Easter Bunny Plate with Cricut

We all know that Santa loves treats on Christmas Eve but what about the Easter Bunny? Now you can leave treats for the Easter Bunny on Easter with a DIY Easter Bunny Treat plate made with a dollar-store pizza pan. Paint the pan any color you like, or leave it silver. Cut out the Easter bunny plate SVG from permanent vinyl with a Cricut cutting machine. Create a one-of-a-kind tray for everyone’s favorite bunny and life-long memories with your kids.

Easter Bunny Plate with Cricut

Easter Bunny Plate Supplies and Tools

• Cricut Cutting Machine
• Permanent Vinyl – I used Cricut Smart Vinyl. You can use SmartVinyl with the Explore 3, Maker 3, or Joy
• Transfer Tape
• Cutting Mat if not using Smart Vinyl
• Dollar store pizza pan
• Spray paint (optional – see our notes below)
• Easter Bunny Treat Plate SVG file
• Weeding tools

Easter Bunny Plate Instructions

Paint the Pizza Pan (optional)

I have used dollar store baking sheets and pizza pans several times for crafts. I used dollar store chalk paint to paint them black both times and had no issues attaching the vinyl to the paint. To see those crafts, you can check out The Kringle Cookie Co. Dollar Store Cookie Sheet for Christmas made with Cricut and DIY Santa Cookie Platter.

For the Easter Bunny Plate, I decided to try spray painting the pizza pan black. Unfortunately, when putting the vinyl on the pizza pan, the transfer tape ripped off pieces of the spray paint. I would not recommend spray painting the pan. I would recommend either leaving it silver or using chalk craft paint.

Upload the SVG file into Design Space.

We use Design Space on a Mac laptop. The app may be a little different for uploading.

On your laptop, open Design Space and click “New Project” on the top left of the screen. This will bring you a blank canvas, as you see above.

Click “Upload” on the bottom of the gray dashboard on the left side of the screen.

Click “Upload Image” on the next screen.

Click “Browse” and choose the Easter Bunny Treat Tray SVG.

Because this is an SVG file, your only option will be to create a cut file. On the top right, name the file and then press upload on the bottom right. This will add the SVG to your Design Space account.

On the next screen, you will see that the SVG has been uploaded and is ready to select. Click “Add to canvas” on the bottom right.

Your image is now on the Design Space canvas ready to be edited and cut.

Resize the cut image to fit the blank.

You will need to adjust the file size to fit the pizza pan. Measure the size of the pizza pan. Mine was 11″.

You can use a circle in Design Space to simulate your pizza pan. Add a circle to the Canvas. You can do this by clicking “Shapes” on the left dashboard. Size the circle so it is the same as your pizza pan. Click “Arrange” on the top menu and “Send to Back” so the circle will be behind the design. Change the colors of the circle and the bunny tray design so you can tell them apart.

Readjust the size of of the Easter bunny treat design so that it fits how you like on top of the circle.

Before cutting, you need to hide the circle. Click the eye next to the Circle layer on the right dashboard. This will hide the circle, so it doesn’t cut.

The final step before cutting is to attach it all. Highlight the design and click “Attach” on the bottom right dashboard.

Send the image to your Cricut machine to cut.

Once you are happy with the design, make sure to save it. Just click “Save” at the top of Design Space.

Now that it’s saved choose your machine in the drop-down box on the top right. Choose your machine. This design will need to be cut in an Explore or Maker.

Then click “Make it” on the top right of the screen.

Choose how to load the vinyl into the Cricut machine.

On the next screen, you will choose if you are using a mat. Cricut SmartVinyl can be cut without a mat on a Cricut Explore 3 or Maker 3. If you are not using SmartVinyl, or a different machine, then click the mat option. You can also cut SmartVinyl on a mat if you prefer. Pick the option you want, and click “Confirm” in the bottom right corner.

Review the image before cutting.

On the next screen, you will see how the Cricut will cut your image on the vinyl. It will tell you how long the SmartVinyl will need to be. If you use a mat, it will show you where the image will be on the mat. You can move the image around as needed.

You can also adjust how many images you want the machine to cut on this screen.

Once you are happy with how many to cut and where they are on the vinyl, turn on your machine and get it ready to cut. If you are using a mat, put the vinyl on the mat, color side facing up.

If using SmartVinyl, cut SmartVinyl to the length needed for the project. Then, click “Continue” on the bottom right of the screen.

Pick your material and load it into the Cricut.

Once you click continue, Design Space will connect via BlueTooth to your machine. Once it has connected, you will choose the material you want to cut. You can click “Browse Materials” to find the vinyl you are using.

Load the SmartVinyl or the mat into the machine. It is set to default pressure. It will also tell you which blade you need to cut the vinyl. Because you are using vinyl, you will likely only need the fine-point blade.

Once the SmartVinyl or mat is properly loaded into the machine, the “Go” button on the bottom right of the screen will highlight. Push that, and the machine will begin its cut.

Once the cut is finished, unload the mat or SmartVinyl and click “Done” in Design Space. Remove the vinyl form the cutting mat if you used one.

Weed the design.

Using weeding tools, remove the unnecessary parts of the image. This is called “weeding.” You will weed out the vinyl you don’t need for the final image. For this large design, I find it easier to cut the vinyl into smaller pieces for weeding and to place on the tray.

Use transfer tape to adhere the vinyl to the pizza pan.

After the design is fully weeded, you will use transfer tape to remove the image from the white backing and place it onto the pizza.

Cut a piece of transfer tape the same size as the image. It will be easier to add to the pizza pan if you cut the large image into smaller pieces.

Remove the clear part of the transfer tape from the white backing. Place the clear tape over the top of the image. Rub the transfer tape onto the vinyl image. You want to attach the vinyl to the clear transfer tape. I like using the Cricut Scraper tool for this. Rub both the front and back.

Carefully peel the white backing off the vinyl, making sure that the vinyl has attached to the transfer tape. The vinyl can be stubborn and want to stay put. Just be patient and keep rubbing and gently easing it onto the tape.

Once the vinyl is on the clear tape, adhere it to the pizza pan wherever you want it to go. Rub the transfer tape again to adhere the design to your pan. Repeat with all of the designs until the plate is complete.

Add carrots and a drink to the tray the night before Easter Sunday.