How to Make a DIY Bunny Pillow for Easter

I am very excited to share today’s DIY Bunny cushion Easter decor craft, I had this Dollar Tree fabric in my stash for a while, and am so happy to show you this fun project you can make for less than $10 if buying everything. This DIY bunny pillow is so easy to make, with just a couple of seams, it takes just a few minutes to sew, and I love how it turned out. It’s an easy-to-do Easter craft that helps to stretch the Easter decor budget. I saved $15 by making this instead of buying one I saw at Home Sense.

This cute bunny pillow is sewn in the shape of a bunny, and stuffed with polyester filler instead of a pillow insert. It’s an adorable bunny for Easter home decor that I placed on a rarely used chair, but you can also place it inside an Easter basket. This bunny won’t go in the washing machine, but you carefully hand wash it when the time comes.

You will need a few Dollar Tree supplies for this bunny pillow, and some quilt batting.

Here is the list of materials:

If you have other supplies and pretty embellishments in your stash with nice Spring pastel colors, use them instead.

Create the Pattern

Print out the free pattern, align the pages and tape together to make the bunny shape. The pattern is presized to be the largest it could be and still fit onto the Dollar Tree fabric roll.

Pin the pattern to your fabric and cut out two bunny shapes, the first one good side up, the second time good side down.

Next cut two pieces of the quilt batting. Set aside while we make the accessories.

Easter Egg and Bunny Accessories

Using the fabric left over from the bunny cut out two pocket shapes, the long one for the back and a short one for the front of the pocket.

In coordinating fabric, cut out two easter egg shapes.

To make the egg shabby, cut out two pieces of the fabric a quarter inch smaller than the quilt batting. I cut the egg fabric first, and then reused the pattern and cut the quilt batting a quarter inch larger.. As the egg is meant to be a shabby, I wanted the quilt batting to peek out from the egg. Once cut, sandwich the two pieces of batting between the two pieces of fabric. Pin in place.

Sewing

Sewing the Egg

Once you have the fabric egg layers pinned, sew a narrow seam around the edge of the egg shape. Then, trim the edges neatly, allowing a small amount of the batting to peek out from the egg.

Sewing the Pocket

Were going to sew the pocket separately before attaching it to the front layer of the bunny.

Place the large pocket shape right side up, then layer the small pocket fabric on top, also right side up. Fold the top of the bunny pocket back over the front.

Add a strip of lace along the top edge of the pocket and pin everything in place. Sew along the top of the pocket with a straight stitch to secure the lace to the pocket fabric.

Take the front bunny piece and the top layer bunny in quilt batting and pin them together well. Lay the bunny out and choose the placement of your pocket. Pin the pocket to the bunny. Take it to the sewing machine and sew just the U shape seam around the bunny pocket.

Sewing the Bunny Shape Pillow Together

Now that we have the bunny pocket sewn to the front of the bunny, align all four pieces of fabric together and because the fabric is stretchy, pin it very well all around the edge to prevent bunching and stretching out of shape while sewing.

You want to leave a gap open to stuff the bunny that’s about five inches wide, large enough for your entire hand to fit in. I chose to leave that open gap at the bottom of the bunny. Sew a straight stitch seam along the outer shape of the bunny making sure that all four pieces are attached. To start, I used my scissors to push the fabric through my machine occasionally because there wasn’t enough fabric for the sewing machine to grab the feed dogs and push it through. When this happened, I didn’t push the fabric through so much as pushed the fabric down so it didn’t tug on the sewing machine foot.

Stuffing the Bunny Pillow

Stuff the bunny with fiberfill stuffing, but don’t overstuff it, I gave it just enough to give it dimension. Once the bunny is stuffed, sew a straight seam along the bottom to seal the pillow closed.

Embellishing

This spring I have been playing with fabric flowers and pom poms. I had both pom poms and fabric flowers made and decided on the flowers, you could easily buy or make some small pom poms and place them on instead of the flowers.