We continued our second week of The Peaceful Preschool with a bunny hop!
We started our morning by reading The Runaway Bunny and So Many Bunnies: a bedtime ABC and counting book. The kids thought the So Many Bunnies book was hilarious as mama bunny tucked each of her children into “bed.” I had my son tell me each letter and number as mama bunny counted her 26 children and called them all by name.
Later in the day, we practiced our fine motor skills. We collected “bunny tails.” My sweet little 21 month old tried her hardest to be like big bother and use tweezers to pick up the cotton balls, but after several tries, she found it easier to use her fingers. My son thought it was a lot of fun and kept dumping out his bag so that he could collect more! I didn’t realize how much it would benefit my almost 5 year old, but after several minutes, he told me his hand was getting tired. He continued to use the tweezers, but definitely got in a lot of great fine motor skills practice!
Taking the “bunny tails,” we placed them in piles of 5 and practiced skip counting by 5’s until we counted all of the cotton balls that we had collected.
We then had a lot of fun making bunny masks! The kids glued on all of the cotton balls to make soft bunny fur, and after the masks were made, we hopped around like bunnies while playing “Here Comes Peter Cotton Tail.”
I love listening to my kids laugh and play together… and it makes my heart even more full to know that I had a small part in enriching their childhood!
