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.

Wacky Wednesday

I wanted to do something to celebrate Leap Day, but we have a busy week and are going away Friday morning for the weekend so I had decided to just mention it to the kids without doing anything. Since Friday is Dr. Seuss' birthday, I've been trying to do a few things for that this week. I remembered that there is a book by Dr. Seuss called Wacky Wednesday and since Leap Day was Wednesday, I thought it was a good way to combine them both. At breakfast this morning, I told the kids it was Wacky Wednesday and they could wear anything they wanted and use some color spray we had from something else. They were really excited about picking out crazy clothes.

When I decided to let the kids do this, I thought it worked well because we didn't have to go anywhere Wednesday. Then I got an email that some books I needed had come in at the library. I told the girls they could change, but they wanted to go like this. Colin wouldn't go dressed up though. The girls got some funny looks at the library.