What We Did This Week - Dr. Seuss Recap

Pinky is 5 years, Chaos is 35 months, Wild One is 15 months

It's been a really busy week celebrating Dr. Seuss! Read along to see what we did each day this week or click the button below to see all of our posts from the week!

Day 1: We read Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are and The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. We made Thing 1 and Thing 2 pencils, made a watercolor painting of the Cat in the Hat, and played a hat game with Wild One.


Day 2: We read Horton Hatches the Egg and watched a video of a robin hatching from its egg. We "hatched" some plastic eggs with Wild One.


Day 3: We read Sneetches and Bartholomew and the Oobleck. We made our own oobleck, pretended to be sneetches, and played a color/shape sorting game.


Day 4: We read And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. We made up our own tall tales, did Goldfish math at snack time, played with fish felt boards, and played a rhyming matching game.


Day 5: We read The Lorax and The Foot book. We painted footprint fish, played a shoe game with Wild One, made our own Truffula tree centerpieces and learned about water pollution first hand.


Day 6: We read The Shape of Me and Other Stuff and Oh, The Places You'll Go. We traced Pinky and Chaos to make giant drawings, played with a shape sorter with Wild One, and played 2 homemade games - a movement game and a good choices game.


Day 7: We ended the week by reading Green Eggs and Ham. The kids had a great time role playing with their felt green eggs and ham.


Not feeling done yet? Check out what we didn't have time for (but bookmarked for NEXT year!)

There's a Wocket in My Pocket art project from Teach Kids Art


Horton Hears a Who craft from Meet the Dubiens


Thing One and Thing Two handprint paintings from Stuff by Ash.


Cat in the Hat and Thing One and Thing Two Finger Puppets from Craft Jr.


One Fish Two Fish Art Project from Deep Space Sparkle


Hop on Pop Twin Sheet Tutorial from ObSEUSSed


And lastly:

A round up of ideas to keep you busy for a long, long time from Roots and Wings Co

Dr. Seuss letter writing printables from Missmernagh.com
Printables 1
Printables 2

Thanks for joining us all week! Now I'm off to rest my tired rhyming tongue (and hopefully my thoughts will stop rhyming soon too!).

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Dr. Seuss, Day 7

For the final day of our week long celebration we read, in my opinion, the most well loved Dr. Seuss book there is - Green Eggs and Ham.


Now, I'm sure the MOST logical activity to pair with this book is eating green eggs and ham, but, since my kids won't touch normal colored eggs and ham, I had to get creative...

FELT green eggs and ham!

The kids had a blast pretending to be Sam-I-Am and reenacting the book.

If your kids are a bit more adventurous when it comes to eating, you may want to check out My Delicious Ambiguity for a great round up of Seuss-inspired foods.

Whew! What a week. I hope you had as much fun as we did. Be sure to check back tomorrow for our recap and a few activities that we ran out of time to do.

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Dr. Seuss, Day 6

Thank you so much for stopping by Day 6!

Two more great books to talk about today - The Shape of Me and Other Stuff and Oh, the Places You'll Go!


After we read The Shape of Me and Other Stuff, Chaos surprised me by asking if he could pretend to be other shapes (I LOVE how imaginative he is becoming lately). We pretended to be pretzels, whales, frogs, and even a trumpet!

When we finished our game, we started our shape activities. Using a large art roll, I traced the shape of Pinky (R) and Chaos (L).


They spent a lot of time coloring clothes, faces, jewelry and other things to finish their pictures. Then we hung them on their bedroom doors.


Wild One, in the mean time, had a great time playing with a shape sorter. We have lots of shape sorters around the house, but I'm particularly fond of this Fisher Price Peek a Block one. The blocks are cute and eye catching and (best of all for Wild One) it has a handle to carry it around.


I'm sure many of you have read the next book - Oh, The Places You'll Go, but it's always worth a reread! I found two GREAT activities at Bright Hub.

First, we played a movement game - a wonderful activity when your kids are just chock full of energy. I made two piles of cards - one with movements (jump, skip, hop, walk backwards) and one with locations (the kitchen, the couch, your bedroom, etc). They took turns picking a card from each pile and acting out what was on them (jump to the kitchen, bear walk to the bathroom...).


The next game we played was all about Making Good Choices. I made a simple game board using markers and a piece of cardboard. Then I wrote out choices - both good and bad - on cards (cut up construction paper). We took turns rolling the dice and picking a card. If we correctly identified it as a good or bad choice (and it was fun to hear the logic behind some of these!) we were allowed to move forward. The first one to the finish line was the winner.

Our game board. I used some jumbo plastic jacks as game pieces.

This was a fun homemade game to play for family game night!

There's only one more day left of our Seuss celebration. Be sure to stop by tomorrow for the last of the festivities, then catch our recap (with a few activities we didn't have time for) on Sunday.

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Dr. Seuss Week, Day 5

Welcome to Day Five!

Today we read The Foot Book and The Lorax.


After reading The Foot Book (which Pinky was quick to point out was full of opposites) we did some fun foot activities!

The older kids painted their feet and walked across an art roll in the kitchen. We then turned the footprints into fish (inspired by this post at Crafty-Crafted). Hmm...this would have paired well with One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish yesterday. :)

Later I let them color more details to the picture - seaweed, bubbles, a dolphin, a boat...

Finding an activity for Wild One to go with The Foot Book was a no brainer. SHOES! My little girl is seriously shoe obsessed these days. I just picked out a few (some are big sister's, some are from dress up) and she had a blast trying them all on.

A girl has to have CHOICES!


Well, who wouldn't go for the ruby red slippers first?


She's not so sure about the leprechaun shoes

Next we read The Lorax. This is a book I have been wanting to read for awhile now. I really love it (and the message). To teach the kids about the effects of pollution, we built a water pollution bin like they did at Along The Way to see if we could clean up the damage (this is another activity I've been itching to try for awhile).

The kids were pretty shocked that I threw trash into the water (after I told them to pretend it was a beautiful lake with fish in it).


They had a great time cleaning up the trash (I was afraid they might find it too gross). When it came time to get the little particles they were very concerned about how we were going to clean them up. We built our own water filtration system using a strainer and a coffee filter. They were honestly just amazed! This was a really fun activity!


After the water clean up, we built a Truffula Tree Centerpiece for our dinner table. You can find the instructions to make your own on Craft Jr.

Creating...


Chaos decided he wanted to plant Truffula seeds instead of making trees (which I thought was very clever), so the poms stuck in the playdoh are seeds!

If you're looking for more fun activities to pair with these books check out some of these great ideas:

Mom Endeavors made her own family foot book! Click the picture to read more!


How about making your own storybook felt board as featured on ObSEUSSed? Click the picture to learn how!


Though his birthday is over, we're STILL not done celebrating! There are 2 more great Dr. Seuss books and activities tomorrow. Be sure to check back!

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