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How To Make Cute Paper Bunny Treat Bags

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The great thing about these paper bunny treat bags, they are quick to make cost almost nothing and make an adorable Easter gift.

After stitching paper for the first time for my Valentine Map hearts I got the idea to stitch a paper bunny for Easter. Like those Map hearts, the bunnies are very addictive and I ended up making lots of them.

I also got to use some fabulous printed papers that I’d saved from a calendar.

Paper Bunny Treat Bags & Decor for Easter

Paper bunny treat bags

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What you need to make the Easter treat bags

  • Decorative papers, I use whatever I can find, craft papers, wrapping paper scraps & wallpaper samples. I used an old 2015 Lotta Jansdotter calendar for some of my paper bunnies, as I adore her simple Scandinavian prints.

Top Tip: Lots of shops will give you free wallpaper samples, there are so many fantastic wallpaper designs out there. All you need is approximately one A4 size piece of paper for each bunny.

What you need to make paper bunny treat bags

How to Make a Paper Bunny treat bag

1. Firstly, download and cut out the paper bunny template or draw your own.

2. Next, once you have decided on the paper you are going to use (should be A4 in size), fold it in half lengthways and draw around your template.

3. Then, cut out your bunny shape. You should end up with 2 identical paper bunnies. Place them wrong sides together and stitch around the edge leaving a gap at the bottom. Use a sewing machine for this.

4. Fill with your Easter treats through the gap and then sew it up to close.

5. Finally, add a small pom pom for the paper bunny tail (tutorial below). Also, you can add a name tag using a small luggage label and some bakers twine.

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Paper Bunny Treat bags - Pillarboxblue tutorial

I really enjoyed making these bunnies as I love stitching paper on the sewing machine. Every season I find any excuse to make treat bags with paper and stitch.

I made some cute Halloween bags 3 ways in the shape of pumpkins, bats and Ghosts. I’ve made two types of stitched paper Christmas crafts a gingerbread kraft paper garland and a repurposed bag advent calendar.

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A Quick Way To Make Pom Pom Tails.

You probably know how to make pom pom’s, but just in case you don’t I’ll show you my quick way to make lots of pom poms at once.

All you need is a metal coat hanger, wool and scissors.

  1. Firstly, open up the coat hanger and mold it into a more rectangular shape.

2. Secondly, wind your wool around the coat hanger at least 20 times. The more wool winds the bushier the pom poms.

3. Using a piece of wool tie round the wool strands at even spaces along the length of wool. These will be the middle of your pom poms.

The more bits of wool you tie the more pom poms you will make but the smaller they will be. This is easier to visualize by looking at the picture below.

4. Finally, cut the wool in between these tied middle pieces and cut the wool off the end of the coat hangers.

To finish fluff up and trim your pom poms as desired. Stick a pom pom to each paper bunny treat bag.

Quick way to make pom poms -Pillarboxblue.com

These paper bunny bags are not only great for giving out treats with at Easter but I think they will make great party favors as well.

We are actually going to spend Easter in a beautiful part of the English countryside the Consall Valley. My nephews who made the patchwork fabric eggs will be there as well, so I’m going to take these paper bunny bags with me. They are just perfect for an Easter egg hunt.

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Consall Valley UK

If you like these paper bunnies you might want to check out some of my other Easter crafts. I used some old bed springs to make cute upcycled spring bunnies. I’ve also repurposed sweaters into bunny pillows.

This isn’t my first Easter craft which uses a wire coat hanger, I’ve also used one before to make a Marimekko Easter egg wreath.

These bunnies are very Scandi in style, which I love. You should check out my other Scandi and Nordic crafts.

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Comments

  2. Karen Marie

    Claire,
    Sewing paper is not new to me but making bunny bags certainly is. I have and Easter egg hunt at my home every year. This might just become a new tradition in our home. Making pom poms like you did is a new lesson. I wish I new this when I was making them for cheerleading when I was younger. Thanks for sharing with TADA this week. See you Thursday!
    Happy Creating,
    Karen Marie

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  4. debbie

    I remember your valentine bags, these are even cuter I have to say. I love the place where you are going to have your hunt! Thanks for joining TADA! this week.

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  17. Betsy

    These are just the sweetest little creations. Love the pom-pom bunny tails! Thanks so much for sharing your idea and tutorial with Talk of the Town.

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  18. Sandra

    These are the cutest treat bags I’ve seen in a long time! Thanks for sharing them at Celebrate Your Story link party and we hope to see you there again soon.

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  25. sustainablemum

    What a great idea! You are right that sewing paper is really easy we do it all the time to make our own books ;). I love the small pom-poms and your method for making them that is genius. Thank you for linking to your fabric egg project, I have been looking for an Easter project to do with the children we had a go at blowing eggs but we did not end up with one whole egg! I am going on a hunt for crafting eggs of some sort this week, I have loads of fabric and mod podge already looking forward to it!

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  28. Wendy

    I am freaking in love with these bunnies! I think I’ll make some for my front door and maybe even some gifts. Wouldn’t these be cute made from book pages for my book club friends?
    You are so clever!

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  29. JaneEllen

    How sweet and wonderful for Easter Claire. This looks like such a fun project for adults as well as children to accomplish. Bunnies can be used in several ways to decorate, gotta love that. I happen to have template very much like yours so will use that.
    Don’t have printer will work with windows 10 now so trying to manage best I can til I get one. Receiving new printer to go with new laptop as soon as printer can be ordered. Just little bump in road for now and printers worth a darn aren’t being given away on street corners so will have to wait a bit yet .Good for my character to have to wait, learn some patience. So enjoyed this lovely Easter project you shared. Glad to have clicked on your post via blog party. Have always found such delightful blogs that way. Have wonderful weekend.

    claire

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  31. Nicole B

    These are so adorable. I love the papers you chose. I have never sewn paper (I don’t sew much) but these make me want to give it a try.
    Saw your link on This is How We Roll.

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