Guest Author - Grace Hodgin

Beatitude Bunny



My children and me started making these bunnies to give to friends we wanted to remember at Easter. They are easy and inexpensive to make and I have found that friends treasure them as keepsakes through out the years.

Materials Needed

Aluminum Foil
Salt Dough Recipe
Flour (not self-rising)
Salt (plain or iodized)
Hot Water
Yarn or Ribbon for tie.
Dry Tempera Paint- optional (your choice of color)
Oven Pan
Extra Fine Sharpie markers
Acrylic Paint (optional)
Acrylic Spray

The size of your salt dough batch will depend on the amount of bunnies you want to make. The full recipe is as follows. (Reduce this recipe by half if you want fewer bunnies.) The one bunny I created for this article took 1 cup of flour, ¼ cup of salt and ¼ cup of hot water)


4 cups of flour
1 cup of salt
1 ½ cups of hot tap water

Pour the hot water and salt into a bowl and stir for 1 minute to dissolve the salt.

Set aside some plain flour for the nose, tummy and tail. *Sprinkle the tempera paint in the remaining flour until the flour is the color of the tempera paint.
Add the colored flour and stir until the water is absorbed. Save some water for the dough that will remain white and now add water to it and mix (keep it separate from the colored dough and mix it in a different bowl.
*If you don't want to use tempera paint then you can use acrylic paint to make it the color of your choice.

Turn the dough onto a table or board and knead it. The dough is ready when it is smooth and flexible. Repeat the process with the white dough.

Keep the dough in a plastic bag so it will not dry out.
I take aluminum foil and make a bunny shape so I can just apply dough over the foil. It reduces the cooking time and I’m sure the bunny is cooked all the way through when it is finished. It is not necessary to use the foil if you want it to be heavier. Here is an example of my foil bunny.




I just wad the foil into two balls (smaller ball for the head) and mend them together with the foil. I make two ears from one piece of foil while placing it on the bunny’s head and take some unused foil and wrap it around the head so the ears stay in place. The size of your foil bunnies will determine the size and how many bunnies you get from the recipe.

Wrap the dough around the foil bunny and smooth with fingers until you can not see any foil. Take your finger and press into the ears so the indentions make the rabbit to appear to be the inside of his ears. Make arms and legs. Take the white dough and make a tale nose, and smooth the dough over the tummy area. You are going to write your message here so it is best to make it white. I made eyes with the colored dough.

Put your bunnies on a oven proof pan and cook them at 325 for 45 minutes.

When the bunny is finished then let it cool. Decorate with Sharpie markers or paint.
For the tummy you can write your favorite bible verse number on it, beatitude, or write a small message. Spray with Acrylic Gloss Spray.

When dry place it in an Easter basket or give as a singular gift.

** I use to make these bunnies and spray paint them with a texture paint that gave them a porcelain and speckle effect. I no longer can find that product but spray paint availabel at home improvement stores that make objects look like stone and marble would be another great decorating effect for these bunnies.