Seuss Celebration

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!!

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

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

Books we read

Seuss lunch

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

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

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.

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

Caleigh (age 9)

Molly (age 7)

Colin (age 12)

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

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

Christmas Treats

Santa Pancake

 

These were easy for the girls to do all by themselves and only 3 ingredients.

 

 

 

The girls thought spreading peanut butter was fun. They tried to help roll, but I had to do most of it because it kept trying to break.

 

 

Gingerbread Theme

Books



Gingerbread Houses



Caleigh & Molly's                                        Colin's



Making gingerbread cookies

Finished cookies

Christmas: Candy Cane Theme

The kids had fun twisting the dough to make these candy cane cookies. I'd link to the recipe, but the kids and my hubby all agreed they tasted awful.

Candy cane ornaments:

 

 

 

Christmas Trees and Elves

Books we read:

From the same book that has A Story of Three Trees, we also read The Elves and the Shoemaker.



Christmas tree waffles

Christmas tree brownies

We had this new elf book show up at our house. It's about an elf who pops in to children's houses. He hides in all different places and reports back to Santa on whether the kids have been good or not.

 

The next morning, the kids found an elf just like the one in the book waiting when they came downstairs. The little elf moves around a lot when no one is looking and the kids have been having a great time searching all over for him.

This is where they found the elf on the second morning he was here.

Another morning they found him making snow angels in some flour.

The Polar Express

We had a fun evening with The Polar Express. Everyone got into their pajamas and we read the book. Then we watched the movie and had hot chocolate with marshmallows, popcorn, and cupcakes.






North Pole cupcakes

Snowmen marshmallows

Faces drawn with edible markers

Kids in pajamas ready to watch the movie:





Christmas: Reindeer Theme Day

We only had a couple books with reindeer so we went ahead and read Christmas books about all different animals on this day.




Reindeer cupcakes:
These are made with Nilla wafers, pretzels, and sixlets or M&Ms.





 

Footprint reindeer:

The Nutcracker

This year I decided to try to do a theme day for Christmas books. Some may end up taking more than one day and others may be combined.
Last week we did The Nutcracker. We read a few different versions of the story. We also watched a Care Bear movie about it. We listened to the CD, Tchaikovsky Discovers America, which includes some of the music.

 

I found these cute Nutcracker cupcakes in Hello, Cupcake. The recipe called for a lot of different candies and things we didn't have. Instead of buying the stuff, I just pulled out our leftover Halloween candy and let the kids be creative. Each nutcracker took 6 cupcakes.

Colin's

Molly's

Caleigh's

Showing off their creations:

 

 

 

I had to do one too. I didn't notice until I was looking at the picture that I forgot shoes.

Lastly, we went to a school showing of The Nutcracker. It was really good and we all enjoyed it.