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Bunnykins card set

This card set features Bunnykins gurines from the Powerhouse Museums collection and have been chosen with an Australian theme in mind. They make a lovely gift for Easter or to play with during the Easter holidays.

Time: 1+ hrs Difculty: Hints: Print out extra sets of Bunnykins cards to play
with more players. Use high grade paper to print your cards to make sure your bunnykins look great!

out 2 or more sets 1. Print of Bunnykins templates. Roughly cut out each card. Keep the front and back of your cards joined together at the centre as shown. each card carefully 2. Trim around the edges and then fold straight down the middle as shown.

Laminating your cards

To make your cards last much longer you can use a laminator. 4 cards should t on an A4 laminating sheet.

glue to stick the back 3. Use and front together. Make sure you spread glue right to the edges and each corner. Check your alignment on both sides.

4. Allow the glue to dry.

What you will need:
printed templates paper glue scissors Optional: A laminator

all the cards to neaten 5. Trim them up. Check both front and back.

Bunnykins matching 6. These cards can be used to play 1 player memory games, matching games or snap and other multi player games.
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The story of Bunnykins

The much loved Royal Doulton Bunnykins collection began in 1934 with the drawings of Barbara Vernon, a young nun. Barbaras drawings were inspired by her idyllic childhood and feature the fun and innocent adventures of a family of eight bunnies in the village of Little Twitching. Her father was Cuthbert Bailey, the manager of the Royal Doulton factory, and he saw the potential for his daughters drawings as a range of nurseryware. The success of Bunnykins saw the range expand into lighthearted Bunnykins gurines of which the Powerhouse Museum has a wonderful collection. Today, 80 years later, Bunnykins continues to delight the young at heart the world over.

Australian themed Bunnykins at the Powerhouse Museum

Royal Doulton have so far released over 300 different Bunnykins gures in countries around the world, with Australia being a very enthusiastic market. The rst gure with an Australian theme was the 1984 Olympic Bunnykins in green-and-gold produced exclusively for Australian distribution. It was also the rst example of Bunnykins to enter The Powerhouse Museums Collection. It was followed by Australian Bunnykins, another sport-loving rabbit in a green-and-gold sport uniform, launched in 1987 in anticipation of Australias bicentenary in 1988. Surfer Bunnykins and Eureka Bunnykins were added in the 1990s - examples of these were part of a large collection of Bunnykins gurines donated to the Powerhouse Museum by the Sydney collector Robert Walmsley. Inspired by an early Bunnykins porridge bowl, a treasured memento of his childhood, Walmsley started building his Bunnykins collection in the mid 1970s. Designed in Australia to commemorate the Sydney 2000 Olympics Games, the Bunnykins games set was the next design with an Australian theme and it consisted of ve sporty Bunnykins depicted as playing sports characteristic of ve continents: soccer (Europe), basketball (USA), running (Africa), swimming ( Australia) and gymnastics (Asia). The limited edition Federation Bunnykins gure soon followed, and during the next decade new gures were added such as Waltzing Matilda, Digger Bunnykins, Captain Cook Bunnykins, Centenary Scout Bunnykins, Surf Lifesaver Bunnykins and Flying Doctor Bunnykins. Victa Bunnykins, Bush Fire Fighter Bunnykins, Howzat Bunnykins, Billycart Bunnykins, GDay Mate Tableau , Outdoor Dunny Bunnykins, and Queensland SES Bunnykins are recent Australian additions to the series. Like many of the gurines that preceded them, these were designed in Australia by Wendy Boyce-Davies.

500 Harris St Ultimo PO Box K346 Haymarket NSW 1238 Australia

9 Tel: 02 6217 0111 http://play.powerhousemuseum.com

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500 Harris St Ultimo PO Box K346 Haymarket NSW 1238 Australia

9 Tel: 02 6217 0111 http://play.powerhousemuseum.com

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialShareAlike 2.5 License.

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500 Harris St Ultimo PO Box K346 Haymarket NSW 1238 Australia

9 Tel: 02 6217 0111 http://play.powerhousemuseum.com

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialShareAlike 2.5 License.

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500 Harris St Ultimo PO Box K346 Haymarket NSW 1238 Australia

9 Tel: 02 6217 0111 http://play.powerhousemuseum.com

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialShareAlike 2.5 License.

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500 Harris St Ultimo PO Box K346 Haymarket NSW 1238 Australia

9 Tel: 02 6217 0111 http://play.powerhousemuseum.com

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialShareAlike 2.5 License.

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500 Harris St Ultimo PO Box K346 Haymarket NSW 1238 Australia

9 Tel: 02 6217 0111 http://play.powerhousemuseum.com

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialShareAlike 2.5 License.

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500 Harris St Ultimo PO Box K346 Haymarket NSW 1238 Australia

9 Tel: 02 6217 0111 http://play.powerhousemuseum.com

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialShareAlike 2.5 License.

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500 Harris St Ultimo PO Box K346 Haymarket NSW 1238 Australia

9 Tel: 02 6217 0111 http://play.powerhousemuseum.com

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialShareAlike 2.5 License.

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500 Harris St Ultimo PO Box K346 Haymarket NSW 1238 Australia

9 Tel: 02 6217 0111 http://play.powerhousemuseum.com

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialShareAlike 2.5 License.