The bunnies are invading, or are they stampeding? My Sparklettes weren’t quite sure, but they loved creating an entire army of bunnies heading my way. With a Sharpie, and some oil pastels or crayons, your kids will love creating their entire bunny army too with this Bunny Trouble Art Project.
This is a perfect project for when you don’t want to paint, for using fewer supplies, and it’s the perfect project for art teachers who need an early finisher project, or for a homeschool co-op.
Not to mention, don’t they look like peeps?
Drawing a Simple Bunny
Grab a sharpie and a piece of paper, and draw two ears near the bottom of the page. Anywhere. Then draw two curved lines going inward for the head, and two longer curved lines for the body. That’s it. One bunny down.
Continue to draw bunnies, starting with the ears (it’s much trickier if you start from anywhere else). When you draw the body, as soon as your line encounters another bunny, end the line there.
Soon the bunnies will stack on top of each other creating an image that looks a bit like bunny peeps coming towards you. Leave a little bit of room at the top, which can be left white, or colored a background color.
Color and Project Options
We used Crayola Neon Oil Pastels for our Bunny Trouble project, but you have a lot of options. Use crayons, markers, paint, or whatever you have on hand.
You can let kids choose their own colors, or consider one of the following:
- Rainbow bunnies
- Chose only cool or warm colors
- Choose one darker color for the bottom row. Let the row above it be slightly lighter, and continue to get lighter as you reach the top, creating a value scale
- Color only some of the bunnies and zentangle the rest
Another option for this project is to do it in the form of a collage. Have kids draw their bunnies on different colors of paper and then slowly stack them. If you do this method, make sure you start near the top and start stacking them going towards the bottom of the paper.
Adding a Story
My Sparklettes had a lot of ideas as to what these bunnies were getting up to.
First I was told they were invading. Then, that they were stampeding. I was also informed that the small yellow bunny was the king and he was far away. I was told that these bunnies came from a village far away, and also, that they were shadow bunnies.
Adding a story is a great way to add on language arts for the day, as well as to get kids thinking about their art and what it means to them. You’ll be surprised at what they come up with.
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