This Needle Felt Bunny craft is another simple felting, perfect for beginners, but enjoyed by all. It uses a cookie cutter for a template, plus a few other materials: roving wool, felting needles, and some basic craft supplies.
It’s is a great introduction to needle felting, building on the skills needed for other simple projects like needle felt hearts and needle felt pebbles. The bunny does require more sculpting of the wool, but it’s still a great choice for beginners.
Materials Needed To Make A Needle Felt Bunny
- Roving wool (choose your favourite colours)
- Felting Needles (single or multi-needle pen)
- A bunny-shaped cookie cutter,
- Ribbon (optional for decoration)
- An orange and green pipe cleaner (optional for decoration)
Tip: I’ve recently bought a needle felting pen (uses multiple needles) which speeds up the process, especially for larger, less detailed areas. But you can still make this using just one felting needle.
How To Make The Needle Felt Bunny Shape
To start with fill your cookie cutter with roving wool and using your needle pack the wool down evenly turning the cookie cutter over when necessary so you get a nice even shape. Take cake to pack the wool down around all the edges so you get a good firm outline when the wool is removed from the cookie cutter. The wool should compress down so that the cookie cutter is half full.
Push the wool out of the cookie cutter and carefully work around the edge of the shape defining all the creases and rounding the edges. The finished bunny will be a lot smaller than the original cookie cutter.
How To Make The Pipe Cleaner Carrot
To make the carrot take a 15cm orange cotton pipe cleaner and curl it around a pointed shape such as a pencil to form a carrot. Trim it back if necessary. Attach a piece of ribbon to the pipe cleaner and tie it around the bunnies neck. Finally, bend a small piece of green pipe cleaner in half and glue it into the top of the carrot.
The needle felt bunny make the cutest gift. You could attach them to presents for Easter, leave them lying on pillows over the Easter weekend, give them to kids to keep in their pockets otor attach a broach pin on the back.
If you love these Bunnies you may also love my Easter Crafts and Needle Felt Crafts
Oh I love these! So very cute x
Aw Thank you 🙂
They are very sweet, a perfect little Easter decoration.
The girls now want to make them as gifts for their friends!
These are very cute, I can see I will be hunting for more cookie cutters!
Cookie cutters and needle felting are a perfect partnership!
Oh my word, they are absolutely adorable!
Wow these look great. I love anything like this x
My daughter would love this, think this is something we might have to attempt.
What a unique craft. I’ve never seen this before. Your bunnies turned out so cute!
I love these, looks like such a calming activity too! Thanks for linking up with Tuesday a Tutorials #pintorials
Oh, my, these are so adorable!! I think I may have to try to make some. Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!
Cute! -Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures
These are cute! Thanks for allowing me to share in my Easter Roundup 🙂