How To Draw An Easter Bunny: Easy Steps For Primary Grades

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Teach kids how to draw an Easter Bunny with these simple steps – an easy-to-teach art activities lesson that kids will love for spring, Easter, or any time of year! A fantastic seasonal project to develop a child’s artwork!

How to Draw an Easter Bunny

This Easter Bunny directed drawing is adorably cute and perfect for your Easter lessons and celebration or class art lesson. The Easter holiday is always an exciting time for children, and what better way to redirect their excitement than to provide this activity?

Follow this step-by-step tutorial to spark creativity and build fine motor skills in your young artist in preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and beyond! Connect it with a writing activity about an Easter Bunny’s application or other fun creative writing prompts. It’s the perfect activity to pair with cute Easter books as well!

Table of Contents

• How to Draw an Easter Bunny
  • Materials for Easter Bunny Directed Drawing
  • Directions for How to Draw an Easter Bunny
  • Adding Details to the Easter Bunny Drawing
  • Painting the Easter Bunny Drawing
• Easter Resources for the Classroom
  • Easter Fun Pack
  • Try the Easter Bunny Directed Drawing Today!
• More Directed Drawing Resources & Activities

Materials for Easter Bunny Directed Drawing

This Easter Bunny directed drawing can be adapted for any primary classroom or completed at home with a few simple materials. You will need white art paper, pencils, erasers, fine black markers or Sharpie pens, and watercolor paints. Select marker paper that is meant for art because it can handle water, paint, and markers and shouldn’t tear the paper if used properly.

When teaching this art lesson to a class, stand front and center and use a large easel and chart paper or whiteboard to draw on. Students can sit at their desks with their supplies. Take things slowly, draw each step with simple clear lines, and give students direction slowly. Give students plenty of time to follow along and ask questions. You will have the most success if you model the lesson this way and take your time.

Directions for How to Draw an Easter Bunny

Below are all the steps for how to draw an Easter Bunny.

• Place a large white piece of art paper in portrait orientation.
• Starting in the upper part of the page, draw a medium-sized circle for the head.
• Add two black dots for the eyes.
• Draw a small heart shape in the center of the nose and a forward and backward ‘J’ shape coming down from the nose as the mouth. Add three whiskers from both sides of the face, leaving room for painting on the cheeks later.

• For one ear, draw two curved lines from the head to the top to look like they would go off the page.
• Draw an arch from the head up to the left for the other ear. Draw a line from the left point up to the right and a line up from the head to connect.

• At the bottom of the page, draw two curved arches from the center towards the paws’ sides. Add two small lines on the end of each paw for the toes.

• Draw two curved lines down from under the head on each side, connecting with the paws for the body.
• Draw two smaller curved lines from under the head on each side, connecting with the body midway down for the arms.

Adding Details to the Easter Bunny Drawing

Now, it is time to add details.

• Add a cloud shape connecting from the side of the lower body to the paw for a fluffy tail.
• Under the bunny’s chin, add a bow-tie shape.
• Add two lines inside each of the bunny’s ears to create an inner ear area. Inside the details, add a pattern design. Stripes are used in the example.
• You can get creative with the details here and allow your students to draw their details from a few ideas you share (draw an egg, low necktie, or basket). Let them choose the pattern for inside the ears, and on the bowtie or egg, they draw. Patterns like polka dots, stripes, and zig-zags would look great!

• Use a fine-point black marker or Sharpie pen to trace all the lines of your Easter Bunny. Erase the pencil lines with a good white eraser.

Painting the Easter Bunny Drawing

I usually complete the activity over two days or periods. On day one, we complete the drawing and the tracing with a black marker. One day two, we paint. If your class hasn’t used watercolor paints before, you should demonstrate how to make proper brush strokes with a paintbrush and the water-to-paint ratio. I usually use more giant paintbrushes than small ones typically included with watercolor paint sets.

First, use watercolor paints to paint the details of the bunny, starting in the center and working your way outward. Add two pink cheeks as well. Remember to leave the Easter Bunny’s body white.

Paint the background behind the Easter bunny in a bright color like yellow, purple, pink, or another spring color. These colors will make your Easter Bunny pop from the page and look great as a display!

Once everyone completes their Easter Bunny directed drawing, place them somewhere to dry completely. Please don’t make a mistake; hang them or put them upright. Paint and water would drip down onto the snowman. Once dry, I recommend hanging them up or creating a fun bulletin board display for Easter.

Easter Resources for the Classroom

Easter Fun Pack

Try the Easter Fun Pack by Proud to be Primary. This pack has many activities to keep kids entertained and learning this spring and Easter! There are math materials, writing options, literacy books, crafts, games, Easter Bunny activities, classroom games, STEAM activities, and more!

Try the Easter Bunny Directed Drawing Today!

You can download and print the instructions for drawing a kid-friendly Easter Bunny for your classroom during your spring lessons for FREE by clicking the image below.