Monday 22 March 2021

Standing Easter Bunny Decorations

These funny little things came about because I bought a pack of assorted size, wooden egg shapes that were bigger and much thicker than I first thought.

https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/wooden-egg-shapes-30-pack/647358-1001

To begin with I didn’t have a clue what to do with the largest ones measuring 8 x 6cm (3.1 x 2.4 inches), then I thought bunnies ………

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…….. so I painted one side of the largest and smallest sizes, thinking body and feet and when dry added the ears using brown pipe cleaners using a glue gun.  Ideally the ears should have been white, but since brown was all I had, they had to do!  However, as the sides of the shapes are quite thick and brown the overall effect doesn't actually look that random.

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The rabbit then needed something to stand on, to wit a children’s domino piece covered in green gingham paper, to which I added the painted feet.

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The rabbits were then given googly eyes, a pink (baked) Fimo nose, doodled whiskers and mouth, plus faux stitching around the edge using a black fine liner pen.

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On the back I added a Happy Easter sentiment, but for the life of me I don’t know why I added the ladybirds instead of a white pom pom tail ....... doh?!?!

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The bunny body was then attached to the base using a glue gun, as I wanted an instant fix, followed by a bow and card carrot sticker.

I then left it there, I knew it needed something else, but wasn’t too sure what.  I added a fence, but that was too much and served no purpose, however I think the grass fringe at the back works OK.  

When I saw that the fringe worked, the green Sharpie pen coloured edges of the base then started to wrankled with me, so that’s when I threw caution to the wind by adding the green Dovecraft Enamel Effects round the bottom and on the carrot stalk, which then helped to bring everything together and before I knew it out came the Range Glossy Accents on the carrot itself, so even more texture.

I’ll be honest, I don’t know really what service these perform, if I had thought about it more, I would have made the base bigger (square) and then added a small cup/basket/open box  (?) to accommodate a cream egg or something  and then use them an Easter place setting.   

I will have another think, otherwise they can just sit festively scattered here and there on my many shelves....... just because it's Easter!