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!

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.

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.

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)

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.
5. Paint each tube, inside and out, and a set of ears to go with each body.
6. Run a line of hot glue inside the ear and squeeze it closed to flatten it.
7. Use scissors to trim the tops of the ears to make them pointy.
8. Hot glue the ears to the top inside of the cardboard tube body.
9. Use pink paint to paint a line on each ear.
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.
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.

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.

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.

More Easter Crafts

• Pom Pom Chicks
• Easter Play Dough
• Handprint Easter Lily
• Easter Chick Placeholder Cups
• 10 Tips for Coloring Eggs with Toddlers

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