Make a Bunny Candy Basket

Brown paper bunny in front of Easter basket

Hop into spring crafting with this adorable Bunny Basket that you can easily make with card stock. The layered bunny design is inspired by vintage Easter graphics. In this tutorial, we’ll create the layered bunny out of card stock, perfect for using as a sweet springtime decoration or to decorate the tiny basket.

The basket is a whimsical cracked egg, but you can use the woven pattern from the Spring Candy Basket file (no. 151) if you like that design better.

Fill your little bunny’s basket with decorative cutout eggs included in the pattern, candy, tiny flowers, or tiny treats to spread some handmade springtime joy.

Cute bunny in front of purple candy basket

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Materials to Make the Bunny Candy Basket

Cardstock - 65# cardstock like this works best (65# is equivalent to 176 gsm)
Glue - Bearly Art Glue is my favorite
Cutting machine:
Cricut Maker
Cricut Explore Air 2 or
Cricut Explore Air 3
Cricut Joy Xtra
Cricut Joy
Fine point blade
Scoring Stylus or Scoring Wheel
If using Cricut Joy or Cricut Joy Xtra, you need the foil tip for scoring
Light Grip Mat or Standard Grip Mat
Fine point blade
Paper grass

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How to Make the Bunny Candy Basket - Free Pattern - Design No. 188

1. Download the Bunny Candy Basket SVG file - Design No. 188 - in the Paper Glitter Glue library.
2. Cut out the pieces with your cutting machine.
3. Assemble and glue together the layers of the bunny figure.
4. Assemble the basket by gluing the side pieces to the base basket, then glue the handle on. I'll go over the details below.
5. Glue the adorable little bunny to the front of the basket.
6. Fill with paper grass and candy or other treats!

Here's the link to my YouTube Live video where I show you how to make the Bunny Candy Basket.

Cute bunny figures in front of an Easter basket

For more details, read on.

1. Download the Bunny Candy Basket pattern- Design No. 188

To get the files for the Bunny Candy Basket, go to the Paper Glitter Glue library:
1. Click the big orange button on the library page. That takes you the password page.
2. Type in the password and then the library will open. The Bunny Candy basket file is Design No. 188 in the April 2025 section of the library.

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My design files are available in 2 formats - SVG cut files for cutting machines and printable PDF files.

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2. Next cut out the pieces for the candy basket

You can use 65#-110# card stock for the basket. As you know these patterns are much easier to cut out with a cutting machine like a Cricut or Silhouette.

Please note that the smaller bunny is about the smallest size that you can make the bunny because of the fine details in the eye and mouth. Of course, you can enlarge it as much as you want.

Here's how the file looks when uploaded to Cricut Design Space.

Bunny Candy Basket within Cricut Design Space

In order to cut out the file with a cutting machine, it is important to identify and designate score lines on the basket piece.

First ungroup the design.

Bunny candy basket design ungroup button

Delete the one inch square when you know the file has uploaded at the correct size. When you click on the one inch square it will show the size as 1 inch by 1 inch.

Delete the one inch square used for scale

Now, select the score lines. You can see them on the candy box pieces that are drawn as lines. Each set of score lines is grouped with the piece it belongs to.

Score lines drawn as lines on the candy basket pieces

When you click on the piece these lines are grouped with, you will see the set of lines. Next, click on those lines you will notice that the color box is red towards the top left of Cricut Design Space. I always draw score lines in red to help you know that these lines are intended as score lines.

Color box is red when you click on score lines

Under the operations menu, scroll down and choose score. Now these lines will show up as dashed lines.

Select score lines and choose score under the operations menu

Select the each basket piece so you can attach the score lines to your piece as shown in the photo below. The attach button is on the lower right hand side of the screen.

Now you can cut out the design on your machine.

Once all the pieces are cut out, you can assemble your cute card stock bunny and the basket.

3. Assemble the Bunny Figure

Glue the bunny layers together. I've tried to minimize the small pieces that you have to glue on to make it easier to construct. You can see the layers in the PDF files.

There are 4 layers to make the head of the bunny - a top brown layer, a pink layer to provide the coloring for the ears, nose, and mouth, a black layer for the mouth and the eyes and a white layer for the whites of the eyes.

Here are the layers to make the bunny with Cricut Design Space

You can apply glue to the back of the top layer of the bunny face and adhere it to the pink layer.

Next apply glue to the back of the pink layer and adhere to the black layer which makes the eyes and a line around the mouth.

Finally, to complete the face, apply glue to the back of the black layer and adhere to the white layer. That layer provides the whites of the eyes.

Next adhere the face to the body of the bunny. I cut out 2 layers of the bunny body to make him or her more sturdy.

You can edge the lower leg and the arm with a dark brown ink to make them stand out better.

Glue the leg in place, add the bunny tail (or use a pom pom if you like), then glue an egg in the bunny's hand (?paw), and glue the other arm on top.

4. Make the Egg-Shaped Candy Basket

The first step is to fold along the basket score lines.

Assemble the basket by gluing the side pieces to the curved sides of the basket

First, gently curve the side pieces of the basket. Fold along all the score lines.

Apply glue to the bottom glue tab and adhere to the bottom of the basket.

Next apply glue to the side tabs and adhere them to the sides of the egg-shaped basket. This is the only fiddly step, just gradually bend the side tab to the curved edge of the basket.

Apply glue tabs to curved side of candy basket

If you want two layers for your basket handle, glue the solid background to the handle with the cutouts. It does make the handle stronger if you do that. You can also thread a ribbon through the cutouts if you like.