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    Home » Fun Food For Kids » Fun Food Tutorials

    How to make a Boiled Egg Rabbit

    Mar 30, 2013 · 23 Comments

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    As promised in a recent post, I wanted to share with you a quick and easy way to turn a boiled egg into a cute bunny rabbit.  With just a sharp knife and a hard boiled egg, you can quickly make any meal a whole lot more fun, especially around Easter time.

    These cute boiled egg bunnies are perfect for fun Easter food, you can serve them up as part of a fun Easter breakfast, lunch, snack or for Easter party food!

    Be sure to check out my quick recipe video so you can see just how easy these are to make!

     

    I've made various attempts at these rabbits over the time I've been making bento lunches, and sometimes it turns out better than others.  Today's attempt wasn't my best either, but I did manage to take pictures of each step, so hopefully you can make your own 'improved' versions based on that!

    Update: since writing this post, I used these rabbits in my prize-winning bunny rabbit Easter salad! 

    How to make a cute boiled egg rabbit using just a sharp knife and food marker pens - great healthy Easter food idea for kids from Eats Amazing UK

    How to Make a Boiled Egg Rabbit

    1. Hard boil your egg.  As soon as it is cooked, remove it from the pan and soak in cold water until it is completely cool.

    2. With a small sharp knife, slice a piece off one side of the egg as shown below.  The flat side of the egg that you have created will become the bottom of the bunny, the piece you have cut off the ears.

    3. With a mini circle cutter, round the ends of the piece of egg as shown.  You could also cut it free-hand with your knife if you don't have a mini circle cutter.

    4. Cut the egg into pieces as shown below, to form the two bunny ears.

    Eats Amazing Tutorial - Boiled Egg Bunny Rabbit - First Steps

    Once you have made your bunny ears, place the egg flat side down, then cut two slits at an angle into the egg for the ears to slot into. Push the ears into place.  You may need to use the tip of the knife to hold each slit open whilst you insert the ears.

    Add features as wanted;  I used a black edible marker pen to dot the eyes and nose, but you could also try using edible items such as seeds etc.  I also added dried spaghetti whiskers this time - obviously these would need to be removed before eating the egg.

    Eats Amazing Tutorial - Boiled Egg Bunny RabbitI made the bunny above in a bit of a rush, so it wasn't quite as pretty as I'd like, so I've included in this post a couple of better version I made on other occasions.  The bunny below was one of my first attempts and had a tiny pink marshmallow nose.

    How to make a boiled egg rabbit from Eats Amazing UK - cute and healthy Easter food idea for kids

    You can also use the same method I've shown above to make boiled egg mice instead.  Check out my tutorial for them here: How to make boiled egg mice.

    How to make a boiled egg mouse from Eats Amazing UK - healthy and fun food for kids - great for bento lunches

    For more boiled egg fun for Easter (or all the year around!), check out my other boiled egg animals and my tutorial for how to use boiled egg moulds to create fantastic shaped eggs!

    Or for more fun food ideas for Easter, head over to the Fun Easter Food section here on the Eats Amazing blog or pop over and follow my Easter Pinterest boards for lots more fun ideas from around the web; Fun Easter Food for Kids, Healthy Easter Food and Easter Fun.

    Grace

    Love this fun food idea? Why not save it to Pinterest so you can easily find it again!

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    1. Oh!Bento Uk says

      March 30, 2013 at 10:48 am

      These are soo cute!!
      And I've never thought of doing it that way!
      Genius!!

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      • Grace says

        April 22, 2013 at 10:38 pm

        Thanks Keith, I do love my egg rabbits!

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    2. Kathy says

      March 30, 2013 at 11:25 am

      So cute! Thanks for the tutorial. My young nephews would love these, in fact my older nephews would probably also love these! (at home)

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      • Grace says

        April 22, 2013 at 10:39 pm

        Thanks Kathy, would love to see if you try it out!

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    3. Angela at A Typical English Home says

      April 05, 2013 at 5:15 pm

      Love this. Pinning to my Easter board for next year. 🙂

      Visiting from Diana Rambles.

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      • Grace says

        April 22, 2013 at 10:39 pm

        Thanks Angela, and thanks for stopping by!

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    4. Sewing For Utange says

      April 05, 2013 at 6:13 pm

      Love these - so very cute! Thanks for the instructions.

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      • Grace says

        April 22, 2013 at 10:39 pm

        Thanks very much 🙂

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    5. Diana Rambles says

      April 11, 2013 at 2:42 am

      These are so adorable Grace! Thanks for sharing this at my Pin Me Linky Party.

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      • Grace says

        April 22, 2013 at 10:40 pm

        Thanks Diana! 🙂

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    6. Sarah MumofThree World says

      November 16, 2013 at 9:48 am

      That looks fantastic! What a good idea 🙂

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    7. Suzette says

      November 21, 2013 at 3:52 pm

      Absolutely adore these! What a great idea to make children enjoy healthy food!

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    8. Coombemill says

      January 21, 2014 at 10:19 pm

      Totally genius!

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      • Grace says

        January 23, 2014 at 12:51 am

        Thank you!

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    9. Mummy Constant says

      January 22, 2014 at 3:38 pm

      What a fantastically creative idea. 😉 x

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      • Grace says

        January 23, 2014 at 12:51 am

        Thanks very much! 🙂

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    10. Mel says

      January 22, 2014 at 4:50 pm

      This is so cute! Hahaha, really made me laugh! The children would love that. Great Easter party idea, too! Mel #TastyTuesdays

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      • Grace says

        January 23, 2014 at 12:52 am

        Thank you, they are a lot of fun!

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    11. Honest Mum says

      January 23, 2014 at 2:52 pm

      LOVE this! So smart! My mum would make us pear mice for birthday parties as children-must try them myself for my own kids and these bunny eggs too of course Thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays. Please do add my badge or link back at the bottom of your post.

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      • Grace says

        January 23, 2014 at 9:40 pm

        Thank you, I would love to see pear mice, they sound awesome! Whoops I forgot to add the badge - perils of linking via the iPhone, all added now 🙂

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    12. Linda L. says

      March 26, 2016 at 3:30 pm

      These rabbits are adorable! I just made some for our Easter Salad. I didn't have a pen for drawing on the eyes, so I used pieces of black olive that I cut into tiny circles using a baby medicine syringe. If you pull the plunger out, stick the tip through the olive and then push the plunger in, the perfect little circle pops out. I then used the tip to cut out a small circle in the egg and just pushed the little olive piece right in. These are a little fiddly, but you don't need to make very many for a great display. Thanks so much for the idea! These will be a cute surprise for my guests.

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      • Grace says

        March 27, 2016 at 3:13 pm

        That's such a great tip, thank you! I'm so happy you made them and I hope your guests enjoy them!

        Reply

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