Dr Seuss Snack And Food Ideas

Tomorrow is Dr Seuss' birthday and what better way to celebrate then cooking up some yummy food with/ for the kids? Check out these awesome ideas-trust me your tummies will be happy you did!

Cat In The Hat Cookies from Family Crafts

Activities To Study Dr Seuss' Green Eggs And Ham

My favorite Dr Seuss book is Green Eggs And Ham.  I've been lucky enough to read and teach it to preschool students in Canada, South Korea and Thailand so there's no shortage of things to keep us busy today! Won't you join us in doing some fun activities to go along with this silly story?

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Literacy: Rhyming

Discuss rhyming words.  Ask your child if two words rhyme, then let them make up silly or real words that rhyme with the word you give them.  Example-- you say ham and they say sam, bam, zam.  You could also make a concentration game out of rhyming word cards.  To make the cards, photocopy pictures from the book, cut them out and paste them onto index cards. Let your child play a memory game with them. A match is made when two rhyming words are found.

Science: Floating Eggs

Put a hardboiled egg in water. The egg will sink. Tell your children that you are going to add salt to the water and ask them what they think will happen. Once you stir in enough salt the egg will actually float.

Art: Green Foods

Brainstorm green foods or cut out green foods from a flyer or magazine. Classify into foods that you like and you don’t like. Once you are finished glue the green foods that you would like to eat onto a paper plate.

Drama: Chef Play

Make some green eggs and ham out of felt pieces. Give your child a frying pan, bowls, spoons, dishes and anything else that they might enjoy cooking with. Let them use their imagination to cook up food for you.

Gross Motor Skills: Egg Race

Have a spoon race using a large plastic spoon and a green plastic Easter egg. Child must balance the egg on a spoon as they walk. Once this is mastered have them push the egg across the room with their nose!

Math: Egg Counting

Glue a pink, ham-slice shaped construction paper circle to a dinner-size paper plate. Cut 12 egg shapes from green card stock and place the eggs in a zipper baggie. Give child a foam dice, the plate and the baggie of eggs. Ask child to place green eggs on the plate to match the number on the dice.

Sensory: Playdough

Give child an empty egg carton and different colored playdough. Have child roll the playdough into eggs and sort them in the egg carton.

Recipe: Make Green Eggs and Ham

Make scrambled eggs but add green food coloring or pesto (my favorite) to make them green. Serve with ham for breakfast or a snack. Mmm…

Free Printables To Celebrate Dr Seuss' BIrthday

How fun is it to learn, play and party Dr Seuss style? This week I've been sharing some activities for Dr Seuss books each day but today I'm sharing some free printable units, activities and party decor with you:

Free Printable Units & Tot School Games

Dr Seuss Unit from 2 Teaching Mommies

1 Fish, 2 Fish Counting Placemat from Obseussed

Dr Seuss Activity Blocks from Sugar Bee

Wocket In My Pocket Rhyming Activity from Fun In First Grade

Dr Seuss Matching Game from Oopsey-Daisy

Heaps of Seuss inspired printables at Classroom Jr

Dr Seuss Unit from What The Teacher Wants

Free Printable Party Decor

Cupcake Toppers from Frogs, Bees, Under The Seas

A HUGE thanks to all of the lovely ladies who created these and shared them for FREE with us today. Enjoy!

Activities To Study Dr Seuss' One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

Today we're learning all about colours and fish while reading Dr Seuss' One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. Here's some fun activities you can do along with us:

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Literacy: Fishing

Make a fishing rod out of a stick, string and magnet. Cut out paper fish from construction paper and write a letter on each one. Clip paperclips onto the paper fish. Place the fish in a large bucket. Take turns "casting" your line into the bucket, saying "One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish" as you do it. Child must practice identifying the letter on each fish.

Have child practice sorting fish by colour and size or uppercase and lowercase letters.

Art: Paper Plate Fish

Draw a triangle mouth shape on a paper plate. Have your child cut out the triangle, and have them glue it on the fish as a tail. Let your child color, or use glitter, or tissue paper to decorate their fish.

Math: Counting Goldfish

Tape numbers in the inside of a muffin tin, 1 to 6. Tell your child to place the appropriate number of Goldfish crackers into each "fish bowl" (the holes in the muffin tin). 

Motor Skills: Gold Fish Toss

Give your child a variety of balled up socks in an assortment of colours and a laundry basket. Have child tell you what colour the sock (fish) is and then toss it into the basket (fish bowl). Count how many fish land in the fish bowl or sort by colour.

Recipe: Fish in the Lake Snack

Make blue Jell-O (to represent the lake) with your child letting him mix, stir and add the ingredients in a small clear plastic cup or bowl. Cut grapes in half (to represent fish) and place in the Jell-O counting as you do so. Refrigerate as per instructions on the box.

Drama: Play Fisherman

Let your child pretend to be a fishermen. You can use a box with low sides for a boat or a laundry basket, dowels with strings for poles, and plastic fish. You can also provide shading hats, empty tackle boxes, and lunchpails. 

Activities To Study Dr Seuss' The Cat In The Hat

Today we're reading The Cat In The Hat by Dr Seuss and I can't wait to try these activities out with K.

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 Fingerplay: 5 Little Cats

(make 5 tiny hats for fingers)


One little cat on a sunny day,


Put on his hat and went out to play.


Two little cats when it started getting dark,


Put on their hats and went to the park.


Three little cats when the sky was blue,


Put on their hats and went to the zoo.


Four little cats by the kitchen door,


Put on their hats and went to the store.


Five little cats on a sunny day,


Put on their hats and they all ran away.

Literacy: 

Shape Emergent Reader from Making Learning Fun 

Art: 

Let child paint or colour red stripes on a white lunch bag.  Roll the bottom of the lunch bag up and staple to a paper plate brim as described above.

Snack Recipe: Mini Cat’s Hats


Start with a Ritz cracker. Spread a layer of cream cheese on. Add a thin cherry tomato slice and repeat.

Motor Skills: A Balancing Act

The Cat in the Hat always seems to be balancing things. Give child a small paper bag full of an identical group of items, such as a block, a spoon, a crayon, a marble, a plastic straw, and a bowl. Have each child try to make a tower with all of the items, balancing them in the easiest way possible. After this activity, discuss with children how the process went. Which items balanced most easily on top? Which items worked best on the bottom? Why?

Math: Whiskers 

Draw 5 cat faces without whiskers. Write a number onto each cat 1 through 5. Provide the children with 15 pipe cleaners, and have the children place the appropriate number of whiskers onto each cat.

 

Activities To Study Dr Seuss' The Foot Book

Dr Seuss' birthday is March 2nd and to celebrate K and I are going to have a week worth of Dr Seuss fun by reading and learning about one book each day. Today I'm sharing with you some activities to go along with one of our favorite books, The Foot Book.

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Song: 

If Your Happy And You Know It

Literacy:

This book is full of opposites!  Point some of them out to your child today. For example, up/down, high/low, near/far, left/right, light/dark, sun/moon, here/there, black/white, yes/no, man/woman, boy/girl, open/close, happy/sad, old/new, fat/thin, wet/dry. After you finish reading the book, call out some words and see if your child can give you the opposite.  Younger toddlers won't be able to do this but there is no harm in talking about it!

Math: 

Trace feet and compare which is big and small. Match shoes in pairs and then line up biggest to smallest and vice versa. You can also graph by type of shoe.

Teach your child right and left.   Put an R on your child's right foot and an L on his left.  Re-read the story.  Every time you read the words right or left, have your kick the foot (or point to the foot) that coordinates with the reading.

Art: 

Put paint on your child's feet and allow him to paint using his feet and toes.

Sensory: 

Put bubble wrap on the floor and let them walk on it and pop it.

  

Motor Skills: 

Have child trace their feet on construction paper and cut them out. They can decorate each foot and label it. Then create an obstacle course made of feet by taping the paper feet across the room. Place them so that child must crawl under and over safe obstacles. Then have them follow the feet!