Rachel

Rachel is a Mother Goose Club producer and former teacher based in Las Vegas, Nevada. She enjoys hosting celebrations for all ages centered around crafts and activities. Rachel is excited to share her favorite things with you, and hopes to inspire your family to get creative!

I needed another activity for my Easter party, and literally whipped up this Pin the Tail on the Bunny craft in 15 minutes. The kids had fun playing it (more than once) and I think I like it enough to roll it up and bring it out next year! It’s also just a really fun spring/animal themed game in general, so even if you don’t celebrate Easter, it might be a fun one to try (this bunny was easier to paint than a donkey, let me tell you)!

Materials are below, and you can definitely improvise here to make it simpler or more eggstravagant (see what I did there?)! I hope you have a wonderful time creating and playing with your kids this spring and #mothergooseclub when you do so we can all join in the fun!

Materials

• Butcher/mailing paper, or backside of some wrapping paper
• Paper plate
• Permanent marker
• Scissors
• Cotton balls
• Masking tape
• Glue gun
• Paints

Tips

I quickly drew some puffy cloud shapes for tails – about three to a plate and cut them out. Then, I glued on my cotton balls for some fun texture and put a ring of masking tape on the back so it will stick to my bunny poster when the kids try to pin the tail.

I used my trusty acrylic paints from Michael’s again for the poster. Two circles for the body and head, two long shapes for the ears and two short shapes for the feet and you have a cute bunny backside! I didn’t worry about making my lines perfect, and am happy with my cute shabby chic result.

I added some text (I’ve been practicing my hand lettering lately – maybe that’s a blog post for another day) and daisies to give a cheerful spring feel.

Rachel

Rachel is a Mother Goose Club producer and former teacher based in Las Vegas, Nevada. She enjoys hosting celebrations for all ages centered around crafts and activities. Rachel is excited to share her favorite things with you, and hopes to inspire your family to get creative!

Happy Easter, everyone! As a Mother Goose Club producer, I can’t help but be inspired by the colorful characters, stripes and playful designs I spend so much time with every day, and so – I decided to do a MGC themed Easter basket this year! The designs work almost too well on an egg shape. I hope your family will enjoy my take on an MGC Easter basket and get inspired to create some MGC Easter eggs of your own! I’ve included a few tips and tricks below. Share your designs on social media using #mothergooseclub!

• Allow hard boiled eggs to cool and make sure they feel dry.
• I’ve found that Crayola crayons work best for egg dyeing projects – the wax sticks to the egg unlike some crayon brands I’ve tried.
• Set a towel down for kids to color on (pressing onto the table can break the egg).
• Dye will not stick to the crayon wax, so color where you want color and decide what color you want the white space to be.

• I purchased a Paas set and followed their recipe for vinegar, water and color tablets – you can supplement with food coloring and other containers to mix colors for variety.
• Test your colors – drop a plain white egg in each color and use a spoon to lift the egg out every few seconds to see how the color develops so you get the desired shade each time you dye (i.e. a sky blue will be ready before ocean blue).
• Dip and dye (with your egg carton or a plate with paper towel over it handy when they’re done)!

• I filled this basket with some bubble wrap and a plastic shopping bag, then covered it in paper grass and arranged the eggs.
• I made a jester hat for Humpty Dumpty with construction paper, crayons and scissors, then attached with hot glue.
• I made the Johnny Johnny monster’s ears by wrapping a corner of pink construction paper around the tip of a crayon, hot glued it closed, colored the stripes with purple crayon and hot glued each ear in place.

Rachel

Rachel is a Mother Goose Club producer and former teacher based in Las Vegas, Nevada. She enjoys hosting celebrations for all ages centered around crafts and activities. Rachel is excited to share her favorite things with you, and hopes to inspire your family to get creative!

I’m hosting a small Easter celebration with some of my favorite people and kids this weekend. This playful dessert is sure to delight them and work as festive decor! I really enjoyed making these because piping the grass frosting isn’t hard and you can have kids help each step of the way if you want (we’ve got lots of other activities planned for this gathering, so I’ll keep the baking to a minimum day of – I’ll have kids who want to feel involved add their own jelly bean eggs).

I’ve outlined some tips below! Be sure to use #mothergooseclub on social media to share pictures and videos of your Easter baking adventures – can’t wait to see what you come up with!

• Place your stencil at the top fold and when you cut out your bunny, make sure the ears stay connected at the top, giving you two sides -front and back (though I just opted for doing bunny backs on each side since a tail is easier to draw than a face!).
• Use a crayon in a slightly darker shade to outline your bunny and add a tail – the outline really makes them pop and the tail is just so cute.
• Use hot glue to attach your craft stick between each side of your bunny and then add a few small dots to connect the paper bunny edges completely.

• Bake chocolate cupcakes with your favorite recipe – I just used a box from the supermarket.
• Add drops of food coloring to your frosting until you get your desired shade of green – I wanted mine to feel a little pastel and used about 12 drops.

• I placed the plastic frosting tip in the piping bag first to see where the frosting would come out, made a cut across the bag there and squeezed to get the tip in place.
• Spoon/spatula your frosting into your bag and frost.
• As you gently squeeze the piping bag, pull up and away to get the frosting to disconnect and create the grass effect.
• Finish with a few colorful jellybeans for Easter eggs!

This bunny ears craft is a great way to develop fine motor skills with cutting, coloring and gluing! The finished costume piece is also fantastic for sparking creativity and imaginative play – wear your hat and bring your inner bunny out when you watch, sing and dance along to “The Bunny Hop” and “Little Bunny Foo Foo”!

Both versions of “The Bunny Hop” will get you moving and playing – exercising muscles and imagination!

And what would bunnies be without a little magic and mischief? “Little Bunny Foo Foo” is a very bunny story indeed – engage your kids in some springtime silliness!

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We hope you enjoy crafting and watching bunny videos with us, and that you’ll share your artwork and dance moves on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter using #mothergooseclub!

Happy Easter!