Preschool Lesson Plan: Rabbits

Rabbit (Watch Me Grow) by DK Publishing

Reading Center for Preschool Lesson Plan: Rabbits

Fill your preschool reading center not only with books about rabbits, but also with books about other small woodland creatures and Beatrix Potter books.

Snack for Preschool Lesson Plan: Rabbits

Serve your students foods that rabbits eat, such as:

-carrots
-lettuce
-sprouts
-celery
-sweet corn
-bananas
apples
-pears
-strawberries
-peaches
-sunflower seeds
-green peppers

Concepts for Preschool Lesson Plan: Rabbits

Letter: Rr for rabbit
Number: 2 because rabbits have 2 ears
Shape: oval like a rabbit ear
Color: gray

Fine Motor Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Rabbits

Give your students some play dough to work with. Have them make rabbits from the play dough. Rolling and pinching play dough helps a preschoolers fine motor skills improve.

Gross Motor Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Rabbits

Bunny hop: Have your students put on their rabbit ear headbands (see the art project below). Now do the bunny hop with your preschool students! Put on some music and let your preschoolers hop to the beat of the music.

Carrot drop: Line your preschool students up in two lines. Across the room have a bucket set up for each group. Say, "On your mark, get set, go!" Have your preschool students hop (wearing their rabbit ear headbands) to the buckets and drop in a carrot. 
Then have them hop back to the end of their line of rabbits.

Art Center Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Rabbits

Rabbit ears: Have your preschool students cut out two long ovals from gray colored construction paper. Better yet, have them cut the ovals from white paper and then color the ovals gray. Make headbands for your students from construction paper. Attach the gray ovals to the headbands, one on each side. Size the headbands to the heads of your preschool students. Now you have a classroom full of rabbits!

Songs/Finger Plays for Preschool Lesson Plan: Rabbits

Follow this link to rabbit finger plays and rhymes!

Pre-math Center Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Rabbits

Print out coloring pages of the outline of a number 2. Have your preschool students draw two rabbits in the outline of the number 2.

Pre-writing Center Activities for Preschool Lesson Plan: Rabbits

For younger students, provide sheets of paper with the letters R and r lightly printed on them. Have the children trace the letters. do the same with the number 2.

For older students, provide an example of the letters R and r and the number 2. Have the students practice writing the letters and number freehand.