100 WAYS TO CELEBRATE
DR. SEUSS
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Read The Foot Book
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Paint with your feet instead of your fingers.
Trace all the feet in your house, including your pets.
Make your own Foot Book.
Draw your own animal with as many feet as you want it to have.
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Read My Many Colored Days
7. Bake up a batch of colorful sugar cookies; what color are you today?
8. Make a “mood meter” color wheel to put on your door.
9. Draw a picture using as many colors as you wish to share your
mood today.
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Read If I Ran the Zoo
Create a strange and unique zoo animal of your own with playdough or draw one on paper.
Name your animal and write a story about it.
Take a trip to the local zoo and count the number of animals you see.
Make origami animals to celebrate Dr. Seuss’s love for animals.
Read The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
Create your own special hat using a paper bag, newspaper, paper plate or other materials of
your choosing.
Collect 500 objects such as pennies, buttons, pasta, paper clips, etc.
Count to 500 by ones; by fives; by tens; by fifties; by hundreds.
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Read The Cat in the Hat
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Read Dr. Seuss’s A B C
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Brainstorm ideas for rainy day activities.
Talk about what you should do if an emergency arises and there is no adult available.
Talk about what to do if someone knocks on your door and an adult is not available.
Count and make a list of the objects the ct can keep balanced in the air before everything falls.
Make a “Cat in the Hat” snack. Just slice some strawberries and bananas and alternate them on
a lollipop stick starting with the banana. Top with the end of a strawberry. Enjoy!
Set up an alphabet center in your room and preview a variety of alphabet books such as Chicka
Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault; On Market Street by Arnold and
Anita Lobel; Ashanti to Zulu by Margaret Musgrove; Alphabears by Kathleen & Michael Hague.
Practice matching lower case letters with upper case letters.
Find a pretzel recipe and make letter shaped pretzels to share with a friend.
Make your own list of things that begin with each letter of the alphabet.
Use alphabet cereal to spell the names of your favorite Dr. Seuss characters then enjoy gobbling
them up.
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Read Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
Turtles are fascinating creatures. They appeared on Earth about 200 million years ago, during
the time of the dinosaurs. A turtle has no teeth and some can live to be 100 years old. Go to
the library or search the internet to find more interesting facts about them.
Find a partner or several friends to do this activity. Be bossy; then try being nice. Talk about
which felt better and why?
Read The Lorax
Brainstorm ideas of what you can do to help the environment.
Make a litterbag for someone’s vehicle.
Pick up litter around your school or neighborhood.
Plant a tree in honor of the Lorax and take care of it.
Make a birdhouse or bird feeder.
Recycle – newspaper, aluminum, glass, etc.
Conserve electricity by turning off lights when not in use.
While reading The Lorax, did you wonder what the rest of the Once-ler looked like? Draw a
picture of what you think the Once-ler might look like.
Make your own forest of “Truffula Trees” using recycled materials
Read Scrambled Eggs Super
Birds are not the only ones who lay eggs. Make a list of other animals that lay eggs.
Make scrambled eggs for breakfast. Offer toppings such as cheese, olives, bacon bits, chives,
onions, shrimp meat, etc. to make the scrambled eggs super!
Save the eggshells and make eggshell mosaic pictures.
Read Bartholomew and the Oobleck
Make a weather wheel or rain gauge.
Observe the weather for two weeks and record it on a chart.
Learn how to read a thermometer and record the temperature around you – inside and
outside.
Make your own “oobleck” – use about ½ cup of cornstarch to almost ¼ cup of water. Can be
made in a paper cup and stirred with a plastic spoon or popsicle stick. [Have extra cornstarch
available if needed]. Hold the mixture in your hand and see what happens. [Mixture should
start out as a solid and turn to a liquid when you hold it in your hand.] Try to make it into a ball.
What else can you do with it?
Read Horton Hears a Who
Imagine the types of creatures that could live on a speck of dust. Draw a picture of what their
world would look like.
Collect a variety of objects and order them by sizes – small, smaller, smallest. Could also do
the same with pictures of animals.
Collect several clover blossoms [or similar plant flowers] and use a magnifying glass to see if
you see any tiny creatures living inside.
Everyone’s opinion is important. Create a survey of three or four questions and ask everyone
their opinions.
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Read The Sneetches and Other Stories
Review what makes the Sneetches different from one another and how they treat those who
are different from them. Do you think it is all right to treat those who look different or act
different than you differently?
Wear all yellow today
Bake a batch of sugar cookies and decorate all of them with yellow frosting. Put green stars on
some and leave others plain. Now taste one of each – do they taste the same or different?
Read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Visit a pet store and count all the different types of fish they have. Do they have a red fish?
How about a blue fish?
Fill a jar with goldfish crackers and then have people guess how many there are. Count the
goldfish crackers to see who was the closest.
Create a “Pink Ink Drink” for the Yink – strawberry milkshake, pink lemonade, or ??? and drink it
through a “crazy straw”.
Make blue jello and add gummy fish for a fun Seuss-like snack
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Read Oh the Places You’ll Go
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Read Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book
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Read And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
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Read There’s A Wocket in My Pocket
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Read Green Eggs and Ham
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What would you like to do when you grow up? Make a list or draw a picture.
Use an atlas to find all the places you would like to go.
Make a wishing tree. Individual “trees” can be made with twigs, paper cups and modeling clay.
Have the child write or draw something they hope to do in the future – a place they want to go
or what they want to be when they grow up. Fasten them to their tree. Or you can make a
larger tree using a branch and place every ones “wishes” on one tree.
Have a Dr. Seuss pajama party and invite your friends for a sleepover.
Watch a Dr. Seuss video.
Create your own sleepy-time brew.
Take a walk down the street you live on and then draw a picture of the things you saw.
Take another walk and record what you hear; what you smell; what you touched.
Using your imagination draw something unusual and tell a friend about your drawing.
Dr. Seuss was a master at rhyming. How many words can you come up with that rhyme with
“cat”; “fish”; “hat”; “day”.
Add blue food coloring to eggs and scramble – serve with ham for
breakfast or lunch. [The blue food coloring when mixed with the
yellow eggs will create “green eggs”.]
Sam I Am was reluctant to try a new food, but actually liked it once
he gave it a try. Try a new food today and you too may find you
actually like it.
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Read Hop on Pop
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Read The Shape of Me and Other Stuff
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Read Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?
Play an animal sound game – name an animal doing an action and have everyone make the
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Dr. Seuss books make people smile. Do something for someone to make them smile.
Go to the library or search the internet and learn something new about Dr. Seuss – was he a
real doctor? what was his real name? how did he get the name “Dr. Seuss”? etc.
See how well you can draw one of Dr. Seuss’s characters
Dr. Seuss has been popular for a long time. Ask the grown-ups in your life what their favorite
Dr. Seuss book was when they were a child.
Share your favorite Dr. Seuss book with a friend.
Dr. Seuss published his first children’s book, And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, in
1937, after 27 publishers rejected it. Try doing something hard today. Keep trying until you
succeed.
How many Dr. Seuss books have you read? Make a list. Go to the library and check out a Dr.
Seuss book you haven’t read yet. When finished reading, be sure to add it to your list.
Make up a Dr. Seuss trivia game and then play it with your friends.
Dr. Seuss was a cartoonist. Draw a cartoon that represents your favorite Dr. Seuss book.
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Read Happy Birthday to You “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one
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Make up your own rhymes – choose a word and then think of as many words as you can that
rhyme – example “fox in a box wore socks”
How many shapes can you make with your shadow?
Look around the room you are in and find something that looks like a circle; a square; a triangle;
a rectangle. What other shapes do you see?
alive who is you-er than you!”
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Bake a Dr. Seuss birthday cake and celebrate his birthday on March 2 nd. Dr. Seuss was born in
1904 – how old would that make him today? [FYI – Dr. Seuss passed away in 1991]
For more information on Dr. Seuss and additional activities, you may want to visit the following
website – www.seussville.com
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