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Materials

A variety of hats that are appropriate for different activies, such as a chef hat for cooking, baseball cap for gym, marching band hat for music, special hat for story time, and beret for art time

Hat rack

Instructions

1. Help the children wash their hands.2. Give each child a square of wax paper to use as a work surface.3. Give each child a vanilla wafer, a spoon, and a knife.4. Pass around the tub of frosting and ask the children to scoop a spoonful onto their wafer and spread it with their knife.5. Give each child 1/2 of a fruit roll-up. Encourage them to use their plastic knives to cut out bunny ears. (If cutting is too difficult, they can tear the roll-up.) Ask the children to place the ears where they think a bunny's ears would be.6. Encourage each child to count out three chocolate chips and use them for the bunny's eyes and nose.7. Give each child a licorice stick. Help the children cut off pieces of it to use for whiskers.8. Nibble away on your bunny snacks!

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