Easy Bunny Ears Headband for Easter

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Bunny ears are the perfect Easter accessory.  Make this adorable bunny ears headband with felt, calico fabric, and silk flowers.  You can even pose and bend the bunny ears!

Bunny ears headband made with cream colored felt, a peaches and cream colored calico fabric, and ivory silk flowers on a pink headband, on a weathered white wooden surface.

There's no sewing required for this project, just a little bit of cutting fabric and glue gun action.

Girl wearing Bunny ear headband made with cream colored felt, a peaches and cream colored calico fabric, and ivory silk flowers on a pink headband, in front of a white surface.

I've loved the peaches-and-cream calico fabric  that I used as the center of the bunny ears for years.  I originally bought it to make fabric covered party hats, but have pretty much been hoarding the fabric for a while and waiting for another opportunity to use it.

Girl wearing Bunny ear headband made with cream colored felt, a peaches and cream colored calico fabric, and ivory silk flowers on a pink headband, in front of a white surface.

The fabric was absolutely perfect for this whimsical Easter bunny ears headband.  I love the soft ivory and peach tones.  So romantic and sweet.

Materials for bunny ear headband, including fabric, wire, printable bunny ear templates, a pink headband, artificial flowers, and scissors.

Bunny Ears Headband Materials:

Template for bunny ears being traced on felt and calico fabric, and cut out, on a white, weathered wood surface.

Print out the free printable bunny ear templates and cut them out.  Trace around and cut out the large outer ear template on felt (two of them), and trace around and cut out the smaller inner ear from the calico fabric.

Can of spray adhesive above bunny ears made from ivory felt and ivory and peach calico print fabric.

I used spray adhesive to glue my calico fabric inner ears to the felt outer ear pieces, but fusible webbing would be another great option.  

wire being glued to perimeter of fabric bunny ears, on a weathered, white, wooden surface.

Cut a length of the craft wire (I used floral wire) longer than the perimeter of the outer ear.  Glue the metal wire down just outside the line of the inner ear calico fabric, and fold the outer felt hear around the metal wire to cover it.  Work in small sections, since the glue cools so quickly, and be sure to use a low temperature hot glue gun, because you will end up getting glue on your fingers.

Wired fabric bunny ears next to a pink headband on a weathered, white, wooden surface.

Trim off excess wire.  Congratulations, you've made posable bunny ears!

Tips for Making Amazing DIY Headbands:

  • Use fabric covered headbands, not plain plastic headbands.  Hot glue gun glue does not like to stick to slick plastic or metal headbands.  But it loves fabric covered headbands.  
  • The dollar store is a brilliant place to get fabric covered headbands!  They always carry some.  Always.  And it's a multi-pack for a dollar.  Sometimes you get three, sometimes you get six--but no matter how you cut it, it's a deal.

  • But if you'd rather buy from Amazon and have it delivered to your door, this is also a very good deal.

Fabric bunny ears attached to a pink headband, on a white weathered wood surface.

Use a hot glue gun to wrap the bottom of the bunny ears around the headband and glue in place.

Girl wearing Bunny ear headband made with cream colored felt, a peaches and cream colored calico fabric, and ivory silk flowers on a pink headband, in front of a white surface.

If you had big hair, you probably wouldn't even need the flowers on the headband.  I did not give my daughter the gift of thick, glorious hair.  I did, evidently, give her the gift of hamming it up for the camera. You should see some of the shots from the outtakes for this post!

Girl wearing Bunny ear headband made with cream colored felt, a peaches and cream colored calico fabric, and ivory silk flowers on a pink headband, in front of a white surface.

But I added some silk flowers to the headband to cover where the ears are attached, and I love the end result.

Bunny Ears Template:

Printable bunny ear template for the DIY bunny ears Easter headband.

Click on the template image or click here to download and print the PDF printable bunny ear templates to make this headband.

Peach and ivory bunny ears headband collage optimized for Pinterest.

Nicole Wills, creator of Tikkido

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