No panel of animal masks would be complete with out a bunny rabbit.

To make a bunny mask you will need:

• 2 sheets of bunny-colored construction paper (such as white, brown, gray, or even black)
• A half-sheet of pink (or white) construction paper (or several large scraps)
  scissors
• something to mark with (like a pencil or crayon)
• string or yarn
• glue
• tape (recommended)

Begin by squaring up the two sheets of bunny-colored paper. The traditional to ensure paper is square is to fold it diagonally from one corner, creating a triangle-shape with an additional rectangular area left over. Trim off the rectangle so that you have a perfect right triangle. Unfold and you’ll have a perfect square. (If you really want to make the experience educational this is a good jumping off point for a lesson in geometry and the square root of two, but that would probably take some of the fun out of the whole exercise).

To make the main face portion, fold your now-square sheets of paper in half down the middle (so that it forms a rectangle, not a triangle), and as with all the other masks, hold up to your nose to mark where the eye needs to go, and cut out holes for the eyes. Then, cut the sheet into an approximate half-circle. You will need to do this with both square pieces.

To make the ears, take the left-over rectangular pieces (the ones you trimmed off to make the square shapes) and fold them in half, length-wise. Draw and cut out an elongated crescent shape and unfold. Do the same thing with two smaller pink rectangles to make the pink inner ear. They should fit inside the white pieces with plenty of white showing on all sides.

Glue the white ear pieces to the back of one of your face-sheets. Glue the pink ear pieces to the front. All that weight will make the mask top-heavy and floppy, so you’ll also have to glue the second face-sheet to the back, making it two-ply.

Cut out a triangular piece of pink paper to make the nose and glue on to the face. Draw two quarter-circles (starting from the base of the nose) to indicate the rabbit’s “cheeks” and draw three vertical lines (with the center one aligning on the fold) to indicate the teeth. Finally, cut out the two triangular shapes between the teeth and cheeks. Your bunny-mask is ready to go!

Seen here is my long-suffering fellow designer, Chuck Hardy, modeling a bunny mask.

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