Forest Friends Stacking Donuts Amigurumi Pattern

Forest Friends Stacking Donuts Amigurumi Pattern

Picture four little forest creatures — a birdie, a bunny, a bear, and a tree — each worked in a sweet donut shape that stacks right on top of the other. This pattern gives you all four characters in one go, so you get to experience that satisfying mix of watching a tiny face come to life and then seeing the whole tower come together. Whether you're making these for a nursery shelf, a nature-loving friend, or just because they're genuinely irresistible, you're going to have so much fun with them. Each character has its own personality, its own little finishing details, and its own charm — and crocheting all four feels like telling a little woodland story, one round at a time.

Materials Needed for Forest Friends Stacking Donuts Amigurumi Pattern

Assembly Instructions

• For each character, once the body donut is complete, fold the piece so the top and bottom circles line up with each other. Use your tapestry needle and a length of matching yarn to begin sewing the edges together, working one stitch from the bottom ring and one stitch from the top ring alternately.
• After sewing roughly 10% of the way around, begin adding fiberfill stuffing through the remaining gap. Continue sewing and stuffing at the same time as you work around the donut — don't wait until the end to stuff or you won't be able to fill it evenly.
• Before closing the last few stitches of each donut, attach the safety eyes at the correct placement for each character (Birdie: between R8 and R9; Bunny: between R10 and R11; Bear: between R10 and R11 for eyes and one row below for the 12 mm nose; Tree: between R12 and R13). Once the eyes are secured inside, finish sewing the donut completely shut.
• Sew the Birdie's yellow beak (the small magic loop circle) to the front of the Birdie body, centered below the eyes. Then sew the two green wings to either side of the body. Attach the hair pieces and the three tail pieces to the top and back of the Birdie respectively.
• For the Bunny, sew the two ears to the top of the body, spacing them evenly. Stitch the pom pom tail to the back side of the Bunny donut using the long center tie tails. Embroider the small pink nose with a few stitches between the eyes.
• For the Bear, center the cream snout on the front of the Bear donut below the eyes and nose hardware, and sew it in place all the way around. Attach both ears to the top of the donut, then sew the small cream tail to the back.
• For the Tree, sew both green leaves to one side of the Tree donut — positioning them slightly off-center gives the most natural look. Once all four characters are complete, stack them Tree at the base, then Bear, then Bunny, then Birdie on top.

Important Notes

• 💡All four donuts begin with a foundation chain rather than a magic ring — make absolutely sure this chain is not twisted before you sc along it in Round 2, because a twist at this stage cannot be undone once you're several rounds in.
• 💡The pattern recommends skipping a stitch rather than working a standard sc2tog decrease — this gives a much cleaner, less visible decrease line on the finished donut, so it's worth doing even if you're used to the sc2tog method.
• 💡Each character uses a different safety eye size (7.5 mm, 8 mm, 9 mm, and 10.5 mm) — sort them out before you start crocheting so you're not hunting through your supplies mid-project when you need to close the donut.
• 💡Work in a continuous spiral throughout — do not join or turn at the end of each round. Use a stitch marker in the last stitch of every round so you always know where one round ends and the next begins.
• 💡The Bear's inner ear color detail is easy to forget — switch to your contrast color for just stitches 6 and 7 in Round 3, and stitches 6, 7, and 8 in Round 4, then switch back. It only takes a few seconds but makes a big difference in the finished look.
• 💡Leave generous yarn tails (at least 15–20 cm) when fastening off each piece — the donuts have a lot of surface area to sew through and you don't want to run out of tail halfway through attaching an ear or a wing.
• 💡When making the Bunny pom pom tail, wrapping the yarn around the cardboard at least 12 times is the minimum for a full, round result — fewer wraps will look thin and flat against the body.

There's something really special about a project that gives you four finished characters for the price of one sitting-down session. These little forest friends are the kind of thing you'll find yourself making again in different color combinations — maybe a winter version in soft grays and blues, or a pastel spring set. However you make them, the moment you stack all four together and see that little tower sitting on your shelf... it's pretty hard not to grin. 🧶 Happy crocheting, and I hope your forest friends bring as much joy to whoever receives them as they will to you making them! ✨