When Bunnies Lay Eggs | American Easter (Decorative Art)

Happy Easter, America. A Google search of "do bunnies lay eggs" yields +71,000 results and it seems like Americans only laughs it off when children think that bunnies lay Easter eggs. Educating them that this is incorrect would give us adults one fewer thing to chuckle about - apparently. I've created a bunny nest complete with bunny eggs to illustrate what happens in nature when you don't care to learn for yourself or teach your children how the world works.

Step 1 Materials

The basic set of materials are listed below. I chose to work with all natural materials because this is, after all, what [too] many Americas believe is real nature.

- Wooden eggs (about bunny sized)
- Rabbit hides
- A stick wreath
- A collection of dyed grass and plant material
- A bit of dried flowers
- Hemp twine

Equipment:
- Leatherworking needles
- Leather thread (a specific type of wax coated heavyweight polyester)
- A straight blade (x-acto/boxcutter type knife)
- Scissors
- Scrap paper
- Pencil
- Awl
- Clips
- Rulers
- [masking] tape
- Tweezers
- Thimble

For the embroidered ribbon
- Ribbon
- Embroidery needles
- Embroidery floss
- Carbon paper

Comments

[grannyjones]

It was an accident--He was positively SICK!

[grannyjones]

So much nicer and sweeter than the nest of babies my hubby ran over with the riding mower!

[sunshiine]

These are adorable! It looked like real bunnies! Thanks for sharing your hard work!

[poofrabbit]

I can't stop laughing this is so cute! Well done!

[antibromide]

Thank you!

[joconnelly]

These "cute" "eggs" are made from real, dead bunnies. This is not cute. How are you going to explain to the children that rather than the eggs hatching into bunnies, you killed some real ones to make them?

Why not use fake fur?

[antibromide]

This was an art piece to make a statement about what we are not teaching our children in America - and these are not supposed to be cute. The rabbit was eaten and the skin processed. To use faux fur would blur the message. Using faux fur would contribute to the depleation of our oil reserves and that seems quite wasteful when I can use the hide from an animal raised to be a food source - a hide that otherwise would have been discarded as garbage.

[matthewbate]

Surely these are dead rabbits?

[NaturalCrafter]

I used to buy plastic Easter eggs for my kids so I can't say anything myself when it comes to whats natural and what's not....lol At first I thought they were baby bunnies snuggling in a nest. Great conversation piece.

[canida]

Wow, these are awesome! Not sure how I missed them first pass...

[antibromide]

Haha, I thought you would find these appealing. :)

[canida]

Well, I'm following your projects now so I don't miss anything else. :D