Seuss Part 2

The kids and I have really been working on Seuss inspired crafts most of the week. It started on Wednesday, when the kids were home sick with me. I told them to draw me pictures of the Cat in the Hat and Thing 1 and Thing 2 while they were waiting for lunch. I was very impressed with what they came up with. They also asked to hang them up, so we did on the bathroom door. I am of the belief that why not hang up the kids artwork all over the house! We use masking tape and just tape it up. We have done this for years now, and the kids are always proud to show off what they have done to anyone that comes over.

Friday, L's teacher always has Magic Hour. It is an hour and a half of crafting stations split between 2 teacher's classrooms. They combine classes, and I love helping out. This week's theme was of course Dr. Seuss. L brought home his projects to show off. There was a print out of Things 1 and 2 on red paper. The kids were able to color it in, and glue blue Easter grass as hair. Very fun! They also made Lorax mustaches. They then made Truffela Trees out of a pom pom and a half of pipe cleaner. And lastly they made the Who's from Horton out of a pom pom, candy stick, and a micro pom pom. L felt the need to make a sign for it that said Help as well.

Then yesterday, the kids and I were by ourselves with no car. So what to do....why more Seuss crafts of course! We found this great Sam I Am hand and foot print idea from Classified: Mom. We changed ours up a bit.

Supplies needed:
red and white washable paint
yellow construction paper
foam paint brushes
bowl for paint
wet washcloth
black marker

Each kids painted both hands white, and placed them on the yellow paper. This is Sam's side of his face. Then they painted one foot for Sam's chin and placed it in between the two hand prints. Now paint the other foot red, and put it at the top of the hand prints for Sam's hat. We did this in the bathroom for the easiest clean up. We let these dry overnight, and then this morning, traced the outside of Sam's face and hat and drew on the rest of his face. They turned out pretty cute!

Our finished Sam I Ams.

We also did this fun Cat in the Hat footprint that I found at The Mailbox.com.
Supplies needed:
red and black paint
foam brushes
bowls for paint
white paper
black marker
wet washcloth

Paint the ball of the foot black, and then paint red stripes up the rest of the foot. I helped the kids with this one! While I was painting one of the kids" foot, the other one was taking the pictures. After placing the footprint on the white paper, we also left these to dry overnight. This morning we drew faces on them and added them to our Seusstastic wall of crafts.

 A cute pic of L that D took!

 And last but not least, we made a Lorax scene with Truffela trees. This one we found on Momstown Arts and Crafts. I pulled up her image and showed the kids how they made a scene using crayons, and pom poms. They started doing just that, but L was inspired by his sisters do-a-dot stampers. He wanted to add some color to his pom poms. I also loved that they both drew their own version of the Lorax. They both love that story, and have watched the old 60's version of the movie. We are so excited to go see the new movie!

 And here is our wall of Seuss. Can you tell we love to do arts and crafts!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

We had our 4th annual Dr. Seuss play date at the library this past Thursday, and it was just as fun as always! I had searched the web for a few weeks trying to find some great crafts that we had not done before, and that didn't involve paint (not allowed in the library), and you know, that is harder than you would think. We usually buy pre-made hats for the kids at the local teacher store, but I had a tooth pulled and 2 sick kids earlier in the week that prevented me from heading out to any stores. Now with the dilemma at hand, I thought about how we could make hats for the kids. Light bulb, just like our heart hats from the Valentine's day party, we can make them out of paper plates! Easy! I just cut the hat shape out of the plates, and all the kids had to do was color the red stripes. They all had a great time making those.

We also made Lorax mustaches inspired by this post, but instead of making felt ones, I had the kids cut out construction paper mustaches and glue them onto Popsicle sticks.

We then moved on to Ten Apples Up on Top! I was inspired by this post by LitLad, but had to figure out what to do without paint. I have a large circle punch, so I just punched out green and red circles for the kids to glue on top of a picture they drew of themselves. It was so much fun to see the different versions of themselves they came up with!

And last we came to Put me in the Zoo. I found a great printable here at Little Wonders.  They used foam circles, but I didn't have any, so I just used regular construction paper in all different shapes and let the kids go to town with their spots!

Overall, it was a fun, busy, hectic at times day. We had all sorts of fun colorful snacks as well. 

Oobleck!

I picked up a Dr. Seuss collection for L at the library last week that included stories we had never read. One of those being Bartholomew and the Oobleck. I had never read this one as a kid myself but it seems to be all over the blogosphere, and I had been noticing recipes for oobleck on pinterest for sometime now. I knew my kids would love it! So we read the story on a Friday night, Saturday headed to the art supply shop and picked up a gallon of Elmer's school glue, and headed home to make it. I found the recipe here at Teach Preschool, and it really was super easy. Just a half cup glue, and a half cup liquid laundry starch. Mix, mix, knead, knead, and get nice and messy. We colored ours green with food coloring just like the story, but you really could use any color. Ours has now been sitting in a airtight container on the counter for 5 days, and it still is neat! I highly recommend doing this with your kids!!!

On the back patio, getting ready to mix!

 All ready to mix

D really enjoyed mixing it up

Adam's hand covered in goo

The boys having fun

This was so much fun, we all can't wait to make it again!

D with her new haircut, having fun getting messy!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Today is Dr. Seuss' birthday, and this is the 3rd year that we celebrated it.  The kids and I made Thing 1 & 2 painted handprints yesterday.  This was a fun idea from themailbox.com!  Today was our super fun play date with our mom's group.  We met at the library.  I had a paper hat for each kid, a sticker, an award, and a bookmark.  For this I made Thing 1 & 2 mini cupcakes for the kids inspired by this post, and mini green eggs candy made out of candy melts for the kids to snack on.  We also had fish (colored goldfish), pink ink (pink lemonade, and pink yogurt)!  Because most of the kids are younger, and the story Cat in the Hat is long, I used another great idea from themailbox.com.  I brought with 2 stuffed toy kittens and had the kids pass them around every time they heard the word cat.

For dinner tonight I made green eggs, ham, and Cat in the Hat stacked pancakes.  I dyed the scrambled eggs green, and divided the pancake batter in half, and dyed one half red.  I made the pancakes on the smaller side, and when they were done, stacked them alternating colors to look like the cat's hat.

The books we read:
Cat in the Hat
Mr. Brown can Moo. Can you?
There's a wocket in my pocket (board book)
and started to read One Fish, Two fish, Red fish, Blue fish, but the kids had had enough.  There is always next year!

Mini Thing 1 & 2 cupcakes

Green Eggs candy

D's Things

L's things

My little things

Green eggs, ham, and Cat in the Hat pancakes