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Printable Bingo Cards – Bunny Color Bingo

March 29, 2017 By Deirdre

After creating a set of color themed bunnies for our Knuffle Bunny Color Exploration game, I decided you might enjoy having a set of printable bingo cards that feature the same bunnies.

This set would be fun to take out to review or explore colors in the spring around Easter time.

Printable Bingo Cards and Supply List

This set of printable bingo cards contains three bingo cards. Each displays the same colors of rabbits. The colors name haven’t been typed under the rabbits. I wanted to give you the opportunity to select words you want to use for each color and the language you want to say the color words in.

Supply List

printable bingo cards
counters (buttons, beads, pom poms or disks)

Playing Bingo

Your children can play bingo with these cards in a variety of ways.

Versions of Bingo You Could Play

You could simply call out a color and have your children cover that color of bunny on the card until they have covered all the bunnies on the card
You could call out a color and have your children continue covering bunnies until they have three in a row.
You could play “Four Corners. Your children could only cover the bunnies that are in the corners when you call out the colors.
You could have your children use chopsticks to place a counter on each bunny when you call its color.
You could read a book about bunnies and colors like Quiet Bunny’s Many Colors or White Rabbit’s Colors before playing bingo. They are both wonderful.
You can have your children cover each bunny with a counter that matches that bunny’s color.

Knuffle Bunny Color Exploration Activity

March 27, 2017 By Deirdre

Fans of the wonderful book Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems know that Knuffle Bunny has to spend some time in a washer. I thought it would be fun to create a Knuffle Bunny color exploration activity with a washing machine.

Yesterday I walked you through how to make a DIY cardboard washing machine. You will want to put it together before you do the Knuffle Bunny color game. It is really simple to make and wanted to much time to put together.

Knuffle Bunny Color Exploration Activity

You will need to print out the Exploring Color Bunnies printable to use in the activity. The bunnies can be cut into rectangular cards or you can cut each bunny out. We chose to use the rectangular cards.

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If your children aren’t familiar with the story Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, you will want to read them the book. It will give your children an understanding of why the bunnies are being put in the washer.

After reading the book to them, you will want to review the colors of each of the bunnies. While most children will already know each of the colors, it will help them recognize the shade of each of the colors on each of the bunnies. Your children may recognize that the color words are displayed on each of the bunnies too.

Once your children have established that your children recognize the colors, you will want to spread out the color cards in front of the washing machine. You don’t have to spread out all the cards at one time. Young children may feel overwhelmed with rows of color cards to identify.

Then you can ask your children to find a particular color and place it in the washing machine. If they pick up the wrong color bunny, you can help them identify the color they selected. You can then guide them to correct bunny.

Alternative Activity

You can place all the bunny card in a pile. Your children can pick up the top card. Then they can say the color of that bunny and place it in the washing machine.

If you like this bunny activity, here are some more activities created by other bloggers featuring this Virtual Book Club book of the week.

Bunny Color Hop from Toddler Approved

Homemade bunny crayons from Messy Little Monster

Sidewalk Chalk Bunny Alphabet from The Educator’s Spin on It

Shredded Paper Bunny Craft from Artsy Momma

Hopping Bunnies Measurement Activity from Inspiration Laboratories

Spring Bunny Craft from Mama Smiles

Bunny Hop Number Line from Teach Beside Me

8 Awesome Easter Crafts for Kids

March 30, 2015 By Deirdre

There are have been a number of Easter crafts for kids shared here JDaniel4’s Mom. I have also shared some on other blogs as guest posts. Each was simple to construct and used items many of us have in our craft closets at home. They were designed for preschool or early childhood children to create. Although I am sure that older children would enjoy making them too. I thought you would enjoy getting to see my favorites all together.

Easter Crafts for Kids

LEGO Easter Egg

LEGO make great tools for illustrating all sorts of holiday themes. Children can come up with the subject of their creation on their own or they could be asked to create something in particular. An Easter egg with repeating stripes could be something they could be asked to make. (Patterning is not only a wonderful craft theme it also allows kids to work on a math concept.)

The great thing about LEGO crafts is that they are not permanent. They can be created or uncreated by its artist over and over again.

Creating a Patterned Egg and Recording Its Shapes

Last year my son and I worked on another craft with patterned eggs. He placed pre-cut shapes all over a blue Easter egg. Then he recorded how many of each shape he used. This was activity not only created a beautifully crafted egg, but the opportunity to work on shape identification.

Torn Paper Chick

It is really fun to tear the paper you are going to use in a craft. The process of tearing is also are great fine motor activity. The actual tearing done for this craft actually took some thought and concentration. We were trying to create the shapes needed to create the various parts of the chick.

Bunny Bags

My son helped me decorate bunny bags to hold special rabbit cookie bars we made to take to his teachers at school. I just love the eyebrows and freckles that he added to his bunnies. Easter crafts for kids become unique and special when kids bring their own whimsy and creativity to them. This bag project illustrates that truth beautifully.

Doily Chick

Egg shaped doilies made the cutest Easter chicks. This simple craft looks kind of elegant with its the frilly shape cutouts. It was really fun to make a chicken out of an egg.

Cereal Box Patterned Egg

Cardboard from an old cereal box was used to create line patterns that could be draw on an Easter egg along with an egg template. All the templates could be placed in a writing or art center for children to create their own special Easter egg. We used crayons for this fine motor exercise. Your children may prefer color pencils or markers.

Easter Crafts I Made For Others

Tin Foil Easter Egg

Special markers and cookies cutters were used to decorate a tin foil egg I shared on Instead of the Dishes. Kids will love decorating a cardboard egg covered in foil with an Easter theme the way we did.

Paper Plate Bunny

A paper plate, felt, and some pipe cleaners were all we needed to create a paper plate bunny for Kids Activity Blog. The felt nose, ears, eyes and mouth give the bunny a soft and fuzzy texture. The ruffled edges of the paper plate gave his chin texture too.

If your children create any of these Easter crafts for kids, please leave me a comment below or leave me a comment on my Facebook page.If you take a picture of your version of one of the crafts and share it on Instagram, please tag me. I would love to see it.

Healthy Lunch Ideas – Bounding Bunnies Bento

March 18, 2013 By Deirdre

I really try to give JDaniel healthy lunches. Sometimes I am more successful than others. Lately he has gotten in a rut as to what he wants to be served or make for his lunch. ( He is big on making his lunch all by himself right now.) American cheese sandwiches are what he has decided he likes. I won’t mind much, but he also wants American cheese on a flour tortilla for breakfast. I needed to do something to shake this up a bit. I needed to come up with some healthy lunch ideas!

Wait! I know what you are thinking. This lunch has cheese sandwiches in it. Yes, it does. It has two colors of American cheese in fact. What you can’t see is that under the bunnies are several pieces of pepperoni. Pepperoni isn’t my favorite source of protein, but it is one that he will eat in his lunch. Having some type of protein in the lunch was one of my healthy lunch ideas.

Cheese crackers are another popular lunch item for him to request. I did include a couple cheese crackers in a carrot shaped Easter egg in this lunch, but not many.

What he got more of were carrots and red grapes. He says he doesn’t like raw carrots, but I put them in anyway. JDaniel ended up eating half of them along with all the grapes. When he got home, he had just the two carrots in his bento box. Later when he asked for a snack I required he eat the two remain carrots. Having carrots on the menu was another of my healthy lunch ideas.
He made face while he at the carrots but, he did eat them. In fact he said they weren’t that bad.I keep telling him that healthy bounding bunnies who eat carrots have wonderful eye sight. My husband isn’t big on carrots and he has worn glasses for years. I am hoping JDaniel will make that connection between the need to eat carrots or decide he would like to see the world the way a bouncing bunny can.