How To Draw An Easter Bunny

Posted by Jo Murphy Mar 8, 2008

This article "How to Make a Huge Easter Bouquet " inspires and guides students as they create a composition from a collage of hand drawn Easter images.

If you choose to do this project, you will need to make some strategic decisions about how you would like the project to turn out. Do you want the central character of the composition to look realistic or would you prefer it to be very funny and cartoon like?

This step-by-step instruction called "How to Draw a Bunny" is from www.cartooncritters.com. The artist uses a variety of guidelines to show you how to shape a cartoon rabbit. A simple search of Google will turn up a host of drawing sites that will show students ways to teach themselves to draw bunnies.

This instructional video by Jan Brett is also a wonderful resource for teaching young people how to draw a real animal from life. Places like www.Utube.com will turn up instructional videos, if you do a simple search through their search engine.

If you can’t decide how you want the bunny to look - why not set a challenge to your students? Ask them to find an instructional site so that they can teach themselves how to draw a bunny. Once they feel confident, ask them to teach this method to at least one other student in the class.

Arrange an exhibition of bunnies and bring in an independent judge to select the one to be central character in your Easter Backdrop.

Put the other bunnies to good use as Easter Cards, by means of a simple cut and paste on to a folded piece of coloured card. Place them around the Easter Display and retrieve them before the holiday to send to a special friend.