A Bunny's Tail: An Easter Tier Tray Children's Story

To celebrate Easter this year, I thought it would be fun to write a little children's story and share it with you! This story (below) is meant to be told with projects from Kimberbell's Easter Tier Tray event. 

My hope is that you'll use the tier tray projects with your family to bring "A Bunny's Tail" to life! (Kind of like a flannelboard story, if you remember those . . .only with three dimensional characters.)

To learn more about Kimberbell's Easter Tier Tray event, please click HERE.  Please enjoy the story below with "bunny kisses and Easter wishes" from Kimberbell! 🌷 

A Bunny's Tail: An Easter Tier Tray Story

*This story includes every project from Kimberbell’s Easter Tier Tray machine embroidery event. Can you find them all?  (Note: the three carrots are bunched together as one item!)

In a grassy-green meadow with foxes and ferrets lived a velveteen bunny who loved growing carrots. 

She’d wake every sunrise to gather her crop, then she’d hippy-hop down to the Carrot Co-op.

“Sweet carrots for sale!” she’d say with a smile, her warm heart aglow 'neath her pretty profile.

And, filling her basket with all of her wares, the bunny sold carrots to horses and hares.

One day at the market,  the bunny sat, shaded, and no one came by though she waited…and waited…

“Where’s everyone gone?” asked the velveteen bunny. Then she peeked ‘round the corner and saw something funny!

A BIG rabbit was there, a fluffed tail on his back, and the new guy had set up a fresh flower shack.

“I’ve got flowers for sale!” Oh, he sold them like crazy! Lilies, anemones—even a daisy!

And those at the market? They all ran right over to buy pretty posies from lily to clover. 

“It’s fine,” thought the bunny. “It’s okay to share, it’s . . .good to have blossoms along with my carrots.”

But the very next day, a new bunny face set up a big booth with chic eggs made of lace.

"Oh, what will be next?” groaned the velveteen bunny. “Buttons and baskets? Petite pots of honey?”

“Will anyone still want my sweet, simple carrots? They’re not flashy or new, though they do have their merits…”

As she sat in the shade, feeling fretful and fraught, the velveteen bunny had a bright thought.

She took her tiered tray with three levels of wood and hopped up to the others, yep—right where they stood.

“Hello,” said the bunny, “How ‘bout we combine your flowers and eggs with these carrots of mine?”

Each velvet nose nodded and, from that very day, they merged all their goods on an Easter Tier Tray.

This darling exhibit held springtime’s best wishes from baskets and pillows to sweet bunny kisses!

And the velveteen bunny with all her new friends? She lived hoppily after! And now our “tail” ends.