Art Activities To Celebrate Dr. Seuss’s Birthday In the Preschool Classroom
Posted: Friday, February 26, 2010
by Stephany Springer
March 2nd is one of my favorite days of the year. It is the day we celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday. Like everyone else in the free world, I grew up reading and listening to Dr. Seuss.
When my first child was born, we hand painted his nursery to represent Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss's birthday is a week long celebration in my class because he has given so much to little kids everywhere.
Art
Cat In the Hat-Have the kids paint, color or use dotters to make their own Hat in which the cat wears in the story book. Cut out the shape from cardstock or posterboard and use sentence strips to staple them around the head. Be sure to buy eye black to put a dot on their noses and whiskers on their cheeks.
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish-Have the kids dip one hand in blue paint and the other in red paint. Make sideways handprints that resemble fish. After they dry, allow the kids to glue a googly eye on the handprint. Allow them to take their "Red Fish and Blue Fish" home.
Make a Sneetch-Sneetches are fun made up characters that the kids will enjoy recreating. Have the kids paint a paper towel roll yellow, set aside to dry. The allow them to glue feathers, googly eyes and place star stickers to decorate their own Sneetch.
Foot Book-Have the children walk through paint then make footprints on butcher paper or construction paper.
Daisy Head Maisy- Make hats for the kids with daisies coming out. This can be done several ways. I use headbands from the dollar store and green pipe cleaners. I then print out a daisy on cardstock for the kids to decorate how they like. They then work on cutting skills by cutting it out. We then work together to tape it to the green pipe cleaner.
Dr. Seuss books are endless and the art possibilities are as well. You can allow the kids to make Horton out of modeling clay, use goldfish as a snack and used in a fishbowl, draw green eggs and ham, decorate turtle shells or stack them, etc.
Use Dr. Seuss as your inspiration and your ideas will be endless. Feel free to leave any ideas or suggestions in the comment section below.
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)These are such great ideas that I will be sure to use in my classroom. Thank you.
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