DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Easter Bunny Milk Carton Container

This makes a wonderful container to hold easter treats. You can fill the whole thing with treats or stuff the bottom with shredded paper and add a few chocolate easter eggs on top

My 3 year old easily put it together, though I had to cut the carton and some of the smaller pieces. The handle is a good thing for beginning scissor users to try cutting out.

Materials:

an empty 2 L milk carton,
a printer,
glue or tape,
scissors,
3 sheets of white construction paper or typing paper
Optional: 1 cotton ball (tail)
Optional: wiggly eyes

Instructions:

Print and cut out the template of choice.
Color and cut out the template pieces.
Cut the top off a milk carton and discard the top (or save it for a different craft). You can cut off as much of the top as you like... it depends on how tall you want your container to be.
Cover your milk carton with the white paper (it takes about 2 pieces).
Glue on the template pieces (you can just cut out the nose from the template and then use a black marker or pencil to replicate the way I've done the mouth. Or just cut a big square around the template mouth and glue the whole square on).
You can also substitute wiggly eyes for the template eyes.
Cut out the rectangular template piece and glue to the sides of the container to use as a handle. You can glue it to a piece of thin cardboard or construction paper to make it a bit more sturdy, if you like.

Templates:

Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).

Template (colour) or (B&W)

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