A Bunny Called Nat

I’ve posted this story twice in the past.  Both times with a video of myself telling the story. 
              
This year I added more pictures while I told the story.  I don’t have a video this year but here is the story.
                    
Once upon a time there was a little gray rabbit and his name was Nat.  One day he looked around and saw that all his brothers and sisters, cousins and friends were gray, too. He thought he would like to be different from them.   So he said:

I’m a bunny called Nat,

I’m short and fat,

And I can change my colour

Just like that! (snap your fingers)

    
Suddenly Nat was a blue bunny.  He was blue like the sky and blue like a blueberry and blue like the water in the pond.  It felt nice and cool being blue.  He decided to take a look at himself in the water.  He leaned so far over that SPLASH he fell into the pond.  He fell into the deep blue water and he couldn’t swim.  He called for help.  His friends heard him, but when they came to the pond they couldn’t see him because he was blue just like the water.  Fortunately a turtle swam by and helped Nat get safely to shore.  He decided he didn’t like being blue.  So he said:

I’m a bunny called Nat

I’m short and fat

and I can change my colour

Just like that!

He changed his colour to yellow.  Yellow like a daffodil, yellow like a bird and yellow like the sun.  Yellow seemed like a happy colour to be.  He was very proud of his new colour, and he decided to take a walk through the jungle.  Who do you think he met in the jungle?  He met a lion.  The lion looked at Nat’s colour and said “what are doing in that yellow coat?  I’m the only animal in this jungle that is suppose to be yellow!”  He growled so fiercely that Nat the bunny was very frightened and ran all the way home.   He said:

I’m a bunny called Nat

I’m short and fat

and I can change my colour

Just like that!

This time he changed to green.  He was green like the leaves on the trees, green like a grasshopper and green like the grass in the meadow.  As a green bunny, Nat thought, he’d be the envy of all the other bunnies.  He wanted to play with his other bunny friends in the meadow.  But because he was the same colour of the grass he could not be seen.  His friends just ran and jumped about him not seeing him at all.  So Nat had no one to play with while he was green.  Being green wasn’t much fun.  So he said:

I’m a bunny called Nat

I’m short and fat

and I can change my colour

Just like that!

Now he was orange.  Orange like a carrot, orange like a pumpkin, and orange like the fruit.  He felt like he was the brightest colour of all.  He decided he would go out and play with all his brothers, sisters and friends.  But what do you supposed happened?  When his friends saw him, they all stopped playing and started to laugh.  “Ha-ha who ever heard of an orange bunny?”  No one wanted to play with him.  He didn’t want to be orange anymore.  He didn’t want to be a blue bunny, a yellow bunny, or a green bunny anymore.  So he said:

I’m a bunny called Nat

I’m short and fat

and I can change my colour

Just like that!

He changed himself to gray.  And now that he was gray all of his friends played with him.  No one growled or laughed at him.  He was gray like a rain cloud, gray like a pussy willow and gray like an elephant.  It felt warm and comfortable being gray.  From that time on, Nat the bunny was always happy being a gray bunny and he decided that it’s really best being just what you are.

Each time Nat changed colour I would show the children and ask them what else was that colour.  They really enjoyed taking part and thought of many suggestions.