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Showing posts with label Seuss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seuss. Show all posts

Monday, March 25, 2013

Dr. Seuss Activities|Dr. Seuss-A-Thon Continues{Oh, The Thinks You Can Think and Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?}

Oh boy! If there were a character limit for post titles, I certainly would have reached it with that one. These are some long titled books! Oh The Thinks You Can Think! and Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? were last week's Dr. Seuss books for the Dr. Seuss-A-Thon. 

 My copies are what you  might call "well loved" as you can see above. They're actually my mom's and I'm pretty sure she bought them from the library  in one of those sales with the books that are just too worn for them to keep. But, hey, they're still all there and still readable, so I say we keep using them!
Oh, The Thinks You Can Think! Activities
  • Recreate the front cover: scan the people, print them out, and cut them out (maybe even do this on magnetic paper or attach them to magnets. Print or draw different shapes and have the people walk around and/or in them. You can talk about the directions they're going: up, down, left, right.
  • Create a "think story": the book is all about the things you can think up or imagine. Let your kid's draw their own think story or create one by putting together pictures from magazines. You could even scan pictures from books and print them out.

Did I Ever tell You How Lucky You Are? Activities
Color and/or draw some cactus. Discuss how it would feel to really sit on one...probably not the best idea!

Some of the "unlucky" characters on pages 6-7 are trying to build a bridge. 

Try building a bridge of your own with things around your house. Legos are an obvious choice, but try other things too; books might be a fun option.

This poor little guy on pages 20-21 has his tail all in knots!

Practice making your own knots with yarn or rope. If it's something you don't want to stay knotted up, rope might be the better option. If you're using rope, you could also untie the knots (this would be fairly difficult with yard though).

This fellow on pages 24-25 has endless rows of i's to dot and t's to cross.

Try dotting some i's and cross and crossing some t's of your own.

What a job this guy from pages 26-27 has! All he does is watch bees all day!

Do some bee watching of your own. From a safe distance, watch for bees in your yard or in a local park or garden. One of our local parks has a nice flower garden, so we're going to take a picnic there one day when the flowers starting blooming and keep an eye out for bees. You could do the same with birds. Just be sure that your kids understand how to act around bees, so they don't get stung. 

One of these guys from pages 34-35 is missing his shadow!

Check out some shadows of your own. 
  • Go outside and take a look at how different objects make different shadows.
  • See how shadows change with the sun's movement. Mark or outline a shadow in the morning and then go back later in the day to see where the shadow has moved.
There's so much potential for activities with any Dr. Seuss book. The key is to use your imagination!
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This Week's Book

The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories
(we're just going to do the one book since there are several stories in it)


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Friday, March 1, 2013

Dr. Seuss-A-Thon {There's A Wocket In My Pocket}

 
What a fun and silly book this is! It's like going on a hunt through this little boy's house, so I thought a little scavenger hunt type activity would be in order.
I scanned some of the pages from the book and printed out the characters.

Then I cut out the characters, so I could hide them around the house.

Here's the Nooth Grush on a toothbrush. 

And the Zower in the shower.

Then we read the book and went in search of our visitors. We just found the Woset in the closet!

Easy, simple and fun!

Would you like more Wocket In My Pocket activities? 

Here's what's floating around on Pinterest.


I'm sharing some of our Dr. Seuss-A-Thon activities via Instagram and Twitter. If you're joining us, I'd love it if you would share too, and use #DrSeussAThon when posting.

If you need a list of the Dr. Seuss books, don't forget to check out this post.



This Week's Books:

Next Week's Books (back to just Friday):
We're taking a short break since we've been doing Dr. Seuss all week. We'll be back with more Dr. Seuss posts two weeks from this post date. 

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Dr. Seuss-A-Thon {Hop on Pop}

 
What a fun book of rhyming! Activities? There are few out there! Take a look...














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I'm sharing some of our Dr. Seuss-A-Thon activities via Instagram and Twitter. If you're joining us, I'd love it if you would share too, and use #DrSeussAThon when posting.

If you need a list of the Dr. Seuss books, don't forget to check out this post.



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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Dr. Seuss-A-Thon {The Tooth Book} With Tooth Activities


Today's book is The Tooth Book. It's a very cute book and a good way to introduce little ones to the idea of their teeth falling out to be replaced by new ones someday. After we read it, my little guy decided that he wanted his new teeth--now. There are still a few years to go on that one, but I'm glad he likes the idea!

There are some cute and fun ideas out there for teeth activities. Check them out!


Everyone brush your teeth together.

Make teeth impressions in something soft (but edible) like bread.

Bite different kinds of foods and check out the different kinds of bite marks. Your bit marks look different in a pieces of bread than they do in something harder like a carrot.

Head to the zoo and try to see as many different kinds of teeth as you can. You could also look through animal books or through some of your kids' toys for this activity.

Look through photo albums and check out everyone's teeth.

 Visit the dentist. I know this doesn't sound like a fun activity, but this book may be a good way to introduce and get your kids' warmed up to the idea of the dentist. It'll at least open the door to the conversation about taking care of your teeth, etc.

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I'm sharing some of our Dr. Seuss-A-Thon activities via Instagram and Twitter. If you're joining us, I'd love it if you would share too, and use #DrSeussAThon when posting.

If you need a list of the Dr. Seuss books, don't forget to check out this post.



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Friday, February 8, 2013

Dr. Seuss-A-Thon Week 1 {The Cat in the Hat Books}

 
This was the first week of our Dr Seuss-A-Thon, and the books were The Cat in the Hat and The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. Here are some fun activities that we did or are still planning to do today and this weekend.
Read the books!
I personally like the first one best. but the second one is cute too. I do like how the second one incorporates the ABC's. 

Watch the movies
There's the "live action" one of course, but there are also several cartoons. I'm hoping to find some at the library today for us to watch this weekend. If you do it that way, it's free!

Do some crafts
We made these fun hats to wear. We just decorated the front and then taped strips of construction paper to form a band to fit on our heads. It worked pretty well. I found the printable for the hat here.

Play some games
This game from Catch My Party looks fun:

It also might be fun to play a modified version of "UP-UP-UP with a fish!". You could try stacking blocks or other safe items as high as possible until they fall. I'd probably skip the fish though, since most of us don't have one of those awesome machines to pick up all our playthings like the cat did!

Fly kites
I'd recommend doing it outside unlike Thing One and Thing Two. We don't want to get our mother's new dress on the string of our kite!

Cat in the Hat Food
I made these bite sized "pizzas" and stacked them on top of each other. I just mixed up a bread sticks recipe and cut out one large and a few smaller circles. Then I baked them with cheese on top. When they were finished baking, I just put pizza sauce in between. 

Some other fun ideas are strawberries and bananas stacked or bananas and jam/jelly stacked.

Goldfish crackers would also go with the theme since we have the fish in the first book.

Have you come up with any other fun Cat in the Hat activities? I'd love it if you shared them!

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I'm sharing some of our Dr. Seuss-A-Thon activities via Instagram. If you're joining us, I'd love it if you would share too, and use #DrSeussAThon when posting.

If you need a list of the Dr. Seuss books, don't forget to check out this post.

 Click here to read other Dr. Seuss-A-Thon posts.

Next Week's Books:
 One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish and Green Eggs and Ham.

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