23 Year of the Rabbit Crafts for Chinese or Lunar New Year

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23 fun and easy rabbit crafts for Chinese New Year for kids to celebrate the Lunar New Year and the year of the Rabbit 2023.

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Rabbit Crafts for Lunar New Year

1. Pom Pom Painted Rabbit Craft

Materials:

  • Paper Plate
  • Red tissue paper
  • Glue stick
  • Googley eyes
  • Marker
  • Red and pink construction paper
  • Pink pompom
  • White pipe cleaners

How to Make a Pom Pom Painted Rabbit Craft

  1. Glue red tissue paper squares all over a white paper plate.
  2. Cut out two large ears from red construction paper and two smaller inner ears from pink construction paper. Glue them together and then glue them to the back of the paper plate.
  3. Glue tow goggles eyes to the paper plated.
  4. Grab three white pipe cleaners and twist them in the middle and glue them to the plate just below the eyes. Add more glue on top and glue on a pink Pom Pom for the nose.
  5. Use a marker to gently draw the mouth just below the nose on the tissue paper.

2. Paper Plate Rabbit Craft

Materials:

  • Paper Plate
  • Red tissue paper
  • Glue stick
  • Googley eyes
  • Marker
  • Red and pink construction paper
  • Pink pompom
  • White pipe cleaners

How to Make a Paper Plate Rabbit Craft

  1. Glue red tissue paper squares all over a white paper plate.
  2. Cut out two large ears from red construction paper and two smaller inner ears from pink construction paper. Glue them together and then glue them to the back of the paper plate.
  3. Glue tow goggles eyes to the paper plated.
  4. Grab three white pipe cleaners and twist them in the middle and glue them to the plate just below the eyes. Add more glue on top and glue on a pink Pom Pom for the nose.
  5. Use a marker to gently draw the mouth just below the nose on the tissue paper.

3. Paper Bag Rabbit Craft

Materials

  • Paper bag
  • Pencil
  • Scissors
  • String
  • Tissue Paper
  • Black marker
  • White chalk or acrylic paint marker

How to Make a Paper Bag Rabbit Craft

  1. Grab a paper bag and draw the outline of ear on the top of the bag.
  2. Use scissors to cut out the ears.
  3. Draw on eyes, mouth and cheeks with the markers.
  4. Fill the rabbit with tissue paper or treats.
  5. Tie the top of the rabbit with a piece of twine.

4. Paper Strip Rabbit Craft

Materials

  • White, red, pink and black construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • White card stock
  • Black marker

How to Make a Paper Strip Rabbit Craft

  1. Cut strips of red paper. Glue them together in the shape of a circle.
  2. Cut out two large ears from red paper and two smaller inner ears.
  3. Cut out eyes from white construction paper and smaller circles from black construction paper. Glue them on.
  4. Cut out a heart from pink paper. Glue it on and draw a small underneath.
  5. Cut out whiskers from white construction paper and glue them on.

5. Paper Rabbit Craft

Materials

  • White construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Googley eyes
  • Cotton balls
  • Pink construction paper

How to Make a Paper Rabbit Craft

  • Cut the sheet of white paper into strips along the long side.
  • Glue the strips together in a snowflake shape.
  • Then glue the opposing ends together.
  • Cut another sheet of white paper along the shorter side.
  • Repeat step 2 and 3 to make a slightly smaller ball.
  • Glue on googley eyes, cotton balls just below it.
  • Cut out a pink heart from construction paper. Glue that on the front fo the cotton balls

6. Toilet Paper Roll Rabbit Craft

7. Fork Painted Rabbit Craft

Materials

  • White, red, pink and black construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • White card stock
  • Red paint
  • Plastic fork
  • Pink pom pom

How to Make a Fork Painted Rabbit Craft

  1. Pour red paint on a paper plate, use a fork to paint a circle.
  2. Cut out two large ears from red paper and two smaller inner ears. Glue them on the top of the circle.
  3. Cut out eyes from white construction paper and smaller circles from black construction paper. Glue them on.
  4. Glue on the pink pom pom for the nose. 
  5. Cut out a long strip and two semi-circles for the smile out of black construction paper. Glue them on.
  6. Cut out whiskers from white construction paper and glue them on.

8. Paper Rabbit Pencil Holder Craft

Materials

  • Toilet paper rolls
  • Construction paper
  • Cotton ball
  • Google eyes
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Double sided tape

How to Make a Rabbit Pencil Holder 

  • Cover the toilet paper roll with construction paper using double side tape. Repeat for three rolls. Glue or tape the rolls together.
  • Cut out a circle, large eyes, two smaller circles for cheeks, thin strips for whiskers and a very small circle for the nose.
  • Glue the face together including the googley eyes (use the picture as a reference).
  • Glue the ears to the head.
  • Glue the head to the first roll.
  • Glue on a cotton ball tail.

9. Hopping Bunny Craft

Materials

  • Paper cups
  • Pipe cleaners
  • Yarn
  • Card stock
  • Rubber bands
  • Scissors
  • Permanent marker or pen
  • sharpies, colouring pencils, pastel crayons, markers
  • watercolour paint/tempera watercolour cakes, water in a bowl, paint brush

How to Make a Hopping Rabbit Craft

  • Paint white paper cups
  • Decorate the rabbits with eyes, dot sticker nose and draw on a mouth.
  • Cut out ears from white card stock and paint them as well.
  • Once dry, glue on pink felt inner ears.
  • On the bunny cut, make 4 cuts across from each other.
  • Cut 2 elastic bands. Tie a knot at the end of each end of the elastic band.
  • Slide the elastic bands down the slits in the cup. Place the rabbit cup on top of the second and cup press it down and watch it hop up!

10. Popsicle Stick Rabbit Craft

Materials

  • Popsicle sticks
  • Paint and brushes
  • White, pink, black and colourful construction paper
  • Scissors 
  • Glue
  • Black marker

How to Make a Popsicle Stick Rabbit Craft

  • Tape 5 popsicle sticks together.
  • Paint them and set the aside to dry.
  • Paint another stick the same color and set them all aide to dry.
  • Once dry, glue the last popsicle stick to the top of rabbit for a hat.
  • Cut out two large ears from white construction paper and inner ear from colourful paper. Cut out a pink circle for the nose. Finally cut out whiskers from colourful paper.
  • Cut out large white circles and smaller black circles for the eyes.
  • Glue the ears, eyes, nose and whiskers. 
  • Draw on a mouth using black marker.

11. Sock Rabbit Craft

Materials

  • White sock
  • Red paint
  • Brush
  • 2 Elastic bands
  • Red ribbon
  • Glue
  • Pink wooden bead
  • Pink Yarn
  • White foam sheets
  • Black construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Cup
  • Rice or beans

How to Make a Sock Rabbit Craft

  • Fill a white sock is about 2-3 cups of rice or beads.
  • Tie an elastic band around the half the rice and then another one at the top of the rice, creating two balls, the top one slightly smaller on top.
  • Paint the sock red and set aside to dry.
  • Cut the top of the sock to create two ears. 
  • Cut out a white belly, eyes and two teeth from white foam sheet. Glue them to the rabbit
  • Cut three short pieces of yarn and thread them through the wooden bead. Glue it to the from of the rabbit.
  • Glue on the eyes above the nose.
  • Glue the teeth below the nose.
  • Tie a ribbon around the elastic bands.

More Year of the Rabbit Crafts Chinese New Year

  1. Sponge Printed Rabbit Craft
  2. Easy Pom Pom Painted Easter Bunny Craft
  3. Easter Bunny Sticky Wall
  4. Potato Masher Easter Bunny
  5. EASY RABBIT HEADBAND FOR Lunar New Year– Red Ted Art
  6. Paper Plate Rabbit Pouch Craft for Kids
  7. Cute Rabbit Sun Catcher Craft
  8. YEAR OF THE RABBIT CRAFT – PAPER PUPPET – Red Ted Art
  9. Sensory Rice Rabbit Craft
  10. Fluffy Puffy Paint Rabbit Craft for Kids
  11. EASY RABBIT BOOKMARK CORNER for Chinese New Year – Red Ted Art
  12. Super Fun Fizzy Paint Rabbit Craft
  13. POP UP RABBIT CARD CRAFT FOR Lunar New Year – Red Ted Art

Books & TV Show!

Book: Exciting Sensory Bins for Curious Kids

Did you know I wrote a book of sensory bins? Click here for more information Exciting Sensory Bin for Curious Kids. Or grab your copy at Amazon

Boring afternoons are made exciting with awesome animal-based bins, like Salty Shark Bay or Yarn Farm. Pretend play bins like Birthday Cake Sensory Play or Bubble Tea Party encourage creativity and imagination. And your kids will have so much fun they won’t even know they’re getting smarter with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) activities like Sink or Float Soup, Magnetic Letter Hunt or Ice Cream Scoop and Count.

Designed for toddlers 18 months and up.

Book: Super STEAM Activity Book for Kids

Learning all about science, technology, engineering, art, and math sets kids up for scholastic success―and it can be so much fun! Watch kids enjoy building STEAM skills as they color friendly fish, help water find its way to tree roots, solve math problems with mazes, and more. 

Find out more and grab your copy here.

Designed for preschoolers 3 years old and up.

Book: Big Book of Riddles for Kids

Riddle me this: What’s an exciting way to practice critical thinking while having a blast? The Big Riddle Book for Kids, of course! From hilarious puns to tough brain teasers, kids can build problem-solving skills with hundreds of riddles that show them how to think outside the box.

  • 350 riddles for kids—Have hours of fun with riddles, puns and jokes, and math and logic puzzles that’ll get their wheels turning!
  • Level up their skills—Riddles get trickier as kids progress through the book, challenging them as they get better at solving puzzles!
  • Double-check their work—Kids can check their answers in the back of the book with a handy answer key.

Help children expand their minds while having fun with this puzzle book for kids!

Designed for kids ages 6 years old and up.

TV Show: Curious Crafting

I’m so excited to finally share my new crafting TV show Curious Crafting which launched July 1 at on TVOkids and TVOkids YouTube!

Set in the ultimate crafting space, Curious Crafting is a short form pre-school age series about the joy of making crafts. I lead a rotating cast of adorable little preschoolers (including my own) making magic out of common household objects.

In each episode we transform recycled items into magical crafts like a milk carton school bus, paper bag puppet or cotton pad turtle. The crafters learn and laugh their way through each activity while demonstrating what their young imaginations can create. 

Curious Crafting shares the adventure and joy of making art with takeaway lessons for creating crafts at home.

This show designed for toddlers and preschoolers 2.5 years old and up. 

WILL YOU TRY ANY OF THESE RABBIT CRAFTS FOR CHINESE NEW YEAR. PIN IT FOR LATER.

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