Dr. Seuss
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OOBLECK! Inspired by BARTHOLOMEW AND THE OOBLECK ! by Dr. Seuss
Materials Needed:! ! 2 cups cornstarch! 3-4 drops of food coloring! 1 cup water Directions: Prepare your area. Cover the table with newspaper if you choose, but it is not necessary. Newspaper will allow for quicker clean up, but without newspaper you can clean up the spilled oobleck with a spatula or kitchen scraper and reuse. (I have tried both ways with no preference.)! ! Pour 2 cups cornstarch to a large bowl and set aside. In a separate pourable cup, mix food coloring and 1 cup water. Then, add the water mixture to cornstarch in the large bowl. You may try to mix with a spoon or spatula, but it is easier to use your hands.! ! Initially, the mixture is going to be watery. Do not add more cornstarch. Within minutes the mixture will become less watery.
Clean up spilled oobleck with a spatula! or kitchen scraper and place it back ! into the bowl to play with again! www.happybirthdayauthor.com
Bird Name Generator Inspired by SCRAMBLED EGGS SUPER by Dr. Seuss On small strips of paper, write the names of common birds in your area; cardinal, sparrow, hawk, duck, woodpecker. Use a bird field guide if you need help finding the names. These names will make up the last pile of your Bird Name Generator. While compiling the bird names take notice of descriptive words that are in the full name of many of the birds like "breasted" (White-breasted Nuthatch), "throated" (Ruby-throated Hummingbird), and "bellied" (Red-Bellied Woodpecker). !Write these descriptive words on strips of paper and they will make up your middle pile. !Lastly, make pile of cards with silly words, like spritz or snapple-bapple or favorites from SCRAMBLED EGGS SUPER like beagle and ruffle!
Stack the cards into the three piles and place them face down. !Pick one card from each stack to generate a bird name. !(We came up with names like the Spritz-tailed Wren, Whammer-Hooded Starling, and Frizzle-bellied Hawk.)!! ! Take this activity a step further by designing eggs for each of your birds. We used plastic Easter eggs and Sharpie markers. We also drew a picture of each bird on a small piece of paper along with the bird's name and a drawing of the egg. Then, we had a egg hunt. When my children found each egg they looked through their papers to find out which bird the egg belonged to.
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Turtle Countdown
Inspired by YERTLE THE TURTLE by Dr. Seuss Materials needed:! Blue construction paper, white construction paper, old refrigerator magnets (thin magnets that often come as promotional calendars or business cards), strong tape, yogurt container or a cup to help your trace circles, glue stick, black marker, scissors. 1. Trace a cup on blue construction paper.
2. Cut out the circles.
3. Cut each circle in half. These will be the turtle shells.
4. Glue turtle shells onto white paper and draw a head,! legs, and a tail for each turtle.
5. Cut out each turtle.
6. Repurpose refrigerator magnets by cutting into small pieces. Tape or glue the magnet pieces to the back of each turtle.
7. Stack up your turtles. We used our turtles to countdown to Dr. Seuss's birthday (March 2). www.happybirthdayauthor.com
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Rate the books you read by Dr. Seuss. 1. __________________________
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12. _________________________ Which was your favorite? Why?
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Left foot, Left foot, Right Foot, Right Read the THE FOOT BOOK by Dr. Seuss and trace your feet. Tape them throughout your house; on the floor, on the stairs, everywhere!! ! You can even create other types of footprints; pig feet, fuzzy fur feet!
Grow Grin-itch Spinach Purchase spinach seeds, decorate a pot, and grow Grin-itch spinach after reading WHAT WAS I SCARED OF? by Dr. Seuss. We decoupaged images from the book on our pot and added a set of pants on a craft stick too.
Character Paintings Pick your favorite character from a Dr. Seuss book and paint a picture. Our family loves painting on canvases which can be easily hung in the house. www.happybirthdayauthor.com
Inspired by THE LORAX by Dr. Seuss Materials: Large craft stick, an orange marker, glue, 2 googily eyes, a yellow craft feather, and a copy of THE LORAX by Dr. Seuss. !
1. Color the craft stick orange.
2. Glue on the feather for a moustache.
3. Glue on googily eyes.
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Birthday Tradition Gift Inspired by HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! by Dr. Seuss
This gift idea is designed to create a special tradition between the gift-giver and the gift-recipient. Each year, the same gift package is given on the recipient's birthday. The book and package stays the same, but a new note is added each year. After many years, the recipient will have a collection of notes and a book that will remind them of how special they are. Use a sturdy cardboard envelope and cover the label (provided in this packet) with a cold lamination sheet or packaging tape. Write the recipient's name in black permanent marker on the package before giving it to them.
Purchase of copy of HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! by Dr. Seuss.
Add an envelope to the inside of the book to hold all of the notes from every year. Use the provided text to decorate your envelope.
Print a note card (provided in this packet) and write a special message to the recipient of the gift. Once your note is written, slip it inside the envelope, and package up your book to begin a birthday tradition. !Each year, print out another set of note cards, and write a special note. www.happybirthdayauthor.com
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Green Eggs Cookies Inspired by GREEN EGGS AND HAM by Dr. Seuss Cut-out Cookies:
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups flour 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup butter 1 egg 2 Tbsp. + 1 tsp. milk 1 tsp. vanilla
Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda and sugar. Add butter to flour mixture and crumb together. Add egg, milk, and vanilla. Combine well. Roll out dough and cut out cookies with circle cookie cutter. Place cut out cookie dough on an ungreased baking sheet and bake at 350º for 10 min.
Icing:
Ingredients: 1 1/2 lbs. powdered sugar 1 stick of butter, softened 1 tsp. vanilla milk Green M&M candies (for on top of the icing)
Beat powdered sugar, butter, and vanilla with mixer until mixed well, adding milk until desired consistency.
Spread icing on cookies and place 1 green M&M in the center.
Note: The recipe above is for standard cut-out cookies, which will make great Green Egg Cookies. The photos show cookies-on-a-stick which would be a different recipe. These were the only photos I had available to show Green Egg Cookies.
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Did You Find Them All, Sir?! I know the task is tall, sir.! Search-and-Find-in-a-Bottle Game Inspired by FOX IN SOCKS by Dr. Seuss
1. Wash and dry a plastic bottle and measure how much rice will fit in. We used a standard juice bottle which needed seven cups of rice.
2. Place rice into a sealable gallon-sized baggie. Add 1 Tbsp. vinegar for each cup of rice directly into the baggie. Then, squirt in a small amount of blue food coloring. 3.Close the baggie and squish around the rice to mix the vinegar and food coloring. You may need to add more food coloring.
4. Once you have the desired color of rice, dump it onto baking trays. Allow rice to air dry. It will dry within a couple of hours. 5. Print game pieces and game board from provided activity sheets. Laminate game pieces or mount on cardboard to make game pieces sturdy. Add game pieces throughout bottle as you add the rice. 6. See if you can find them all, sir!
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Game Board: (Print and mount)
Game Pieces: (Print, mount, and place in bottle.)
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A highway drawn by you, right over those two!
Inspired by THE ZAX by Dr. Seuss
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What guests will rest in your antlers?
Inspired by THIDWICK THE BIG-HEARTED MOOSE by Dr. Seuss
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What guests will rest in your antlers?
Inspired by THIDWICK THE BIG-HEARTED MOOSE by Dr. Seuss
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Inspired by THE BIG BRAG by Dr. Seuss Rabbit tells Bear that he is the best animal because his ears can hear the farthest.! ! Cut out these ears and staple them to a strip of paper that is the size of your head.! ! How far can you hear?
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Big Bear Noses Inspired by THE BIG BRAG by Dr. Seuss
Big Bear boasts that his nose is best; it can smell farther than Rabbit's ears can hear.! ! Create Big Bear Noses from two pom-poms and large craft stick. These can be used to act out the book as it is read.! ! Directions:! ! 1. Glue one large pom-pom on the end of a large craft stick.! ! 2. Glue a smaller black pom-pom on top of the larger pom-pom.! ! 3. Let it dry.! ! 4. Hold it to your nose to see how far you can smell. ! ! Make sure you print the rabbit ears from this packet too!
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Sneelock's Stupendous Pink Lemonade Inspired by IF I RAN THE CIRCUS by Dr. Seuss Morris McGurk thinks Mr. Sneelock will help him with some odds and ends at the The Circus McGurkus.
Morris thinks that 500 gallons of pink lemonade will be needed for opening night.
Follow this recipe to try Sneelock's Stupendous Pink Lemonade for yourself:
Ingredients: 10 lemons squeezed 1 cup of sugar 2 cups of water 1/4 cup cranberry juice
Stir all ingredients together and serve with ice.
Challenge: This recipe does not make 500 gallons. But, what if you were Mr. Sneelock?
How many lemons would you need? How much sugar? How much water? How much cranberry juice? www.happybirthdayauthor.com
