Corrugated Cardboard Bunny with Fabric Bow

You’ll never look at cardboard the same after seeing this fun Corrugated Cardboard Bunny with a big beautiful messy fabric bow! The Perfect addition to your DIY spring and Easter decor!

Corrugated cardboard bunny with messy fabric bow with purple, teal and yellow, with teal heart shaped glasses, a heart nose, butterflies, flowers, and a Dollar Tree bunny Hop sign, on a chippy white background.

If you have been around for any length of time, you know that I like Big Bows and I cannot lie! Specifically FABRIC bows!

And for this project, the bow is the star of the show! I’m working with FabricWholesaleDirect.com to bring you the cutest little bunny, with the cutest fabric bow!

Given how much I love my bows, of course I said YES when FabricWholesaleDirect.com reached out to work with me.

Since it’s February, and it will be springtime before we know it, I was on the hunt for springy type fabric to make this bunny. They supplied me with my fabric choices, and I went with Yellow Gingham and Floral Meadow in yellow for my bow, and Victoria Stretch Lace in “Nude” for the bunnies inner ear.

In addition to this project, I even used the lace as a sort of table cover for my picture staging table. How GORG is this lace?

Victoria Stretch Lace in the color nude.

Now of course I chose typical cotton fabric for my bow, but I was THOROUGHLY impressed with both their linen and upholstery selections too. When I have the time to take on some bigger projects that require either of these, FactoryWholesaleDirect.com will definitely be my go to for those!

Disclaimer: I was given the opportunity to receive fabric in exchange for this post. However, the opinions on the product, company, and experience are all my own.

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Supplies Needed to Make a Corrugated Cardboard Bunny with a Fabric Bow

All the supplies for the project laid out on the table.

Wood Plaque
Cardboard
Wood heart glasses
Small wood cutouts: Butterfly, Flower
Dollar Tree wood hop/bunny
Yellow Gingham Fabric
Yellow Floral Meadow Fabric
Victoria Stretch Lace
Small wood heart
Rustic Floral Wire
Candlewax
Kilz Dark Wax
Twine
Paint: White, Apple Barrel Key West, Sunny Day, and Velvet Crush
Small Teal button
Mod Podge
Hot glue gun

How to Make a Corrugated Cardboard Bunny

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

Watch the video HERE

First things first, we have to “corrugate” our cardboard. Yes, you can buy it pre-corrugated, but I know a hack that makes it so easy you won’t have to waste your money. All you do is spray it with a nice good coat of water, rub it into the cardboard, and let it sit for about 2 minutes.

Then, you’ll be able to peel the top layer of the cardboard right off like you see in the picture below.

Peeling the top layer of cardboard pff to expose the corrugated part.

Now our cardboard is ready to be made into a bunny! If you’re thinking “but I can’t hand draw a bunny Amanda”, don’t worry, I got you gurlllllll.

I have a bunny template that I drew for you that you can save and print. Just press and hold the pic below if you’re on mobile (right click and “save image” if on computer), save to your device, and print it out.

Trace the chubby bunny template onto your corrugated cardboard.

Tracing the bunny template onto the corrugated cardboard.

Cut your corrugated cardboard bunny out.

For the inner ears, I made myself a template by drawing the inside portion and cutting that out. You can do this, or you can freehand draw the inner ears.

Then trace your “inner ear” template onto the Victoria Stretch Lace from FactoryDirectWholesale.com, and cut that out.

Trace the inner ear template onto the lace.

Next, we have to prep our surface. I decided to do mine “chippy”, but you could skip this and paint it plain white if you like.

To “chippy” it, rub the surface with candle wax. The more wax you rub on, the more it will “chip”.

Paint the entire wood surface all white, right over the top of the wax.

Paint the surface with white chalk paint,

After it’s completely dry, “chip” it using a sanding sponge. You can also use a paint scraper for a heavier chipped look. I wanted mine to be more lightly distressed, so I stuck with the sanding sponge.

Distress the surface with a sanding sponge.

Next, I did a little bit of distressing to the bunny and the surface using my Kilz Dark Wax. This is another step you could skip if you wanted to, but I like to add it to give it some depth and dimension.

I like to use a finger dauber to rub the dark wax all around the edges of the cardboard bunny.

Using a finger dauber to antique the outside of the bunny with kilz dark wax.

And all around the edges of the wood plaque surface.

Using a finger dauber, grunge up the outer edges of the wood surface with Kilz Dark wax.

Next, paint your wood eyeglasses a Teal color. This will coordinate with the fabric we are using in the bow.

Paint the small wood heart nose with a light pink color. I added a bit of the dark wax to the glasses and nose as well.

Heart shaped eyeglasses painted Teal and a pink heart nose.

For the whiskers, take a paint brush and wrap the rustic floral wire around it to give it a curly look. You will need 6 of these total, about 4″ long.

Wrap floral wire around a paint brush to make curly whiskers.

Now for my FAVE part…the messy fabric bow! You can make a bow out of fabric, ribbon, or a combination of the two. But as soon as I got this fabric from FabricWholesaleDirect.com, I knew right away it was going to make the perfect bow for this little corrugated cardboard bunny!

I like to rip my fabric into strips, by cutting a small slit at the end and then tearing it straight down.

Yellow gingham fabric about to be ripped into strips.

For this bow, I made my strips about a half inch wide.

I use three different patterns for this bow, a yellow gingham from FabricWholesaleDirect.com…….

Ripping the yellow gingham fabric into strips.

A yellow “floral meadow” with purple and teal flowers from FactoryDirectWholesale.com….

Ripping the floral meadow fabric into strips.

And a teal with white polka dots from my stash.

Ripping the teal polka dot fabric into strips.

I used my Bowdabra to make my messy fabric bow, but you totally don’t NEED a bow maker, you can make any type of bow you want.

To use the bowdabra, you just layer the strips of ribbon in a bow formation, one after the other (make sure to put a piece of twine in first). I started with my floral meadow.

Using a bowdabra to make a messy fabric bow.

Then added the yellow gingham.

Then the teal polka dot.

After doing several layers, you just tie your bow off with the twine.

Now let’s put this lil’ bunny together!

Attach your lace to the inner ears using Mod Podge.

Using Mod Podge on the inner ear to attach the lace.

Then hot glue the floral wire whiskers under the pink heart nose, and the wood eyeglasses on top.

Gluing the whiskers and heart nose onto the cardboard bunny.

I made one other small shoestring bow with the Floral Meadow fabric and hot glued that to the bottom of the bunnies ears for extra cuteness.

Gluing the floral meadow bow to the top of the bunnies head.

For some extra embellishments, paint a teal flower, a purple butterfly, and a yellow/purple HOP from Dollar Tree.

Next, hot glue the entire corrugated bunny to the wood plaque, just off to the right hand side.

Gluing the corrugated cardboard bunny head to the chippy white surface.

Then glue the bow to the top left side, with a teal wood flower in the center.

Gluing the messy fabric bow to the top left corner of the surface.

Glue the butterfly to the top of the bunnies right ear.

Gluing the purple butterfly to the top right bunny ear.

Glue the yellow flower off to the right side of the glasses.

Gluing the yellow flower to the right hand side of the bunny.

And last but not least, glue the HOP over to the left side of the bunny.

Gluing the HOP Bunny word to the left hand side.

Here she is in all her glory!

The cutest Corrugated Cardboard Bunny that you ever did see.

If you need some more Bunny Inspo, this rustic Bunny decor is one of my faves! A different style from this lil’ girl, but adorable nonetheless.

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