Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss

Monday was Dr. Seuss's birthday. We celebrated with green eggs and ham and chocolate chip pancakes. I made a few shape pancakes too. J and K decorated hats to wear. They both like green eggs and ham!

Baby girl is wondering when she can join in on the fun!

They drew pictures of themselves eating green eggs and ham.

Today, we made oobleck. They made big messes and it was lots of fun. 

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

Green Eggs and Ham for breakfast...

 

 

Oobleck for fun!

 

One year, I am going to come up with some different ways to celebrate the author's birthday.  But J always asks for these two.  Of the two, K likes oobleck best.  She had it everywhere and was begging for more!  What a fun day!

The Last of the Dr. Seuss Activities

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J and Blake made a stacking turtle out of paper plates.  Can you tell that the boys were doing this craft with no supervision?  They didn't use colors, markers, or anything!  But J got to use the stapler and that was very exciting for him!  It would be fun to make a lot of turtles and see how high the stack could get without falling.  Jenga would be a good game to play to connect with this book.

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Mom and I took profile pictures of both kids so I can make their silhouettes.  When I get them done I will share them with you.  I want to make them pretty so I can hang them in their room.  Blake also traced J on butcher paper and let him decorate it.  They traced a couple of horses too so J could see their shapes.  K got involved in the coloring.  She had marker EVERYWHERE!  Thank you for washable markers!  Shadow puppets would be a fun activity with this book as well.

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J colored six sets of feet and paired them up.  I had him glue the pairs on a piece of construction paper.  He has sorting figured out so we didn't sort shoes or socks but that would be a great activity to do with a younger child. 

We also put together his Mulberry Street book.  I picked out some of the better pictures and glued them on paper to make a book.  The cover of the book had a picture of our road and the title "And to Think That I Saw it on ..."  I used the name of our road in the title.  He told me what he saw and I wrote it down for him.  It took a minute but once he got going his stories were all over the place.  We also read Oh the Thinks You Can Think!  This book goes great with this activity because it involves thinking and imagination.

The picture was of a house and yard with trees.

The picture was of a dog tied to a tree. (Poor dog!)

"Left foot. Right foot. Feet. Feet. Feet. Oh, how many feet you meet!"  The Foot Book, by Dr. Seuss

Oobleck!

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I love this book!  It ranks in my top three favorite Dr. Seuss books.  I love making Oobleck with J.  We made it last year and he was so excited about making it this year.  It started out in the bowl but we dumped it out onto the table.  He buried some of his horses in it too!  I thought K would like to play with the Oobleck but she cried the minute she touched it!  We had to wash her hands and find something else for her to do.  Silly girl!

You can find the recipe for this Oobleck and another version of Oobleck on my last year's post HERE.  I don't use a recipe anymore.  It is basically 2 parts cornstarch to 1 part water.  I mix the food coloring with the water before adding it to the cornstarch.


"They still talk about it in the Kingdom of Didd as The-Year-the-King-Got-Angry-with-the-Sky."  ~Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss

And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street

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The kids and I went for a walk today and I let J take the Polaroid.  He read Mulberry Street over the weekend and I reminded him of the little boy's imagination.  I told him he could take pictures of things on our walk and when we got back home we would use our imagination to create our own story.  We didn't get to the story creating yet but J took 9 pictures on our walk.  He had fun using the camera and watching the pictures pop out of it.  I can't wait to see what his imagination makes of them!

By the way, this is my favorite book written by Dr. Seuss!


"When I leave home to walk to school, Dad always says to me, 'Marco, keep your eyelids up and see what you can see.'  But when I tell him where I’ve been and what I think I’ve seen, he looks at me and sternly says,  'Your eyesight’s much too keen. Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.'  Now, what can I say when I get home today?"  ~And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street, by Dr. Seuss

Green Eggs and Ham

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!  We celebrated the day with green eggs and ham, biscuits and chocolate syrup for breakfast.  J added the green food coloring and was pretty skeptical about how they would taste.  But in the end, he liked them and asked for more green eggs and ham for dinner! 

K liked them too! Blake was off work today so he got to enjoy breakfast with us and he also likes green eggs and ham.

I DO NOT like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am! This was what my plate looked like.

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"I do not like them here or there. I do not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them Sam I Am."  ~Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss