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What this one is
This little bunny ring rattle is the kind of project you make on a quiet evening when you want something small and sweet to show for your time. It's sized for the tiniest hands, with a wooden ring at its center a newborn can grip before they even understand what gripping means. Make it for a baby shower, a hospital bag, or just because you know someone who's about to become brand new to the world.
Your hands spend most of this project on single crochet in the round, working two small ears up from magic rings, then shaping a head through seven rounds of increases before it rounds back in. After that you'll crochet a flat strip to wrap and stitch around the wooden ring. All told, you're looking at a few sittings rather than one long stretch, with the head taking the longest to shape.
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Try it another way
You can make this entirely your own without changing a single round. Swap the color of the Drops Safran cotton between the Ears and the Head for a two-tone bunny, or keep the Wooden Ring Stripe in a contrasting shade so it reads as a deliberate accent rather than a match. If you want a slightly larger or smaller toy, going up or down within the 1.75 mm–2.0 mm hook range will change the finished scale without touching the stitch counts, though your gauge swatch will tell you how much. The Wooden Ring Stripe is worked flat as 27 single crochet over several rows before it's sewn around the 6.5 cm ring, so you could crochet it in stripes of two colors instead of one solid strip for a bit more visual interest. For a different feel entirely, consider leaving off the rattle bell ball and using the shape purely as a soft ring toy for slightly older babies who are past the mouthing stage for small parts. The same bunny Head and Ears, worked at this scale, also make a sweet stand-alone keyholder or bag charm if you skip the ring assembly altogether and finish the head with a loop instead.
There's real satisfaction in watching those magic ring starts tighten into clean little circles, especially on the ears, where fourteen rounds take you from a six-stitch nub to a soft curved shape that sits flat against the head. The head itself is the showpiece: seven rounds of steady increases, from six stitches up through twelve, eighteen, twenty-four, thirty, thirty-six, forty-two, and forty-eight, build a dome that rounds out evenly if you keep your tension consistent. Then there's the wooden ring stripe, worked flat in rows of twenty-seven single crochet instead of in the round, which is a nice change of rhythm before you wrap and sew it snugly around the ring. Setting the 6 mm safety eyes and tucking in the rattle bell ball at the end feels like the moment the whole thing finally becomes a toy.
