Cat in the hat fun and games

Let the kids get creative while learning with this fun Dr. Suess inspired sight word game from One Creative Mommy. Build your own Cat in the Hat hat while also building word families with this rhyming gam e from The Pleasantest Thing. We love colorful games and math has never been so much fun as with this Truffula Tree Math game from Inspiration Laboratories! Read Wacky Wednesday and then set up your own wacky activity with these creative ideas!

And the perfect get-up-and-move game -- Dr. Seuss Charade cards! Seuss stories! Learn about Ecology with The Lorax. Home Kids Activities 17 Dr. Home Categories Tags. We then add green food coloring after discussing what might hypothetically happen to the eggs.

When they are fully cooked, each child gets a plate of green eggs and ham to try. We then graph the results of who likes green eggs and who does not. This incorporates our math in with the science and language arts. The ABC Book is the next one on my list. I like to read this story and of course answer the quiz questions I have, in order to promote comprehension. I write the letters on the board uppercase and lowercase for the children to see one at a time , and the children copy the letter on the board onto their table in the shaving cream.

This promotes hands on learning through the senses. After we have made it from Aa-Zz, they will have a contest to see who can order magnetic refrigerator letters in order from A-Z the quickest. After this is completed, they will complete a missing letters page. There is an uppercase and lowercase version that they will complete by filling in the missing letters. This will be completed as a table group assignment.

Doing both of the activities promotes the kinesthetic or hands on learning and reinforces it with a fine motor skills handwriting worksheet. There are uppercase fish and lowercase fish that they child must draw a line and match the uppercase letters to their lowercase match. This promotes letter recognition as well as being able to match the pairs together. After these books and crafts have been completed, we then read through the remainder of Dr.

Seuss books in my classroom. This winds down our day of celebrating Dr. Seuss day with my kiddos tomorrow and hope you are as well.

Have some fun with your students in celebration of Dr. Such cute rhymes! The quotes make good wall art too. We all celebrate Dr. I love to read the Dr. Seuss books and do simple things like food coloring to make Green Eggs, and ham.

I celebrate Dr. Seuss by sharing my birthday on the same day as him! We celebrate by reading his books all week long and incorporating art projects along with each book we read, as well as a theme dinner :.

I love all of these ideas, especially the Thing 1 and Thing 2 hand prints and the costume! I plan on reading Dr. Seuss books all week as bedtime stories. We all love Dr. Seuss at our house, we celebrate by reading a book, usually Green Eggs and Ham and we will sometimes make Seusscakes cupcakes!

We also celebrate with the librarian at school. My favorite way to celebrate Dr. Seuss would be sharing his wonderful quotes with friends through notes or online posts. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose. My son loves Dr Seuss books to read and would love to celebrate his birthday by making hats.

I have a Dr. Seuss themed 1st grade classroom so we spend an entire week celebrating his birthday. Each day we read at least one of Dr. We actually do a few of the activities on here in preparation for his birthday.

We do the a cat-in-the-hat craft and write rhyming words on the stripes. We also do the thing-one and thing-two handprint craft. We do a couple of writing prompts after different books are read throughout the week complete with original illustrations.

On Dr. Either as the Cat or as Sally We have a guest reader, my dad that comes and reads The Sneetches to the class. After that he hands out a Dr. Seuss activity packet, pencil and book mark they may use the rest of the day.

In the packet is biographical information on Dr. Seuss that we read during reading groups, writing prompts, rhyming activities, and math activities we do throughout the day all focused around different Dr. Seuss stories.

Once we finish this week my students begin writing their own stories. Every year, I send in red and white frosted cupcakes for his class, and they love it! My two-year-old daughter loves watching the show on PBS and reading the interactive book on my tablet. We celebrate with green eggs and ham, and a few favorite Dr. Seuss stories while wearing the Dr. Seuss striped hat and cuddling up to the giant Sam I am. I used to teach elementary, hence the fun items! Now I teach high school so I celebrate with my son!

Seuss pin, and striped hat of course, and carry around a Dr. Seuss book or two, just in case some of my patients are up for a quick story! My favorite is tacky day. Thank you!

We always find a new Dr. And the kids celebrate at school with a Dr. Seuss read-in which is fun as a parent because I always get to be one of the readers. Suess, is doing a marthon on TV and making green eggs, and ham. We like to celebrate by making some Cat in The Hat crafts and snacks.

Then we watch Dr. Seuss movies and have the snacks with our movies! We read Dr. Seuss books and make green eggs and ham.

Thanks for the chance. I love crafts and this activities for Dr Seuss Birthday is fantastic and lovely to make with kids. We read Seuss books all the time! Seuss, We Love You! I think the best way to honor a person that you admire is to imitate their good qualities. And isnt that the best way to promote good in this world? His books will stand the test of time for the simplicity and goodness they promoted to children. My grandkids and I share Dr.

Seuss books and have Cat in the Hat pancakes with bananas, whipped cream and maraschino cherries. We read lots and lots of Dr. I worked as a lunch lady at a local elementary school and we would celebrate by serving green eggs and ham.

The staff would wear hats from the Cat in the Hat book. So much fun! Of course, we will read Dr. We have several Seuss television shows and movies on DVD-we will also be watching those! When my kiddos were little we would read all of our Dr.

Suess books. We love Dr Seuss. In fact, we dressed my twins up for Halloween as Thing 1 and Thing 2. Reading his books, has been great for my beginning reader. She loves the rhyming and it makes it easier for her. My kids love it because we read some of the favorites watch a movie and make a craft and I find a cute pinterest dr.

We always dress up in obvious seuss clothing for Dr. It would be fun to celebrate by reading his books, wearing striped hats and enjoying the striped jello treats. I think maybe making dr suess fairy cakes and then sitting and reading the grandchildrens favorite book each.

I love the idea of incorporating learning into the celebration! What great ideas! The child holding that card comes up, reads and shows it, so everyone can repeat what they said. That student then "feeds" the hungry Cat in the Hat. Besides "feeding" the Cat in the Hat, make extra sets of the cards to play all sorts of games. I've included tip lists suggesting more activities, plus the "Kaboom!

Students can also sort the number cards into odd and even piles and sequence them. The shape cards , as well as the color cards , work in the same way. You can also play these games with the letter cards, matching an uppercase letter to a lowercase one. I've included an at word family worksheet in the packet at well. After you're done playing, reward your kiddos with a Seuss bookmark.

There are 14 different designs in the packet. Eight of them feature favorite Seuss quotes. For more Cat in the Hat fun, click on the link for 14 sweet Seuss-themed puzzles. These are mini cards that include upper and lowercase letters, numbers from , 11 number word cards, twelve 2D shape cards , twelve 3D shape cards, 35 contraction cards, 20 at family cards , and 11 color word cards. Pass them out to your students then call for a card. The child holding that card shows it, shares what it is, everyone repeats that, then they "feed" the Cat in the Hat by tossing their card in the container.

There's also a set of blank tiles for you to fill in with whatever else you want to review or practice.