Hip, Hip Hurray, MARCH is here today! We are so excited for the beginning of this month that brings the first day of spring. Spring, isn’t the only thing that makes March a much anticipated month. The first fun event of March is Dr. Seuss’ Birthday. Here’s our plan to celebrate the life and work of this talented man.
March 2nd is Dr. Seuss’ actual birthday which we celebrate with fun food. Of course, we’re serving green eggs and ham! Simply scramble your eggs and add green food coloring. I do use an old skillet as it tends to stain a bit. We also make a fun cake, usually I let the girls pick the kind and then decorate it with bright fun sprinkles or candy bits and we always eat on fun colored paper plates. I love this website it has a great biography, and fun games and activities.
Here are some fun things well do throughout the week with his books:
The Foot Book:
We’ll enjoy this book together. Then I’ll let the girls paint their feet with fun colors or patterns and make a footprint on a piece of white paper. Once dry, we’ll cut out our feet and measure things in our house. How many feet is your couch, how about your entry way? Have fun measuring together. Be ready to talk about why it takes more “four year old feet” than “daddy feet” to measure the couch!
We’ll also enjoy a game of twister after our measuring. I love the new twister game. It’s played much like the old one except, you use colored rings that you can connect to make the “board” any shape you want. The spinner also includes movements and colors so you may have to dance your way to red or sing your way to green! If you only have the older version available you can sure modify for even more active, silly fun!
Horton Hatches The Egg:
After we enjoy this book together we’ll play a silly animal game. I’ll have 2 paper bags ready. One bag is filled with the names of animals. The other is filled with animal sounds. The girls will pull a card from each bag. They’ll need to act like the animal while making the sound they pulled from the other bag. The crazy mixed up animals and sounds will be a fun play on this book as well as a good outlet for our energy!
My Many Colored Day:
This is my personal favorite of his books. We’ll read it together and then we’ll play an active color game. I’ll arrange different pieces of colored paper around the room. Then I’ll call out an emotion or experience like sad, or tried something new and the girls will run to the color that the emotion or experience reminds them of. We’ll enjoy talking about color and how it can make us think of lots of things. Then we’ll add a bit of science by taking white carnations and then putting them in clear cups of water. We’ll add a drop of different colored food coloring to each cup and watch as the flowers change colors!
For our last activity, we’ll look here at the Dr. Seuss memorial. Then well gather fun art supplies like beads, pipe cleaners, pompoms, anything bright or textured or unique will work. Once our supplies are gathered we’ll make a Dr. Seuss memorial of our own. I’ll encourage the girls to either make a memorial of their favorite book or of something fun and creative that reminds them of his work.
We hope you have a fun and creative first week of March, we can’t wait to discover more of this month’s fun themes with you next week!
