DIY Easter Bunny Paper Lantern

Make the cutest Easter bunny paper lantern out of a plain white paper lantern in a few simple steps!

A bunny paper lantern (or a whole group of them) make the cutest decorations for Easter.

These paper lanterns look amazing hanging up for an Easter egg hunt, Easter dinner, or for decorating Easter eggs.

Easter Bunny Paper Lantern

Whip up one of these cute Easter lanterns in under 5 minutes!

Cut two circles out of black paper to make the eyes.

Cut a smaller triangle shape, then a long very thin rectangle for the nose and the mouth.

Use a glue gun or craft glue to glue them onto the white paper lantern.

I used my Sizzix Big Shot die cutting machine to cut perfect cheek circles.

If you don’t have a Big Shot, don’t worry!

You can also cut the cheeks out yourself.

To cut with the Big Shot, make a Sizzix sandwich with a magnetic platform, a cutting pad, pink paper, a circle die, and the other cutting pad on top.

Roll it all through the Big Shot machine, then glue the pink cheek circles onto the paper lantern.

If you don’t have a Big Shot, then you can use your Cricut machine, or just cut circles out yourself.

Cut two long ears out of thick white paper, then cut out the smaller pink insides of the ears.

Glue the white and pink pieces together to form the ears.

Next, glue the ears onto the bunny paper lantern by folding the bottom inch of each ear backwards, then gluing the folded part down.

Pretty simple, right?

Isn’t she just darling?

An Easter bunny paper lantern (or two or three or four) is a great way to decorate for Easter.

This would be a great Easter craft to do with the kids too!

For more Easter crafts, check out how to grow geodes inside an egg (these turn out AMAZING and are a great science lesson), these bunny jars made from baby food jars, these gorgeous gold leaf Easter eggs, and this delicious braided Easter bread.

Happy crafting!

This tutorial was updated in March 2025 and was originally posted in March 2017.