Preschool Crafts, Educational
Games and Activities

Bunny Preschool Learning Fun

For directions and patterns to this craft go to the Members Only Easter Craft Page.

Science

1. What do Bunny like to eat? - Go to the library or pet store and find out what bunnies eat.

2. Rabbit or Hare? - Find out what the difference is between a rabbit and a hare.

2. Make up a story about a bunny - Name your bunny and make up stories about it. Act out the stories using the carrots and the bunny.

Math

1. Math Stories - Make up stories about the bunny and how he lost, gave away, or found some carrots, and have your child figure out how many carrots the bunny has left. For example, you may say, "One day Hoppy the Bunny gathered a bunch of carrots into a big pile. He looked at the pile and wondered if he had enough carrots for his family. Can you help Hoppy count his carrots?" Or you can say, "Hoppy had ten carrots in his mouth. On his way home he got hungry and stopped to eat some. How many carrots did Hoppy eat?" Have your child count how many carrots are left in Hoppy's mouth and figure out how many he ate.

2. Deliver Carrots - Make a list of the people in your family or neighborhood with the number of carrots each person should receive next to his of her name. Have your child help the bunny deliver the correct number of carrots to each person. You can use candy, cards, or notes instead of the carrots. Or you can write little notes on the carrots.

3. Feed the Bunny Game - Write numbers, letters, words, shapes or math fact on the carrots. Tell your child, "Bunny would really like to eat carrots with the letter "a" on them. Can you find a carrot with the letter "a" and feed the bunny?" If your child feeds the bunny the wrong letter, make a yukky sound and have the bunny spit it out. Keep playing until all the carrots have been eaten.

4. How far can bunny hop? - Pretend your bunny is hopping and help your child measure how far he can hop. Have your child jump as far as he can and measure the distance of his jump.

Preschool Easter Learning Fun Craft and Activity

What you will need: Colorful paper, pipe cleaners, hole punch, and tiny spring stickers.

What to do:

1. Go to the Wisconsin Paper Council web site to get directions on how to fold the Easter basket.

2. After you have folded the basket use a hole punch to punch holes on each side of the basket.

3. Braid three pipe cleaners together and then attach them to the basket using the holes. (If you don't want to use pipe cleaners, you can just staple a strip of paper to the basket for the handle.

4. Decorate the basket with tiny spring stickers.

5. Print out the egg patterns onto different colors of paper and cut them out.

This craft and activity can be used to reinforce many learning concepts:

1. Letter Recognition - Write the letters of the alphabet on the eggs, one on each egg. Lay the eggs out on a table, face up. Have your child pick an egg and tell you what letter is written on it. If he is correct, he gets to place it in the basket. If he is wrong or doesn't know the letter, tell him the letter and place it in a pile. When your child has gone through all the eggs. Place the eggs that were in the pile on the table and keep playing until all the eggs are in the basket.

2. Number Recognition - Play the same as above, but use numbers.

3. Matching numbers or letters - Write letters or numbers on the eggs and make matching eggs. Place all the eggs on a table, face down. Play match game. When a match is found the eggs should be placed in the player's basket. The player with the most eggs win.

4. Matching Eggs - Have your child help you decorate the eggs so that you have two eggs each that are matching. When you are finished decorating the eggs play a match game. (Use eggs that are all the same color.)

5. Create Color Patterns - Have your child place the eggs in rows using different patterns. For example, he may use red, green, blue, red, green blue.

6. Counting - Have your child count how many eggs he has in his basket. Count by twos, threes, fours, etc.

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Three Little Kittens Preschool Craft and Matching Game - Three Little Kittens have lost their mittens. Can you help them find the matching mitten?

What you will need: Two paper plates, card stock, glue, and scissors.

What to do:

1. Print out the patterns for the eyes, nose, arms, and tongue (Large file or small file) and cut them out. Color the nose and tongue pink.

2. Print out the cat face pattern (Large file or small file) and use it as a template to cut a paper plate to make the cats face. Use the pattern to cut just the ear shapes out of another paper plate for the back of the head. Glue the two paper plates together (top to top) to make the face.

3. Glue on the nose and eyes. Draw in the whiskers with a black marker. Color in the ears. Glue the arms on the back of the head as shown in the picture.

4. Cut a slit in the paper plate used for the back of the head 2 1/2" long and 1/4" wide. Slip the tongue down through the hole so that it sticks out of the mouth.

5. Print out the mitten patterns onto colorful paper. You can make more sets of matching mittens by using different colors for the same patterns.

Mitten Pattern 1 - (Large file or small file)
Mitten Pattern 2 - (Large file or small file)
Mitten Pattern 3 - (Large file or small file)

6. Read your children the poem about the three little kittens that lost their mittens. (You can find it on Enchanted Learning.) Then play a mitten matching game. Place all the mittens on the floor or table spread out in front of your children. Let them take turns finding matching mittens and gluing a set their kitten.

Extensions - You can also use this activity to reinforce other learning skills by using the blank mitten patterns: Mitten Pattern Blank - (Large file or small file)

1. Matching Numbers - Make pairs of mittens with matching numbers.

2. Matching Letters - Make pairs of mittens with matching letters or use the upper and lower case of each letter.

3. Match by texture - This is a great activity for vision-impaired children - Cut mitten shapes from different types of material. Have your children match the mitten by texture.

4. Letter Sounds - Print out small pictures of different items and place a piece of tape on the back of each one. Using pictures from your child's worksheets works great. Tell your child that the kitty is very hungry but she only wants to eat things that start with the "a" sound. (Move the kitty's tongue back and forth.) Ask your child if he or she can find a picture of something that starts with that sound and place it on the kitty's tongue. If the child is correct, the kitty will eat it. (Pull up the tongue so it looks like the kitty is eating it. And pull it all the way out and remove the picture. Then place the tongue back in it's mouth. If the child picked a picture that does not match that letter sound, just move the tongue back and forth and tell your child that the kitty does not like that one because it doesn't start with that sound, and he should try again. (You can also play this game using ending sounds and long or short vowel sounds.)

5. Writing numbers or letters - Give your child a pad of small sticky notes. Tell him that the kitty is hungry for a certain letter or number. He should write the letter or number on the sticky note and feed it to the kitty. If he is correct, the kitty eats it. If not, he must try again.

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