A soft and pleasant to the touch pom-pom bunny will be an excellent gift for relatives for Easter, a child for a birthday, or girlfriends for March 8th. The toy can complement the interior of any room, filling it with a cozy atmosphere. It can be purchased at some specialized hand-made stores. Such crafts are rarely found in shopping centers. But a do-it-yourself pom-pom bunny will turn out no worse than a purchased product if you follow the step-by-step instructions given below.
How to make a fluffy rabbit with your own hands
Rabbits made from pom-poms evoke tenderness just by looking at them. Toys made in pastel colors look best, but a bright hare made from pompoms also looks original. To make a cute do-it-yourself thread bunny, you need to prepare:
- Glue gun.
- Thick wool yarn, in two pastel shades. Pale pink with gray, beige with peach will look good.
- Sheet of cardboard.
- Two large black beads for the eyes, a pink button for the nose.
- Scissors, pencil.
- Glass and saucer.
- Small pieces of felt for ears in two colors.
Step-by-step instructions on how to create a cute pom pom bunny:
- Turn the saucer over and trace it on a piece of cardboard with a pencil. The result is an even circle. Cut out the layout. Turn the glass over so that you cut out a smaller circle strictly in the center of the circle. Cut out a smaller circle. It should be a bagel.
- Cut a piece from the bagel in such a way as to obtain the letter “C”.
- Cut the thread and lay it along the edge of the letter “C”.
- Take the main thread and start winding the template with the thread, moving from one end to the other. The density and fluffiness of the pompom depends on the amount of thread wound.
- From the outside, the thread is cut with scissors when the entire template is wrapped. To prevent the pompom from falling apart, the threads are held in the center. Tie the piece with the thread that was originally laid out along the edge of the template.
- To make the pompom round, you need to cut off all the threads protruding beyond the shape. In this case, the locking thread is not cut. It will be necessary for further work.
- The bunny consists of three pom-poms: a tail, a body and a head. The largest part is the body, the middle one is the head, and the tail is small.
- All parts are made according to the same principle, the size of the template and the number of threads vary. Lack of density and fullness can be corrected. For this, additional volume is added. You need to wind additional turns onto the template, cut the threads and carefully thread the lock under the thread. On all three parts, trim the protruding threads so that they are perfectly round.
- Tie all the parts with fastening threads, and only then cut them.You can use scissors to adjust the shape of the toy.
- We connect the head and body with threads, and use a glue gun to attach the tail.
- We need to make ears. Take gray felt and draw a rounded, oblong ear with a pencil. You can make a pattern and transfer it to fabric, or draw directly from the material.
- Cut out two parts. By analogy, make pink inner parts of the ears. They are slightly smaller than the gray elements. Glue the pink felt onto the gray one with a glue gun so that only the bottom edge matches.
- Glue the parts at the base of each ear and attach them to the head with a gun.
- Glue on the nose and eyes to make the craft look natural.
- Cut a triangle at the bottom of the muzzle near the nose. The pompom rabbit is ready! The child will certainly appreciate such a toy. Moreover, it can be made in any size or color.