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Step 1
Before you practice your swinging bunt, get comfortable bunting in a normal stance first. You should be able to fully execute a normal bunt before you begin practicing the swinging bunt.
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Step 2
Once you do this, begin bunting with both hands in the normal swinging position near the bottom, or handle, of the bat. This can be more difficult than bunting with your weak hand at the handle and your strong near the barrel. However, this is how your hands will be situated during a swinging bunt.
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Step 3
Practice your check swing that will eventually become your swinging bunt. In a normal check swing, the object is to stop the forward motion of the bat during your swing attempt before the barrel of the bat crosses home plate. However, for a swinging bunt, you'll want the barrel of the bat to stop directly over home plate. Stopping your check swing too early will cause you to either miss the ball or hit it too weakly. Stopping too late will result in either a foul ball or the ball being hit directly to the third or first baseman (depending on which box you stand in).
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Step 4
Place a baseball on a tee in the middle of home plate. Then, begin practicing your swinging bunt on the stationary ball. Remember that the ball will not travel as it would if it were being pitched. The point of this, however, is to familiarize yourself with how your bat should contact the baseball during a swinging bunt.
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Step 5
Finally, begin practicing your swinging bunt on actual pitches. Remember that you should shorten your swing if you wish to drag the ball (down the third base side if you're right-handed or the first base side if you're left-handed) and make your swing longer if you wish to hit the ball to the opposite side of the infield.
