How to Make a Yarn Wrapped Bunny
Decorate your mantel with this yarn wrapped bunny, use it as part of a centerpiece for Easter dinner, or as a prop for storytime and pretend play.
Yield: 1 yarn wrapped bunny
Cost: $1
Materials
- Free Printable Yarn Wrapped Bunny Template
- Plastic Easter egg
- Tacky glue
- Worsted weight yarn (spring/Easter colours)
- Felt (1 colour and white)
- Googly eyes
- Small pink pom pom (1/4 inch)
- White pom pom(s) (1 inch)
- White thread
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Wrap a plastic egg with yarn
- Add a generous circle of tacky glue to the top of the plastic egg.
- Place the end of the yarn (still attached to the ball) in the center of the glue. Press it down and wait at least 30 seconds for it to stick.
- Hold the end of the yarn down while wrapping it around itself in a circle.
- Add more glue below the yarn and continue wrapping it around.You can either spin the egg in your hand while holding the yarn, or you can wrap the yarn around while holding the egg still -- whichever is more comfortable for you.
- Continue wrapping the yarn around the egg, adding more glue when needed.As you work, continue to push down on the yarn to keep it in place.
- When you reach the bottom of the egg, cover the whole area in glue.
- Continue wrapping the yarn around the egg carefully. It's more likely to slide off closer to the bottom.When you're close to the bottom center of the egg cut the yarn, leaving about a 1/4 inch extra at the end (or however much you need to fill in the end).
- Twist the yarn into the bottom center and push down.Allow the glue to dry.
Step 3: Cut out the template pieces
- While the egg is drying, print the template and cut out the pieces.Then use the template pieces to cut out the felt pieces. Cut the larger ears and feet from a colour that matches the yarn. Cut the inner ears from white felt.
- Gather all the pieces of the bunny. Besides the wrapped egg and felt pieces, you'll also need a white pom pom tail, a small pink pom pom nose, and 2 googly eyes.
Step 4: Glue the felt pieces to the yarn covered egg
- Add hot glue or tacky glue to one side of the inner ear piece.
- Attach the inner ear to the larger ear piece, lining up the pieces at the bottom.Repeat for the second ear.
- Add a thin line of hot glue to the bottom of the ear.
- Place the ear on top of the egg, off to one side. Then add the second ear beside it.
- Add hot glue to the back half of the feet. Set the egg into the glue so that the feet are sticking out towards the front.
Step 5: Add a tail and face on the bunny
- Add hot glue to the white pom pom. Attach it to the bottom back of the egg, so the bunny is almost sitting on it.This will help balance the bunny and make it stand up.
- Cut 3 pieces of white thread about 1 inch long.
- Add a dot of hot glue or tacky glue onto the pink pom pom. Press the center of each piece of thread into the glue.Add one piece going straight across and the other two at opposite angles. These are the bunny's whiskers.
- Use hot glue or tacky glue to attach the googly eyes and nose to the front of the egg.
- If necessary, trim the whiskers so that they're even.
- Your yarn wrapped bunny is complete!
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Notes
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