BUNNY HOUSE MINI PACK

Our Approach to Early Childhood Learning

We know the most impactful learning for little ones happens through spending quality time with other children and adults, reading books, playing games, having conversations, and engaging in joyful activities. Kids can and should love learning; we do not believe in pressuring them to learn things they don’t want to, complete workbook pages, or do flashcard drills.

All of our activities are designed by an educator, and start with play - exploring, pretending, singing, or crafting, and then progress into learning activities. There are sequenced variations to meet the needs of your developing child, and to help you adapt one activity for multiple kids, if applicable. You’ll notice there are no ages attached to the progressions of the activities and this is absolutely intentional - every child will develop at their own rate and that is perfect!

Our goal is to prepare children for kindergarten and beyond with exposure to a variety of topics, vocabu-lary, books, experiences, foundations of reading, basic numeracy, fine motor skills, strategies to manage their emotions, and lots of curiosity. But most importantly, we want them to love learning, so have fun!

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Adult supervision is required for all activities. Some activities may not be appropriate for younger children; please use your best judgement and monitor your children closely.

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BUILD A BUNNY TREEHOUSE (p. 4)• Creative play

TREEHOUSE MATH (p. 5) • Decomposing numbers, addition

DESIGN A BUNNY HOUSE (p. 6)• Creativity, fine motor skills

CREATE A BUNNY VILLAGE (p. 6)• Creative Play

MORE EASTER FUN (p. 7)

activity listEASTER

Supplies• Printables 8, 9 or 10• Cardboard• Toilet paper and/or paper towel

rolls (at least 3 to support one plat-form)

• Cardstock or construction paper• String• Tape• Hot glue gun• Blocks (optional)

How ToFor each platform you make, cut a freeform shape from card-board. Trace that shape onto a piece of green cardstock, cut out, and tape or glue onto the cardboard. Hot glue 3 TP rolls onto the bottom of the platform.

Stairs: accordion fold a strip of brown cardstock and tape or hot glue it to the bottom of the platform.

Swing: cut a ring about an inch wide from the end of a TP roll. Cut a piece of string and hot glue each end to the swing, then glue the middle to the base of a platform.

To make your bunny houses, signs, and bushes stand up, tape them to a block or to the side of a cut section of TP roll.

BUILD A BUNNY TREEHOUSE

TREEHOUSE MATH

Why?

Number sense is the foundation for strong mathematical thinking. Part of having strong number sense is knowing that 3 is the same as 2 + 1, 3 + 0, 0 + 3, and 1 + 2. Breaking apart numbers in this way will help your Little Learner think flexibly, develop fact fluency, and work towards efficient strategies for addition and subtraction.

You can do this activity with the bunny tree-house, or simply with 2 bunny houses taped to the wall, and use the area in front of them as your “platform”.

Level 1Give your child 5 or fewer objects to split between the two platforms. Talk about how many are on each and how many all together. For example, give 3 bunnies and put 2 on the top, and 1 on the bottom. Say 2 and 1 make 3.

Level 2Challenge your child to find another way to break apart the objects between the two plat-forms. For example, they move all 3 bunnies to the top platform and say 3 and 0 makes 3.

Level 3Increase the number of objects, ask your child to find all the ways they can to break apart the number, and record the matching addition sen-tences created on a piece of paper.

Supplies• Small chicks, bunnies, or dolls• Bunny treehouse, or 2 bunny

houses taped to the wall

DESIGN A BUNNY HOUSE

CREATE A BUNNY VILLAGE

Supplies• Printables 11 and/or 12• Stickers• Markers, paint, etc...

We used the flower printables from our April Showers pack (available on our website) to decorate our bunny house!

Supplies• Printables 8 - 13• Small chicks, bunnies,

or dolls

How ToA fun, lower-prep alternative to the treehouse is to tape our printable bunny houses on the wall along your baseboards and use them as a backdrop for imaginative play!

CREATE A BUNNY VILLAGE

MORE EASTER FUN

Book List• Bunny Roo and Duckling Too• You’re My Little Honey Bunny• Cat & Bunny• The Little Rabbit (My Little Animal Friend)

Get Moving• Using sidewalk chalk, draw different color Easter Eggs spread out on the ground.

Draw a number or letter next to each egg. Prompt your child to run to a certain egg by color, letter or number, size, etc...

• Have your child do a movement (jump 3 times, spin around, etc...) on that egg• Have your child hop like a bunny, chirp like a chick, or say a word starting with the

letter by their egg