Ask them how they would feel if they lost their favorite stuffed animal. Help them realize that she lost something and ask if they know what it was she lost. This one actually goes very well with Knuffle Bunny Too, because in that book, Trixie goes to Pre-K, and the illustrations show drawings of Trixie with black & white photos of her school. When it gets to the part of when Trixie loses her knuffle bunny, ask the children what they think shes saying. The result was striking and made a great display in our hallway. Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale is a 2004 picture book written by Mo Willems. One of the children noticed this and came up with the idea to draw and glue on a flag for the flag pole. At the time I took the photograph, the flag had been taken down from the flagpole for the day. The children drew pictures of themselves and a friend on another piece of paper (we used white construction paper), cut around the people, and glued them onto the black & white photograph. Leaving the Laundromat with her daddy, toddler Trixie realizes shes missing her constant and beloved companion, Knuffle Bunny. Mo Willems illustrates the Knuffle Bunny series using a combination of black & white photography (for backgrounds) with illustrations of the people and other objects.įor this art project, I took a photograph of the front of our school, then printed it on cardstock in grayscale. The story starts with little babbling, bright-eyed Trixie and her dad taking a trip to the laundromat. In a previous post, I wrote about the Pigeon books my class made in the style of Mo Willems. Knuffle Bunny is the first in a series of three great books by Mo Willems.

While studying children’s author, Mo Willems, we did a neat art activity to correlate with the artwork in his Trixie series.

Trixie knuffle bunny