Crochet Polar Bear Beanie

A Polar Bear Beanie is fresh off my hook and it matches the Polar Bear Pocket Scarf I posted earlier this week! It’s time to get cozy because we are in the “BER” months: SeptemBER, OctoBER, NovemBER, DecemBER. As always, there are lots of ways to customize the colors in this pattern and I can’t wait to see what you do with it!

Materials:
– Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in White, Turqua (or Cherry Red) for ribbing, Dusty Gray, and a bit of Black. Shop these colors HERE on Yarnspirations.com
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Tapestry Needle

Before we start the pattern, please be sure and watch THIS TUTORIAL from my friend Daisy Farm Crafts on how to make a single crochet ribbed border. I use this on the bottom of all the hats and it mimics the look of the bear wearing a scarf!

I love this technique because you don’t need to sew the ribbing on separately, it is crochet right onto the edge of the hat! It’s basically a chain 7 (or however long/short your want your ribbed border), SC in each chain until you get back to the hat edge, slip stitch in two stitches along the hat edge and then SC in the back loops of the ribbing and repeat. She has a VERY easy tutorial to follow and you can use this border on many different projects.

Start with the basic HAT PATTERN which comes in sizes Newborn – Adult!

Size: Newborn
with white yarn
Magic ring, chain 2 and make 11 DC in ring, join to first DC, chain 2
Round 2: 2 DC in each stitch around, join, chain 2 (22 DC)
Round 3: 2 DC in first, DC in next, repeat around, join, chain 2 (33 DC)
Round 4: 2 DC in first, DC in next 2, repeat around, join, chain 2 (44 DC)
Round 5-10: DC in each around, join, chain 2 (44 DC)
Join in ribbing color (blue or red in example), continue to ribbed edge using the back loop SC ribbed border technique 

Size: 3-6 Months
with white yarn
Magic ring, chain 2 and make 11 DC in magic ring, join to first DC, chain 2
Round 2: 2 DC in each around, join, chain 2 (22 DC)
Round 3: 2 DC in first, DC in next, repeat around, join, chain 2 (33 DC)
Round 4: 2 DC in first, DC in next 2, repeat around, join, chain 2 (44 DC)
Round 5: 2 DC in first, DC in next 10, repeat around, join, chain 2 (48 DC)
Round 6-11: DC in each around, join, chain 2 (48 DC)
Join in ribbing color (blue or red in example), continue to ribbed edge using the back loop SC ribbed border technique

Size: 6-9 Months
with white yarn
Magic ring, chain 2 and make 11 DC in magic ring, join to first DC, chain 2
Round 2: 2 DC in each around, join, chain 2 (22 DC)
Round 3: 2 DC in first, DC in next, repeat around, join, chain 2 (33 DC)
Round 4: 2 DC in first, DC in next 2, repeat around, join, chain 2 (44 DC)
Round 5: 2 DC in first, DC in next 10, repeat around, join, chain 2 (48 DC)
Round 6: 2 DC in first, DC in next 11, join, chain 2 (52 DC)
Round 7-12: DC in each around, join, chain 2 (52 DC)
Join in ribbing color (blue or red in example), continue to ribbed edge using the back loop SC ribbed border technique

Size: 9-16 Months 
with white yarn
Magic ring, chain 2 and make 11 DC in magic ring, join to first DC, chain 2
Round 2: 2 DC in each around, join, chain 2 (22 DC)
Round 3: 2 DC in first, DC in next, repeat around, join, chain 2 (33 DC)
Round 4: 2 DC in first, DC in next 2, repeat around, join, chain 2 (44 DC)
Round 5: 2 DC in first, DC in next 10, repeat around, join, chain 2 (48 DC)
Round 6: 2 DC in first, DC in next 11, join, chain 2 (52 DC)
Round 7: 2 DC in first, DC in next 12, join, chain 2 (56 DC)
Round 8-13: DC in each around, join, chain 2 (56 DC)
Join in ribbing color (blue or red in example), continue to ribbed edge using the back loop SC ribbed border technique

Size: Toddler/Preschooler
with white yarn
Magic ring, chain 2 and make 11 DC in magic ring, join to first DC, chain 2
Round 2: 2 DC in each around, join, chain 2 (22 DC)
Round 3: 2 DC in first, DC in next, repeat around, join, chain 2 (33 DC)
Round 4: 2 DC in first, DC in next 2, repeat around, join, chain 2 (44 DC)
Round 5: 2 DC in first, DC in next 10, repeat around, join, chain 2 (48 DC)
Round 6: 2 DC in first, DC in next 11, join, chain 2 (52 DC)
Round 7: 2 DC in first, DC in next 12, join, chain 2 (56 DC)
Round 8: 2 DC in first, DC in next 13, join, chain 2 (60 DC)
Round 9-14: DC in each around, join, chain 2 (60 DC)
Join in ribbing color (blue or red in example), continue to ribbed edge using the back loop SC ribbed border technique

Size: Child
with white yarn
Magic ring, chain 2 and make 11 DC in magic ring, join to first DC, chain 2
Round 2: 2 DC in each around, join, chain 2 (22 DC)
Round 3: 2 DC in first, DC in next, repeat around, join, chain 2 (33 DC)
Round 4: 2 DC in first, DC in next 2, repeat around, join, chain 2 (44 DC)
Round 5: 2 DC in first, DC in next 10, repeat around, join, chain 2 (48 DC)
Round 6: 2 DC in first, DC in next 11, join, chain 2 (52 DC)
Round 7: 2 DC in first, DC in next 12, join, chain 2 (56 DC)
Round 8: 2 DC in first, DC in next 13, join, chain 2 (60 DC)
Round 9: 2 DC in first, DC in next 14, join, chain 2 (64 DC)
Round 10-15: DC in each around, join, chain 2 (64 DC)
Join in ribbing color (blue or red in example), continue to ribbed edge using the back loop SC ribbed border technique

Size: Teen/Adult
with white yarn
Magic ring, chain 2 and make 11 DC in magic ring, join to first DC, chain 2
Round 2: 2 DC in each around, join, chain 2 (22 DC)
Round 3: 2 DC in first, DC in next, repeat around, join, chain 2 (33 DC)
Round 4: 2 DC in first, DC in next 2, repeat around, join, chain 2 (44 DC)
Round 5: 2 DC in first, DC in next 10, repeat around, join, chain 2 (48 DC)
Round 6: 2 DC in first, DC in next 11, join, chain 2 (52 DC)
Round 7: 2 DC in first, DC in next 12, join, chain 2 (56 DC)
Round 8: 2 DC in first, DC in next 13, join, chain 2 (60 DC)
Round 9: 2 DC in first, DC in next 14, join, chain 2 (64 DC)
Round 10: 2 DC in first, DC in next 15, join, chain 2 (68 DC)
Round 11-16: DC in each around, join, chain 2 (68 DC)
Join in ribbing color (blue or red in example), continue to ribbed edge using the back loop SC ribbed border technique

Bear Ears (make 2):
with white yarn
Magic ring, chain 1 and make 8 SC in ring, join, chain 1
Round 2: 2 SC in each stitch around, join, chain 1 (16 SC)
Round 3-6: SC in each stitch around, join, chain 1 (16 SC)
Round 7: SC decrease, SC in next 2, repeat around, join, fasten off
Stitch ears onto either side of hat about 3 rows down from top.

Bear Snout:
with gray yarn
magic ring, chain 2 and making 8 DC + 4 HDC, join to first DC, chain 1
Round 2: 2 SC (small snout) or 2 HDC (medium snout) or 2 DC (large snout) in each stitch around, join, fasten off leaving long tail
Stitch on nose with black yarn and tapestry needle.
Stitch snout onto front of hat.

Stitch on some eyes with a strand of black yarn and your tapestry needle!

Make a matching Pocket Scarf!
Get the Crochet Polar Bear Pocket Scarf Pattern HERE

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