Looking for Easter crochet pattern ideas, let’s make this cute bunny with a heart; it makes a great gift for your kids.
Materials used in this tutorial are cotton yarn with a 2.5 mm crochet hook, safety eyes with 6mm, and black embroidery thread.
You can crochet the free amigurumi Easter bunny for your loved ones; this tutorial has detailed step-by-step instructions with a photo tutorial to finish this bunny easily.
The head, body, ears, arms, tail, and legs are made separately and then sew all parts together at the end, after that you can add decoration to the bunny like a heart, small flowers, or small bows.
Let’s get started!
Pattern by: Natalia Ruzanova
Materials
- 2.5 mm crochet hook
- Cotton yarn (Cotton baby “Soft” from “Alize”) in blue and yellow color
- Safety eyes 6.0 mm
- Black embroidery thread
- Stuffing
- Yarn needle
- Stitch marker
The size of the Easter bunny is approximately 20 cm with ears. It may vary though depending on the kind of yarn and hook size used. You can also use any color of yarn.
Abbreviations
Ch – chain
Sc – single crochet
St/sts – stitch/stitches
Inc – increase
Dec – decrease
Sl st – slip stitch
Head
Use the blue yarn and 2,5 mm hook.
Rnd 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
Rnd 2: (inc) x6 [12]
Rnd 3: (inc, sc) x6 [18]
Rnd 4: (2 sc, inc) x6 [24]
Rnd 5: sc around [24]
Rnd 6: (5 sc, inc) x4 [28]
Rnd 7: sc around [28]
Rnd 8: (inc, 6 sc) x4 [32]
Rnd 9: sc around [32]
Rnd 10: 2 sc, (inc, 7 sc) x3, inc, 5 sc [36]
Attach the safety eyes between rounds 9 and 10 with 13 st between (fig 1).
Rnd 11-16: sc around [36], 6 rounds
Rnd 17: (dec, 4 sc) x6 [30]
Rnd 18: (dec, 3 sc) x6 [24]
Start to stuff the head firmly.
Rnd 19: (dec, 2 sc) x6 [18]
Rnd 20: (dec, sc) x6 [12]
Stuff the head firmly. Close the opening (fig 4,5).
How to close the end of the round: with a darning needle, insert the remaining yarn through all the front loops of the stitches on the last round (fig 2). Pull all together at once and sew to hide the yarn inside the part you are working on (fig 3).
Body
Use the blue yarn.
Rnd 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
Rnd 2: (inc) x6 [12]
Rnd 3: (inc, sc) x6 [18]
Rnd 4: (2 sc, inc) x6 [24]
Rnd 5: (inc, 3 sc) x6 [30]
Rnd 6: 2 sc, (inc, 4 sc) x5, inc, 2 sc [36]
Rnd 7: (inc, 8 sc) x4 [40]
Rnd 8-14: sc around [40], 7 rounds
Rnd 15: (dec, 8 sc) x4 [36]
Rnd 16-17: sc around [36], 2 rounds
Rnd 18: (dec, 7 sc) x4 [32]
Rnd 19-20: sc around [32], 2 rounds
Rnd 21: (dec, 6 sc) x4 [28]
Rnd 22-23: sc around [28], 2 rounds
Rnd 24: (dec, 5 sc) x4 [24]
Rnd 25: sc around [24]
Stuff the body firmly (fig 6). Cut the yarn, leave a tail for sewing.
Ears x2
Use the blue yarn.
Rnd 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
Rnd 2: (sc, inc) x3 [9]
Rnd 3: sc around [9]
Rnd 4: (2 sc, inc) x3 [12]
Rnd 5: sc around [12]
Rnd 6: (3 sc, inc) x3 [15]
Rnd 7: sc around [15]
Rnd 8: (4 sc, inc) x3 [18]
Rnd 9-13: sc around [18], 5 rounds
Rnd 14: (dec, 4 sc) x3 [15]
Rnd 15: sc around [15]
Don’t stuff the ears. Cut the yarn, leave a tail for sewing.
Fold the ear in half and sew two sides together using the needle (fig 7, 8, 9).
Arms x2
Use the blue yarn.
Rnd 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
Rnd 2: (sc, inc) x3 [9]
Rnd 3: sc around [9]
Rnd 4: (2 sc, inc) x3 [12]
Rnd 5-6: sc around [12], 2 rounds
Rnd 7: (dec, 2 sc) x3 [9]
Rnd 8-20: sc around [9], 13 rounds
Don’t stuff the arms. Cut the yarn, leave a tail for sewing (fig 10).
Tail
Use the blue yarn.
Rnd 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
Rnd 2: (sc, inc) x3 [9]
Rnd 3: (2 sc, inc) x3 [12]
Rnd 4: (3 sc, inc) x3 [15]
Rnd 5-8: sc around (15), 4 rounds
Rnd 9: (dec, sc) x5 [10]
Stuff the tail lightly. Close the opening in the same way as the head (fig 11, 12).
Legs x2
Use the blue yarn.
Rnd 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
Rnd 2: (inc) x6 [12]
Rnd 3: sc around [12]
Rnd 4: (3 sc, inc) x3 [15]
Rnd 5-7: sc around (15), 3 rounds
Rnd 8: (dec, 3 sc) x3 [12]
Rnd 9-11: sc around [12], 3 rounds
Rnd 12: (dec, 2 sc) x3 [9]
Stuff the legs lightly. Close the opening in the same way as the head.
Cut the yarn, leave a long tail for sewing (fig 13, 14).
Assembly
- Sew the ears to the head between rounds 15 and 18.
- Sew the head to the body (fig 18, 19, 20).
- Embroider the nose using the black thread (fig 17).
- Sew the head to the body.
- Sew the arms to the body in diagonal as show on photo 21, 22.
- You should sew the legs to body between rounds 4 and 10 in the end of leg and in the middle part as show on photos 23, 24, 25.
- Sew the tail to the body to the same rounds as the legs.
- At last, sew the arms to the heart.
Heart
Use the yellow yarn.
Rnd 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
Rnd 2: (inc) x6 [12]
Rnd 3: (3 sc, inc) x3 [15]
Rnd 4: sc around [15]
Make two pieces and don’t cut the yarn of the second.
We are going to connect two pieces together. Insert your hook in the next stitch of first piece and crochet sc (fig 30, 31). It will be the first st of new round and new beginning. Put your stitch marker here.
With remaining tail of yarn close the hole between the pieces later.
Rnd 5: two pieces together: 15 sc around first piece, 15 sc around second piece [30]
Rnd 6: sc around [30]
Rnd 7: (dec, 4 sc) x5, (fig 32) [25]
Rnd 8: sc around [25]
Rnd 9: (dec, 3 sc) x5 [20]
Rnd 10: sc around [20]
Rnd 11: (dec, 2 sc) x5 [15]
Rnd 12: sc around [15]
Rnd 13: (dec, sc) x5 [10]
Stuff the heart lightly. Close the opening.
Lace: ch 60.
Turn the lace around neck and make a bow.
