While browsing Pinterest, I stumbled upon a piece of adorable bunny doodle pattern art by author and illustrator Leigh Hodgkinson. I instantly fell in love.
With springtime around the corner, my favorite Cadbury mini eggs at the store – I’m already thinking bunnies. It was serendipity.
We are always swimming in paper scraps – painted paper, sulphite paper, and scrapbook paper. And this project was perfect to let kids rifle through the box for the perfect colors and patterns to make little, tiny bunny clothes.
All you need is a bin of paper scraps, a Sharpie, scissors, and some glue to make a super sweet bunny doodle art project. It’s low mess, low prep, super easy, and super engaging. So what are you waiting for? Hop to it!
Supplies:
9×12 white sulphite paper
Paper scraps (painted paper, sulphite paper, scrapbook paper, wrapping paper, magazines, or anything you have on hand)
Scissors
Glue stick or white school glue
Black Sharpie
Instructions
Making a Bunny
To make bunny clothes, have kids pick a shape and cut a piece of paper: rectangles, squares, triangles, or trapezoids – even ovals. They can make their shapes as long, short, fat, skinny, or anything in between.
Use a glue stick to glue the clothes to a piece of white sulphite paper.
Trace the outside of the “clothes” with a black Sharpie.
To finish each bunny, add the following:
- A circle for the head
- Two small circles for eyes, with a black dot for pupils
- An upside triangle nose
- A small line down from the nose with a small “w” for the mouth
- Two long rainbow lines for ears with a secondary line on the inside of the first
- Two curved lines for arms
- Two long u-shaped lines for feet
Filling the Page
Continue to fill the page with bunnies
Encourage kids to make bunnies of all shapes and sizes. Bunnies can have kids or siblings or friends – let them make up their own story about their bunny village.
When there are at least five bunnies on the page, ask kids if there are any spots that seem strange. Ask them why.
Many kids will tell you that there is a large white space and it looks funny because it has no bunny. This is a great time to explain the concept of negative space, and in this project how we are trying to fill that space.
Let kids continue to add bunnies, but this time pay attention to those empty areas until they feel that their picture is complete.
For more of Leigh Hodgkinson’s incredible work, head to her website here.
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