S. Happy to be a new follower. :)

    Drop by The Tattered Tag

    Reply
  24. radn says

    March 13, 2011 at 8:52 pm

    nice tutorial!

    I am having a gibeaway on my blog. $38 + free ship from busy little hands to buy a cute kid backpack from her store. She has tote's for mom too.Do check it out.
    http://houseonashwelllane.blogspot.com/2011/03/38-store-credit-free-shipping-giveaway.html

    Reply
  25. Melissa @ The Chocolate Muffin Tree says

    March 13, 2011 at 4:16 pm

    SO adorable and colorful!

    Reply
  26. Lindy@Itsy Bitsy Paper says

    March 13, 2011 at 1:40 am

    I know what my son and I will be making! I have a whole bag of these cardboard tubes saved and I knew I'd have a reason to use them eventually. Great post.
    http://itsybitsypaper.blogspot.com

    Reply
  27. Rachel at Sun Scholars says

    March 12, 2011 at 1:14 pm

    Those are so cute!
    I'd love to have you link up to my For the Kids Friday Link Party!

    Hop on by!!
    http://sunscholars.blogspot.com

    Reply
  28. Becky says

    March 12, 2011 at 1:12 pm

    These are so awesome! I am so glad I found you at Tatertots and Jello. I'm going to try to make these! :)

    Reply
  29. Jennifer says

    March 12, 2011 at 3:45 am

    Those are so stinking cute!!! I knew I was hoarding paper towel and TP tubes for a reason!! Guess what I'm doing with my girls this weekend!

    Reply
  30. Anji* says

    March 11, 2011 at 10:15 pm

    These bunnies are so cute and simple to make! I think my kids would love to make them :)

    Reply
  31. Look beyond the picket fence says

    March 11, 2011 at 10:13 pm

    I love these, I want to make a few for my Easter table. Thanks for the instructions!
    denise

    Reply
  32. Megan says

    March 11, 2011 at 2:40 pm

    So colorful and cute. This gives me a bad case of spring fever. LOL

    Reply
  33. ...And Faux Pearls says

    March 11, 2011 at 6:41 am

    I love these! I just made them for my stepson to play with. I think I had almost as much fun making them as he will. :)

    Reply
  34. marla says

    March 11, 2011 at 3:45 am

    Amanda, love this crafty bunny family! The bright colors are so happy & hoppy.

    Reply
  35. [email protected] says

    March 11, 2011 at 3:24 am

    so, so cute amanda! I love bunnies!
    gail

    Reply
  36. Sue says

    March 10, 2011 at 11:19 pm

    Very cute and colorful, Amanda!

    Reply
  37. Arlene @At Home with the Grimms says

    March 10, 2011 at 10:14 pm

    Totally cute and a great craft to do with my grands. Will start saving tubes now!!

    Reply
  38. Jennifer Dudley says

    March 10, 2011 at 8:44 pm

    OMG These are sooooooo darn cute! I love it!

    Reply
  39. Katrina says

    March 10, 2011 at 8:42 pm

    Those are really cute and simple, Amanda!

    Reply
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