Sleeping Bunnies is a well-known and fun children’s song that includes a melody and lyrics accompanied by whole-body movement. It dates back to at least the 1950s, but no one is certain who the original composer is. The rhyme details the image of bunnies asleep in the grass as the morning passes and lunchtime arrives.
The song has been used in nurseries and children’s groups for many years, especially in the mornings as a “wake-up” activity. The children curl up asleep like bunnies and on cue, they spring up and start hopping around, using their hands as bunny ears and wiggling their noses as they move.
Sleeping Bunnies can also be used as a way of introducing the time to children, as some of the verses reference the time of the day and provide a simple rhyming structure that they can learn to recite back to you.
Sleeping Bunnies Lyrics
See the bunnies sleeping till it’s nearly noon
Shall we wake them with a merry tune?
They’re so still, are they ill?
Wake up little bunnies!
Hop little bunnies, 3x hop
Hop, hop, hop, 3x hop
Hop little bunnies, 3x hop
Hop, hop, hop…
See the bunnies sleeping till it’s nearly noon
Shall we wake them with a merry tune?
They’re so still, are they ill?
Wake up little bunnies!
Skip little bunnies, 3x skip
Skip, skip, skip ,3x skip
Skip little bunnies, 3x skip
Skip, skip, skip…
See the bunnies sleeping till it’s nearly noon
Shall we wake them with a merry tune?
They’re so still, are they ill?
Wake up little bunnies!
Jump little bunnies, 3x jump
Jump, jump, jump , 3x jump
Jump little bunnies, 3x jump
Jump, jump, jump…
Hop little bunnies, 3x hop
Hop, hop, hop, 3x hop
Hop little bunnies, 3x hop
hop, hop, hop…