Easter egg buckets
Gather your supplies:
Makes 1 chick and 1 bunny
- Small plastic plant pots or buckets (2) in orange, and red/pink or white
- Nylon rope (we used blue and pink)
- Googly eyes (4)
You’ll also need
Pencil; leather punch; sticky tape; craft felt or cardboard in yellow, orange, pink and white; scissors; hot glue gun; coloured craft feathers (we used 3); glue stick; pipe-cleaner in white (1); plastic button; small round sticky dots in white; cottonwool ball or polyfill; crepe- or tissue-paper
Note If you prefer, you can prime and paint a plastic plant pot with a self-priming spray paint in a colour of your choice. You can get the lot from Bunnings!
Make a baby chick basket
Step 1 On orange bucket, use pencil to mark position of holes on each side for rope handle. Make holes using leather punch. For chick tail, mark and punch a hole, lower than previous holes, centred at back of bucket.
Step 2 To make a handle, measure and cut a 50cm length of nylon rope and cover both ends with sticky tape so they don’t fray.
Step 3 From outside of bucket, insert 1 end of rope through 1 hole and tie a knot. Repeat at other end of rope on other side of bucket. Tape down ends of rope to inside of bucket if necessary.
Step 4 Using picture as a guide, mark up feet and beak shapes on corresponding coloured felt or cardboard. You need 2 feet and 1 beak. Cut out shapes with scissors.
Step 5 Use hot glue gun to attach feet to underside of bucket, centred to handle.
Step 6 Glue googly eyes in position. Fold beak in half, then glue back of bottom half to centre of chick face.
Step 7 At back of bucket, insert feathers into pre-punched hole. Angle feathers so they point upward and tape ends to inside of bucket to secure.
How to make a little bunny basket
Step 8 Using your pink or white bucket, repeat Steps 1 to 3, omitting punching
a hole at back of bucket for chick tail in Step 1.
Step 9 Using picture as a guide, mark up bunny ear and feet on corresponding coloured felt or card. You need 2 inner ears, 2 outer ears and 2 feet. Cut out shapes with scissors.
Step 10 Assemble ears with a glue stick, using picture as a guide. Hot glue ears, eyes and feet in position. Let dry.
Step 11 To make a nose and whiskers, thread pipe-cleaner through button so the button sits in centre of pipe-cleaner.
Step 12 Bend pipe-cleaner into thirds on each side of button. Bring inside bends of pipe-cleaner together at back of button and secure with a blob of hot glue. Let dry.
Step 13 Snip pipe-cleaner with scissors so you have 3 even length whiskers each side of button nose.
Step 14 Glue nose in position on face of bucket. Let dry. On both feet, stick 3 small white round dots to make toes.
Step 15 For teeth, cut a 2 x 1.5cm piece of white or pink card. Snip a narrow triangle from narrow side. Glue in position under button nose.
Step 16 For a cute bunny tail, hot glue a cottonwool ball or a hand-rolled piece of polyfill to back of bucket. Place crepe- or tissue-paper inside each bucket ready for the egg hunt!