Family Storytime: Bunnies

I was supposed to do the bunny theme the week before, but the area had a terrible rain storm with hail so no one ended up making Family Storytime. It was such an odd feeling because I never had that happen before, but the weather was really terrible. Anyway, I had the bunny theme all ready to go so I decided to carry the theme over to this week. 

How can you have a bunny storytime without mentioning their favorite food...carrots? Our first book was Too Many Carrots by Katy Hudson. This is a silly, fun book about sharing and what ends up happening if you don't. 

For a flannel story, I told a tale about bunny tails. It's about a fluffy, white bunny who ends up getting his tail dirty while playing outside. It's brown from the dirt, and he wants his tail back to normal but doesn't know which color it should be. Should it be blue like the sky during the day or black like the sky at night? Should it be green like the grass? The kids like saying the colors and telling me if that's the right color for Bunny's tail. 

Our next book told us what bunnies dream about in Bunny Dreams by Peter McCarty.

What an imaginative book! The kids took a real interest to this one.

We did a short "Five Little Bunnies" counting rhyme using the flannel board that got us counting as a group.

Our final book was Cat & Bunny by Mary Lundquist. I found the illustrations adorable and the message of including everyone during playtime charming. Some in the group liked pointing out who was Cat and who was Bunny. 

For our craft, we made bunnies out of Styrofoam cups and added a cotton ball for a bunny cotton tail. We did a variation on this craft by using a full bunny face printout instead of the kids drawing the face on because I knew it would work out better for my group. They really liked this craft!