Knuffle Bunny World Travels

A long time ago before Merry could even speak we saw a Between the Lions show featuring Mo William's book "Knuffle Bunny."

It was so cute we started calling Merry's bunny Knuffle bunny.  Years later we found the actual Knuffle bunny book, and quickly bought it.  Then came "Knuffle Bunny, Too" and finally "Knuffle Bunny Free".  After reading the third book I got an idea.  It started as a small idea and grew into a curriculum.

You see in the third book our heroine Trixie imagines her Knuffle Bunny visiting all the children around the world.  And at the end of the book she gets a letter from Knuffle Bunny, her first pin pal.  Now what better way to introduce a child to the concepts of how big the world is, how differently people live in different places, and how people are all just people, than writing letters to an imaginary girl about the pretend trip  her imaginary bunny is going on.

To start our journey I happened upon a Knuffle Bunny Event Kit.  It's from the Go Mo Grown-up page
there are other cool printable on that page too.  We went through most of the activities on day one but used the Knuffle Bunny from the name tags on our letters.

 We started with where we live and then worked our way out.  First Merry would draw a picture then she would dictate the letter, I would write then she would trace.  And finally she would add Knuffle Bunny to the picture.

We looked at major landmarks along the way.  Our most common way to travel was google image search. Merry would look through the images and pick one she liked to draw.

Here is our board about half way through.  The large Knuffle Bunny is from the same free printable as the smaller Knuffle Bunnies we used on the letters.  By the end of the year Knuffle Bunny has been to 6 of the 7 continents, and we have had fun.  I'm also excited to say this idea will keep going next year when Knuffle Bunny will travel across the USA visiting each of the fifty states.

This was my first totally my own idea curriculum.  I like to mix and match and make things work with my kids but I hadn't taken my own idea and ran with it before.  So I was a bit nervous to blog about it, silly, right.