Make Your Own Easter Bunny Candy or Dip Dish

 Here's another easy one just in time for Easter!  Show off your creativity with using this as either a candy dish (which I am doing for now) or for a dip container (which I will be doing next weekend).

You will need an hour or two for this project, mostly for drying purposes.  There are smaller projects what can be done while the drying is going on, but a couple hours is much smarter to have enough time for everything.

You will need:

* glass jar (this is a Dollar Tree find)
* Air Dry PermEnamel Surface Conditioner
* Air Dry PermEnamel Ultra White paint
* Krylon Low Odor Matte Sealer (not pictured)
* Paint brushes
* Elmers Paint Marker, Black for eyes & mouth
* White Pom Pom or Cotton Ball
* Pink Button (not pictured) for nose
* Jewelry Wire (not pictured) for whiskers
* Hot Glue Gun
* White & Pink Felt - small pieces & 2  Wide
* Popsicle sticks                                                        

First step:  Turn dish upside down and then apply the surface condition enamel, let dry (this took about 15-20 min).   Then coat with the PermEnamel in  ultra white, cover  in entirety, nice and thick.

While the white paint dried, I worked on the ears.  I cut out felt pieces for the ears and glued them onto wide popsicle sticks.  No need to attach these to the jar!  That way you can clean out the jar inbetween whatever food item you are putting in it.

** Before freaking out that food is going near this paint, it is absolutely safe and cleanable once you have finished everything and can use soap and water on it.  If it weren't for the 3-D items you put on this jar, you could even put it in a dish washer!  That is why you want to use PermEnamel, that is meant for glass and ceramics.

For the ears, I honestly guesstimated on the size because I made this up!  The white part of the ear I made at 4 inches tall, the pink part is 2 inches tall.  I put the ear 3 inches down the popsicle stick so the felt has enough support and doesn't get floppy -ha!

 I just now realized I did not have a picture of his face pre-attachments.  But, you will next want to use the paint marker to apply his eyes and mouth.  And once you are happy with how he looks, spray the sealer all over him outside or in a well vented area.  You do NOT want to spray him when he has his nose, whiskers and tail on, then you would have one sticky mess!

Once dried, stick those ears inside the dish, and fill with whatever you are displaying or serving!  There's your bunny!

Mmmmm....Starburst Jelly Beans