Easter Bunny Butt Carrot Patch Wood Crate Craft Project

This Easter Bunny Butt Carrot Patch Wood Crate will take you 2 afternoons or a weekend to make. It was made using mostly supplies purchased from the Dollar Tree store. It’s adorable! If you want to save time you can purchase a wood crate from Amazon…we made our’s from unfinished craft sticks. You will use a combination of hot glue and wood glue. Here’s a list of everything that you’ll need.

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Dollar Tree –  1 pack of faux carrots, 1 pack of felt bunny butts, 1 pack of unfinished wood craft sticks, acrylic craft paint, paint brushes, wood glue and glue sticks.

Things to have on hand – 1-2 sheets green construction paper, a paper shredder, one popsicle wood stick, small alphabet letter rubber stamps, black ink pad and scissors.

We built the wood crate using unfinished craft sticks (larger than popsicle sticks). We were able to easily cut them using scissors. You can make the crate any size that you like. Snip off the rounded end of each stick. We have 3 full length sticks making up each long side of the crate and 3 sticks that were cut down to 2/3 of their original size for the short ends. The bottom will depend on how many sticks you use for the sides. This is to just give you an idea of what you’ll need. Save all of the pieces that you cut off. Use those pieces to reinforce the inside of the crate at the corners. Everything needs to be glued together first with hot glue to hold things in place and then reinforced with wood glue to get a permanent bond. Let it dry.

The crate was painted with 3 different colors of acrylic paint: white, black and light gray. You want to “mottle” all 3 colors together while painting…so apply each one while the paint is wet to give it that textured weathered look. Let dry.

I put a large sheet of green construction paper through our paper shredder to come up with the “grass”. You can purchase shredded paper at the Dollar Tree in their gift supplies aisle. Fill up your crate 80% full with the shredded paper. Use hot glue to glue the bunny butt onto the center front of the crate and pop in 3-4 of the carrots.

Carrot Patch Sign – This was made using a wood popsicle stick and a scrap piece of a craft stick cut down to size. Glue them together to make a sign post. Painted it white (2 coats of paint). Then went around the edges with gray paint to give it a weathered outline. Once it was dry…I used small alpha letter rubberstamps and black ink to stamp on the words Carrot Patch. Let it dry. Then use wood glue to adhere it to the back inside of the crate.

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