Carrots for the Easter Bunny Project

I don't know why but I just had to make some large carrots today LOL! I think this #coronapocalypse is getting to me. This is another project that would be great to do with the kids while we're all shut in at home. It's very inexpensive and easy to do.

 You'll need:

• 2 to 3 one inch strips of orange cotton 45" fabric
• 3 one inch strips of green cotton 45" fabric (I used three different fabrics)
• small styrofoam cone (Dollar Tree!)
• bottle of fabric stiffener

I made three of these carrots so I had an opportunity to see what product worked the best when it came to covering these cones with orange fabric. I decided the fabric stiffener worked just as well as glue and it was faster so I went that route.

Sample color

Make a slit through the selvage edge of your ORANGE fabric and tear strips of fabric about 1" in width. Remove any stray threads and lay wrong side up. This gets messy so cover your table top before getting out the fabric stiffener! Drizzle the fabric stiffener down each strip liberally. Use your fingers to coat each strip evenly.

It is very important to cover the top and bottom of the styrofoam first. Use a pair of old scissors and cut your strips as you go. It helps to add a thin layer of the fabric stiffener to each end before you lay down your strips. Let dry before covering the length of the carrot.

Start at the top and slowly work your strips around until you reach the bottom. You may need a pin to hold the end of each strip until they dry. If you work it right each new rotation will cover the bottom of the one before it. Let dry while you continue on with the green top.

Once again you're going to tear one inch strips of the green fabric. Lay each strip wrong side up, adding a liberal amount of fabric stiffener. Use your fingers to coat the entire strip well.

Now fold each strip in half lengthwise so that you can see the right side of the fabric. Take a pencil and begin wrapping your strip from the top to bottom so that it's winding around it. Clip at the bottom and repeat with another pencil and remainder of the green strip(s).

It takes a while for these to dry so if you want to speed up the process try using a heat gun or a blow dryer. To remove these from the pencil, peel gently at both the top and bottom of each strip. If it's dry enough, sometimes you can twist it free from the pencil by rotating it in your fist and sliding it off. Take your time here!

Once everything has dried completely, you can either use a pin and stick it down through all the layers of the stems or you can hot glue it. Be careful if you do use a pin. These strips are hard to pierce! Definitely do this yourself if you have young children!