I love making felt food and have been for about 2 years now.  My children’s play kitchen is overflowing with felt pancakes, sandwiches, cookies, and pasta.  Until recently, I have always used a pattern or tutorial to make my felt food.  But lately when I can’t fall asleep at night, I have actually been thinking about all the different felt food I’d like to try to make on my own.  The things you think of when you can’t fall asleep!  My very first original creation was a steak, mashed potatoes, and green beans dinner set.  I may eventually make a tutorial for that as well, but for now, you can find finished pieces on my etsy site and on the She Creates congo. 

After making the dinner set, I started wondering what else I could make.  I decided to do something Easter-related, so I thought I’d try my hand at the marshmallow bunnies & chicks that you can buy, aka Peeps.  My chicks were quite sad-looking after repeated attempts, so I figured the bunnies would be easier.  Those only took two attempts!   I also have these available on the She Creates congo in yellow and pink.  For those of you who are crafty, I decided to make my first tutorial on how to make these felt marshmallow bunnies.

Felt Food Marshmallow Bunnies Tutorial 

To start, you’ll want to gather your materials.  You’ll need felt–the felt in the picture is by the yard.  You could easily use the rectangle pieces of felt found at craft stores.  Along with felt, you’ll need some stuffing (I used polyfiber filling), embroidery thread in colors that match your felt, a pattern (I self drafted mine after looking at pictures of Peeps online), a marking pen, scissors, and a needle.  These are all handsewn.

After gathering you’re materials and drafting a pattern of a bunny you’re happy with, you’ll want to trace your pattern onto the felt and cut it out.  I use a pen that vanishes. 

Make sure to trace two for every bunny.  To make sure that the pieces match exactly, I cut out one bunny and then cut around that one to make the second bunny piece.

Then you can start handsewing the two pieces together!  I use two strands of embroidery thread in a matching color to the felt.  I used a whip stitch.  I tried a blanket stitch which looked nice, but I could see the stuffing through some of the stitches.  *Sidenote–if you feel each side of felt, you’ll notice that one side is rougher & one is smoother.  I make sure that the smoother side is my “right” side, or the side that faces out.

Leave an opening at the bottom large enough to stuff the bunny.  I found the eraser end of a pencil to be the easiest way to stuff the ears.  I actually sewed just past the head before stuffing the ears.  Then I finished sewing down to the bottom of the bunny before stuffing the rest.

Then sew the opening closed and knot it so that the stitches don’t come undone.

You may want to finish the bunny with some eyes and a nose.  You could do a french knot for the eyes and nose, but I just used a permanent fabric marker to dot my eyes & nose. 

Then your bunny is done and you can make some friends for it!  Add a few to a child’s Easter basket for a treat that has no calories and will last longer than the real ones!

Thanks for looking & I hope you enjoy your own marshmallow bunnies!