Baby Elephant amigurumi free pattern

Welcome to our latest amigurumi adventure! Meet the adorable crochet Baby Elephant, a super fast cutie sure to steal your heart with its amazing fluffy texture. Perfect for beginners, this pattern comes with a detailed step-by-step video tutorial, making it easier than ever to bring this cuddly little baby elephant to life. So grab your yarn and hooks, and let’s get started on crocheting this irresistibly charming amigurumi Elephant!

And if you’re on the hunt for more crochet stuffed animals using this same cozy yarn, don’t miss the No-Sew Kitty Cat, Baby Bunny, and Panda! They’re quick, delightful projects, and each one comes with its own video tutorial!

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Baby Elephant free amigurumi pattern

Materials:

• 8mm crochet hook 
• Chenille yarn of your preference. For this baby elephant, I used the brand Alize Velluto. Similar yarn weight and texture suggestion can be Universal Yarn and Creative World crafts.
• Black sports weight for the eyes.
• Stuffing material
• Scissors
• Sewing needle.
• Or, you can use safety eyes! The position is at the end of this post.

Finish size: 12cm or 5 inches with the ears.

For a low-cost and ad-free printable pattern, you can find it in Ravelry here! And on Etsy here!

Terms and abbreviations (US terms):

Single crochet (sc): insert the hook into the stitch, pull up a loop yarn over the needle, you will have two loops on the hook, yarn over the needle and pull it through the two loops.

Increase (inc): make two single crochet inside the same stitch.

Decrease (dec): Insert hook into front loop only of next two stitches, yarn under, pull through, you will have two loops on the hook. Yarn under and pull through both loops on the hook.

Front loop (FL): Insert hook into the front loop only of the stitch, and continue with the stitch written in front of the abbreviation FL.

Bobble stitch (BO): Yarn over, insert the hook into the stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop, yarn over again and pull through the first 2 loops (you’ll have 2 loops on the hook.) Repeat 5 times and you will have 6 loops on your hook, yarn over one last time and pull inside all loops on the needle.

HEAD and BODY

With color of your choice start,

1 rnd  6sc in a magic ring

2 rnd  6inc Total 12sts

3 rnd  (1sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 18sts

4 rnd  (2sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 24sts

5 to 7 rnd  24sc

8 rnd  12dec Total 12sts

• For the next round, you will work all stitches on the Front Loop only. From round 10 on, go back to working normally.

9 rnd  FL(3sc, 1BO, 4sc, 1BO, 3sc)

10 rnd  (1sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 18sts

• Stop here to start adding stuffing material before continuing,

11 rnd  chain4, skip first chain, 3sl, 6sc, (1FLBO, 5sc) repeat 2 times

12 rnd  (1sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 12sts

• Finish adding stuffing material.

• Cut the yarn, fasten it off and hide the remaining tail inside the toy.

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EARS

• Right ear:

With the same color start, work in rows

1 row 4sc in a magic ring, chain 1 turn

2 row 4inc, chain 1, turn Total 8sts

3 row (1sc, 1inc) repeat 3 times, 1dc, 1inc dc Total 12sts

• Chain 2, join with a sl in the last st where you made the dc increase.

• Cut the yarn, fasten it off and leave a tail for sewing it.

• Make another one following the same instructions

• Left ear:

With the same color start,

1 row 4sc in a magic ring, chain 1 turn

2 row 4inc, chain 1, turn Total 8sts

3 row chain 2, 1inc dc, 1dc, (1inc, 1sc) repeat 3 times

• Cut the yarn, fasten it off and leave a tail for sewing it.

• Make another one following the same instructions

TRUNK

With the same color start,

1 rnd    4sc in a magic ring

2 to 4 rnd  4sc

5 rnd  4inc Total 8sts

6 rnd  4sc crocheting the sides together, closing the trunk

• Cut the yarn, fasten it off and leave a tail for sewing it.

ASSEMBLY

1. Sew the trunk between rounds 5 and 6.
2. Sew the ears between rounds 2 and 3, and continue downwards for 3 rounds. Stop sewing once you reach the middle of the ear.
3. Embroider the eyes in round 5, leaving 4 stitches between them. Embroider the eyebrows one round above the eyes and one stitch to the side with the same yarn.
4. Optional: Cut 6 pieces of yarn with a 10cm/4 inch length. Attach them to the top of the elephant’s head. Cut the edges leveling up to be the same size.

Congratulations!!!

Your Baby Elephant amigurumi is ready!

I hope you enjoy this pattern, and if you have any questions or comments in general, leave them in the comment box below.

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See you next time!

Love,

Ana

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