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Cardboard Tube Bunny Rabbit Family

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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!

child holding bunnies made from cardboard tubes

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

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):

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 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.
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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5 from 4 votes

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

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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  2. Karen M. Thomas says

    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!

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  3. Marie says

    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

  6. Julie Anne says

    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

  9. Domestic Goddess says

    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

    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

  14. creativejewishmom/Sara says

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

    Reply

  28. Becky says

    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

    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

  31. Look beyond the picket fence says

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

    Reply

  33. ...And Faux Pearls says

    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

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