Happy M&M Bunny Patterning Activeness For Kids
December 12, 2018
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Easter is coming! We beloved crafting, creating, learning as well as sharing Easter themed crafts as well as activities. This calendar month for our Virtual Book Club for Kids nosotros are spotlighting books past times Margaret Wise Brown.
We decided to read The Runaway Bunny as well as practise to a greater extent than or less unproblematic bunny patterning activities! Today I'm going to percentage our gratis colorful bunny printables amongst yous along amongst our slow patterning activities.
To acquire started nosotros read The Runaway Bunny past times Margaret Wise Brown.
The Runaway Bunny is a sweetness mass close a trivial bunny who tries to run away from his mom. His mom lets him know that she volition e'er run afterwards him as well as uncovering him because he is her trivial bunny. I peculiarly liked this storey because lately my toddler volition force dorsum as well as say, "I loathe you" or "go away' as well as I only reply "I beloved you" or "I'll e'er last hither when yous postulate me" as well as he tin force me away but I know that he knows that I volition e'er beloved him.
For our bunny patterning activeness nosotros solely needed a few materials.
Materials for bunny patterning:
- Spring M&Ms
- Bunny printables (see below for diverse colors)
- Scissors
- Glue
- Strips of structure newspaper (approx 4x9)
You tin download our gratis bunny printables here. I printed out i of each color.
Blue bunny printable
Green bunny printable
Pink bunny printable
Yellow bunny printable
Purple bunny printable
Directions:
Prior to getting started amongst patterning you'll desire to impress out the bunnies, cutting them into small-scale pieces, as well as organize them past times color to brand for slow patterning.
Then yous tin organize your materials as well as start patterning!
My preschooler (age 4) as well as I worked on unproblematic AB patterns using her bunnies.
After she arranged her bunnies into a pattern, as well as thus she added M&M bunny tails to check the bunnies.
Once she discovered her favorite color combination as well as designing as well as thus nosotros used the mucilage to mucilage the bunnies to her strip of structure paper... as well as and thus she made her M&M designing i time to a greater extent than as well as again... occasionaly sneaking one.
For my toddler (age 2) instead of making patterns nosotros only worked on color matching. This activeness reminded me of our "Don't Eat Peep" M&M game.
He glued i of each color bunny onto his structure newspaper strip as well as and thus he matched the M&Ms to each bunny to practise bunny tails!
It was fun to hear equally he pointed to each bunny as well as told me what each color was as well as and thus tried to uncovering the matching M&M.
If yous don't desire to role M&Ms for this activeness amongst your kids yous could easily role colorful large buttons, jewels, pom poms, colored stones, or only unproblematic circular manipulatives.
After nosotros created for a chip as well as thus nosotros took a intermission to consume everything on our boards... as well as and thus nosotros started over i time to a greater extent than !
We don't practise as well as larn amongst candy that often, thus the kids sentiment this was an awesome treat. I pose a lot of M&Ms inward the bowls for my kids because they are actually skilful at using the treats for learning first, before nosotros consume them. If your kids are the kind that volition last grabbing M&Ms past times the handfuls, restrain the pose out yous ready out for them.
I ready expectations ahead of fourth dimension amongst my kids when I role treats for learning fun. We tin consume a few spell nosotros play as well as if kids sneak besides many as well as thus their treats acquire removed. My kids learned apace to role the treats the correct way. If your kids aren't cook for that as well as they desire to practise this activeness as well as thus role something other than candy.
If yous missed the links to our gratis bunny printables earlier, yous tin catch them all correct here:
Green bunny printable
Pink bunny printable
Yellow bunny printable
Purple bunny printable
This activeness develops thus many skills... including...
color matching
color identification
patterning
cutting
gluing
sequencing
fine motor skills
linguistic communication skills
sorting
You tin also embed counting past times counting the bunnies inward each color as well as counting the pose out of M&Ms.
Do yous accept whatever other favorite bunny themed activities for kids?
Here are several of our other favorite bunny crafts as well as activities to cheque out too...
Make life sized bunny friends
Play a bunny mention game
Move using our bunny displace game
Here are another fun Margaret Wise Brown inspired ideas shared past times our Virtual Book Club for Kids co-hosts!
The Important Book: Making An All About Me Book past times Growing Book past times Book
Goodnight Luna I Spy Game past times Inspiration Laboratories
Goodnight Luna Book Words Printable Activity past times Lalymom
Storytelling Necklace Inspired past times Goodnight Moon past times The Educators' Spin On It
Goodnight Luna Gross Motor past times iii Dinosaurs
Soothing Scented Goodnight Luna Inspired Sensory Play by Still Playing School
Big Red Barn Preschool Vocabulary Activities past times Playdough to Plato
Match Pairs - The Runaway Bunny Inspired Game past times Rainy Day Mum