If you are looking for some Dr. Seuss Activities to celebrate Read Across America Day on March 1st, you’ve come to the right place. Even though Dr. Seuss has never been one of my personal favorites, it’s impossible not to appreciate an author who has inspired so many children to read! Lots of lovely bloggers linked up some creative Dr. Seuss-inspired activities to last week’s The Children’s Bookshelf linky. I’ve featured a selection today, and you can find even more on last week’s post, so be sure to check out all the folks who linked up.
The post with the most clicks was Even in Australia’s post about what books she bought for a precocious 8 year old boy. One of my favorite posts was this awesome handmade Eric Carle puppet theater from doua fete cucuiete! The blog is written in Romanian, but you can click on the translate button to read it in your chosen language (the pictures say it all, though!).
Posts featured in the clickable collage, above:
- I love how Train Up a Child encouraged her kids to explore silly sounds with a Dr. Seuss phonics game.
- KC Edventures shares Dr. Seuss Games that Inspire Creativity
- Coffee Cups and Crayons shows you how to play Hop on Pop Hopscotch
- The Good Long Road‘s weekly library challenge is inspired by Dr. Seuss
- 3 Dinosaurs turns The Lorax into an art project with torn paper Truffala Trees
- Inspiration Laboratories created a sound hunt inspired by Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You? and a Yertle the Turtle counting game.
- Not only did Toddler Approved share Dr. Seuss books for International Book Giving Day, but she included a few activity cards, which you can print out at her post.
- Mama Miss has an awesome DIY math game with printables to go along with One Fish Two Fish
- Kitchen Counter Chronicles inspires kids to make a vehicle for Marvin from Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now.
- Making Boys Men made Cat in the Hat peg dolls for some pretend play.
- Ten Apples up on Top inspired Frogs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails to invent a counting game.
- The Usual Mayhem made clay creatures from If I Ran the Zoo.
- Sunlit Pages made Ooblek after reading Barthlomew and the Ooblek.
After you’ve gotten a few activity ideas don’t forget to come back and link up your kid book posts this week! I’d love to include you in the next collage.
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Thanks for featuring our activities! My little guy is thrilled about it!
You’re welcome! He did a great job with those animals.
thanks for the feature this week:-)
You’re welcome. It’s easy to share great content!
Thank you so much. These are great motor and cognitive activities.
I hope you can find something that interests you, thanks for stopping by.
It’s interesting for me to meet another not-so-much-for-Suess blogger. I totally agree that I love what he’s done for millions of kids worldwide. But his own books tend not to grab me. P.D.Eastman’s, on the other hand, do.
Sometimes I feel like I shouldn’t admit that I’m not a Seuss fan, but now I’m owning it! But I can’t argue with his popular appeal and that is a great thing for books and reading.
Great round up! Thanks for including our Weekly Library Challenge post. I am sharing another Dr. Seuss post this week. I really love this linky!
Thanks, Jen. I’m so glad you like linking up, keep those great posts, coming!
How fun to see our post featured this week! Thanks so much! I have to admit that a few years ago, I would not have listed Dr. Seuss as one of my favorite children’s authors either, but I have since changed my mind! At that time, I had not read some of his (in my opinion) better works, and, like you said, he is so great for the early readers. My four-year-old loves figuring out all his made up words.
It’s hard to argue with an author who has got so many kids reading.
I love your feature this week. I felt inspired so I linked in an older review of The Lorax! Have a great week!
I love older reviews! Don’t hide them under the mattress! lol
Impressive collection of activities. Like you, I am a little too lazy to actually implement them, but this kind of post was invaluable to me a few years back