Rusty Spring Bunny

Make an adorable SPRING bunny that’s not just for the spring season, but made with a rusty bedSPRING too! This cute and affordable DIY will have you hopping right into Easter and through Spring!

An Easter and Spring bunny made with a rusty bedspring, a muslin head, burlap ears, and a floral colorful bow with wood carrot embellishments and dried white flowers.

I am quite literally obsessed with bedspring crafts!

My crafty Facebook friend gave me a bunch to craft with, but you can also get them on Etsy.

This is just another way that you can make an adorable Bunny for spring and Easter.

If you want another adorable Bunny idea, check out this Corrugated Cardboard Bunny I made too. It’s affordable and FUN!

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Supplies needed to make a Rusty Spring Bunny

Bedspring
Rust Effect Paste
Muslin
Coordinating fabric and ribbon
Black Sharpie
Wood Carrots
Dried white flowers
Twine
Wired Jute
Poly-Fil
Small wood heart
Floral Fabric
Burlap
Paint: Orange, White, Green
Small pink buttons
Pink Blush and Finger Dauber

How to Make a Rusty Spring Bunny

I made this Rusty Spring Bunny on video. So you can WATCH the tutorial by clicking below.

YouTube Thumbnail of the bunny tutorial video.

Watch the video HERE

First things first, we have to rust the spring with our Rust Effect Paste. This stuff is pricey, but it is UH-MAZ-ING and so worth it! And, it’s easy to use. Of course you don’t HAVE to rust your spring if it’s not your style.

To use the paste, you first dab on a layer of the brown using a paint brush or foam brush.

Make the bedspring rusty using brown rust effect paste.

Then dry that, and dab on a layer of the orange on top. You don’t want to cover it entirely in orange, just here and there and heavier in some areas, like natural rust would be.

Use orange rust paste on top of the brown.

For the bunny head, take a ball of poly-fil and put it in a square of muslin, then wrap the muslin around it and tie it off.

Make a bunny head with polyfil and muslin by wrapping the muslin around the filling.

If you have a rubber band or hair tie, it’s much easier then trying to tie twine around it (unless you have an extra set of hands to help!). Once you have the rubber band around it, you can then tie it off with twine.

Cut off all the excess muslin.

Cutting off the excess muslin from the head.

For the bunny ears, freehand cut a large ear on a piece of burlap. Then use that ear as a template to cut the second ear so that they are the same size and shape.

I freehand drew the “inner ear” onto a piece of pretty floral fabric and then cut that out.

Use hot glue to attach it to the center of the burlap ears.

Glue the floral fabric to the burlap ear.

Then, pinch and glue the ears into a kind of accordion fold at the bottom, so that they are ready to glue to the top of the Bunnies head.

Pinch the bottom of the burlap ears so that they can be glued to the head.

Then glue them to the top of the head.

Gluing the burlap ears to the bunnies head.

For the nose, paint a small wood heart pink.

For the whiskers, wrap 4 pieces of wired twine around a paint brush to give them a curly look.

Twisting wired jute around a paintbrush to make the whiskers.

I used some cheap blush to give the bunny pink rosy cheeks using a finger dauber.

Using a finger dauber to apply pink rosy cheeks.

Then glue on your whiskers first with your nose on top of them.

Draw on super simple small black circle eyes with a Sharpie.

Drawing two black small circular eye with charpie.

And then give the eyes some life and personality with a tiny white dot in the center. I used the end of a wooden skewer to get the dot small enough.

Adding small white dots to the center of the black eyes.

Time for the bow! Rip a bunch of coordinating fabric into about 1″ strips (as long as you like, the longer the fabric the longer the “tails” of the bow will be).

I used some pretty floral that I used for the ears, some tye-dye salmon color, coffee stained muslin, and a creme newspaper fabric. I use a Bowdabra to make my bows and I LOVE it, but you definitely don’t need one to make a bow.

Just start layering them in the Bowdabra, one strip after the other until its as big and full as you like, and then tie it off with twine.

I also made a smaller bow for the bunnies ears.

Glue the small bow to the top of the bunnies head by the base of the ears.

Gluing the small bow to the bunnies ears.

Then glue the bunnies head to the top of the spring, and the bigger bow where the spring meets the head on the left side.

I painted some wood dollar tree carrots for embellishments. I added a bit of Kilz Darl Wax to them to grunge them up.

And I glued them to the front of the spring using E6000.

For the finishing touches a glued in a bit of dried white flowers into the bows, and it was just what it needed!

Adding some dried white flowers to the bow.

Here she is allllllll done! I am in love with her!

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