Every year, I offer a program in honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday and Read Across America. This year, I decided to host a program for our homeschool community. It was a lot of fun!
Books
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
As much as I love Dr. Seuss, his books can be a bit lengthy for the storytime crowd. When I host a Seuss program, I select the easy readers or My Many Colored Days. They're always a hit!
Activities
Since this program was open to families, I had a variety of stations. Below is a picture of each station with a description.
Pin the Hat on the Cat and Great Day for Up! Building with Cups.
For this station, participants wrote their name on cutouts of the cat's hat. They could close their eyes or use a blindfold. The goal was to place that cutout as close as possible to the hat on the cat.
The Great Day for Up! station involved stacking the cups in a variety of fun ways!
Lorax Craft
Participants created a landscape with the Lorax and a Truffula tree! They used the following supplies:
- Orange cupcake wrapper for the body
- Orange construction paper for the legs
- Yellow construction paper for the mustache and eyebrows
- Sticker eyes
- Black and white party straws
- Large pom poms
- Blue card stock for the background
- Green card stock for the grass
- Green tissue paper for texture
- Glue sticks
Lorax Bean Bag Toss
Not much explanation needed here! The kids tossed the beanbags through the openings.
Seuss Photo Booth
I printed a variety of props to use in our photo booth!
I created worksheets with different word families. I then printed out small pieces of paper with letters. The child would then select letters and place it in front of the word family to see how may words they could create. I provided a word log so they could record their answers.
Horton Hat
Supplies:
- Large gray construction paper
- Pink construction paper
- Staples
- Glue sticks
Directions:
- Cut the gray construction paper into an elephant ear shape.
- Cut the pink piece to fit the shape of the ear. Glue the pieces together.
- Cut the paper into thin strips for the headband and nose.
- Fold the nose piece like an accordion.
- Measure your child's head and staple the headband pieces together.
- Glue or staple the nose to the front.
- Glue or staple the ears to the side of the headband.
