Lace Bunny Canvas Easter Craft

Combine brown burlap with delicate lace to make this pretty bunny canvas – it’s an easy Easter craft you’ll want to keep up for the entire year!

Skills Required: Beginner. You’re going to make a lace applique using Heat n’ Bond (with an iron). Then you will attach it to the canvas. It’s pretty simple and fine if you don’t have a ton of crafting experience.

I was wandering around the craft store the other day when I saw a pretty lace and burlap fabric bunting. I thought the combination looked so perfect for spring, and I started thinking about what else I could make using lace and burlap.

Bunnies always make the cutest Easter decorations, so I came up with this adorable lace bunny canvas Easter craft. The canvas itself is burlap, and I added the bunny just like you would any other fabric appliqué. So easy!

You’re going to make this project in three simple steps. You’re going to create an applique, attach it to the canvas, and then add embellishments. It’s very easy.

DIY Rabbit Canvas

To make this Easter craft, you’ll need:

Bunny pattern
10 x 10 inch burlap canvas
Lace
Heat ‘n Bond Ultrahold
Parchment paper
1/4 inch wide ribbon
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Scissors
Iron
Pen

Note: you can staple burlap fabric around a regular canvas if you want to. Your background also doesn’t have to be burlap! You can select any fabric if there’s something you like better.

Create the Bunny Applique

Heat n Bold Ultrahold, lace fabric, and burlap fabric

Trace the bunny pattern onto the paper side of a piece of Heat ‘n Bond. You can probably use other types of fusible interfacing for this as well, but I haven’t tested them.

Place a piece of parchment paper on top of your ironing board and put the lace on top of that. It’s VERY important that you use the parchment paper so you don’t ruin your ironing board and/or iron!

Lace fabric over the top of a piece of parchment paper

Put the piece of Heat ‘n Bond, paper side up, on top of the lace. Iron with a hot, dry iron. Leave it on long enough to create a bond with the adhesive, but don’t go overboard. You don’t want the lace to melt!

The interfacing is important because it helps keep the lace from fraying and will stick the bunny to the canvas. If you want less lace to go to waste, cut off some (not all) of the excess interfacing around the bunny before ironing it down.