Here are some ideas to make your Spring Animals or Easter unit special. 

Most of the books, songs, and activities listed here refer to chicks, ducks, and bunnies. 

Since I teach in a public school I use this unit in place of Easter, however I have included some ideas for some Easter activities, songs, and videos for those who are able to use them. 

If you work in a public school please check your district policy on holidays first. 

 

 

Bunnies

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicks and Eggs

     
 
Ducks  

 

 

 

Here Comes Peter Cottontail

 

The Tales of Beatrix Potter    Vol. 1

 

 

Music is an important part of any Early Childhood program.  

 

5 Little Ducks

fingerplay

Here Comes Peter Cottontail Here is a Bunny

*see words below*

The Bunny Pokey

 

Little White Duck

 

 

 

Here is a Bunny

Here is a bunny

(make bunny ears with two fingers)

With his ears so funny,

(wiggle ears)

And here is a hole in the ground.

(make a hole with other hand)

When a noise he hears,

(cup hand to ear)

He pricks up his ears,

(put two fingers behind your head to make bunny ears)

And jumps in the hole in the ground.
 

B-U-N-N-Y

(tune:B-I-N-G-O)

I know a rabbit with long pink ears

And bunny is his name-o!

B-U-N-N-Y

B-U-N-N-Y

B-U-N-N-Y

And Bunny is his name-o!

 

 

Activity

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Instructions

Setting: Small Group, Math Centers

Objective: patterning

Materials: pattern grid recording sheet, spring stickers

Directions:  Students pattern using spring/holiday theme stickers.

 

Setting: Small Group, Math Centers

Objective: Number recognition, number sense, one-to-one

Materials: foam die, 1-5 game recording strips, spring holiday stamps (from Oriental Trading)

Directions:  Students take turns rolling the die, identifying the corresponding number on their paper and stamping that number (see picture at left). 

 

Setting: Small Group, Math Centers

Objective: concepts of print, number sense, number identification

*This is a crossover activity meaning it integrates literacy and math*

Materials: spring holiday stamps, "I Can See Spring" booklet- one per child.

Directions:  Students "read" the sentences on each page using their knowledge of numbers and the rebus pictures for support.  Students stamp the appropriate number of animals or items on each page.

 

Setting: Small Group, Math Centers

Objective: Number Recognition, 1:1

Materials: Do-A-Dot markers, spring path game sheet, number cards

Directions:  Give each child a spring path game sheet and a Do-A-Dot marker.  Place the number cards in the middle of the table in a basket or container.  Each child takes turns selecting a number card from the container.  The child identifies the number and then marks it on his paper with his Do-A-Dot marker. 

 

 

 

Activity Instructions
Paper Plate Bunny

 

Materials:  paper plates, pink pom-pom's, white construction paper, glue, wiggly eyes, pink pipe cleaners, crayons.

Attach wiggly eyes with glue to the paper plate.  Glue the pink pom-pom in the middle of the plate to create nose.  Add pink pipe cleaners cut to appropriate size for whiskers.  Use crayons to add other facial features.  Cut white paper into bunny ears and attach with glue.  Color inside of bunny ears with pink crayons. 

Tissue Paper Egg

Materials: white cardstock, pastel tissue paper in variety of colors, glue, liquid starch.

Cut white cardstock in the shape of a large egg. Cut the tissue paper into small squares.  Have students paint the egg with glue and lay the pastel tissue squares on the egg.  When dry paint over top of egg with liquid starch to give the egg a shiny, smooth appearance.

Paper Bag Bunny

Materials:  white paper lunch bags, white construction paper, crayons, white cotton balls, small pink pom-pom's, wiggly eyes, glue, scissors. 

Have students decorate the front of the bag with crayons to resemble bunny face, add two wiggly eyes, and glue pink pom-pom on for nose.  Glue white cotton ball on back for bunny's tail.   Cut two white ears from the construction paper and glue to the top of the bag.  Fill with Easter grass and these bags can be used to hold plastic eggs and candy.

Hatching Chick

 

Materials:  brads, white cardstock, yellow paper, crayons, scissors, glue.

Cut the cardstock into large egg shapes, then cut across the egg in a zig-zag shape.  Attach the two zig-zagged halves of the egg on one side with a brad.  Xerox a shape of a baby chick onto the yellow construction paper.  Have your students cut out the chick and glue behind the egg.  When the egg opens it will look like the chick is hatching.

Puffy Paint Bunny or Egg

Materials:  shaving cream, glue, food coloring, outline of bunny or egg on cardstock

Add: wiggly eyes, pink pom-poms and pipe cleaners if making bunny.

Mix one part white liquid glue to two parts of regular Barbasol shaving cream.  If you are making an egg add food coloring.  Allow students to spread mixture on their paper in large dollops.  If making a bunny add wiggly eyes, pom-pom nose, and pipe cleaner whiskers before dry.  When dry these paintings are three-dimensional.

Coffee Filter Eggs

 

 

Materials:  regular, white coffee filters, scissors, watercolor markers, water.

Cut coffee filters into egg shape.  Color coffee filters with pastel colored watercolor markers and spray lightly with water when finished.  When dry they will resemble painted Easter eggs. 

Our Egg Book

 

Materials:  white paper, crayons.

Cut white paper into egg shapes, one piece for each child.  As a culmination of your study of eggs have each child draw something that they learned hatches from an egg on their paper.  Bind all the pictures into a book and title it "Our Egg Book" and place in the class library or science center. 

 

 

 

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