Felt Easter Bunny and Chick Plushies

Easter is almost here, but the Easter bunny has already made an appearance around these parts! I made this little felt bunny last Easter and thought it would be a fun project to share. It is so easy to make and other animals can be made using the same basic body pattern (I made chicks and a mouse!).

She has a cute little pompom tail hot glued on her backside!

And here are her chick buddies!

And now onto the patterns! To make the bunny, you will need to cut out two of the Body pattern and 2 each of the ear patterns.  

1 - You can sew the inner ear (pink) to the outer ear (white) or, like me, just use a hot glue gun.

2 - Add the features of the face. I used a French knot for the eyes and just stitched a little pink nose and whiskers.

3 - If you are doing the chick, you can sew (or glue!) on the beak and wings.

4 - Now for the body... Sew the two bold lines together (indicated on the pattern) for both the front and back pieces.

5 - Line up the front and the back pieces of the body. If you are doing the bunny, remember to pin the ears where you want them! 

6 - Sew the front and the back together. You can either place them right-sides together and sew, leaving a small opening at the end to turn it right-side out and stuff it, or you can place them wrong-sides together and blanket stitch everything, again leaving a small opening at the end to stuff it. Either way works and looks cute!

6 - Stuff it and close the opening.

7 - Glue a pompom to the bunny's behind! I also glued a pink ribbon to one ear.

Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt for Preschoolers

For Easter we like to fill a basket with little toys, a book, and art supplies for our daughter. We also like to have an egg hunt! We try not to fill every egg with candy so that each egg is a surprise. Last year I came up with a scavenger hunt involving letters, numbers, and short words (great for preschoolers!). Our daughter loved it!

The scavenger hunt starts with a note from the Easter Bunny. It contains a secret message which, once solved, reveals the location of her Easter basket. 

The instructions are pretty simple... first she has to find the eggs that are hidden around her playroom. Inside each egg is a numbered letter that she has to stick to the Easter Bunny's secret message. The letters spell out the location of her Easter basket. Last year the secret message was "Big Dog" (the name of her adorable stuffed dog). Her Easter basket was hidden inside a larger basket with Big Dog laying across the top.

For the letters, I used Avery's 2" x 4" white mailing labels (they are stickers and the backs are really easy for little fingers to peel off).

Now, onto the letters! Spell out the answer to the secret message on the labels (you can be as colorful and big as you like). Write a small number in one of the corners of the label (I chose the upper left-hand corner).

Then put each letter/sticker in an egg and go hide them!

You can expand on the basic idea of the numbered letters to any concept you want to reinforce... colors, shapes, opposites, things that go together, etc.

Happy egg hunt!

P.S. For all those who are curious, this is Big Dog (all decked out for Christmas)!