These paper napkin bunny favors are so easy to make. And aren’t they adorable?! They’d be super cute to give to the kids, grandkids, or even to the kids in the classroom at school this Easter. Each one takes less than 5 minutes to put together. I love easy crafts!
Our kids always seem to bring home all sorts of treasures from school on Easter. It’s usually some kind of candy, or dollar store pencils, or something similar. These would be so cute to send to school, and my kids would be so proud to give them out to their friends!
You can get pretty much everything but the wooden beads from the dollar store. You should be able to find wooden beads at most craft stores, or you can find them on Amazon.
My kids have been LOVING the craft videos I’ve been making lately. My 4 year old has been asking all week if I’ve finished the video for these paper napkin bunny favors. He’s such a sweet audience!
It doesn’t matter what he’s doing, if I ask him if he wants to see my newest video, he’ll stop and climb right into my lap to watch. It’s so cute and it makes my heart melt every time!
Check out our video for how to make Paper Napkin Bunny Favors:
How to Make Paper Napkin Bunny Favors
Here’s a list of what you’ll need. The affiliate links below will take you to products on Amazon that are similar to the supplies we used to make this craft:
- Small Paper Beverage Napkins
- 30mm Wooden Beads with 1/2″ hole
- Foil Covered Chocolate Eggs
- Satin Ribbon
- Pink and Black Gel Pens
I got the drink napkins from the dollar store. They are 5″ x 5″ folded (and 10″ x 10″ unfolded). Make sure you get the smaller drink napkins, rather than large dinner napkins.
I got my wooden beads at Michael’s for $5 a pack. They are actually “wooden heads”, and the hole didn’t go all the way through. Using a 1/2″ drill bit, I drilled the hole the rest of the way through. You’ll need beads with at least a 1/2″ hole or you won’t be able to pull the napkin through.
My beads were exactly 30mm with 1/2 inch holes. If you can only find 1-1/2″ wooden beads, you can use slightly larger napkins and add more foil covered chocolate eggs inside.
Open up the paper napkin with the printed side facing down.
Fold it in half diagonally one way. Then open it up and fold it diagonally the other way.
This will help give you a fold as a guide when you’re making your bunny ears.
Open the napkin up again and place a few foil covered chocolate eggs (or other fun treats) inside.
With the size of napkins and wooden beads I used I found that 9 chocolate eggs fit perfectly.
Using those diagonal folds as a guide, bring two corners of the napkin together on one side.
Then bring together the other two corners of the napkin in the other hand. You’ll end up with sort of a boat shape, with the chocolate eggs at the bottom.
Carefully bunch everything together. It’s easier to see this in the video. You want to make sure you leave the two “ears” separate, so be careful not to bunch them together when you’re doing this.
Twist the napkin a couple times right over top of the bundle of chocolate eggs to keep everything in place.
When you use gel pens on wood, often the ink runs into the little crevices in the wood and it ends up looking messy. To fix that, I recommend adding a small glob of white glue onto the wooden bead where you’re planning to draw the face.
Use your finger to rub the glue into a thin layer over the surface of the bead. The glue will create a barrier and the ink from your pens won’t run.
It only takes about 5 to 10 minutes for the glue to dry before you can draw on it.
Draw a bunny face onto the wooden bead.
I used dollar store gel pens for my faces. I find that they work just as well as the more expensive gel pens, and they’re much cheaper.
Make sure you wait for the face to completely dry.
Then carefully twist the top of the paper napkin bundle until it’s small enough to fit through the hole in your wooden bead. Gently pull the napkin through the wooden bead and push it down so it’s sits at the top of the chocolate egg bundle.
Pull apart the paper napkin “ears” at the top and shape them into your bunny ears.
Tie a ribbon around the bunny’s neck into a bow.
Use different ribbon colours or different napkin colours to personalize your paper napkin bunny favors. You could even draw different faces and make them like bunny emojis – my kids would LOVE that!
These would look so cute as decorations for the Easter table!
Or you can give them out as small Easter treats.
They’re simple to put together and they make great Easter party favors!
These paper napkin bunny favors are SO CUTE! And they’re really easy to make! With dollar store paper napkins and foil covered chocolate eggs you can make adorable Easter treats to give away to the kids, grandkids or even to the classroom at school! They’d even make super cute decorations for the Easter table. This is such a fun and simple Easter craft idea.
If you’re looking for more Easter treat ideas, check out our tutorial for making lolly pop bunnies from Tootsie Pops. Those faces just make me smile!
Or you can try making paper roll bunnies. This is such a fun way to upcycle toilet paper rolls! Or you can make your own paper rolls from coloured paper.
Be sure to check out our book Low-Mess Crafts for Kids for 72 fun and simple craft ideas for kids! The projects are fun, easy and most importantly low-mess, so the clean up is simple!
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Amy says
So I love these. My daughter is having a dog themed birthday party and I would love to do something like this as a favor. Do you have any ideas or suggestions on how to make these look like a dog? I feel like it shouldn’t be difficult but I’m craft challenged. Thank you!
Debbie Chapman says
Thanks!! So if I were to turn this into a dog, I would draw the face on the wooden bead something like this: https://images.app.goo.gl/aFXKtMkEcxvHCjdM9 with only the snout and eyes. Also I’d try to bend the ears downwards a little more. And then instead of a bow, I’d make the ribbon into a short leash or something. I can’t promise it will look as cute as the bunny, but it sounds like it could be pretty cute?! Send me a pic if you end up making them!! Good luck!!
Lena says
Hi Debbie,
I live in Sweden and I have been looking everywhere for those wooden beads with the big hole in them. There are no to be found over here. Do you order them online? From what page do you order them in that case. We are a whome bunch of people over here that have fallen completly in love with the Easter bunnys made from the napkins and wooden beads, so we want to try! Please can you help us? I would be so greatful!
//Lena
Debbie Chapman says
Hi Lena! Have you tried Amazon? There’s a few options on amazon.com that you might be able to have shipped to you? (see the link in the list of supplies in the post above). I found mine in a craft store. You could also try Etsy. For example these ones here are the same size as what I used (except the inside hole for mine was 1/2″): https://rstyle.me/+gh4DgiTQbQ_8Jcn7EVUMZA I’m not sure what you’ll be able to get in Sweden, but you can always try Googling “30mm wooden beads Sweden” and see if anything comes up? I hope you can find something! Good Luck!
GAIL DALESSIO says
awesome the ideas are to cute TFS
Jenny says
Do you have anything like this as a Christmas project?
Melissa says
Hi! I love these bunnies! I’ve bought all the materials, I even found the wooden heads with the hole in them. At this very moment my husband is trying to drill the half inch hole, with no luck 😔 Could you share your secret?
Thanks so much!!
Debbie Chapman says
Hi Melissa! We used a portable work bench and clamped the balls in place with a large elastic around them to protect them. The large elastics they put on broccoli bunches fit perfectly on the balls and prevented them from getting dented. Our workbench is like this one: https://amzn.to/2XapI72 and we clamped the balls between the two triangular cut outs in the table top while we drilled down through them. I hope that helps!
Jax says
My husband attempted to drill the 1/2 inch hole and just couldn’t do it. He did clamp the balls in a vise, but just couldn’t drill through the wood. He said the only way to do it would be with a drill press. Such a cute idea, but sadly not possible for us to do:-(
Debbie Chapman says
Did you see my comment to Melissa above? I described how we drilled the wooden balls (we don’t have a drill press either). Not sure if it will help, but you never know!
Victoria Savu says
Not sure what I am doing wrong but I can’t get the napking through the whole. I have a niece coming over to make them and she will be disappointed. Help. Victoria
Debbie Chapman says
Hi Victoria! If you’re having trouble getting it through the hole it either means the hole is too small, or your napkin is too thick. Is it possible for you to drill the hole to be 1/2″ wide? And if it already is 1/2″, are your napkins 2-ply? Maybe you can take off a layer to make them thinner? Or maybe you can find thinner napkins? If worse comes to worse, try a Kleenex tissue instead of a napkin. I hope you can get something to work!!
Karen says
I couldn’t get the napkin through the hole. I tried and so did my husband. What did we do wrong? I love your ideas. Karen
Tabitha says
Man I was really excited about making the napkin bunnies, I took the time to drill out the beads to a half inch and still cannot get the napkins through! It always rips if I try to shimmy it on or they get all crinkled and mangled looking. Sadly disappointed.
Janice says
Just love the bunny idea‼️Was wondering if there was a similar idea for a wedding shower using the bead and napkin idea but with more of a wedding theme ?
Lynne says
I couldn’t find the beads so I used a Styrofoam ball and screwed a nut through it for the hole. I evidently bought the wrong size napkin. Ears are too big. But it’s doable with the Styrofoam. Cute idea.
kathy says
These bunnies were incredibly cute as I used a piece of Easter cellophane cut in to squares the size of a napkin, which really worked out cute! Any suggestions for Christmas? Thanks for the awesome idea, everyone loved them!
Kathy Rold says
Made these last year and were adorable! Cut Easter egg cellophane in to squares as the napkin size shown. Much easier as the cellophane is stronger.
Connie says
I was disappointed that I hadn’t read the comments and learned the difficulties some had. I would have been smarter to start the project. I got everything, but napkins tore – I used the wrapping tissue that is shiny- similar to the cellophane because Easter came in home this year. It worked, but not as cute as the others. Kids don’t care about color, but the idea and the treat. Although I had a ton of napkins I wanted to use up, I think the cellophane should be suggested up front because it would save time for all.