Easter!

The Plan

Books

The Easter Bunny’s Assistant by Jan Thomas
Easter Surprise by Priddy Books
Max’s Chocolate Chicken by Rosemary Wells
Minerva Louise and the Colorful Eggs by Janet Morgan Stoeke

Extension Activities

Action Rhyme: “Hippity Hoppity, Easter Bunny”
Hippity, hoppity, Easter Bunny
Hippity, hoppity, Easter Bunny
Hippity, hoppity, Easter Bunny
Hopping all around
(Hopping, hopping, oh so quickly / Hop to the left and then to the right / Hopping high, then hopping higher / Hopping now much more slowly)
Credit: The Holiday Zone

Fingerplay: “Here Is a Bunny”
Here is a bunny with ears so funny (hold up index and middle fingers for ears)
And here is his hole in the ground (make a circle with the other hand)
At the first sound he hears, he pricks up his ears (extend two fingers)
And hops in the hole in the ground (fingers jump into the hole)
Credit: Early Literacy

Puppets: “Five Little Bunnies”
Hippety hop and hippety hay,
Five little bunnies went out to play.
Hippety hop and hippety hay,
One little bunny hopped away.
(No more bunnies are playing today,
I hope they come back another day.)
Credit: Twizzle Magazine

Craft

I bought these foam eggs from Target, and some glittery foam stickers; the buttons we had on hand from a previous craft!

How It Went

It didn’t. I planned this Easter storytime for a local Christian daycare and they cancelled on me twice. I still wanted to post it in case anyone was looking for Easter ideas! I will be able to use a lot of what I planned in spring storytime, including the sweet bunny finger puppets I made, which you will see on this Flannel Friday!