A little bit of candy makes Easter or any spring day sweeter! With this Sweet Bunny Candy Jar, you can give a child, a friend, or even yourself a special treat that will make you hoppy!

SUPPLIES

• Printable Hat Rim and Bunny Ears Template
• Baby food jar (I used a Beech-Nut Naturals jar)
• White fleece, 8 ½ inches by 11 inches
• 1 piece of purple foam (Or any color you’d like to make the hat)
• Small piece of pink foam or felt for nose
• Googly eyes (I used oval)
• Medium pom-pom
• Multi-surface paint, purple (or whatever color you’d like to make the hat)
• Fabric glue (I used Fabric-Tac)
• Black ultra-fine or fine tip permanent marker
• Large nail or ice pick
• Hammer
• Scissors

DIRECTIONS

1. Remove label from baby food jar
2. Clean and dry jar and lid
3. Trace the hat rim template onto the purple foam
4. Cut out the rim of the hat and remove the center
5. Trace the ears template onto the white fleece and cut out

To Make the Body and Face

1. Cut a 2-inch wide by 7-inch long strip of white fleece
2. Glue the strip of fleece to the jar under the lip and leaving about ½ inch of glass showing at the bottom
3. Glue on the googly eyes
4. Cut a little nose from the pink foam and glue to the face
5. Make the mouth with the permanent marker on a little piece of fleece, cut out and glue under the nose

To Make the Hat

1. Paint the lid with the purple paint. Let dry.
2. With the nail or ice pick and hammer, make a hole on either side of the lid to insert the ears. You can make the hole a little bigger with a phillips head screwdriver
3. Flip the lid over and hammer the edges of the hole flat
4. Trace the hat rim template onto the purple foam

To Insert the Ears

1. Pinch the end of one ear together and push it through one hole in the lid.
2. Pull it through the hole a bit to form the ear
3. Repeat with the other ear

Finish the Bunny

1. Add the foam rim to the lid
2. Glue the pom-pom to the back of the jar for the tail
3. Add M&Ms, jelly beans, or other small candy

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