Craft Day - Love those Boo-Boo Bunnies!

One of the quickest and easiest crafts for a beginner to learn is how to make a Boo-Boo Bunny. A boo-boo bunny has a little ring where you can stick an ice cube for scrapes and bruises and is great for distracting a crying baby.
Supply List:
-1 wash cloth (any color)
-1 large white pompom (for the tail)
-1 small pink pompom (for the nose)
-2 buttons, beads or jiggly eyes (for the eyes)
-1 rubber band
-Hot glue gun & glue
Optional:
-A ribbon can be wrapped around the bunny's body to hide the rubber band.
Crafter Level: Beginner
Time: 20 minutes
Take the cloth and lay it out so one of the corners is facing you. Now tightly roll that corner towards the opposite corner of the cloth, forming a long roll. Fold the roll in half. When it's in half you want to put the side with the least amount of rolls showing. Depending on the size of the cloth you might have no problems but a larger cloth you might see rolls so fold the cloth in half and whichever looks like a whole complete tube side faces up. You've just created the body.
Now, you're going to fold again to create the face and ears. Get your rubber band ready. You want to fold the role in half a second time. Loop the rubber band around the fold, pinching it off into what now looks like the head. Wrap the band tight. Then tug up on the loose ends to create the ears.
Make sure you cover whatever surface you're working on with a garbage bag or an old tablecloth so the glue doesn't damage your table. Since the bunny only takes a few minutes to create, you might want to have already laid out your supplies and plugged in your hot glue gun. If not, you would do it at this point and give the gun a few minutes to heat up. You'll know it's ready when you see a bit of glue dripping out of the gun point.
Do the tail first. Put a dab of glue about the size of a dime on the back of the pompom and place it on the bunny's back end. I like to put it a little above center, it just looks great that way. Put some pressure on the tail for about 10 secs, hot glue sets up fast. When done, turn the bunny around to the face and glue the pink pompom onto the center of the face.
Be careful when gluing on the eyes! Since they're smaller than the other pieces there is a greater chance of you burning your fingers. If you know you're going to get glue on yourself, you might want to invest in a low temperature glue gun, switch to a tacky glue or maybe just use a toothpick to smear the glue onto the back of the eyes. Press the eyes on above the nose.
If you're adding a ribbon, be sure it's larger than the rubber band so you're gluing it to the fabric and not the band, since the heat could melt the rubber and your bunny would fall apart. If you're giving it as a gift you can always put a blue ribbon for a boy or a pink ribbon for a girl or just a simple white ribbon. Doesn't matter, the bunnies are adorable either way!

And you're done! In a few minutes all the glue will be dry and your bunny is ready to go. They're so quick and easy you might want to create an army of bunnies!
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