How to Crochet an Easter Bunny (Beginner Amigurumi)

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   Step 1: Gather Your Supplies

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   Lay out a 7 mm crochet hook, super bulky blanket yarn in white or cream as your main color, a small amount of pink for the blush and ear accents, and a length of worsted-weight black for the nose. You also need two 16 mm safety eyes with backings, polyester fiberfill stuffing, a yarn needle, sharp scissors, and a stitch marker.

   Bernat Blanket is the easiest yarn to find for this. The pink and white pair shown in the source video is the standard combo, but any super bulky chenille yarn in a pastel color reads as bunny.

   Tip:

   Safety eyes are a choking hazard for babies, toddlers, and pets. Skip them and embroider the eyes with black yarn instead if the bunny is a gift for anyone under three.

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   Used in this stepClover Amour 7 mm Crochet HookBernat Blanket Yarn WhiteBernat Blanket Yarn Baby Pink16 mm Black Safety Eyes 20-PackPolyester Fiberfill Stuffing 12 oz Bag

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   Step 2: Magic Ring and Round 1 (7 Single Crochets)

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   Start with white. Pinch the yarn between your thumb and pointer finger, wrap it around your pointer and middle finger to form an x, then slip the hook under the x, turn it, grab the lower strand, and pull it through. Turn the hook again, grab the lower strand, and pull through the loop - that is your magic ring.

   Work 7 single crochets into the ring. Once round 1 is done, pull the tail to cinch the ring closed. Place a stitch marker in the last stitch so you know where round 1 ended.

   Tip:

   If the magic ring keeps unraveling, slow it down on the first attempt. The muscle memory clicks in by the second one. There is also a slower walkthrough of the magic ring on its own if you want to drill it before starting the bunny.

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   Step 3: Increase Rounds 2 and 3

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   For round 2, work an increase in every stitch around. An increase is two single crochets in the same stitch, so seven stitches doubles to fourteen.

   For round 3, alternate one single crochet and one increase, repeating seven times around. That brings the count to 21 stitches. Move the stitch marker to the last stitch of each round so you do not lose your place.

   Tip:

   Count carefully through the first three rounds. If the count is off here, the bunny will end up lopsided once the straight rounds start. A few seconds of counting saves you from frogging later.

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   Used in this stepClover Locking Stitch Markers PackBernat Blanket Yarn White

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   Step 4: Round 4 Increase + Straight Rounds 5-9

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   Round 4 is two single crochets followed by one increase, repeated seven times around for a total of 28 stitches. That is the last increase round - after this the body holds at 28 stitches.

   Rounds 5 through 9 are plain single crochet rounds. Work one single crochet in every stitch all the way around. Five straight rounds back to back gives the bunny its short cylinder shape - tall enough to feel like a body, short enough to still read as round.

   Tip:

   The straight rounds are repetitive on purpose. Hold the work in front of you and watch the cylinder grow - if it starts to spiral instead of sit flat, your stitch marker has drifted. Move it back to the end-of-round stitch.

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   Used in this stepBernat Blanket Yarn WhiteClover Amour 7 mm Crochet Hook

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   Step 5: Round 10 - the Bobble Stitch Tail

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   This is the round that gives the bunny its character, so slow down here. In the very first stitch of round 10, you are going to stack six double crochets to form a bobble.

   Yarn over, insert your hook into the stitch, yarn over and pull through (three loops on the hook), yarn over and pull through the first two loops only (two loops left). That is one double crochet started. Repeat that whole sequence five more times into the same stitch - each repeat adds one loop. By the end you have seven loops on the hook. Yarn over one last time and pull through all seven loops at once. Push the bobble out so it points away from the body - that is the tail. Then single crochet in every remaining stitch around (27 single crochets) to finish round 10.

   Tip:

   Seven loops feels like too many. It is not. Pull the working yarn slowly and let it slip through all of them in one motion - the bobble pops into shape on its own. If the loops feel tight, work them looser on the next attempt.

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   Used in this stepClover Amour 7 mm Crochet HookBernat Blanket Yarn White

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   Step 6: Round 11 + First Decrease Round

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   Round 11 is another straight round - one single crochet in every stitch, 28 total. This sits the tail in place and gives a clean band above it.

   Round 12 is where you start closing the head. Work two single crochets, then one invisible decrease, repeated seven times around for 21 stitches. For an invisible decrease, insert the hook through the front loop only of the next two stitches, then yarn over and pull through all three loops. Start stuffing the body about halfway full now so the shape sets before the safety eyes go on.

   Tip:

   Stuff in small pinches, not big handfuls. Smaller pinches give a smoother shape and let you push the filling up into the crown of the head where the magic ring is.

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   Used in this stepPolyester Fiberfill Stuffing 12 oz BagBamboo Yarn Needle Set 12-Piece

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   Step 7: Attach Safety Eyes and Finish Stuffing

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   Hold the bunny up and look at the top down. Find the tail - the eyes go on the opposite side, directly across, between rounds 6 and 7. Place the first eye, then place the second eye four stitches over from the first.

   Press both backings on firmly from inside the body. Once the backings are seated, the eyes are not coming back out, so adjust the placement before snapping them in. Then finish stuffing the head full so the shape is firm but not stretched tight.

   Tip:

   If the eyes look too close together or too low, pull the backings off (use pliers if needed) before you fully seat them. Once a backing clicks all the way down, that eye is permanent.

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   Used in this step16 mm Black Safety Eyes 20-PackPolyester Fiberfill Stuffing 12 oz Bag

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   Step 8: Embroider the Nose and Pink Blush

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   Cut about a foot of worsted-weight black yarn and thread a yarn needle. Bring the needle up between the two eyes, one row below them, and stitch a small horizontal bar two stitches wide for the nose. Pass over the same spot twice for thickness. Bring the needle straight down half a row and back up at the bottom of the nose to add the small vertical line that goes from the nose to the mouth. Tie off inside.

   For the blush, cut a 6 to 8 inch piece of pink yarn and sew a small horizontal stitch on the outer side of each eye, one round below where the eye sits. Two passes per side is enough. Knot off inside the body and bury the tails.

   Tip:

   If the nose looks too small after the first pass, do not redo it - just stitch over the same spot a third time. Layering bulks it up without unpicking.

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   Used in this stepWorsted Weight Black Yarn SkeinBamboo Yarn Needle Set 12-Piece

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   Step 9: Crochet and Attach the Ears

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   Each ear is a small piece worked in the round. Magic ring with 4 single crochets, then round 2 alternates a single crochet and an increase (6 stitches), round 3 alternates one sc and one increase three times (9 stitches), rounds 4 and 5 are straight, round 6 is one sc and one decrease three times (6 stitches), round 7 is one sc and one decrease twice (4 stitches). Fasten off leaving a long tail for sewing. Make two ears.

   For the pink center, thread pink yarn and run it up and down the inside of each ear three to four times before knotting off. Then sew each ear onto the head at round 3, lined up with the inner corner of each eye. Squish the ear flat as you sew so the base looks pinched, not stuffed. Weave in all ends and the bunny is done.

   Tip:

   Pin or hold each ear in place before sewing - it is hard to tell if they look right once stitched. Aim for the ears slightly angled inward so they meet the eye line, not splayed sideways. Need more amigurumi inspiration? Browse the rest of the essential crochet supplies guide for what to stock next.

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   Used in this stepBamboo Yarn Needle Set 12-PieceBernat Blanket Yarn Baby PinkBernat Blanket Yarn White

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