How to Draw a Bunny by C

I Love Bunnies.  It was my favorite animal to draw as a child. Whenever I had to draw something that was my choice it was a bunny about nine times out of ten.  My daughter "C" has been drawing bunnies since the Easter season is upon us or maybe she is following in my foot steps? She wanted to teach me how to draw a bunny and I told her I could post it on The Chocolate Muffin Tree for all the world to see.  Here is the bunny that she showed me how to draw.

Take it away C:

C: For this drawing, all you need is paper, a pen, and pink marker.  First you draw an oval like this.

C: Then, you draw a circle for the head and add the ears.

C:  Now draw the eyes, nose, mouth, and whiskers.  Then color the nose and ears pink.

C:  Last,  add some lines for fur and a tail.  Make a line around the bunny to create a cave.  Draw eggs and carrots under the bunny.  Now you are done.

Me: Here is my bunny drawing after the instructions from my daughter.  What do you think?  I enjoyed having my daughter teach me to draw a bunny.  She was extremely proud!

Do you let your children teach you how to make things?

Hope you have a wonderful holiday with your family! Take care.

Happy Easter!

Crayon Shaving Decorated Easter Eggs

I think this is our last egg decorating idea for the year.  We created Bleeding Tissue Decorated Easter Eggs and Hot Easter Eggs Decorated With Crayon too.  These Crayon Shaving Decorated Easter Eggs didn't turn out exactly how I expected,  but they still had pretty results and it was an enjoyable process.

Materials Needed:

old grater

broken crayons

hard boiled eggs that are still warm

paper towels

First, we used an old grater to grate some old crayons. This process of grating crayons was a big hit as it was for grating soap for Bath Crayons.

Then after hard boiling the eggs we let them cool a bit. We placed the eggs on a paper towel/napkin and sprinkled them with the crayon shavings

We let the crayon shavings melt which was kind of cool to observe.

Then we wrapped the egg in the paper towel to kind of get the crayon shavings to spread around the egg.  You can experiment with whatever method you like.

After wrapping and kind of rolling around the egg,  we unwrapped the eggs to find these swirly and colorful results.  The crayon was pretty thick on the eggs so I wasn't sure about eating these eggs.  It was a fun process though. What do you think?

What is your favorite way to decorate Easter Eggs?

***Need more inspiration fro some Egg Activities?  Be sure to check out: 60 Egg Activities for Kids from Tinkerlab.

Top Five Art Materials Every Child Should Have at Home...according to MaryAnn F. Kohl and {GIVEAWAY}

If you've been following my blog you know who MaryAnn F. Kohl is, right?  If not, she in a  phenomenal author of many Children's Art books.  You can check out the list of all her books on Amazon.com here. I've posted MaryAnn F. Kohl's Top 10 Favorite Art Materials  and her Top 5 Process Art Ideas which were both received very well.  The next question I asked MaryAnn was:  What Five Art Materials do you think all children should have access to at home? 

MaryAnn: "Kids Should Have Free Access to the Basics at All Times. These are the materials that are always on a shelf or in a box that kids don't have to ask to use. This may seem like a simple list, but maybe it is a good reminder of how easy art exploration for kids can be."

1. Crayons

2. Glue

3. Scissors

4. Stapler

5. Paper


What supply should we add to the list?


*GIVEAWAY*

I'm also having a GIVEAWAY of all these items mentioned above which are graciously being supplied by Discount School Supply Company.  MaryAnn Kohl LOVES Discount School Supply and highly recommends them for a resource for your Art Supplies.

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Crayon Resist Easter Eggs

We did this so simple egg decoration.  The process of crayon resist is always fun and adds a little magic into any art project involving watercolor paint.

For this project you'll need:

white paper

an egg shape pattern

white crayons/or other colors

watercolor paints/paint brushes

water

First, either have an egg shape already cut out or have a child trace an egg pattern onto white paper.

Then begin decorating/ designing your egg with white crayon by pressing hard.  The white crayon can only be seen if you look at the paper to the side, but it has the coolest effect.   You can use any color of crayon, but the white is the most magical.  As an art teacher,  I have had great results with Neon crayons too.  They really glow with dark paint.

After designing, take watercolor paint and brush over the crayon and the crayon should resist the paint. Make sure the paint is watery or the paint will cover the crayon. Never use washable crayons with this process because the crayon designs will disappear.

Here are our finished crayon resist eggs! Always beautiful!

Happy Easter!

***If you want more inspiration for egg shaped activities be sure to check out: 50+ Egg Shaped Crafts from Putti Prapancha.

Shaving Cream Marbled Easter Egg Cards

We created some Easter Egg greeting cards this past week. We used our shaving cream marbled papers left over from when we made Shaving Cream Marbled Hearts and Shaving Cream Marbled Rainbows. If you haven't seen our posts on shaving cream marbling, be sure to check out the great tutorials on it in each post here and here.

To get started, we first gathered our wonderful supply of shaving cream marbled papers.  Then we cut out a bunch of Easter Eggs that could fit on a greeting card.  Some small, medium, and large sizes.  For younger children you may want to have the eggs already cut out.

Then you can either buy pre-made blank greeting cards or just fold a piece of paper in half to create a card size of your choice.  We used Glue Sticks to adhere the marble paper eggs to our cards.  Glue sticks worked really well for this process.

We tried various different egg arrangements.  C enjoyed this process of collaging the paper eggs together.

Ta-da! Here are some of our finished cards! Ready to send out or give to friends and family for Easter!

Happy Easter!