Friday, March 2, 2012

Seuss Celebration

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!!

We read lots of books and did some activities throughout the week to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday.



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Some stuff I picked up for the kids a while back at the Target dollar spot


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Books we read


Seuss lunch


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Pink ink and goldfish crackers for One Fish, Two Fish
Green applesauce with vanilla wafer to look like green eggs
Cat in the Hat tortilla
Thing 1 and Thing 2 strawberries

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I just cut out a circle and hat shape. Fruit roll up pieces for hat stripes, carrot sticks for whiskers, candy eyes, chocolate chip nose

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I used string cheese for the faces. The hair is whip cream, but it got too runny.



I found these handprint Things on pinterest. You can find the printable here.

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I had the kids draw what they thought the Once-ler looks like.

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Caleigh (age 9)

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Molly (age 7)

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Colin (age 12)


On Wednesday, the kids had fun dressing up for Wacky Wednesday.

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Edited to add:
I saw that the Homeschool Share blog is having a "Draw the Once-ler contest." You can go here to enter.

2 comments:

Dawn said...

I love the wacky outfits! They are great! What a nice selection of books you have too.
blessings,
Dawn

My Captivating Life said...

Such a fun week! Each of my kids got to pick a new Dr. Seuss book. I think next year I will try to do something more fun like this! :)