Fabric Bunny Treat Bags

In today’s post: Learn how to sew these cute little fabric bunny bags – then fill them with treats! Slide on a wood bead for the head and your fabric bunny is ready to give away. This is an easy sewing project for adults or teens.

DIY Bunny Treat Bag

These bunny treat bags are easy to make and a fun way to share Easter candy! You’ll cut out two identical pieces and sew them together along the outside edges, leaving an opening between the ears. Then you can stuff the bags with candy and slide on a large wood bead for the head. I put two fun size packages of M&Ms inside each of the bunnies you see pictured here, but you could also use:

• A small cello bag (3×4 inches) filled with jelly beans or other loose candy
• A small plastic egg filled with candy or a small toy

Simple Sewing Pattern

I’ve created a free pattern you can use along with step by step photos. Each bunny treat bag takes just a few seams, so this project works for experienced OR beginner sewists. Get the pattern from the blue box below:

Fabric Bunny Treat Bag Pattern

Choose this text to download the fabric bunny treat bag pattern. Print it out on 8.5×11 paper at 100%.

Supplies

Here’s what you need to make fabric bunny treat bags:

• Lightweight cotton fabric: for each bunny you’ll use two pieces of fabric that are each 5×9 inches, making this a great project for using up scraps. You can make four bunnies out of one fat quarter.
• Wood Bead: for each bunny you’ll need one large wood bead with a large hole in the middle. I used these 35mm wood beads with a 10mm hole found on Amazon.
• Sewing machine, thread, scissors
• Pattern

How to Make Fabric Bunny Treat Bags

Cut the Pattern Pieces

Begin by printing out the sewing pattern and cutting it out. Then use the pattern to cut two pieces from your lightweight cotton fabric. Cut on all the solid lines, noting that in the center between the ears the cut line extends down a ways. Then place the two piece right sides together. There are some dots and dashed lines on the pattern; transfer those to the wrong side of the fabric with a pencil or pen that will not bleed through the fabric.

Sew the Bunny Together

Now it’s time to sew the two pieces together. Use a 1/4 inch seam allowance. You will begin sewing at one of the dots on an ear, sewing out toward the end of the ear first, then down the ear and side, across the bottom, back up the other side and ear, and down the inside of the second ear until you hit the dot. Backstitch when you start and finish.

The first photo below shows how the fabric will look in your machine when you begin sewing. When you need to turn a corner, put the needle down then lift the presser foot up and rotate the fabric as needed. Put the presser foot back down and continue sewing.

Clip the Corners

Now that the two pieces are sewn together, you need to “clip the corners”. Along the bottom corners, cut away the seam allowance at a diagonal as shown in the first photo below. Cut close to the corner of the seam, but do not cut through it. Also cut away the seam allowance at the top of the ears as shown in the second photo below. This helps the bunny look nicer when you turn it right side out.

Box the Corners

The last sewing step is to “box” the corners to give the bunny a cuter shape. Hold the bunny so you can see the dot and line you transferred near one of the bottom corners. Imagine a diagonal line from the corner to the dot (first photo below). You are going to pinch the bottom seam and side seam together, creating a fold along that imagined diagonal line. Be sure to pull the two layers of fabric apart as you do this, and make sure the seams are lining up. As you do so, you will see the line you transferred from the pattern creating the bottom of a triangle (second photo below).

Sew along that line, backstitching at the beginning and end. Then trim off the corner. Repeat with the other corner. You can see that doing this gives the bunny bag some dimension:

Turn and Press

Now you can turn the bunny right side out. Use a pencil or chopstick to push out the corner at each ear. Use an iron to press the side seams, but do not iron the bottom where the corners were boxed.

Fill and Finish

Now it’s time to fill the bunny with treats! Slide them in through the opening in between the ears. NOTE: if you just want to use these as decorations, not treat bags, you can stuff the body of the bunny with polyfil instead.

Now fold each ear on itself, then slide the ears through the hole in a large bead. You will likely need to fold each ear more than once, and twist the bead back and forth as you work the ears through it.

Pull the ears all the way through the bead, then straighten them out a bit as desired. Your bunny is ready to give away!