Pine Cone Peeps: Bunny, Chick, and Lamb Easter Craft

Make a Bunny, Chick, and Lamb with the kids this Easter, using natures craft stash of Pine Cones! This Pine Cone Easter Craft is easy and makes a super cute addition to your Easter Decor! Make just one, or make ’em all. We just love these Pine Cone PEEPS!

Pine Cones are one of our favorite things to get crafty with.  Often times they get neglected after the Thanksgiving/Christmas holiday season, and you miss out on SO many fun ways to use them throughout the rest of the year, like these Pine Cone Leprechauns we made for St. Patty’s Day! Or this Pine Cone Easter Craft you’ve found here.

We have so many pine cones right now that I quite literally don’t know what to do with them.  I have plenty of ideas, don’t get me wrong, I just don’t have enough time to make *all the things*. So, let’s just start crafting them up with this Pine Cone Easter Craft!

Every time we go to the park we come home with too many. I keep saying “that’s it we don’t need anymore until we use the ones we have!”, and then we find another “perfect” pine cone that we just cannot leave behind and the cycle continues. It’s a problem really. I think I need Pine Cones Anonymous.

If you don’t have the same problem I do, or even worse, you don’t have Pine Trees to collect said cones, don’t worry you can get them at any craft store, Etsy, or good ‘ol Amazon.

If you do collect them from Mother Nature, please please please make sure to clean and prepare them first. That is unless of course you don’t mind hosting a sleepover for a family of Daddy Long Legs.

I’ve tried a few different ways of cleaning pine cones, and I hands down came up with what I think is the best way to do this.  If you need to know how to get your pine cones ready for crafting, check out these steps I created to bake the bugs out and as a bonus, leave you with fully bloomed cones!

This Pine Cone Easter Craft post has the steps to make all three: The Bunny, The Chick, and The Lamb. If this seems overwhelming (or your short on supplies, time or both), just choose your favorite and roll with it!

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Supplies Needed to Make a Pine Cone Easter Craft

• Pine Cones (cleaned and prepared or store bought)
• Marker or pencil

Bunny:

• White Paint
• Pipe cleaners (2 white and 1 orange/1 green for carrot)
• Googly eyes
• White and pink felt
• Various sized white pom poms (for head, tail and cheeks)
• Small pink pom pom (nose)

Chick:

• Yellow paint
• Large pom pom (yellow)
• Googly eyes
• Orange felt

Lamb:

• White Paint
• Googly eyes
• Black felt
• 2 Small pom poms (black)

How to Make  a Pine Cone Easter Craft: Bunny, Chick, and Lamb Pine Cone Peeps

The first step is to paint the pine cones their respective colors. If you are brave enough to make all three Pine Cone Peeps, the first pine cone should be dry by the time you’re finished painting the third, so you won’t have to stop and wait for it to dry.

I used a slightly larger pine cone for the lamb to give that “fluffy” look, but you could use equal sizes as well.

Make a Bunny Pine Cone Peep

 

Once you’ve painted your pine cone white, its time to add the bunny face.

First, glue the larger white pom pom to the top of the pine cone.

Next, glue on the googly eyes. Then a small pink pom pom nose. And last, two small white pom pom cheeks. Your bunny face is complete!

To make the ears, draw a long, tall oval (bunny ear shape) on the pink felt with a pencil or thin marker, and then  cut it out. You could totally freehand this but I am not that talented.

Glue a white pipe cleaner around the outer rim, and cut off the excess like the picture above.

For the feet, draw a Bunny Foot shape on the white felt. Then draw 4 ovals on the pink felt, 3 small, and one a bit larger.  

Cut them all out and glue the feet together like the pic above.

Next, glue on the bunny tail.

To make the carrot, wrap an orange pipe cleaner around the bottom of a marker in a spiral fashion like the pic below. Twist the end to make it smaller and come to the “point” of the carrot. Cut off any extra.

Bend the green pipe cleaner in a “zig zag” fashion, and stick it into the top open part of the carrot. Cute!

Glue the carrot to the front of the Pine Cone and your Bunny Peep is complete!