Polymer Clay Bunnies

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  Step 1

  First, get your polymer clay - bigger ball for body and 2 smaller ones for the paws. If you don't know how big pieces you should take, look at the photo.
  *If you're going to paint your finished bunny, then it doesn't matters if your clay has other colorful clay pieces or other stuff in.

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  Step 2

  Take your biggest clay piece and roll it to an oval shape.

  *If your not going to paint your bunny or don't want any fingerprints showing on it, then use rubber gloves for your hands. Also, you should use clean clay then. ;)

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  Step 3

  Then start to shape the head and neck like so. Don't seperate these parts from each other.

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  Step 4

  Keep shaping the head, so it looks like head and also shape small front paws the same way.

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  Step 5

  For the back paws, take your two small clay pieces. Roll each one into balls and then make cone-like shapes.

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  Step 6

  Then flatten a bit so they start to look like paws.

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  Step 7

  Then fold the thinner part to the thickest part of the paw. Well, just look at the photo and see. ;)

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  Step 8

  Your bunny should look like this before adding the back paws. I forgot to mention that you also have to shape a small rabbit tail on the back.
  Make sure that most of the bunny parts are shaped by now, because doing this later may be harder.

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  Step 9

  Carefully attach the legs to the bunny's body, make sure you don't squeeze the bunny.

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  Step 10

  For the ears, take another 2 small clay pieces, smaller than the first ones. Roll each clay piece like shown in the picture.

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  Step 11

  Then flatten them a bit, so they start to look like long bunny ears.

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  Step 12

  Shape the ears by taking a needle and folding the narrow end of the flattened ear over the needle a bit.Don't press the ear completely,it should look like in the photo.
  (I hope you understand what i was trying to say)

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  Step 13

  If you didn't understood, here you can see the ears better.
  Now to attach the ears. I know that there must be a better way to attach ears to the head, but for my first bunny (im showing you in pictures), i poke two larger holes with a needle in the head and somehow sticked the ears in them.

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  Step 14

  I attached them like so. When you have added the ears, you can position them however you like them to stand.

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  Step 15

  Then i added smaller details for the bunny's face - i draw a mouth,nose and eyes with a needle. When you do this,don't push the needle too hard in the clay.

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  Step 16

  This is the basic bunny that should look like this by now, if you are also making it. ;)

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  Step 17

  You can add some fur detail with needle (however,you can also make this effect with painting), or you can sculpt the bunny a bit better,add some more work to it. This was my first bunny i made, so i didn't know so much about making them.

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  Step 18

  I used wet paint brush here, but for the furry look effect, use dry brush and paint. Just stroke the paint over your bunny.

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  Step 19

  After baking your bunny, go and find some paint! I used acrylic paint for my bunnies.

  *If you wasn't planning to paint your bunny, you are finished by now. :)

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  Step 20

  And don't forget to paint cute paws to your bunny!

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  Step 21

  Also add some light paint to nose and eyes! You can use permanent marker for eyes. ;)

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  Step 22

  When the paint has dried, you add a coat of clear nail warnish to your bunnies if you like. Or atleast put some on the eyes to make them shiny.

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  Step 23

  And your bunny figurine is done! You can put it for display or place in a terrarium! You can also try to make different animals based on this how to. =]

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Madeleine D. 20th March 2011

i got so excited when i noticed that you painted the pink marks on their feet. SO CUUTE!

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KMOM14 · Fort Wayne, Indiana, US · 378 projects 6th February 2011

How cute! May have to try this some time. Thanks for sharing with us!

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Cherry Kitten Bomb · U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, US · 19 projects 4th February 2011

Aw, I love them.

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Pinocchio · U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, US · 30 projects 31st January 2011

Adorable! I can't believe that your art teacher said you had no talent!

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Jet H. · Haarlem, North Holland, NL · 108 projects 29th January 2011

aaaaw they are adorable , very well done, the tute too, sooo cute , i wil make one after my move as well, so it will cost time, but my clay is allready packed in boxes for my m ove'=D
love them!!!!! thanks for the tute and the sharing;-D xxxx

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