supplies: spools, yarn, felt, button eyes, embroidery floss, pom for bunny tail.
cut out 2 circles for the face and behind, make sure to give the bunnyface some ears. cut out your beak or sheep ears and nose and tail out of felt.
wrap spool nice and fat with yarn and then weave in loose end between the rolls.
glue or sew features on to face and butt. (for sheep glue ears on to side of spool)
glue on face and butt.
an Oscar tip: find an incline somewhere and roll them down and laugh hysterically because they have no feet to stop them.
Hillary – I love these spool animals! That is such a great idea, and don’t we all have empty spools we hate to throw away? Adorable!
Oh, those are adorbale. I can’t wait until both my girls are old enough to start doing this kind of thing!
Very cute and clever!!!
This is wonderful!!! I will be doing this with my girls very soon. Thanks for sharing this cute idea!
Excellent as usual :]
I wuv these! That’s right, I love them so much I wuv them!
Adorable! Thanks so much for this idea!
Wonderful idea!
What a fabulous idea! They are so very cute! Your creativity just goes on and on.
these are too much…but i especially like oscar’s tip!
Very cute! My boys are begging to make some today. I don’t have spools but toilet paper rolls will work fine.
These are SOOOO flippin’ adorable!!!! I’m going to make some of these with my kids this afternoon! Can’t wait! BTW- I linked your blog in my own blog this morning. Couldn’t help but share with my little group of friends!
Oh, how sweet! I love these, and will be gathering the supplies shortly so that I may do this with my little niece this weekend! She will love them! Such a great idea!!
Fun and easy! I think these spools could provide hours of entertainment. Great idea!
Ahhh, they are so cute I want to eat them!
so sweet!!! i want to go make some right now…and how perfect for use what you have month…thanks for sharing..
adorable!!
These would be excellent attached to a mobile above a crib. I just saw a movie with lovely mobiles full of different spools of brightly died thread. I thought it was such a simple and pretty idea.
What a fantastic idea! I have a big baggy full of old wooden spools from the thrift and I’ve been wondering what to do with them. Now I know… 🙂
these are so sweet! thanks for the great idea and tutorial!
This is soo cute.
I can’t get the mental image of them rolling down an incline out of my head and I’m at work, so I can’t bust up laughing like I want to…
Cute. I especially like the really fluffy yarn.
adorable, love the chick.
Those are adorable!! Wesley would love those and definitely laugh at the rolling 😀
God, you are so talented! Those might be the cutest thing I have ever seen.
Oh, brilliant! I have a feeling my house is going to be so full of these creatures (we’re allowed to digress, no? spool elephants, aardvarks, hippos, tigers…) I’ll struggle to walk!
this is great! I have some fluffy yarn that I could to make these!
How cute! I wonder if you could hook together multiples to make a fuzzy jointed snake or dragon or something like that. I have a ton of skinny spools from my gutermann thread that would make good snakes.
those are absolutely the sweetest little things ever! i will be making those with my kids. yay!
Those are adorable!
Sooo cute! Thank you for sharing this wonderful process!
What a brilliant idea. I like the little chicky.
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My kids will love making these! Thanks a bunch!
the sweetest!
What fantastic little spooligans! I really love the fuzzy bunny!
the tails are precious 🙂
Love, love…thanks for giving me an idea to use for craft corner at my mother’s group/playgroup. Love your blog too.
i made some myself . thanks for sharing this great tutorial.
Love it. I wish I’d seen this before Easter, but still we can do it, I suppose. Great way to use up all those scraps of yarn and spools sitting around.
we made these for easter and the boys LOVED them. we gave them the materials as part of their easter baskets. i have to take pictures and send them to you.
Oooohhhh! These are just too cute! They are going to be our homeschool art project today. This is going to be fun! Thanks for the great idea!
What a simple but sweet craft…I don’t have spools but maybe wine corks will work. Thank you!
I actually did this last year when I saw the post and pulled them out for Spring just recently.
Simple and so sweet – I love these. Thanks for the repeat!
BRILLIANT!! Love these.
Very sweet. I may have to try this with my class (elementary school). I wish I didn’t have 850,000 things to do between now and Sunday or I’d whip some of these babies up myself. Love, love, love them.
Hillary-
I know people say this to you all the time, but I don’t know how you get so much done. Are you planning on bringing some embroidery into the delivery room to help you pass the time while you’re in labor? It wouldn’t surprise me! Thanks for all of the fun projects. I just made my first Wee bunny and I just love it,
E
i just wanted to say how much i like your stuff, i saw your piece in the crafters companion book too. i am new to the bogging side of things but have been designing crafts for years, is it ok to add a link to your blog from mine?
That’s dead clever. Perfect for Easter and so cute!
Sweetness Itself! I love these little guys! : )
What a cute idea. Now, I must find some spools !
ohhh too cute! and judging by all the posts above me I’m not alone!
Awesome I will put a link up from my blog http://crafttutorials.wordpress.com
hope that’s ok!
Eve
They´re so sweet and soft.
Have a nice Easter.
Kisses Edien
Gosh, this is soooooooooo cute!!! I hope I can find spools here…
omg! so cute cute cute!!