If you’re looking for a project that’s cute and fun to crochet, this tutorial is perfect for you.
Materials needed to make this cute bunny are plush yarn with white shade, cotton yarn with pink shade, 2 plastic eyes, 2.5mm & 4mm crochet hooks, a yarn needle, fiberfill, embroidery threads for embroidering the muzzle, eyebrows, mouth, and sewing threads for sewing parts.
This crochet easter bunny is perfect for springtime crafting, making a lovely gift, festive decoration, nursery decor, or a part of an easter basket. it’s suitable for beginners to advanced-level crocheters.
Let’s get started!
Designer: Natty Toys
Materials & Tools
- Color A – plush yarn Himalaya Dolphin baby (#80308) 1 skein
- Color C – for knitting a nose, pink Gazzal Baby Cotton
- Plastic eyes
- Sewing threads for sewing parts
- Black thread for embroidering
- Fiberfill
- Color B – yarn for knitting the sundress: Gazal Baby Cotton (#3456)
- 3 small buttons, 2 big buttons
- 2.5 mm and 4.0 mm crochet hooks
- 3.5 mm needles
- Large needle for stitching the parts of the toy
- Knitting markers
Abbreviations
rnd – round
Mr – magic ring
inc – increase
dec – decrease
sc – single crochet
Using the yarn of color A, crochet hook 4 mm. The head with the body are crocheting as one piece. After that to sew the arms, ears and tail.
Head
Rnd 1: 7 sc in Mr (7)
Rnd 2: inc x 7 (14)
Rnd 3: inc x 14 (28)
Rnd 4: (3 sc, inc) x 7 (35)
Rnd 5: (4 sc, inc) x 7 (42)
Rnd 6: (5 sc, inc) x 7 (49)
Rnd 7: (6 sc, inc) x 7 (56)
Rnd 8-13: 49 sc (49)
Rnd 14:(6 sc, dec) x 7 (49)
Rnd 15: (5 sc, dec) x 7 (42)
Rnd 16: (4 sc, dec) x 7 (35)
Rnd 17: (3 sc, dec) x 7 (28)
Rnd 18: (dec) x 14 (14)
Continue to crochet the body.
Rnd 19: (1 sc, inc) x 7 (21)
Rnd 20: 21 sc (21)
Rnd 21: (2 sc, inc) x 7 (28)
Rnd 22: 28 sc (28)
Rnd 23: (3 sc, inc) x 7 (35)
Rnd 24: 35 sc (35)
Rnd 25: (4 sc, inc) x 7 (42)
Rnd 26: 42 sc (42)
Rnd 27: (5 sc, inc) x 7 (49)
Rnd 28-32: 49 sc
Rnd 33: dec, 3 sc, dec, 2 sc, dec, 14 sc, dec, 6 sc, dec, 14 sc (44)
Rnd 34: 44 sc (44)
Rnd 35: dec, 4 sc, dec, 14 sc, dec, 4 sc, dec, 14 sc (40)
Rnd 36: 40 sc (40)
Rnd 37: dec, 2 sc, dec, 14 sc, dec, 2 sc, dec, 14 sc (36)
Rnd 38: 36 sc (36)
Rnd 39: dec, dec, 14 sc, dec, dec, 14 sc (32)
Insert safe plastic eyes
Keep safety eyes symmertrical to the lines of decreases. Eyes are fixed between 8 and 9 rounds from the upper point of the head. The distance between the eyes is 7 sc.
To stuff a toy with the fiber filler. Double up the front and back part of the toy, crochet in the middle 3 sc.
Carefully count the stitches to from two identical holes for the legs at 14 sc.
Crochet legs completely with body.
Legs x2
Rnd 1-5: 14 sc (14)
Rnd 6: dec x 7 (7)
Fill the leg with a fiberfill. To draw the thread tgrough 7 loops and tighten. Cut and secure the thread in the leg. Also crochet the second leg.
Nose
Using color C (pink), 2.5 mm crochet hook
Rnd 1: 6 sc in a Mr (6)
Rnd 2: inc x 6 (12)
Rnd 3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
Fold and sew on the face of the bunny.
Arms x2
Rnd 1: 6 sc in a Mr (6)
Rnd 2: inc x 6 (12)
Rnd 3-5: 12 sc (12)
Rnd 6: dec x 3, 6 sc (9)
Rnd 7-12: 9 sc (9)
Double up, crochet 4 stitches. Cut and secure the thread. Sew the arms.
Ears x2
Rnd 1: 7 sc in Mr (7)
Rnd 2: inc x 7 (14)
Rnd 3: 14 sc (14)
Rnd 4: (1 sc, inc) x 7 (21)
Rnd 5-8: 21 sc (21)
Rnd 9: (1 sc, dec) x 7 (14)
Rnd 10-11: 14 sc (14)
Cut and secure the thread. Fold in half and then quadruple and sew on top of the head at a distance of 1-2 cm from each other.
Tail
Rnd 1: 7 sc in a Mr (7)
Rnd 2: inc x 7 (14)
Rnd 3: (1 sc, inc) x 7 (21)
Rnd 4: (1 sc, dec) x 7 (14)
Rnd 5: dec x 7 (7)
Cut and secure the thread. Sew at the bottom on the back of the bunny.
Embroider with black thin threads eyebrows, eyelashes, mouth. Bunny is ready!
