Easy Easter Crafts for Kids: Salt Dough Bunny

There are so many fantastic Spring and Easter Nursery Rhymes for toddlers, but one of my favorites is 5 Little Easter Bunnies. In this spring-themed counting rhyme for toddlers and preschoolers, you can practice counting backward from 5.

One of the best ways for children to connect with the rhymes and numbers especially with toddlers is to get creative and these 5 little bunny salt dough decorations are perfect for some springtime and easy Easter crafts for kids.

Make them together and paint then hot glue a magnet to the back and you can use them whilst you sing the rhyme together.

Easy Easter Craft to accompany the Nursery Rhyme 5 Little Easter Bunnies. Create 5 Little Easter Bunny Salt Dough Decorations and sing along.

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Materials for easy Easter crafts for kids:

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2 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup salt

1 cup water

Bunny Shaped Cookie Cutter

Acrylic Paints – white, brown, red and black

Paint Brushes

Hot Glue Gun

Fridge Magnets

Expanding a Craft into an Educational Adventure

Creating a salt dough Easter bunny craft is not only a fun and creative activity, but it can also be expanded into a more educational experience.

By incorporating books, printable Easter games, and worksheets, children can learn more about the history, traditions, and symbolism associated with Easter while engaging their imaginations.

For example, reading books about Easter can teach them about the origins of the holiday and its cultural significance in different parts of the world.

Printable Easter games, such as word searches or crosswords, can help them develop vocabulary skills and improve their problem-solving abilities.

Additionally, easter worksheets that focus on counting, coloring, or tracing can provide an opportunity for children to practice their fine motor skills and reinforce basic concepts of numbers and colors.

By combining the hands-on experience of crafting with educational materials, the Easter bunny salt dough craft becomes a well-rounded learning opportunity for children of all ages.

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How to Make Easy Easter Crafts for Kids Salt Dough Bunny

There are two different salt dough recipes – these Easy Easter Crafts for Kids were made using the classic salt dough recipe which is perfect for when you have a lot of time. However, if you need to speed things up and then switch out the kitchen ingredients for those in this microwave salt dough recipe and follow the step-by-step instructions carefully. If you do it should take around 3 minutes to dry the bunnies and for them to be ready for painting.

Add the flour, water and salt to a mixing bowl.
Mix and then knead the dough until smooth.
Roll out to around 1/2″ thick.
Using your bunny cookie cutter cut out bunnies.
With the leftover salt dough take some small sections and create 5 little noses for your bunnies.
Then 5 little fluffy tails.
Using a knife add some details – we separated the ears of the bunnies as well as legs so that they had a little more form making it easier for toddlers to decorate.
Place the bunnies onto a lined baking tray.
Dry in the oven for around 3 hours at your oven’s lowest temperature (150F on our oven).
Leave over night and then paint the following day.
Start off with painting the tails white.
Then little pink noses and inside the ears.
Mix up some light brown and grey paint and paint your 5 little bunnies different colours.
Leave these to dry.
Once dry hot glue a magnet to the back and now you can use these Little Easter Bunny Salt Dough Decorations for singing along with the rhyme or give to family as an Easter Gift from the kids.