10+ Cute and Simple Crochet Spring Animals for Crocheters Ready to Level Up

Written By Huipei Zhang

Welcome spring with cute crochet animals like bunnies, chicks, squirrels, and hedgehogs! Perfect for gifts, toys, or seasonal decor, these beginner-friendly projects bring a playful, handmade charm to your home. With patterns ranging from beginner to intermediate, you can easily craft a farmyard, woodland, or garden-inspired collection bursting with personality.

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    Uses for Crochet Spring Animals

    Looking for ways to use your adorable crochet spring animals? These cute creations are not only fun to make but also incredibly versatile! Here are some inspiring ideas:

    Gifts

    • Perfect for Kids – Delight little ones with playful crochet animals like bunnies, chicks, and squirrels.

    • Thoughtful Presents – Handmade gifts for Easter, birthdays, or spring celebrations.

    • Educational Toys – Teach kids about animals and seasons with these soft, interactive companions. (I have even made magnetic pieces that come together!)

    Home Decor

    • Seasonal Touch – Add crochet animals to your spring-themed table centerpieces or mantels.

    • Whimsical Displays – Arrange crochet animals in mini dioramas or decorate shelves with charming springtime vibes.

    • Nursery Decor – Create mobiles or decorative accents for a baby’s room with animals like hedgehogs and ducks. Here’s a tutorial on how to make a small mobile!

    Creative Outlet

    • Relaxing Hobby – Enjoy the meditative process of crocheting while crafting these lovable animals.

    • Showcase Your Skills – Practice and improve your crochet techniques, from shaping 3D designs to adding details.

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    Materials used for Crochet Spring Animals

    Here I will talk about all the recommended yarn, hook sizes, and other materials that work best for these patterns. As for the details on each particular section and how to select the right crochet supplies and narrow down your choices, I will link to an appropriate detailed article for each one when you explore the full pattern itself - I hope it helps! 

    Best Yarn for Crochet Spring Animals  

    • Yarn weight – sport Yarn (I used Scheepjes Catona) or DK Yarn, worsted yarn for bigger projects

    • Yarn colours – depends on animal you intend to make, choosing distinctive colours helps with bringing the animal to life

    • Yarn material – acrylic or cotton are popular choices for amigurumi

    • Read more here about ‘12-point Checklist to Select the Best Yarn for Amigurumi’ 

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    Crochet Hook Selection  

    • Basic cheap metallic hooks to start 

    Crochet Tools and Accessories 

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    Crochet Techniques for Spring Animal Amigurumis

    Below I have included the techniques needed to crochet all the spring animal crochet patterns below. They are great even for beginners, involving the 6 basic crochet stitches and starting with a magic ring. Read on more below for what techniques you need to know before starting, if you have no idea how to do them - go ahead and click through to learn.

    Some of the more ambitious beginner patterns involve special crochet stitches to shape body parts like the snout and limbs. To see more of each special crochet stitch, click through to find out more.

    Basic Crochet Stitches 

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    Magic ring 

    Increase Crochet 

    Decrease Crochet 

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    FLO and BLO 

    Special Crochet Stitches 

    Bobble Stitch  

    Popcorn Stitch

    Puff Stitch

    Cluster Stitch

    Picot Stitch

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    Easy Crochet Spring Animal Patterns

    Try out these crochet spring animals including some farm animals examples, and also some variations of ducks and bunnies!
    They are all free and mostly work up in less than an hour and are totally free to click through to read. There are even accompanying videos in each post to show the steps. Also remember to check out the free Animal Shaping Starter Guide if you wish to learn how to crochet your own animals for a start!

    Free Crochet Bird Pattern

    Thinking of trying out bird amigurumi patterns? This one works up continuously including the wings and beaks without any external attachments! Perfect for making a pair of lovebirds for Valentine’s Day as well, just switch up the colours!

    Free Crochet Hedgehog Pattern

    This hedgehog is intentionally made up in different parts, because at the end, some magnets will be inserted into each part so that the pieces can click together! Here I even talk about 2 different ways to make the quills, one with surface crochet and one with loop and hook method.

    Free Crochet Pig Pattern

    This easy crochet guy is worked up entirely in one colour, except the nose and ears in a different colour. His body is made continuously vertically from the head down and then it moves horizontally across the body to the curly tail! Make him into a pig keychain or a pig plush.

    Free Crochet Cow Pattern

    If you have been looking for mini cow crochet pattern that’s really simple to work up, then check out this seamless sitting cow pattern, with the ears, snout and limbs done continuously in one round without any sewing involved. Make it brown with some hair at the top to turn it into a highland cow!

    Free Duck Crochet Pattern

    Here is an easy crochet duck pattern to try out, which can be made into a duck keychain or crochet duck toys. Make some crochet colour changes and you can get a mandarin duck! The beak and the wings at the sides are worked seamlessly so there’s no assembly needed.

    Free Duck Crochet Pattern

    Another crochet version of a duck, this time involving more sewing components, including the beak onto the head and the wings onto the body. It turns out looking different from the previous seamless Pocket Duck.

     
     

    Free Chick Crochet Pattern

    Try out this no sew chick pattern that works up really quickly. Its beak is made continuously in a round into the front and loops only so that you don’t have to sew it on separately. It is simple and easy and completely free to try with an accompanying video tutorial!

    Free Dog Crochet Pattern

    This free crochet dog pattern is no sew and can be made into a dog keychain or a puppet plush when worked with thicker yarn. His ears, snout and protruding tongue are all made seamlessly as part of my Pocket Animal series and easily made with some amigurumi crochet colour changes.

    Free Bunny Rabbit Crochet Pattern

    This fairly realistic free rabbit crochet pattern is perfect to make for Easter or as part of this farm animal set. The long eared bunny can be made with no assembly involved and some colour changes to make different rabbit breeds. Use special crochet stitches like bobble and popcorn stitches to make the snout and the limbs respectively.

    Free Rabbit Crochet Pattern

    This version of a crochet rabbit is more cartoon like and to make all the distinctive parts of the snout involves some amount of sewing. The body is simply made with bobble stitches for the limbs. Try out this version for more variety of crochet techniques.

    Free Squirrel Crochet Pattern

    Try out this squirrel, which is slightly more complicated than the rest, this pattern is worked up into CAL sections, total 3 parts, so I’ve linked the first part below here and then you can move onto the rest. Another great spring animal to add to the collection!

    Free Bear Crochet Pattern

    Crocheting this bear only involves crocheting a sphere then a cylinder with some bobble stitches as the limbs. The snout has some additional shaping and colour changes to make it distinctive, but they are all done seamlessly without any assembly required!

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    Conclusion of Free Crochet Spring Animal Patterns

    Have a hand at trying out all the spring animal crochet patterns above, some completely seamless, some with attachments! Change up the colours so that the animals are distinctive and possibly try making different breeds. If you looking at getting bundles of these patterns, remember to sign up to my email to get great deals.

    To check out more of my ideas for using various types of crochet stitch techniques to shape amigurumi animals,     grab my free Animal Shaping Starter Guide below! Inside, get quick ideas on how to get started on shaping ears, snouts, cheeks, bodies and limbs for animals!

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