Children’s Easter Table at Bunnyville

 

I posted this Bunnyville table a few years ago, and this year again Sweet Baby Love came over and we set Bunnyville up! It was precious that this year (she’s 7 now) she remembered so many of the houses, and was actually looking for specific ones! We didn’t set a table; we just set Bunnyville up. I have tons of pictures, of course, but not ready for posting. When I read the sweet comments from the first time it was posted I was inspired to share it again. Happy Easter 2015! May you celebrate His Resurrection in peace and joy. ~Zuni

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I started collecting pieces for "Bunnyville” in the '90s, well before grandbabies came along.  They graced many a spring/Easter family gathering, and at one we even did a “tour” of Bunnyville—I served as the tour guide, showing our guests the “park,” the “wedding chapel,” the “downtown” area….  But for several years now Bunnyville hasn’t been laid out, until I decided that Sweet Baby Love, who is five, was ready to see and enjoy Bunnyville.

And enjoy she did!  Each one she took out of its box was accompanied by “Oh, look how cute!”

I let her arrange and re-arrange to her heart’s content, and make up stories about them as she played happily.

Once she headed home, I set a pretend table for her and her little brothers, using their Bunnykins dishes that were their dad’s and uncle’s (we’ve bought a third set, of the same vintage, for Baby #3)~~

The silverware was also our sons’—in fact, this fork has even met with the disposal, but I gently straightened it back, and now the marks it bears are just proof of having fed two generations of babies.

Beatrix Potter’s “Peber” Rabbit, as SBL called him when she was little, is one of my favorites, so when our DIL bought one for each of the three babies at Barnes & Noble last year, I bought these two, just in case one or two more babies come along.    I knew they would be well used in the meantime.  I filled them with the egg napkin rings my mother made years ago that I used (see http://chickadeehomenest.blogspot.com/2012/04/easter-table-vignettes.html (you may need to use the CONTROL key to link…I’m having problems with my links)).

I used the carrots in last year’s Easter post too—I like the color and texture they provide, and the tiny clothes pins with carrots on them are perfect for holding the place card.

You don’t see these “Bunnyville” pieces anymore, but I loved the details and the sweet stories you can create around them then, and still love them today.  Here are some of my favorites:

Mama Bunny with an apron full of her babies—there are three more around her back—is SBL’s favorite, and it, along with the one shown above of the hollow tree full of babies, are my two favorites. And see the bunny at her mushroom house window?  She’s setting a pie on the window sill.

And this is the playground at Bunnyville Park.  There are lovely swings from the trees, and birdie couples singing from their nests, and what would a playground be without some ornery bunnies climbing not a tree, but a GIANT CARROT?!  Bunnies are very active, you know.

In this “egg house” we see a bunny’s tail end, standing on her tiny bed, complete with pillow, curtains, and tiny slippers, and outside we see that she’s actually joining her brother in sliding right out the window! 

Happy Easter to you and yours, as you celebrate and rejoice in the blessings of the season.

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