Free Easter Bunny Coloring Pages

The Easter Bunny is the storybook rabbit who brings eggs, sweets and baskets at Easter. The idea comes from Germany, where children were told a hare hid colourful eggs in the garden, and it has since become the friendly face of spring in many countries. These pages are the dressed-up, storybook version — bow ties, a waistcoat, even a tutu — rather than a wild rabbit in a field, which is why they sit alongside our rabbit pages but feel like a different activity. There is no single right colour. Real rabbits are brown, grey, white, black or spotted, and the Easter Bunny is often drawn white with pink inner ears. The clothes are the fun part: the bow tie, the vest and especially the ballerina tutu can be any colour a child likes, so a purple waistcoat or a rainbow tutu is as welcome as a classic pastel. Point out the pink of the nose and the pads under the toes, and the pale belly that stays light on many rabbits. The eight designs get steadily harder. First is a round, sitting baby bunny with huge eyes and oversized paws — thick outlines and big open shapes for toddlers still learning to stay inside the lines. Next is a bunny curled into a ball asleep, then one stretched out mid-hop, both still simple. The waving bunny in a bow tie and the winking bunny with hands on hips add a little fur and clothing. The last three are the longer projects: a floppy-eared bunny sitting up with more fur texture, a smart bunny in a buttoned vest and trousers, and a ballerina bunny on tiptoe whose tutu is drawn with folds, swirls and a flower, for children who like a careful, detailed piece of work. Every sheet prints on landscape US Letter paper at 200 DPI, so the bunny fills the page without being cut off. Plain copier paper is fine for crayons and colored pencils. If you are using markers or paint, slightly thicker card stock stops the color bleeding through — worth doing on the ballerina sheet, where the tutu lines sit close together and can run into each other on flimsy paper. In the classroom these pages pair well with Easter, with a lesson on spring, or with the letter E or letter B. Print a few different designs and let each child pick: the sitting baby bunny is finished in a few minutes, while the ballerina can fill a whole quiet afternoon, which keeps a mixed-age table busy at the same time. They also work as a calm activity after an egg hunt, or as a take-home colouring sheet in an Easter bag. The plain rabbit pages work for the rest of the year, and the other animal sheets covers every other animal. The clothes make a nice talking point while colouring. Real rabbits do not wear waistcoats, but the Easter Bunny is a character, so children can invent a whole outfit — a colour for the vest, another for the bow tie, a third for the trousers — and still have a bunny that looks right.