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Also you will need, you can get a template on Pinterest or anywhere on Google and you can type in a build a bunny or a bunny cutout. And the one that I found came with a head that I already colored, a stomach, two hands, and two feet. Very simple. That's all you need. We'll draw everything else on. So I would say the first thing you do is you get your box. This is from one of my Crocs favorite shoes. Let me check and make sure nothing's in it, apparently it is. So you can have it anyway, you can have it this way like how this is shown or you can have it sideways. It doesn't matter all up to you. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to use this back part and I'm going to use this side. So the first thing you do is you're going to start with the head. Nice little bunny face. You're going to take the backside, get your glue stick, make sure you have a parent with you and you're just going to glue it all around. You do not have to glue the top of the ears just like the face and that's it. Make sure you get it all good, right? So you're going to take your head and you're going to put it at the top. So we're going to take the head right here and let me make sure my bunny is even. There we go and you're going to pat it down. So pat it down real good. In order to get the ears to stay, I would say take your glue stick and right here where the ears meet the box, just that part, you might want to glue it on. Just a little bit for a little strength and a little support, okay. And then boom. Put the head on. Next is the stomach. Same thing, you want to glue it. Make sure you're getting all the corners, but if not, you can glue it down once you have it on there. You just want to make sure it's all good and sturdy and nice and strong. Now you're going to take and put it right a little bit under the head, anywhere you want to and just place it. Rub it good. Okay, so here we go. We got the head and the stomach on. Now with your feet, I would say do the feet first. You have two of them. You can color it any color. You don't have to have it match the box. You can have any shoe box ever. It doesn't matter. It can be rainbow. So with the feet first, glue, you're going to glue it down and you want to take it where you can put it wherever you want to, but I had mine right at the corner of the boxes and you can put it diagonally, however you want to create your animal. So I got one on. Let's do the other one. You can't have one foot. Here we go. I'm going to take the other one, put them on there. Now your bunny has feet. So then we're going to do the hands, okay? Same thing, just really simple. Put the glue on and you want, now the hands, you don't want it to be too far apart. So you want to put it kind of right here at the top, but if you want your bunnies, hands to be far apart, that's fine too. You can put them right there. Now let me do the other one, but I might need that extra glue. Put the other one right here, however you please, and look, you got a bunny, a cute little green bunny for me. So like this extra glue that I have, you can take it on any spots that you don't see sticking all the way down like this and just go back, check everything, make sure it's where you want it to be, and I'm going to take this extra glue on my finger and put it back in here. Make sure you wash your hands afterwards. So the hard part is over. Now I have my nice magical box of markers. I'm going to take a black one, as you can tell I have plenty of colors, and we're going to give our bunny some eyes first, right? So right here, you're going to take, let's see, we're going to draw two owls or circles, right? So then you're going to go right across the top, give them a little, just a nice little, a little line, and color that in. So as we're coloring in, you can tell he's getting eyes. Boom. Next, you got to give him some eyebrows. We don't want him out here looking crazy, you know? Eyebrow here, and then there you go. Now he has to have whiskers and teeth. The easiest way to do that is right under the nose, you're going to draw one line here or a little curve, if that's what you want to call it, and then another one here, then two lines right under it, and then one across, make sure they meet up. Then from right here in the center where you did your two lines, you're going to take it and go straight down, and look at that, now he has teeth, just wonderful, I know. Now you're going to add three dots on each side for the whiskers, little effect, one, two, three, and one, two, three. So now from here, you can just draw your little whiskers, they really don't have to be in the same spot, bright, boom. You have to give him or her a name, why would you not? I mean, it's yours, this is now your, even if you don't have a pet, look you just made one, you can't beat that. So let's see, I'm going to turn my box this way, and I'm going to just write name, or you can just put their name on there. So since this one is green, I'm going to call it spinach, this is his sister named Bubbles, I don't know where I got that from, but we're going to name him spinach, and green is my second favorite color, yellow is first. So then you have spinach, next thing, and the last thing that you have to do, see we're almost done, is you can add a nice thing on the background, anything, you can add hearts, you can add like little stars all over it, you can decorate it any way you want, you want to throw some grass in the background, anything. And then what I like about this is, once you're done, you also have now a box that you can put anything in, little treasure chest, anything, like now you have a whole box, and your pet is one. You can use this box for anything, store stuff, if you're like me, I forget where everything is, and then there you go, so technically you have a two for one. So now I'm going to put spinach by his sibling, and then I'm going to go home and I'm going to make some more.