Sleeping Bunnies

Age: Toddler, Preschoolbunny

Equipment: None

Space requirements: On-the-spot

Activity description:

  • Sing the following lyrics while moving as identified:

See the little bunnies, sleeping until noon (children curl up in a ball on the floor)

Come let us wake them, with a merry tune

Oh so still, are they ill?

Wake up little bunnies and hop, hop, hop (children stand up and hop around)

  • Repeat the song using different animals and motions: horse and prance, elephant and stomp, cheetah and run, snake and slither, kangaroo and jump, eagle and soar.

Skill development:

  • Physical skills: bending; coordination; hopping
  • Non-physical skills: listening and following instructions; vocabulary development; animal identification
Posted in 18 months-2.5 years (Toddler), 2.5-4 years (Preschool), No equipment required, On-the-spot, S-Z

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