Bunny Hop

With Easter right around the corner, we held a Bunny Hop this week for 3-6 year olds.  As the kids come in, they picked up their nametags.  These were bunny ear headbands with the first name's written across the band.

We started off the program by reading Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes.  We did the Bunny Hop (on Disney's More Dancin' Tunes cd) and the Bunny Pokey (on Holiday Pigggyback Songs cd).  We passed out die cut bunnies and did the following rhyme (I admit it, I "borrowed" this from another branch):

There's a Little Bunny

(to the tune of Happy and You Know It)

There's a little bunny sitting on my toe,

There's a little bunny sitting on my toe,

He is sitting on my toe, then off away he goes,

There is no little bunny on my toe.

There's a little bunny sitting on my knee,

There's a little bunny sitting on my knee,

He is sitting on my knee, just watch and he will flee,

There is no little bunny on my knee.

There's a little bunny sitting on my head,

There's a little bunny sitting on my head,

He is sitting on my head, then away he goes to bed,

There is no little bunny on my head.

Next, we divided the kids in half so they could rotate through two craft stations.  At our first we made bunny paper bags.

Click here to download the bunny paper bag ears and mouth. (Note-the ears can also be used for the bunny headbands.)  To make bunny paper bags, first color the middle of the ears pink.  Cut out the ears and glue onto the top half of the white paper bag.  Cut out the mouth and glue near the bottom of the bag.  We used a 1 inch circle punch to make the pink noses.  The whiskers are cut out of black construction paper and are about 1/4 inch by 3 inches.  Glue the nose and whiskers to the bag above the mouth.  Draw eyes on the bag.  Add a cotton ball tail to the back of the bag with glue. 

To make the bunny paper cups, we started by shrinking down our bunny ears a lot.  Color the inside of the ears, cut them out, and glue to the back of the white paper cup.  We found peel and stick googly eyes at Michaels (my new favorite product!).  Stick the eyes about 1/3 the way down from the top of the cup.  The whiskers are cut into 1 inch pieces out of white pipe cleaners.  We put a 3-D glue dot where the nose should go and fit the 4 whiskers and mini pink pom pom on top of it.  To give it some color, we added pink or green Easter grass to the inside of the cup.

The Bunny Hop turned out really well and we would definitely do it again.