Follow up your reading by trying a Dr Seuss craft or
two. Here are some ideas to get you started:
Make your own simple hat
inspired by The Cat In The Hat
First make a
headband to fit round head. Then draw a hat outline on a piece of
cardboard - we used the illustrations in The Cat In The Hat for
inspiration. Cut out and decorate – color, paint, cut and glue,
basically whatever appeals. Then when finished decorating (and after
drying if necessary) attach to the front of the headband (we found this
easiest to staple).
Be a star-bellied Sneetch!
We had great fun
making badges so we could pretend to be star-bellied Sneetches. Just cut
a star design into half a large potato, then dip in green paint and
stamp on to cardboard. When dry, cut out and attach to fastening such as
a safety pin. You could also make Sneetch T-shirts by using the same
idea but instead stamping green fabric paint onto a plain T-shirt.
Make your own turtles
from the Yertle the Turtle story
This is a really fun craft, very easy to get a good result. All you need
is two paper plates, or a paper dish and plate, cardboard, stapler, and
blue crayons/felt tips/paints. Draw a simple head, tail and 4 legs on
the cardboard and cut out. Next turn one of the paper plates upside down
and decorate the outside as the shell using blue crayons, felt tips or
paints - you may want it plain blue like Yertle himself, or with
patterns like some of the other turtles. When dry just place the
decorated plate/dish on top of the other plate, place the head, tail and
legs as appropriate around the plates, then use a stapler to fasten it
all together. You could make lots of these to make a tower for Yertle as
in the story, though whether you’d manage 200…!
Try this One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
magnetic fishing game
Make a simple rod by attaching a small magnet to a piece of string and
fastening to a pole (try a ruler, chop stick, bamboo cane!). Now you
need some fish – either use a simple fish template (try one of the
coloring pages here:
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/fish_coloring_pages.htm) or draw
your own inspired by the fish from the Dr. Seuss book. We colored ours
with either red or blue crayons. Then attach a paper clip to the fish
and go fishing! You could have a contest to see who could collect the
most of a particular color, or, if you only colored one side then turn
the fish so that side is downwards to make it more difficult.
These clever pipecleaner and bead bagtags can be adapted for all sorts of
occasions and made with whatever beads you have on hand Pipecleaner and bead bagtags
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