Read the Knuffle Bunny book to the children and then give each child a piece of paper and crayons or markers. Ask them to draw and color a picture of their favorite toy on the paper. During a large group time, draw a happy face, a sad face and a mad face on a sheet of flip chart paper and put it on the floor in front of the children. Talk about the feelings of happy, sad and mad and point them out on the paper while talking. Ask each child to put the drawing of their toy under the face that shows how they would feel if they lost that toy. After each child has placed their picture under a face, count the pictures in each category and talk about why they chose the face they did. Ask the children to talk about times they have felt all of the feelings on the faces.
After reading Knuffle Bunny to the children, show them a large picture of a bunny or a stuffed rabbit. Ask the children to pretend the picture or stuffed rabbit is Knuffle Bunny. Have them count the eyes, ears, arms, hands, legs and feet on the bunny. Talk to them about how there is only one nose and one tail. Give each child two carrots. Have each child give one carrot to the bunny. Talk about giving the bunny “just one” carrot. Count how many carrots the bunny has at the end. Have the children give the bunny their other carrot and count how many there are now. When the counting is done, wash the carrots and eat them for snack.
Provide each child with a coloring page of a rabbit and ask them to color and decorate it anyway they want. Provide them with markers, crayons, water color paints, stickers, sequins and glue. In a large group, show them a picture of the bunny from the Knuffle Bunny book. Have them look at their pictures and talk about what is the same and different about their pictures and Knuffle Bunny. Lead them to talk about both having two ears, eyes, arms, legs, feet etc. Talk about the different colors the children used and how they decorated their bunnies differently than Knuffle Bunny.