Celebrate Dr Seuss Birthday in March - Doctor Seuss Crafts and Activities for Kids

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Celebrate Dr. Seuss' Birthday

He was born on March 2nd in 1904. Find ideas for crafts, games, and other activities.

Crafts to Make:

Make your own Home-made Books.
Give the children a variety of craft supplies and recycling items (for example, glue, toilet paper rolls, egg cartons, pipe cleaners, felt, yarn, pom-poms, wiggle eyes, etc.) and challenge them to create their own unique creature like those in many of Dr. Seuss' books. Encourage them to write a story about their creature.
Make this Horton Hears a Who craft.
Create your own Dr. Seuss coloring book using some of these pictures.
Make your own Cat-In-The-Hat hat or a cat ear headband.
Create your own Cat-in-The-Hat story sacks.
Create your own Horton Hears a Who story sack.
Print out this Dr. Seuss bookmark to color.
Make this Green Eggs and Ham Placemat.
Print out this Cat in The Hat maze or dot-to-dot to do.
Make birthday cards and hang them around the room.
Make some of these Grinch Crafts.
Try some of these Dr. Seuss Printables.
Make a Cat-in-the-Hat Hat.
See how many of these Dr. Seuss characters you know.
See if you can match the quotes with the characters who said them.

Other Things to do:

Read as many Dr. Seuss books as you can!
Have green eggs and ham for lunch.
Make this fun Cat-in-The-Hat snack.
Play a silly rhyming game. Someone say a word and see how many words everyone can think of to rhyme with it.
Have birthday cake for a snack!
Check out this Cat-in-The-Hat pumpkin.
Learn more about Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel).
Take a virtual tour of the The Dr. Seuss National Memorial which is located in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Check out this listing of Top Dr. Seuss Books.
Here are some unique Seuss crossword/word search puzzles.
Visit Seussville and play games online and print off fun activities at Seussville University.
Play this hat toss game (PDF file).
Or instead of duck, duck goose, play cat, cat, hat (PDF file).
Create a Cat-in-the-Hat Story Sack.

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Sherri Osborn
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